Lifestreaming With Profilactic
Lifestreaming is all the rage now and there are tons of tools to help you do it. The one I’ve been using most recently is Profilactic. I have to say that I detest the name (which the founders say is ’something to do with profile’), but I love the service. Profilactic calls itself a ‘digital life aggregator’ which prevents an online identity crisis. Like other lifestreaming applications/sites, you can add the services that you belong to and amalgamate them into one nice, tidy feed.
It took only a couple of minutes to sign up for the site and add a list of all the places where I contribute content online. Profilactic supports a large list of social sites as well as RSS, and also lets you add custom sites, so in theory you can add any site to your lifestream. I have yet to test that, though. Once you’ve added your sites, you can build your lifestream automatically. Again, this works well and if Profilactic can’t retrieve a particular feed, there’s a discreet little message at the top of the page.
In another page you can retrieve your friends’ lifestreams. I don’t think this is working right on my profile, because I only seem to have the things I have shared on Digg, for example, so there’s still some tweaking to do there. As usual there are widgets and badges to allow you to display your lifestream on other sites. The interface is clean and easy to read, and provides handy links to all your stuff, so I think I’ll be working with this one for a while.
A killer feature is that it uses Ping.FM so that you can update all your microbloging services from your account. I still plan to do some more testing. To find out more about Profilactic, especially planned developments, visit their blog.
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