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Lifestreams, "leaf only" posts

edit David P. Janes 2007-08-07 20:26 UTC add comment  ·  ·

A new feature we're very pleased to be announcing (for the next release, obviously) is "lifestream". A lifestream provides a compressed view of everything that you're doing. Here's a quick screenshot:

Note the following:

  • your lifestream consists of all your imported feeds, and in the future, events you've done on your blog (changing your picture, adding information to your profile, etc.)
  • the icons on the left show you where the stream is coming from; we dynamically make this icon from the favicon, or if it's a local user, we display their picture
  • clicking on the date brings you to the entry that's on your blog; clicking on the link will bring you to the original post in it's original location (i.e. it will bring you to del.icio.us, twitter, or whatever)
  • I've just combined a number of randomly chosen feeds for this example; please excuse me if the Chinese characters say something horribly rude!
  • there's a link in the sidebar to get to the lifestream
  • lifestreams work for networks (very useful) and groups (less so)

To make this all work, we've exposed an underlying feature -- "show this entry in the archives only". When this is selected, items will not appear on the main page or in the RSS feeds. However, all archive pages, etc. will display the item. It's a clever way of adding lots of data to your blog without cluttering up the main page.