Why Lifestreaming Sucks…

Posted on | March 1, 2008 | Comments

I’m all about aggregating yourself online. Right now, we just don’t do it very well. There’s not an open protocol in all services that allows me to pull feeds from all the different online activities that I do.

Instead, I have to run from this application to that application in an ever-behind attempt to maintain my online social identity. I spent 20 minutes today trying to add my personalized Google homepage to the Google Reader — without physically moving each of my 150 feeds. I can cross-post to Vox from my Wordpress, but not to Myspace. Flickr works with some blog interfaces, but not others. My twitters appear on my blog – but I can’t get the mobile experience (which means on my blog, you can’t see my friends Twitter feeds).

Don’t believe me? Check out the top 35 lifestreaming applications. There’s 35. And the fact that there is a top means that there are more.

Social Media is beginning to shape up like the dotcom bubble burst. We’ve already shot past the tipping point with these applications. We’re going to see a sudden decline — and it’s going to come when someone develops an open protocol system for sharing life data that all the services can use.

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