Unifeeds & Lifestreams

One project I want to get going here is a lifestream. For now I have added a unifeed of everything I am involved with on internet. If you use rss, you could subscribe to my unifeed on this page. A unifeed is a combination of RSS feeds. I am using it as a lifestream. Later I hope to create a html version, which you can visit.

So what is a life stream? I blog, post photos to Flickr, bookmark to del.icio.us, twitter and comment on someone elses blog (I use co.comment); each of these activities is logged on an RSS feed. They are also timestamped. I use feedblendr to create a combined RSS feed of all my feeds. This is a unifeed. That way you can track my very move. It is not scary, because I have no shame, er! I mean I have nothing to hide. In a while a new standard APML (Attention Profiling Mark-up Language) might take this functionality over. This type of RSS implemtation is experimental. We are seeing what it does and what effect it might have.

I am using Feedblendr for my unifeed. I really recommend Feedblendr. They have an API, they use Rest, provide JSON, ATOM and RSS of your unifeed. One extra point which I thought was really cool and I used it myself. You can import opml files, including pointing to a url if the file is online. That is how it should be and I have never seen until now! Brilliant guys!