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valeria noletoThe difficulty in keeping track of one's activity on an increasing number of social media sites (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc.) has, somewhat ironically, spawned a whole new breed of site - the social aggregator (a.k.a. lifestreaming services). Below is a review of 15 products currently in this space. I've tried to keep the focus on aggregators, rather than services which have more of an emphasis on inputting new content (e.g. microblogging platforms such as Tumblr or Jaiku) although the lines are clearly blurred.
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Charlie ProfitWant a good explanation of some of the Lifestreaming sites out there?
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jakks The difficulty in keeping track of one's activity on an increasing number of social media sites (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc.) has, somewhat ironically, spawned a whole new breed of site - the social aggregator (a.k.a. lifestreaming services). Below is a review of 15 products currently in this space. I've tried to keep the focus on aggregators, rather than services which have more of an emphasis on inputting new content (e.g. microblogging platforms such as Tumblr or Jaiku) although the lines are clearly blurred.
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focus on aggregators
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Key to success in this area is minimising the work the user has to do to setup their aggregation. Scanning services against specified usernames (rather than adding each service individually) or automatically pulling in friend lists from the services added are both massive timesavers which lower the chances that you'll decide it's not worth the hassle and give up.
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whether you want to keep track of your own activity, your friends' activity or a combination of the two.
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Profilactic is the daddy of social aggregators
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144 services
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automatically draws on your friend lists from the services you add rather than forcing you to add them manually
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less-is-more school of interface design
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you can choose on a per-service basis who to share updates with (everyone, only friends or only friends on that particular service)
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Founded by a handful of ex-Google employees
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stats, recommended friends and, best of all, add an 'imaginary friend' to keep track on feeds from friends who don't yet have a FriendFeed account
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decent alternative to Profilactic
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option to limit visibility of different feeds to different friends (via groups) and the ability to filter the stream by type (e.g. stories, events, videos) and/or by site
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you can choose whether to share updates with friends, family, business contacts or a custom group on a per-service basis
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sync your Plaxo Pulse status with Twitter and a drop-down enabling you to filter the stream by type
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middle of the spectrum
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borrows very heavily from Twitter
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ability to make individual feeds public or friends-only
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fails to make it into the top tier by not automatically pulling in friend lists from added services
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nice interface touches including
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speech bubbles for tweets and preview thumbnails for URLs bookmarked using del.icio.us
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adding feeds is a laborious process, involving lots of authentication and watching a spinning progress indicator
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customisable 'skins'
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visually very appealing
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large Flickr photos
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doesn't offer much in the way of additional functionality though and lacks much integration with your friends activity
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Digg icons and full blog posts
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functionality doesn't live up to the polish of its visual design
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ability to scan available services for specified usernames
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able to turn up fabricoffolly accounts on multiple services by just typing in one word
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Flickr & Twitter require you to look up and enter your ID number
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updates can only be ordered by service type not chronologically
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ability to specify a tag so as to only show posts which match that tag
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let down by an esoteric interface which squeezes most of the interaction into a tiny portion of the screen and forces the user to adopt a trial and error approach to finding what they're looking for
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couldn't get it to play with my Flickr feed
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blog-style presentation of your lifestream
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main content updates down the left and a column on the right with recently listened to tracks, tags and month-by-month archives
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feeds seems a little erratic
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image crashing into the right-hand column
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enable advanced users to manually edit the stylesheet
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poor design and UX
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main event (the stream) is invariably pushed down beneath the fold
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user is just made to work too hard
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search functionality
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activities timeline
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most lo-fi
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del.icio.us-esque design aesthetic and linking to photos and videos rather than pulling them into the data stream
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river
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adding feeds can be a bit of a pain
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aggregated tag cloud
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basic stats on what number of posts are coming from which services
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didn't fair too well
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MySQL database errors
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(Twitter) wasn't very effectively presented
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a lot of scrolling
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design looks very dated
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calendar, enabling you to easily jump back to specific dates
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Michel Bauwenskeeping track of one's activity on an increasing number of social media sites
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girlie geekComparison of 15 different services. (fabric of folly)
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brian rodneyThe difficulty in keeping track of one's activity on an increasing number of social media sites... has, somewhat ironically, spawned a whole new breed of site - the social aggregator... Below is a review of 15 products currently in this space.
identity internet list review social aggregator web2.0 lifestream
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tommaso sorchiottirecensione di popolari servizi di lifestream
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