bitful

Over the past few months I have been fascinated by data/stream aggregators and have subscribed to many such services to see what they would do.

Some that I have been enjoying pottering around in are:

• Tumblr
• Profilactic
• SuprGlu
• iStalkr
• Dandelife

(Have you also got the feeling they are running out of good names?)

And here is what my scattered activities across the web look like when they are put together:

• Bitful on Tumblr
• Bitful on Profilactic
• Bitful on SuprGlu
• Bitful on iStalkr
• Bitful on Dandelife

As usual, I have taken my toys apart to look inside, and last night while I was tidying up my hard drive I found an intriguingly named 'stream.php' file. I configured it, added a few images and classes, uploaded it and it automagically merged five streams (bitful, flickr, del.icio.us, twitter and last.fm) into one single bitful data stream, merged chronologically.

We like.

I will have to check it to see how frequently it updates. It's a quick and easy text-based link thing that only shows the last few dozen actions, as it is based on existing feeds and what they chuck out by default. I suppose I could make it dump this data into a database (for archiving) or merge the feeds into one (via Yahoo! Pipes) for others to subscribe to.

The trouble is, I have no idea where I copied the script from, so I cannot credit anyone. Let's just say I did not write it myself, and if you know who did, I am more than happy to give them the due recognition.

If you are interested, my inspiration (and aspiration) is Emily Chang's Data Stream, and my constant source of information for all things lifestreaming-related is Lifestreamblog.com.

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