I hope this is as good as it sounds. I built a simple "lifestream" for myself using the Planet Venus aggregator[1], and I've been thinking for a while about building something more complete. It looks like Sweetcron might have all the features I wanted, which would save me from doing it myself.
i liked it, but it was developmentally raw and hasn't been updated in a while. i played around a lot, and then tossed it for a wordpress install with a lifestream plugin.
the reason why is not because i didn't like sweetcron, but because i wasn't active enough in the social web at large for it to be interesting. a page full of twitter updates is fairly lame.
The beautiful thing is that it's entire generated from a single URL. This requires the site to have implemented the microformat rel="me" link as it uses the SocialGraph API to scrape connected URLs. All matched pages are checked for a rel="feed" style link, those are all scraped and merged together to form the timeline.
Programatic is nice, but also a huge mess. I never got around to grouping/bubbling interesting content, and it unfortunately seems that my SG data is a bit corrupt, my URL has been linked to various things that aren't me.
edit note: I only resurrected this the other day, the code is awful garbage, but it is due a refactor and release soon if someone else wants to hack on it.
Sweetcron is really nice and light-weight but 1) it's missing a few features and not for everyone and 2) hasn't been updated in awhile. We use it for aggregating austin-area startup blogs:
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i liked it, but it was developmentally raw and hasn't been updated in a while. i played around a lot, and then tossed it for a wordpress install with a lifestream plugin.
the reason why is not because i didn't like sweetcron, but because i wasn't active enough in the social web at large for it to be interesting. a page full of twitter updates is fairly lame.
http://dsingleton.co.uk/code/lifestream/dsingleton.co.uk
The beautiful thing is that it's entire generated from a single URL. This requires the site to have implemented the microformat rel="me" link as it uses the SocialGraph API to scrape connected URLs. All matched pages are checked for a rel="feed" style link, those are all scraped and merged together to form the timeline.
Programatic is nice, but also a huge mess. I never got around to grouping/bubbling interesting content, and it unfortunately seems that my SG data is a bit corrupt, my URL has been linked to various things that aren't me.
edit note: I only resurrected this the other day, the code is awful garbage, but it is due a refactor and release soon if someone else wants to hack on it.
http://peashootapp.com/
Also - I used Sweetcron when it was first released. I think it's good at what it does!
http://startupdistrict.com
Could this be done with WordPress?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-o-matic/installation/