No more standard lifestreams please, be creative!
Written on 30th October 2008
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Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
When I received an email from Alard Weisscher, saying he’s working on a lifestream project, my first reaction was something like: “not another one”. And yes, when I browsed storytlr and clicked on one of the showcased lifestreams – it looked rather standard. Well, just the lifestream bit, because the rest of the site looked rather smashing (see picture).
So much for the standard lifestream part. Apart from Storytlr’s basic lifestream service, they also offer a “story” feature. This is a cool and different visual approach to lifestreams. Imagine you go on a hiking trip, somewhere in the United Kingdom. You tweet, you make photos, and you film. Nice to combine that in a book-like concept, right? This is what Belgian-based storytlr makes of it:
Now all they need is a partnership with Blurb and the lifestream-book circle will be complete.
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By Markus Goebel on Oct 30, 2008
Such a lifestream makes way too much work. I’d never do that. It takes hours and your private photos end up on other companies’ servers where they can do whatever they want with it. Also the Twitter messages are boring. Who would want to follow this guys’ experiences? My tv is boring enough.
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By eschnou on Oct 30, 2008
Thanks Ernst-Jan for the review ! I almost chocked when reading the title but was happy to see that you got our storytelling angle :-) I’m surprised you didn’t see the backup feature as another novelty, I think it is really nice to be able to download all your stuff (twitter, etc..) and save it localy.
@Markus cannot agree more, my life is boring and only interest a few friends, but that is exactly the point :-) Easily sharing daily stories with them. One thing we must still implement are fine grained privacy settings.
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By alardw on Oct 30, 2008
Being able to print a book from your stories is on our long to do list. The page layout was setup with future printing in mind.
We did our best to make creating a story a simple one minute process by using start and end date on your stream (if you have your pics and videos online) but if this is taking too long please drop us a note.
And eschnou maybe we need to reintroduce the zebra background on the twitter posts ;)
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By Zee from WeDoCreative on Oct 30, 2008
Hey, this is actually pretty cool. Once they get styling sorted, i’ll probably properly use it.
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By svartling on Oct 31, 2008
Hey! This is an excellent lifestreaming service!
See my Storytlr site.
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