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Get ready for LINICKX LifeStream!

Colleagues have noticed that in my spare time at work I’ve been “getting my geek on!” the definition being a vi window of code on one screen and google open in the other ;)

Linickx LifeStream will be a new WordPress plugin which allows you to life stream ANY feed. I’ve been having issues with FeedWordPress and to be honest it didn’t really do what I wanted; now there are already may wordpress lifestream plug-ins, but mine will be different.

Difference 1: The plug-in isn’t service dependant… i.e. you don’t stream your twitter account or your LastFM account, you stream the feed. What this means is that when tomorrows-wizzy-new-service is launched you don’t have to wait for me to update the plug-in. It also means you can stream odd stuff, such as I’m going to stream my commits to the WordPress plug-in repo ;)

Difference 2: No Requirements. The requirements for this are the same as the WordPress requirements. What this means is yes it works on PHP4 and no you don’t need a separate installation of simplepie.

Difference 3: No Lifestream Pages, extra databases or tables. LifeStream feeds get created as “normal” WordPress posts, so if you digg something a post is created and you can do all the normal things like tag & categorize the post.

I’m in the process of finishing the package and installing the plug-in here on linickx.com but when it’s ready you’ll be able to…

Download LINICKX LifeStream Here

With a little luck I’ll be able to remove this annoyance and directly stream delicious and get google reader working again.

LifeStream Thoughts….

I’m looking to improve linickx.com; I’d like to include more of my online identity, I stumbled across yibble.org and the layout / look / feel is very close to what I’m looking to do. My current theme is tumblr inspired but has it’s limitations, for example if I tweet & blog on the same day my front page has “posts” with duplicate titles :(

A self host tumblr or sweetcron are options except that I like WordPress and I can’t be doing with the hassle with maintaining multiple apps… this is why I stopped using gallery, gallery is a brilliant app I just don’t have the time to keep it and WP and “another” up to date and secure.

I’m going to start exploring WordPress + LifeStream alternatives. The WordPress LifeStream Plugin creates a page like this, which is close to what I want, except I like having my tweets / bookmarks / blogs all mixed up, it keeps linickx.com kinda “organic”. I’m considering a lifestream theme and am hoping that the lifestream blog will provide some inspiration…. the trick is going to be achieving the teh blog ar (not) dead look in a fashion that fits me!

If you know of a good solution… using WordPress, please let me know.