SweetCron: your own lifestream
Good day everyone.
Many Internet users often not only run their own blog (it doesn’t matter - in some kind of blogging system, like LJ, or a stand-alone blog), they actively communicate with friends in micro-blogs (Twitter, Jaiku, Plurk, Identi.ca and so on), lay out videos on YouTube, Vimeo, pictures on Picasa, Flickr. The list of network activities can be continued indefinitely, the benefit of any successful service will be to find 2-3 clones that have brought something new. And sooner or later there is a desire to aggregate all its network activity in one place for the convenience of its presentation to your online friends.
For this purpose, various lifestream services were created. Among the foreign ones, we can mention FriendFeed , Profilactic (by the way, this site currently has the largest number of supported services, more than 180 ), Lifestream.fm , and the Russian project, BestPersons, is also very popular . But with open source solutions in this area is much worse.
On Habré already described Gregarius , which may well be suitable for our purposes, there are also a variety of plug-ins, for example, for Wordpress (in particular, on my website I use a plugin that interacts with the Profilactic account). But they all have either insufficient flexibility in the settings, or linking to existing services.
In search of a possible solution to the problem, I recently came across an open source solution called SweetCron , the author of which is Yong Fook . The official release date is scheduled for August 28, and just a couple of days ago, the author posted a video demonstrating how to work with the system administration panel.
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From this video, I managed to pull out the following information (indicated only what was confirmed on the video, and not just what was said behind the scenes):
In the end, I want to say that the example of the system can be found on the author’s website, and once again repeat the date of the official release, which was announced on August 28 of this year.
Many Internet users often not only run their own blog (it doesn’t matter - in some kind of blogging system, like LJ, or a stand-alone blog), they actively communicate with friends in micro-blogs (Twitter, Jaiku, Plurk, Identi.ca and so on), lay out videos on YouTube, Vimeo, pictures on Picasa, Flickr. The list of network activities can be continued indefinitely, the benefit of any successful service will be to find 2-3 clones that have brought something new. And sooner or later there is a desire to aggregate all its network activity in one place for the convenience of its presentation to your online friends.
For this purpose, various lifestream services were created. Among the foreign ones, we can mention FriendFeed , Profilactic (by the way, this site currently has the largest number of supported services, more than 180 ), Lifestream.fm , and the Russian project, BestPersons, is also very popular . But with open source solutions in this area is much worse.
On Habré already described Gregarius , which may well be suitable for our purposes, there are also a variety of plug-ins, for example, for Wordpress (in particular, on my website I use a plugin that interacts with the Profilactic account). But they all have either insufficient flexibility in the settings, or linking to existing services.
In search of a possible solution to the problem, I recently came across an open source solution called SweetCron , the author of which is Yong Fook . The official release date is scheduled for August 28, and just a couple of days ago, the author posted a video demonstrating how to work with the system administration panel.
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From this video, I managed to pull out the following information (indicated only what was confirmed on the video, and not just what was said behind the scenes):
- The system can handle your URLs in various systems. So, to add your Twitter messages, just insert the line www.twitter.com/your_name . It's nice that most likely it will be possible to fasten the processing of additional sites, which by default are not in the system.
- Uploading updates to Flickr or YouTube is better implemented than, for example, in the same Profilactic plugin. The description and tags are loaded in addition to the picture or video, and not just a link.
- A tag cloud is created for the items that the system aggregated. It’s not clear from the video whether it’s based on all downloaded tags or only on Flickr (only this service flashed in the video at the moment), but still a nice trick.
- It will be possible to combine elements in various ways, but they did not show it in the video, they only told it.
In the end, I want to say that the example of the system can be found on the author’s website, and once again repeat the date of the official release, which was announced on August 28 of this year.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/38109/
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