Lifestreaming

Lifestreaming is a quite an interesting concept. It is loosely connected to the whole web3.0 slash semantic web thing as it is all about aggregating information and data that one publishes on different social sites in one place (application) for others to be able to view your complete online activity.

With all those interesting social sites that pretty much are a part of our lives the idea seems quite cool. I mean I would love the be able to group all my photos from flickr.com, my music from last.fm, twitts from twitter, posts from GregWolejko.com and maybe then I would even start using stuff like brightkite.com or use more frequently web apps like scrnshots.com or flickchart.com.

So why I haven’t been doing this? Or better yet, how can one do this right now?

Well there is one major player right now: FriendFeed and I don’t use it. Why? Hard to say. Basically it is not pretty and it is in fact a whole another social-y site you need to register to.

I was happily living in a world where I won’t be able to actually do a lifestreaming but then all has changed. Enter Sweetcron. A work in progres application (piece of opensource code) by Yongfook that will solve all my problems right there.

Sweetcron will be installable on your own servers (so it will for example be under gregwolejko.com domain) but will aggregate web activity from all over Teh Internet. Sounds pretty sweet. Only problem is that it is not out yet.

Only thing that you can do right now with Sweetcron is sign up for the newsletter to be notified when the product will be launched or see it as a live preview on Youngfook’s site.

Sweetcron is to be 100% free and fully customisable two things I am a sucker for. This will make stuff so much easier as it will be possible to seamlessly integrate it with your current web setup.

While I resisted the whole idea of a lifestreaming in the past now it seems that I will love Sweetcron. It seems that it will fulfill all my aggregating needs. Hopefully it will live up to the hype.

And what about you? Are you on board with the whole lifestreaming concept? Are you doing it? What do you use? Care to share?