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Build your real social network and mirror your life online!

Invite friends to your friends lifestream, your family to your family lifestream, your neighbours to your local lifestream and your colleagues to your business lifestream and track live what's going on in their lifes.

Stiffler is in highscool. He's far away from home but still gets all the pictures and videos from his family in the minute they are added to lifestrea.ms.

He watches his friends cool playlist on Last.fm, gets news on campus events through facebook and gets updated on the latest releases for his iPhone by the Apple RSS feed - live in his auto-refreshing ajaxified dashboard.

Billgates is a small business owner for memorabilia. Since he has added his suppliers to his professional network, he gets updated automatically on deliveries, new products and special offers. On the other hand David gets found by customers that are interested in his products, because he is suggested to people whos interests match with Billys offerings.

Prince is a musician. He prints his lifestrea.ms professional profile address on his business cards to give clubs an URL where they can listen to his music and watch his latest video clip.

For his fans he uses his public profile address: here they can join his network as a follower. That way Prince can keep them updated on concerts and new releases.

Geekmaster is a software developer. He uses a lot of different Open Source classes in his projects and it's hard for him to keep on top with the latest bugfixes, releases and security warnings.

After adding the RSS feed of every library to his dashboard, he's saving so much time that he's even starting to discuss about coding problems with his lifestrea.ms friends.

Lonelyboy is single for almost a year now. Finding somebody new is hard, 'cause he's very, very busy all the time.

But lifestrea.ms finds the perfect match, the woman that has it all: not by filling in endless forms, just by doing what he's intersted in - surfing his favorite sites, doing Google searches on intersting topics. This magic is called "semantic analysis of attention data".

Michael is a sports pro. He would never publish his contacts to players, coaches and team managers on a social network, 'cause this would be like financial suicide.

lifestrea.ms is different: Michael keeps his contacts secret, but stays informed anyway on anything that's going on with other players and teams. Needless to mention that Michael uses lifestrea.ms to find the news that celebrate him as a hero too.

To put it in prose: lifestrea.ms brings together all kinds of things that you and your social network create on the web in one place. There you decide who sees what. You can share and re-publish your contents and even add additional texts and media from your lifestrea.ms dashboard. To make sharing your life easier, lifestrea.ms breaks down your social life into seven of the most important parts: public, family, friends, local, professional, romantic and secret. You have one fully adjustable profile for each of your networks. The same way you share your life with others, your network contacts share their life with you. To keep you in the loop, you can even read your newsfeeds ('cause these are written by people you follow) and your emails ('cause these are people that contact you) from inside your dashboard. Staying on top of what's going on has never been more effortless, so come and join today and start communicating with all your friends, family and colleagues in a new way.

To put it for geeks: lifestrea.ms uses RSS, Atom feeds, APIs and proprietary methods to aggregate information from all the web apps you use. It brings everything together in a full Ajax Dashboard, which updates automatically your incoming stream of news by putting new posts on the top. As you can add any other RSS or Atom feed too and even import OPML files, you can and should also use it as a newsreader. With lifestrea.ms as a newsreader you can comment on posts and forward them to friends in your social network to start a threaded discussion. You can also find likeminded people as you can see who's reading the same feeds. If you keep it secret that you're reading a feed, you can at least annotate and tag it. If you read this feed publicly, you can even pingback and trackback on posts automatically. You can also create your own content from inside your dashboard, by uploading audio, video and image files and writing status updates and blog posts. Files are scanned for meta information (e.G. for mp3s: artist, album title, release date) which is added automatically too. If you've registered with Flickr, Youtube, Twitter, Pownce, Del.icio.us, Magnolia you can even push your content up there in parallel in one step. For every single piece of content you can decide whom to share with: with nobody, with a single person, with the whole world or with one of your networks. lifestrea.ms philosophy is that every man has more than one personality and therefore more than one profile. We've clustered these profiles into friends, family, local, professional and romantic which sticks to the XFN standard. You can have different profile data tied to each of these virtual personas and you have full control over what data is public and, if it's not public, who can see it. People you've invited to your networks will find your lifestream on your public profile page which you can use as an OpenID. This means you have 5 public OpenIDs plus a secret one. The OpenIDs are auto-generated from your basic username, but you can change them once to whatever you like. Your profile page groups your lifestream into the different media types but also holds machine readable data. This means your lifestream is also available as an RSS feed, your friends as XFN and Microformat tags and your profile data as an hCard. As lifestrea.ms stores information about what you read, what you post and what you communicate, we are able to enhance this data semantically and generate a stream of attention data for each of your profiles from this. That way you have a continuously updated APML (Attention Profile Markup Language) file on each of your profile pages. By using all these open standards you as a user have full control over your data and you as a developer can build new applications on top of this. Lifestrea.ms even enables users for the first time to practice the vision of a Portable Social Network and the Open Social Graph (not to be compared with the widget-only Google OpenSocial). But we don't calculate your APML only for external purposes. It's also in heavy use inside your dashboard. From your attention data we calculate what newsfeeds have a high priority for you, what new topics could be of interest for you and what people you should get to know, 'cause they are heading for the same things. We suggest feeds, topics and people (anonymously) to you as soon as we find them in your - you guessed it - live dashboard. Give it a try today and invite all your friends, family members and colleagues - it's effortless as lifestrea.ms supports importing your contacts from Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Gmail, Yahoo and many other online email providers. Lifestrea.ms supports even sending invitations to your friends on all your favorite networks like Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Friendster and Orkut. We appreciate your feedback!