“…The new service [buddyupdates] allows for AOL users to create Lifestreams and share them with their buddies on a website or directly in AIM. Another huge way to expose a giant userbase to Lifestreaming. It’s my opinion that AOL finally realized that the Lifestreaming phenomenon is here to stay and didn’t want to get left behind. Just to be safe, they also decided to snap up SocialThing a few days later for good measure. This appears to be a very calculated move for them to accelerate playing catch up in the Lifestreaming service game.
Lifestream to the Mainstream? Buddyupdates & Friendfeedization May Lead to The New Blog
August 7th, 2008
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August 7th, 2008
As reported by the Lifestream blog, 2008 and 2009 are likely to be heady times for lifestreaming, a new way of documenting the activities surrounding your life using a chronologically-ordered collection of information. And, as suggested by this very insightful post, lifestreaming – despite being no more than a short collection of photos, videos, copy-and-pasted emails, random thoughts, links, and general over-sharing – may be the “New Blog”. In some instances, the site even scrolls horizontally instead of vertically which makes it seem much more like a timeline than just another blog
As the article notes:
“…Facebook recently released a site re-design which puts a heavy focus on the activity stream and the recently added abilities to import your data from other services and comment on them. TechCrunch proclaims that it’s The FriendFeedization of Facebook. This change by Facebook single handedly had the ability to turn millions of Facebook pages into Lifestreams overnight. Time will tell whether people start to import other services and whether Facebook continues commited to adding more services and functionality in this area.
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