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Sweetcron: The Automated Lifestream Blog Software

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Re: Sweetcron: The Automated Lifestream Blog Software

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Post by mbrubeck »

I hope this is as good as it sounds. I built a simple "lifestream" for myself using the Planet Venus aggregator[1], and I've been thinking for a while about building something more complete. It looks like Sweetcron might have all the features I wanted, which would save me from doing it myself.

1. http://www.advogato.org/person/mbrubeck/diary/96.html

Re: Sweetcron: The Automated Lifestream Blog Software

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Post by noodle »

mbrubeck wrote: post #3

I hope this is as good as it sounds. I built a simple "lifestream" for myself using the Planet Venus aggregator[1], and I've been thinking for a while about building something more complete. It looks like Sweetcron might have all the features I wanted, which would save me from doing it myself. 1. http://www.advogato.org/person/mbrubeck/diary/96.html

i've given sweetcron a shot.

i liked it, but it was developmentally raw and hasn't been updated in a while. i played around a lot, and then tossed it for a wordpress install with a lifestream plugin.

the reason why is not because i didn't like sweetcron, but because i wasn't active enough in the social web at large for it to be interesting. a page full of twitter updates is fairly lame.

Re: Sweetcron: The Automated Lifestream Blog Software

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Post by dsingleton »

I wrote a moderately useful lifestream hack a year or so back, just checked on it and it's slightly broken, but usable;

http://dsingleton.co.uk/code/lifestream/dsingleton.co.uk

The beautiful thing is that it's entire generated from a single URL. This requires the site to have implemented the microformat rel="me" link as it uses the SocialGraph API to scrape connected URLs. All matched pages are checked for a rel="feed" style link, those are all scraped and merged together to form the timeline.

Programatic is nice, but also a huge mess. I never got around to grouping/bubbling interesting content, and it unfortunately seems that my SG data is a bit corrupt, my URL has been linked to various things that aren't me.

edit note: I only resurrected this the other day, the code is awful garbage, but it is due a refactor and release soon if someone else wants to hack on it.

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