Don delivers a UniFeed, more Jaiku than Twitter

Don Crowley used FeedBlendr to merge the feeds of all his online publications into a single UniFeed (unified feed). Excellent, one subscription and I can track all Don's output. This is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind when I wrote -

"The Read-only Web has been replaced by the Read/Write web. And the Read/Write web orbits around me (and you!). Does the sun visit the planets? Or do the planets catch the rays? I radiate a stream of digital outputs, the ticker tape of my life, a continuous feed of annotations - my uniFeed. My satellite apps should catch those rays. My blog should render a subset of my uniFeed, my presense app another subset, my calendar another, etc,."

It also points to a reason why Jaiku is getting so much attention as a Twitter alternative right now. Jaiku, though relatively lacking in community, is really a different beast to the the Techmeme favourite. By aggregating RSS feeds it operates as a UniFeed generator, 'catching the rays' of the digital annotations you radiate throughout the day.

I actually registered for Jaiku last year but soon gave it up for the busier Twitter. That's the argument Robert Scoble makes in favour of the latter - that community (and simplicity) wins. He might be right but I'm sure we'll see Twitter adopting some of Jaiku's UniFeed features down the line.

Technorati Tags: twitter, jaiku, unifeeds, lifestreams

Comments

[Don Crowley]

Thanks James. We know where I got the idea from. Jaiku does not accept my blendr feed. I'm going to get in touch with them. Only heard of Jaiku last week. Definitely has some good things going for it. I was hoping I could use it to embed a lifestream into the sidebar of my blog. Their website has a great design. I have a lifestream on my sidebar now, thanks to a google widget Slim RSS Reader http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&source=gghp&num=24&url=http://1o4.jp/google/module/slim-reader.xml , it shows the last 9 entries from my unifeed. For LOL I'm sticking to twitter though.

[Don Crowley]

I think Jaiku is in a spot of bother with it's new found popularity. I might work later.