lifestream
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Lifestream
Jeremy Keith put lifestreaming on the map with his Lifestream demo application (http://adactio.com/extras/stream/), which he blogged about here (http://adactio.com/journal/1202/).
The practice of syndicating and then aggregating content into one stream is a useful one as more and more services crop up that allow us to do things that translate well into syndication formats.
There are two questions intially to be resolved:
- how can chronological microformats at the distributed sources be best used to feed into lifestreams (i.e. via hAtom, hCalendar)?
- how should lifestreams themselves be best marked up (using a combination of hAtom and hCalendar or one or the other)?
In Jeremy's Real-World example (http://adactio.com/extras/stream/) (and subsequent (http://chrisjdavis.org/cjd-lifestream-1-0) derivatives (http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/12/14/lifestream-wp-plugin-for-wordpress/)) a combination has been used. Is this the best path forward? Are there other ideas, especially for semantically linking to the types of services that appear in one's stream?
