Briefly, I think I just like its outward simplicity but underlying complexity. Also with Tumblr, although it has many similar features, I didn't like the compartmentalization of content into things like "quotes" or "video" etc.

in my mind, a lifestream was never meant to replace the blog (or capable of), but to act as more of a one-stop archive of activity throughout the web. when i came across sweetcron, it was exactly the type of product i was looking for. everything else was too much or too little.

i do agree that a lifestream is rather impersonal and doesnt have much practical value. again, that goes back to it being simply an archive. its essentially an unexciting log of internet activity. and, well, logs are unexciting by nature.

i came across sweetcron with those understandings and still love sweetcron!

how about a hosted version of sweetcron? #milliondollaridea

I just signed up to Posterous for a stickybeak and I see what you mean. Alas, there has to be a point where I stop migrating platforms. And I've got this nice little follower/following thing going as it is...

(Comment post attempt round 3? This time without twitter... as an aside, if it fails to post to the 3rd party site it should tell you what went wrong and not just clear your comment entirely...)

Cheers,
Max

i came across sweetcron with those understandings and still love sweetcron!

how about a hosted version of sweetcron? #milliondollaridea

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YES,YES & ANOTHER YES!!!!

I am finalizing a mash-up using a modified multi-user sweetcron which is fully controlled from word-press admin & i mean in each and every way starting with the header elements all the way to single row control ,he type of rows and the content they display ,to mcuh to mention .
WE did not pay to much attention to the design factor yet ( the design is not bad just keep in mind its fully dynamic) . At the end of this comment i will post a link hoping everyone will keep in mind its stil a prototype & would not be shown yet if not for this post.

What you will see is a demo that is fully controlled from wp-admin in each and every way.
WE are not looking to use sweetcron as a self stream.
We have a modded MUlti USER SC and instead of following multi users streams it will be used to follow topics . This was build for my experiment on twitter . The experiment was about creting a marketplace around social -sensitive data streams.
We picked counterfeits and @fakepolice was created in order to experiment with data related to counterfeit goods exposure and original goods promotion. We are not talking about just brand name clothing which has cancer causing toxic dye in it if counterfeited but also medication where in the states 7% of all med's in hospitals are fake, the worst thing is no one knows which 7% !

We now have plans to set up a community network using multi user sweetcron paired with a wordpress MU & buddypress which will create a community of hosted blogs with lifestreams to be used as topic agrigators...
no more hosting,no more installations, no more theme customization unless you want to and an overall solution for many , especially the lower sill user..

So far there are 4 of us me Robert Vayner (founder) & 3 other developers. We are always looking for others to join us because we all have other commitments and are doing this on the side when we have time , this will be a free service with some pro options but when all is said and done no one will have to self-host anything or install. A simple membership will give you a hosted blog (thesis framework theme based blog which is something very special !) & a hosted SC TOPIC or LIFE stream solution all set up and inter-graded as a wordpress plugin which is due to be released by end of the year.
We will soon make the demo public and we will also create a clone which will be made in to an Enterprise app as we will be injecting a marketplace and will publicly demo how one can make money with our little app. In this case the project will be exposing all counterfeit related activity,supliers,product & promoting originality.

Once its turned on it will create an instant hub of very targeted activity which provides an immediate opportunity for a marketplace because where there are people who got burned by fakes , there are people who want authentic s and there will be vendors who will provide them !

still prototype stage with dummy content www.ftomatic.com/lifestream

I do however post on a lot of various social networks. Sharing relevant information I find to friendfeed, twitter etc. For those who don't use those services, but still want to stay informed on that information, they go to my site (running sweetcron) or follow my RSS for that category.

I'm currently using a lot of filters so that only important posts make it to my sweetcron, so there isn't, for example, a long series of tweets. As well I find myself manually editing a lot of the entries. Hoping to create a bookmarklet for sweetcron soon, and improve the filters, to help with this. Just wanted to say there's still a place for Sweetcron :)

Personally, I'm using Sweetcron for some future AI's benefit. I'm just attempting to putting as much of my activity into a single stream as possible. If that interests some readers, then great; if not, that's okay too. If my CSS skills weren't so lacking, it would even be more human readable.

I do try to keep the content semi-pertinent to a few core academic interests, but other than that, it's an experiment who's design is yet to come, subject to the availability of tools yet to emerge. ;-)

Onward!