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Re: Wanting a Multidimensional Lifestream

mturro — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:10:23 -0000

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Re: Wanting a Multidimensional Lifestream

necrodome — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:59:45 -0000

hi,
great insights. i am trying to build a facebook app (who isn't today?) based on lifestream concept and bumped to the same problems. i am pretty sure i can't come to close what you want but here are my ideas:

* weight feeds:
something i create is more important than something i consume, so weight creations automatically more and allow the user to change weights for the consumed ones.

* context:
it is hard to capture but maybe context can be build when your lifestream consumer is interested. for example, i saw you have listened abba and *commented* on your last.fm stream that you are a retard for listening abba. this will give you chance to clarify the situation and create a context. far from perfect, but at least something.

Re: Wanting a Multidimensional Lifestream

Michael Turro — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:15:23 -0000

The idea of weighting seems like it would get us a little closer in principle, but I guess what I am fantasizing on is something that intuits what I am feeling... some sort of biotech perhaps?

Re: Wanting a Multidimensional Lifestream

ozten — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:51:55 -0000

You lost me at kitsch and ABBA :)

I agree the linear chronological lifestreams don't represent you very well. There are some that break up the streams by type before listing chronologically. Example: music, bookmarks, then everything else.

The problem with identifying kitsch is that this is a very difficult problem to solve automatically. There would have to be some kind of UI for you to tag or enter a mode "kitsch". Even if you used machine learning to group this burst of ABBA as being "not normal", which is possible, automatically labeling this with an aesthetic label would be incredibly difficult.

When I started reading your post I was thinking in terms of weighted feeds. You give your last.fm feed a weight of 1 and your blog feed a weight of 5. The lifestream would "layer" and emphasize blog posts much higher than every last.fm squabble or every twitter tweat.

This is a type of lifestream that I am playing with as research, but haven't found such a beast out there yet.