Show Off Your Internet Lifestream With Lifestream.fm [Review]

I’ve known about the social aggregator Lifestream.fm for quite a few months now but, I didn’t realize is that not as many people (as I thought) seem to know about it. Lifestream.fm is on the path to becoming a FriendFeed competitor with a much cleaner look.

In their own words:

“Tired of hopping from one social network to the next to keep up with friends, the Lifestream team, are here to help you put it all in one place, so you can stay up-to-date at a glance and in real-time.”

Lifestream.fm first started in April 2008 & they’re currently in closed beta. Lifestream.fm is where you can stream all of your online activities in one place, just like FriendFeed, Socialthing, Iminta, Secondbrain & the rest of the social aggregators on the Web.

Lifestream.fm supports 58 services, one of which is an Atom/RSS feed – which allows you to use any (non-offered) RSS enabled service that you’d like. It also supports comments, which like FriendFeed, your comments remain on the Lifestream.fm site only.

I do have invites, so feel free to request one by email at chachafance [at] socialwebtools [dot] info. I only have a few friends there right now so it would be nice to have more people join!

A few of the recently added features on Lifestream.fm include:

• You can mark posted items as favorites by simply clicking on the little heart you’ll see on each post. By doing this, it will be added to your favorites (which you can access from the “favorites” tab).
• You can see everyone’s favorites, by clicking on the “everyone” button – here you’ll also see everyone’s activity and comments as well.
• YouTube videos are now integrated into your lifestream; you can play them directly from Lifestream.fm.
• Whenever you have a new entry posted in one of your self-titled feeds, it will also show up titled in your lifestream.

I also like how Lifestream.fm allows you to customize your profile. I love the fact that they have their own Adobe Air application, making it very easy to keep up with your Lifestream.fm buddies; if you don’t know, I’m a huge fan of Air apps. Also, let’s not forget the customizable badges they offer, so that you can show off your lifestream all over the Web.

I also love the “recent comments” tab on Lifestream.fm. No need to search through your lifestream for new comments, they are conveniently placed in a tab for you.

The best thing about Lifestream.fm is the ability to filter your lifestream by services. With FriendFeed, the only way to achieve this right now is to add a Greasemonkey script, but with Lifestream.fm the option is already there for you.

I’m really looking forward to see what else Lifestream.fm has in store for the future. How do you think they’re doing so far? Would you consider switching to them from FriendFeed? Personally, I think it could be a possibility in due time.

Update: After painfully struggling to make it in the fast-paced world of social networking and lifestreaming, Lifestream.fm is no longer in service.

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