This document discusses lifestreaming services like FriendFeed, Facebook, and Google Buzz that allow users to aggregate all of their online activities into a single stream. It provides examples of how lifestreaming could be used in classroom and organizational settings to pull together relevant news, videos, articles, photos, and announcements in one place. Key lifestreaming platforms of the late 2000s are highlighted.

1. Lifestreaming
as of February 11, 2010

2. a real-time collection of
what you do on the web

3. Think of it as....

6. You create a lifestream
of your content....

7. which enables your
friends to see it as part
of their social stream.

8. Let’s look at:
• FriendFeed (2008)
• facebook (2009)
• Google’s Buzz (2010)

9. facebook

10. facebook.com

11. facebook.com

12. facebook.com

13. facebook.com

14. FriendFeed

15. friendfeed.com

16. friendfeed.com

17. friendfeed.com

18. friendfeed.com

19. friendfeed.com

20. Google Buzz

21. buzz.google.com

22. buzz.google.com

23. buzz.google.com

24. buzz.google.com

25. Classroom
Uses
Pulling together:
•relevant news stories
•video clips
•new scholarly articles
•class discussion

26. Organizational
Uses
Pulling together:
•photos of events
•relevant Tweets
•blog posts
•announcements

27. Image Credits
RSS Diagram by Travelin’ Librarian
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45082883@N00/534589284
FBI Classroom by BillErickson
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mg315/381296439/
"My love's a noble madness" (John Donne) by kisses are a better fate than wisdom
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16209788@N00/1699090444/