SweetCron: your own lifestream

    Good day to all.
    Many Internet users often not only maintain their own blog (it doesn’t matter - in some kind of blog system, like LJ, or stand-alone blog), they actively correspond with friends in micro-blogs (Twitter, Jaiku, Plurk, Identi.ca and so on), upload videos to YouTube, Vimeo, pictures on Picasa, Flickr. The list of network activity can be continued indefinitely, the benefit of any successful service will be to find 2-3 clones that have brought something new. And sooner or later, there is a desire to aggregate all your network activity in one place for the convenience of presenting it to your online friends.

    It is for these purposes that various lifestream services were created. From overseas you can mention FriendFeed , Profilactic(by the way, this site currently has the largest number of supported services, more than 180 ), Lifestream.fm , also the Russian project BestPersons is well - known . But with open source solutions in this area is much worse.

    Gregarius has already been described on the hub , which may well be suitable for our purposes, there are also various plugins, for example, for Wordpress (in particular, I use a plugin on my site that interacts with an account on Profilactic). But they all have either insufficient flexibility in settings, or binding to existing services.

    In search of a possible solution to the problem, I recently came across an open source solution called SweetCronauthored by Yong Fook . The official release date is scheduled for August 28, and just a couple of days ago, the author posted a video demonstrating the work with the system administration panel.


    I managed to get the following information from this video (I indicated only what was confirmed on the video, and not just what was said behind the scenes):
    • The system can process your URLs in various systems. So, to add your Twitter messages, just insert the line www.twitter.com/your_name_name . It's nice that most likely it will be possible to fasten the processing of additional sites, which by default are not in the system.
    • Downloading updates on Flickr or YouTube is better implemented than, for example, in the same Profilactic plugin. The description and tags are loaded in addition to the picture or video, and not just a link.
    • A tag cloud is created for those items that the system has aggregated. From the video it’s not clear whether it’s built on all downloaded tags or only on Flickr (only this service flashed in the video at that moment), but it’s still a nice feature.
    • It will be possible to combine the elements in various ways, but they were not shown on the video, they just told.

    In the end, I want to say that an example of the system’s operation can be found on the author’s website, and also repeat the date of the official release, which was announced on August 28 this year.

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