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Build your own iStalkr, Suprglu, etc.

posted 09:07AM May 25, 2007 with tags aggregation atom istalkr rss suprglu by Lars Trieloff

I am a fan of all kinds of RSS and ATOM aggregation (no wonder with an OPML file of 1,454 feeds), escecially of personal information aggegation. As a good Web 2.0 citizen, I create a number of feeds that allow to track my interests, thoughts and activity, e.g. my weblogs, my bookmarks, or my software development builds. A personal information aggregator or lifestream aggregates all those feeds that are specific to a person and offer a one-stop interface.

The first service of this kind I have seen isSuprGlu (my personal page looks like this. Unfortunately this service has been offline for weeks after I created my account and it limits the number of feeds you can track to nine. If anyone knows the reason why nine, not eight or ten, please tell me.

So I was delighted to find a similar service with some additional personal profile info and a better interface for adding feeds, a nice timeline view, no feed limitation and an even stranger Web 2.0 style-name: iStalkr (my personal page looks like this). Unfortunately this service went offline for the last week and I thought iStalkr to be the second personal information aggregator I killed by my mere membership.

I told this problem to Marjolein, the No. 1 RSS authority in the blogosphere and within ten minutes I had my own lifestream aggregator. These were the steps:

Lars
My personal information aggregator is broken. Do you know an alternative?
Marjolein
Do you have an OPML file of your feeds?
Lars
Wait a minute. (I created an OPML file using my Roller Bookmarks and my custom OPML template)
Marjolein
See http://mysyndicaat.com/myfeed/feed/cc1_Lars%20Trieloff%20-%20River%20of%20News feed created with Mysyndicaat
Lars
Thank you, that's cool. But is there some way to embed this in my weblog??
Marjolein
the way I'd do it, is add this feed back info your OPML, make sure it's listed at the top of your OPML, by naming it so that it sorts at the top, then go to Grazr.com and add the feed

Grazr.com is a service that allows you to add news aggregation widgets to your weblog and that's what's how we did it. And in minutes I had my own personal lifestream aggregator. Thank you very much for the help, Marjolein.

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Comments:

Are you Lifestream killer ?! :o)))))

Hé boy, I'm interresting you join Life2Front battalion and own LifeLine profile.

It's lifestream experiment with powerfull reader UI, but without user-interface yet. I hope open network before 2008.

See my profile. Mail me at oliezekat-AT-yahoo-DOT-fr to join us on www.life2front.com ;o)

Posted by Olivier D. ze kat on May 27, 2007 at 10:54 PM CEST #

cool....? =]

Posted by ricky on May 28, 2007 at 11:28 PM CEST #

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