Lifestreaming
Last night I started work on an interesting project of mine, on the subject of “Lifestreaming”. Basically, one location that pulls together everything you may do or be involved in on the Internet, through RSS feeds and some “neat tricks”, creating a unified RSS feed for whoever may be interested.
So, for example, rather than someone following my blog, Twitter, and what I “digg” on Digg… they could just subscribe to this all-in-one feed to keep track of my activities. Or visit the main page of wherever this will be, and see things like “Kyle dugg [whatever]” or “Kyle’s Twittering [something]”.
Once I get this working, to a certain point, I’m going to publish it for people to view, even as I continue to develop it. Before that happens, I need to create a database caching method of the RSS feeds, which will probably happen tonight.
But, and this is the big kicker, I’m going to be releasing the “Services Library” as open source code, probably under GNU and through a joint venture of myself and my company. This library is what pulls in the different RSS feeds, and pulls out the specific details of the feed for each service. For example, Twitter’s “description” and “title” tags are both the same, the actual Twitters themselves… but Digg’s “title” is what I want, and not the “description”.
This little project may turn into something bigger, but we’ll see how it goes.