Lifestream.fm is another Social network Aggregator and as the name implies life streaming solution. Lifestream.fm is the new project from Ecuador Star Developer Juan Xavier Larrea who previously made websnapr (sold to Mister Wong), pixer.us, Popurii.us,blogspy and other past projects/experiments.
That means that this project is not made by a amateur developer but by someone who got certain cred and experience already as some other bloggers stated. but Lifestream.fm looks to be Juan Xavier way to step up his game and get head on into his biggest project yet. one of things i noted is that he bailed on his blog and now his previous blog domain redirects to his Lifestream.fm profile. i hope that is a notice that he means business and plans to go the long haul with it and make it his main project.
Lifestream.fm takes bits of other Life Streaming solutions and Social Aggregators like Profilactic (the unrecognized master aggregator) , Web 2.0 darling FriendFeed and the Snobbish and yet unopened SocialThing! and combines them in a familar Twitter-like profile form.
It becomes very clear that Juan Xavier knows that Form and Style are essential and Lifestream.fm proves it with a very clean layout and a pleasant to look design something that Profilactic ugly design and Firendfeed extremely twitter/google inspired should take notice. i would talk about SocialThing!. but the biggest problem with SocialThing! right now is the utter snobbishness of the service and very limited supported services even if they do count with a good design and good features.
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If you decide to give Lifestream.fm a chance after what i have written, then you will be happy to know that it got a widget badge for your blog sidebar and that it sports pretty much the same default look of the site.
This badge is exactly the same kind of widget than the one by others and it will only be a matter of taste and choice for you to choose it. but there is one already and it works well.
Some of the things i want to see on future versions of the badge would be better customization options. a flash or silverlight version, a full page version like the one being offered by MyBloglog so it can result more convenient and more palatable to users.
That is all. so if you want to try Lifestream.fm out you can, no need of invites or slow registration, it works on all browsers and from what i know it will continue to evolve and add features pretty quickly.
Right now it supports 39 services and 42 status choices to add.
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Hey, thanks for the mention. Here’s 25 invites to socialthing. Invite Code: “snobbish” (without the quotes). You can also use this link: http://socialthing.com/signup?invite_code=snobbish
Touche, ben, touche.
I will write about this and spread the invites.
And please, i don`t have a problem with you guys hating IE, but you NEED to support one version, even if you only support IE8 and forget about IE7 all together.