With so many ways online to tell people what you're up to/ what you've done, lifestream filtering is becoming a popular way to package all those personal-feed items. A lifestream is an aggregation of your social media feeds. A lifestream filter helps you to filter out the noise and create a custom stream of information. For example, you might want one lifestream that shows your Twitter tweets, your images and what you're listening to on Last.fm. Then you might want a separate stream that just shows your blog posts from multiple sites and any YouTube videos you've created.
Lifestream Filtering in Dipity Timeline
There are a growing number of tools for lifestream filtering out there, but I like to see a visual representation of information whenever possible. After reading Markus Merz's take on the Dipity Timeline web service, I signed up for an account (free).
Dipity makes it very easy to your filter your personal lifestream feeds. While you are signing up for your account, you're presented with an easy-to-use form for entering a variety of social media details (usernames, email addresses, profile links, RSS feed URLs, etc.). At present, this is what you have to choose from: Read the rest of this entry
