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By: Mark Krynsky

Mark Krynsky — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:47:14 +0000

Thanks for the mention Tac. The description I wrote which you mentioned was written when I started the blog back in early 2007. It was that concept (primarily the aggreagation of 3rd party services on a single page) that was being developed that I latched on to. Now it seems that it is harder to define as many different people see Lifestreaming in different ways. I think it's still primarily referenced with regards to aggregation, but it's now going down many vertical paths that include brandstreaming, storystreaming, travelstreaming, and countless others. I don't know if we'll ever get to a standard industry definition because of this. Although I'm not so concerned with an industry definition as much as I am a open standard that can be adopted like RSS. Right now the closest thing to that is the ActivityStrea.ms initiative.

By: tacanderson

tacanderson — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:28:46 +0000

Yeah, with the exception of the distribution what Steve is doing is really much more like what blogging used to be 5-6 years ago.

By: kskobac

kskobac — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:21:48 +0000

I guess if Posterous is really being used as the starting point for all online content it makes more sense as a lifestream, but to me Rubel has more rebranded and reset expectations for his blogging efforts – i wrote my thoughts on Louis Grey's post here: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/10/communicating...

By: tacanderson

tacanderson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:46:19 +0000

Bring it on, Bryan! LOL. I agree, I think it's great that Steve's
raised awareness around Lifestreaming beyond FriendFeed because it is
an activity or publishing type not a platform.

By: BryanPerson

BryanPerson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:25:03 +0000

Tac: Great question yesterday for Steve. We really are still figuring this all out and I think Steve is able to push the discussion by calling his site a “lifestream,” even if it really feels like a blog that also includes content pushed to different social channels.

Get ready for my hard-hitting questions later today. Maybe I'll ask YOU to define lifestreaming!