Sweetcron: The Automated Lifestream Blog Software

I wrote a moderately useful lifestream hack a year or so back, just checked on it and it's slightly broken, but usable;

http://dsingleton.co.uk/code/lifestream/dsingleton.co.uk

The beautiful thing is that it's entire generated from a single URL. This requires the site to have implemented the microformat rel="me" link as it uses the SocialGraph API to scrape connected URLs. All matched pages are checked for a rel="feed" style link, those are all scraped and merged together to form the timeline.

Programatic is nice, but also a huge mess. I never got around to grouping/bubbling interesting content, and it unfortunately seems that my SG data is a bit corrupt, my URL has been linked to various things that aren't me.

edit note: I only resurrected this the other day, the code is awful garbage, but it is due a refactor and release soon if someone else wants to hack on it.

Sweetcron is really nice and light-weight but 1) it's missing a few features and not for everyone and 2) hasn't been updated in awhile. We use it for aggregating austin-area startup blogs:

http://startupdistrict.com

Could this be done with WordPress?

I hope this is as good as it sounds. I built a simple "lifestream" for myself using the Planet Venus aggregator[1], and I've been thinking for a while about building something more complete. It looks like Sweetcron might have all the features I wanted, which would save me from doing it myself.

1. http://www.advogato.org/person/mbrubeck/diary/96.html

I'm a fan of Yongfook. He's working on another project called Peashoot that I'm pretty excited to see/use.

http://peashootapp.com/

Also - I used Sweetcron when it was first released. I think it's good at what it does!

Demo of a stream: http://www.yongfook.com/

The download url to try the software on your own server: http://code.google.com/p/sweetcron/downloads/list