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Sweetcron - open source lifestream

There have been a lot of "lifestream" services popping up lately that aim to collect all of your Web 2.0 meanderings and assemble them into a slightly less schizophrenic view of your online life. It's a great idea, but the downside is that most of these are closed source and externally hosted, so you are essentially pumping all of your data into yet another system that you have no control over.

I was excited to learn about Sweetcron today. Created by Tokyo-based web developer Yongfook, it's a completely open-source, self-hosted take on the lifestream idea. Like most of the services, it's essentially a blog that also pulls your realtime participation data from sites like Twitter, Flickr, Digg, and Youtube. Unlike the service model, however, you can download it, skin it, and modify it however you like to suit your needs. You'll need a server to run it on, of course, but perhaps that's a small price to pay to take ownership of your digital life.

Sweetcron - Automated Lifestream Blog Software [via Brian]
Yongfook's Blog (and Sweetcron demo)
Sweetcron Downloads and Information at Google Code

Posted by Jason Striegel | Sep 25, 2008 11:54 PM
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Posted by: slaney on September 26, 2008 at 5:57 AM

Why do I need to give him my email address?

Why do I need to give Mr. Fook my email address to download Open Source software. I would have given it if he asked, but not as a condition.

Posted by: Paul on September 26, 2008 at 6:23 AM

Frindo

FriendFeed, which aggregates pretty much anything you do online if it has a supported API or RSS feed, is a great service. I wrote some really simple code that uses the FriendFeed API to put your "stream" on your site either via an iframe embed of PHP include. It's extremely customizable via CSS (or if you know a little PHP, it's disgustingly customizable). No hosted databases or difficult installation required: http://frindo.googlecode.com

Sweetcron is cool. But some people just want most of their online activity on their homepage and don't care about hosting it in their own database.

Posted by: Kris on September 26, 2008 at 11:10 AM

You dont - just go to the Google Code site

http://code.google.com/p/sweetcron/downloads/list