Checked out another lifestreaming site: Lifestream.fm. Reasonable sign up and setup. The site supports lots of services, with some notable exceptions (e.g., It doesn’t support MySpace!).
The system shows you your updates, in order. That’s about it. With Twitter-like followership and in-system comments based on yet another group of friends you have to setup. They do offer friend import features to use your address book to invite them.
Again, what’s with the services that tell you only what you did? (You know: You where there.) Again, one of the interesting features of Web 2.0 is that it is about conversation! What I say is just not as interesting as what the community collectively says. It’s just like Jazz, baby. People require the canvas of social context and feedback to paint a whole that is greater than the parts, to riff upon each other and create harmony and discord. In short, to improvise the funky groove jam that is our collective symphony of communication.
Maybe I should give Lifestream a try and invite a friend or two. Maybe the site is more interesting with friends in it. Probably, but I really want feed aggregation in my life stream to capture the conversation. That conversation is already going on outside of Lifestream.fm on other services and without that in the application, the site leaves me a little bored and looking for more utility.
Hope they keep working on it though. I’ll come back and check out how they’re doing in a few months and let you know.
