Lifestreaming

April 25 2009, 10:37am

I set out some of the logic behind, and tools you can use for lifestreaming at a recent Ignite event here in our Cardiff. Here's a video of the presentation, the slideshow and some links you can check out.

Ignite is an event where a load of geeks get together to drink, network and watch a series of 'rapid fire' presentations - you get 5 minutes and 20 slides that automatically transition every 15 seconds. The Cardiff (and soon, London) event is organised by Neil Cocker and Claire Scantlebury, from Nocci and Cardiff Web Scene respectively.

The presentation format is a serious challenge - the challenge is to get the timing right and create a presentation that's sufficiently interesting for a very savvy audience but also entertaining enough for a tipsy-but-savvy audience. I hope I managed to get the balance right.

Anyway - here's the video from my presentation, followed by the slides I used:

Ignite Cardiff Presentation - Lifestreaming

You can also view these in my lifestream - this site pulls in my uploads and favourites from Slideshare.net, and also any Youtube favourites or uploads too.

Here are a few good lifestreaming links:

Lifestreaming makes sense of the mass of social media activity that we're creating. As our actions on the web - be that favouriting or liking a video, uploading media content or commenting on a blog - become more and more dispersed across a wide range of services, it helps to have tecnologies that aggregate them back together.

As I mentioned in the talk, we can all make a start by plugging our media account details into Facebook, but I think Friendfeed is the service we'll all be paying attention to in the future. Not ony can we aggregate all our web activity, but we can subscribe to each other. All Friendfeed needs is an active community commenting and liking the best content and it'll become the most powerful platform on the web.

Right now, Friendfeed certainly looks like the most interesting lifestreaming platform for the future - see Robert Scoble setting out how much more useful it can be than Twitter:

All in all, the IgniteCardiff event was great - there were a bunch of fantastic presentations and a hectic night of networking, drinking and partying was enjoyed by all.

You can check out all the presentations from IgniteCardiff #2 at the IgniteCardiff YouTube Channel. My favourite presentation from the night was from DK at Mediasnackers, who gave a fantastic presentation on change.

Massive respect to Neil and Claire - and if you're based in Cardiff, make sure you don't miss the next one! Stay in touch by connecting with them online.