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Sweetcron: The Automated Lifestream Blog Software

17 points by nixme 17y ago

nixme 17y ago
Demo of a stream: http://www.yongfook.com/ http://www.yongfook.com/
- bayareaguy 17y ago
  That site seems to waste an awful lot of screen space.
- mlLK 17y ago
  Is this running RoR?
  - Steve0 17y ago
    php/mysql
mbrubeck 17y ago
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. 1. http://www.advogato.org/person/mbrubeck/diary/96.html http://www.advogato.org/person/mbrubeck/diary/96.html
- noodle 17y ago
  i've given sweetcron a shot. 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.
dsingleton 17y ago
I wrote a moderately useful lifestream hack a year or so back, just checked on it and it's slightly broken, but usable; http://dsingleton.co.uk/code/lifestream/dsingleton.co.uk 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.
jauco 17y ago
The download url to try the software on your own server: http://code.google.com/p/sweetcron/downloads/list http://code.google.com/p/sweetcron/downloads/list
pstinnett 17y ago
I'm a fan of Yongfook. He's working on another project called Peashoot that I'm pretty excited to see/use. http://peashootapp.com/ http://peashootapp.com/ Also - I used Sweetcron when it was first released. I think it's good at what it does!
pxlpshr 17y ago
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: http://startupdistrict.com http://startupdistrict.com Could this be done with WordPress?
- snewe 17y ago
  Try wp-o-matic to import RSS feeds directly into WP. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-o-matic/installation/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-o-matic/installation/

17 points by nixme 17y ago

nixme 17y ago

Demo of a stream: http://www.yongfook.com/ http://www.yongfook.com/

bayareaguy 17y ago
That site seems to waste an awful lot of screen space.
mlLK 17y ago
Is this running RoR?
- Steve0 17y ago
  php/mysql

mbrubeck 17y ago

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. 1. http://www.advogato.org/person/mbrubeck/diary/96.html http://www.advogato.org/person/mbrubeck/diary/96.html

noodle 17y ago
i've given sweetcron a shot. 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.

dsingleton 17y ago

I wrote a moderately useful lifestream hack a year or so back, just checked on it and it's slightly broken, but usable; http://dsingleton.co.uk/code/lifestream/dsingleton.co.uk 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.

jauco 17y ago

The download url to try the software on your own server: http://code.google.com/p/sweetcron/downloads/list http://code.google.com/p/sweetcron/downloads/list

pstinnett 17y ago

I'm a fan of Yongfook. He's working on another project called Peashoot that I'm pretty excited to see/use. http://peashootapp.com/ http://peashootapp.com/ Also - I used Sweetcron when it was first released. I think it's good at what it does!

pxlpshr 17y ago

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: http://startupdistrict.com http://startupdistrict.com Could this be done with WordPress?

snewe 17y ago
Try wp-o-matic to import RSS feeds directly into WP. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-o-matic/installation/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-o-matic/installation/