lifestream versus Lifestream versus ???
I am having a blast searching for a replacement to my homepage. The most promising keyword so far has been lifestream. Note small 'l'. Capital 'L' Lifestreams are heavy duty introspection machines. The history of research goes back a couple decades... Heck even back to V. Bush. It's fraught with technical and social issues. That is a very cool application space, but not what I am looking for.
These lowercase l lifestream applications are coming on fast and furious. They are much lighter weight and help aggregate already published public content into a time based feed.
What I want dips into the "attention" space, lifestreams, and page widgets, but is none of them. I want a homepage robot. I want a meta-CMS that republishes my content into a nicely formatted homepage that highlights featured content, links to less interesting content like tweets or bookmarks on slow days, and generally keeps visitors to my homepage aware of
Imagine a magazine cover metaphor:
The lifestream web application will use atom / RSS as notification mechanism, but still needs to grab the original url to analyze tags and microformatted content.
I don't care about the social networking angle for this app. Each CMS that I use can and should have a social networkign aspect to it, but this is just a homepage builder and needn't have this aspect.
I don't want a small page widget ( iStalkr ), this should be a stand alone full page.
It needs to have a well implemented RSS ingestor, so that it is timely and doesn't miss any inputs, nor double post, etc.
Bottom line is I am looking for a homepage replacement and lifestreams are 85% of the way there. The search continues...
I am having a blast searching for a replacement to my homepage. The most promising keyword so far has been lifestream. Note small 'l'. Capital 'L' Lifestreams are heavy duty introspection machines. The history of research goes back a couple decades... Heck even back to V. Bush. It's fraught with technical and social issues. That is a very cool application space, but not what I am looking for.
These lowercase l lifestream applications are coming on fast and furious. They are much lighter weight and help aggregate already published public content into a time based feed.
What I want dips into the "attention" space, lifestreams, and page widgets, but is none of them. I want a homepage robot. I want a meta-CMS that republishes my content into a nicely formatted homepage that highlights featured content, links to less interesting content like tweets or bookmarks on slow days, and generally keeps visitors to my homepage aware of
- What I have done recently
- All the personal CMS ( other web apps ) that I use
- See my style applied
- Published to my homepage url
Imagine a magazine cover metaphor:
- My most recent Flick photo tagged "featured" as the whole page background
- Website title splash across banner
- A list of featured items ( with small or medium sized images ) for various UGC tagged "featured"
- A "plus more" box with direct links to all my sources, with favicon bullet image
- In config mode
I want to be able to weight feeds, my blogs, yelp posts, and flickrs over del.icio.us, twitters, etc.
The lifestream web application will use atom / RSS as notification mechanism, but still needs to grab the original url to analyze tags and microformatted content.
I don't care about the social networking angle for this app. Each CMS that I use can and should have a social networkign aspect to it, but this is just a homepage builder and needn't have this aspect.
I don't want a small page widget ( iStalkr ), this should be a stand alone full page.
It needs to have a well implemented RSS ingestor, so that it is timely and doesn't miss any inputs, nor double post, etc.
Bottom line is I am looking for a homepage replacement and lifestreams are 85% of the way there. The search continues...
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