Online Life Streams.

I have a couple of new tools that add to the online life streaming I have been playing with lately.  The first one is drop.io.  It’s a cool application that lets you drop different kinds of inputs into your “drop” or life stream.  Here are some of the ways you can input data into your stream, for full details check out their site:

1. Files -  this can be any kind of file you want.  There is a html uploader on the site to add them to your drop.
2. Links - allows you to share bookmarks with others that subscribe to your drop
3. Notes - a short note or you can embed media in a note like youtube videos
4. Email - you get a drop.io email address that you can send stuff too
5. Voicemail - you get a number you can call and leave voice messages in your drop
6. Fax - does anyone still fax stuff?

The other life stream updater I have been playing with is Jott.  Jack told me about this one.  It’s a handy way to update your life stream if you don’t like to type.  You call into a jott phone number and jott asks you where to send your message.  You give it a destination like “me” and start recording your message.  Jott then takes and translates your voice message into text and sends you an email with the message in it.  You can send messages to places like email addresses, twitter, wordpress, and some others.  Jott does other things also I would like to encourage you to check it out.

One of the main reasons I was looking at both of these is because they both update your twitter feed.  It seems to me like Twitter is becoming more of a life streaming platform.  I have this little web of links where multiple sources of information flow in and out of twitter.

My blog -> feeds updates to twitter

drop.io -> feeds updates to twitter

jott.com -> feeds updates to twitter

sms texting -> feeds updates to twitter

Any of the above updates to my twitter sends status updates to Facebook.  Cool stuff.

We The Church

Just found this site and thought it was worth sharing. It falls right in line with twittering. You can even follow it on twitter.

Twitter

Well I have found a new tool that I really enjoy. I even went out and purchased a BlackBerry to support this new tool. It’s called twitter. Keeping up with friends is really important to me and this is just another way of doing just that.