AOL Lifestream Goes Solo
AOL Lifestream, launched last year as a feature of AIM, has been given new life as a standalone service, currently in beta mode.
Lifestream, much like its competitor Friendfeed (and undoubtedly countless other lesser-known rip-offs), is designed to aggregate feeds from a variety of social networks.
The service will integrate with a variety of platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Delicious and more, to provide a real-time aggregated feed of your friends' updates across various networks.
If you follow users on a lot of different social networks, Lifestream may be exactly what you need to keep track of everything all in once place, and help you separate out the wheat from the chaff.
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch writes:
The Lifestream product is simple, intuitive and really, really useful. Frankly it’s what Google Buzz should have been – both an independent social network on its own, but very deep integration into all of the other social networks you are likely to use daily.
I have to agree. If Google Buzz had taken this approach rather than acting as another flawed alternative to Twitter, I'd be betting much higher on its staying power.
Lifestream, on the other hand, may be just the thing AOL needs to revitalize their brand and get back into the game.
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