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Lifestreaming, according to Wordspy, is "an online record of a person's daily activities, either via direct video feed or via aggregating the person's online content such as blog posts, social network updates, and online photos." In this post we review some of the top lifestreaming web apps: Onaswarm, Lifestrea.ms, Soup, Jaiku (the service Google bought), and perhaps the most popular of them all, Tumblr.

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I'd argue that Twitter is the most prominent amongst geeks at least. A lot of people use Twitter for lifestreaming.. with their blog posts getting linked in, using Seesmic to do videos, Twittergram to do voice, etc.

But the "biggest" is probably FaceBook. Okay, it's not really a lifestreaming app all on its own, but in terms of sheer numbers of people constantly posting their updates, places they've been, events they've been to, etc, it's the closest thing to lifestreaming in the mass market so far.

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what am i missing?

lifestreaming seems to be willingly opening up one's entire existence to any and all predators from targeted advertisers to the government

why do it?

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I personally know absolutely no one outside of the Web tech industry who uses more than one social networking service extensively. Facebook does a good enough job for the mainstream. Delicious, Flickr and Twitter simply aren't on the radar, so why would my friends need anything more than FB Newsfeed?

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