Re: How to Design the Perfect Lifestreaming Content Reader

March 26 2010, 12:21pm

Wow, the ultimate Lifestream Reader - my dream! I've thought about this a lot myself.Having it simply pull in my streams from my contacts I already follow on each of my social networks is a good way to solve the problem Louis suggested. Especially to get started, but I'd like it to be more like subscribing to Lifestreams (taking advantage of the open standard activity streams). This way it's pulling in posts from services I'm not necessarily on (eg. say Louis wrote a great post on Buzz, but I'm not on Buzz) but may still be interested in seeing.I'd also like to see different views, one like the Twitter Times, one in more of chronological order, etc. Maybe something like how Feedly does it for RSS feeds.I love the idea of giving priority to active posts/topics (eg. several contacts posted about a product release or commented on it), the service should bring that to my attention, maybe through featuring it much like Twitter Times would, or how Friendfeed brings it to the top.I agree with your response to Goldstein below, there needs to be some awesome logic in place to figure out which posts get priority, automagically by default (for simplicity of new users). However, it should all be customizable in the settings; I don't want some magic algorithm like on Buzz that I have no clue how it works and no control over it. This may include such things as the ability to weigh priority of specific keywords, tags, users, and services.