The perfect lifestream is a simple one
Written on February 22, 2008 – 11:11 am
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
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I recently started working on a personal blog, just to aggregate all my online content in one place. So let’s say that we meet for the first time and you want to know what I’m doing, I can just tell you to surf to one spot where all my work is presented.
During the designing process, I soon faced the problem of integrating all these services like Twitter, Flickr, Last.fm, Del.ico.us etcetera etcetera. How can I aggregate all those different types of content without turning my blog into widget paradise?
The answer turns out to be simple: use an escaloop badge. It’s nothing more than a feed aggregator that presents the content in a clean and simple way. Just like the visualization of the service:
Escaloop is a personal side project by German Yahoo coder Carlo Zottmann. I hope he supports his side project with a pretty solid server, since escaloop might get a bit more popular than he thought it would.
By the way, if this article brought you in a lifestream-state-of mind, check out this useful lifestream post on ReadWriteWeb.
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5 Responses to “The perfect lifestream is a simple one”
By Peter Evers on Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
I experience the exact same problem during the designing of my personal blog. I guess Escaloop is the thing I was waiting for a long time.
By Dave on Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
Yes!!! This looks awesome! I was foolin’ around with RSS mixers that usually just didn’t do the way I wanted to, this does.
By Michiel de Mare on Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
Do you know friendfeed.com? By Paul Buchheit, the creator of gmail. I think it’s exactly what you’re looking for.
By Marc on Feb 24, 2008 | Reply
Also, you could use Dapper.net with or without Yahoo Pipes to create a mashup of RSS feeds and web pages, with then end result being an RSS feed.
See this one I created that takes Dapper feeds and puts them into Yahoo Pipes. Dapper is great for sites that dont have rss feeds such as stumble upon’s homepage.
Best of the hottest social bookmarks…
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/p.....ifJhjtzu1g
By Mark on Feb 24, 2008 | Reply
Check this lifestream:
http://lifestream.juanxavier.com/
One of the few i really like.