Lifestreaming is “an online record of a person’s daily activities, either via direct video feed or via aggregating the person’s online content such as blog posts, social network updates, and online photos.” (Wordspy)
I was reading this post from Flowing Data, and it got me thinking why people are either interested or not interested in social data.
Lifestreaming is something I’ve been following for quite some time now. Heck, I have one of my own that I have been testing out. Unfortunately, current lifestreaming applications as well as the one I am using, does not quite meet my needs.
I view lifestreaming as my personal online diary. Therefore, when I aggregate all of my social data into an application, I want ALL of my data (including private/protected entries – for example: a protected Twitter account or a Flickr photo that is only viewable by my friends) to show up in the application. Which leads to a big issue: data portablity.
Case in point: Can you export all your Facebook activity to something?
There are other things that I want bug me which I won’t get into. But I do plan on doing something about it…