One of the online rages these days is aggregating web-based social interactions in to a single entity known as a lifestream. There are a number of methods for facilitating lifestreaming – services like FriendFeed are designed to aggregate content from around the web and keep users on their site, to micro-blogging services like Tumblr which offer a mix of a service provided solution with customization, to self-hosted lifestream blogs offering complete. In this article the TechMiso Chefs show you five ways to self-host your own lifestream.
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FriendFeed has been the talk of the town ever since it’s launch, mostly thanks to the founders’ pedigree but also due to the wonderful service FriendFeed turned out to be. After all, the same team who created the simple yet highly effective FriendFeed was also responsible for producing arguably one of the best web-based email services ever created – Gmail.
FriendFeed has found a number of high profile people using the service rather consistently since inception, but even more so in the aftermath of the speed problems Twitter faced mid to late last year. A number of early adopters gravitated to FriendFeed and decided to make the service their second home.
But the early adopter crowd is generally comprised of the uber geeks who will try any service once or twice. It appears FriendFeed is exactly what the geek squad ordered, although the service is seemingly finding it more difficult to attract the less savvy mainstream audience. Why might that be?
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