Stats: The Internet in Charts - The Steve Rubel Lifestream

 September 16, 2009
Stats: The Internet in Charts

I love charts and graphs. So, here are a bunch of them that crossed my screen today. I found these all fascinating and I thought you would too.

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Stats: The Internet in Charts - The Steve Rubel Lifestream

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Lifestream Finds Its Way Into AIM Free Edition

Lifestream Finds Its Way Into AIM Free Edition: "

On September 10th, 2009 Lifestream found its way into AOL’s paid version of AIM for the iPhone and iPod touch. Today, exactly seven days later, Lifestream has now found its way into the free version of AIM for the iPhone and iPod touch. Coincidence? Maybe, but if Lifestream shows up in another app in exactly seven days, I will just assume it’s taking over the app world one week at a time.

Lifestream is the new addition to AOL’s lineup of social networking services. Just like in the paid version of AIM, you will notice that AIM Free Edition has a new Lifestream tab on the bottom. When accessed, it will allow you to set up a free account through Mobile Safari if you haven’t already. The service is able to pull in updates from all kinds of other social services, such as Twitter, Facebook, Digg, YouTube, Flickr, and Delicious, so you will no longer have to jump from one app to another to keep in touch. Lifestream also allows you to do more than just look at status updates from these services. It allows you to comment on status updates, view photos, and filter through content to find exactly what it is you are looking for.

Lifestream wasn’t the only addition to AIM Free Edition, however. Once again, just like the paid version of AIM, AIM Free Edition features a redesigned AIM status message screen, updated Buddy info, and minor performance and stability improvements.

So, AIM Free Edition is once again exactly like it’s paid counterpart, except it contains ads, which means you can see what Lifestream is all about without having to spend a single penny.

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Google gets a patent on reading lists

Google gets a patent on reading lists: "Google will probably protest that the patent they filed on reading lists was defensive. But it's a bad patent, based on an 'invention' that was already out there, being discussed openly on Scripting News at least a year before they filed it. If you can subscribe to a feed, why not subscribe to a collection of feeds? And when an item is removed, you no longer are subscribed to it, and when one is added, you are now subscribed to it.


Google should explain to the RSS community how they supposedly invented this and what their process was. If it turns out that we had prior art, they should tear up the patent and apologize from trying to hijack something that doesn't belong to them.


I worry about big companies doing awful things because they do them. It's dangerous to have Google control so much of the RSS infrastructure, from Feedburner to Google Reader to Blogger. They could easily pass information between those systems without sharing the information publicly. They could, right now, deliver features to users that competitors would be locked out of. All this built on ideas, formats, protocols and know-how that were contributed by others without any limits on how they could be used. And now this patent.

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Clipmarks - What are you finding on the web?

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