2 posts and columns on lifestreaming

AOL Expands Socialthing to Warner Bros. TV While Prepping New Release of ICQ and AIM

in News on May 5, 2009 at 6:00 am PT

AOL–which recently has been putting its Socialthing lifestreaming service on a large number of AOL-run Web sites, moving it beyond its Bebo social network–will announce this morning that it will also be launched on another Time Warner property. According to a press release, Socialthing will also now be part of the Web sites of the Warner Bros. Television Group. But, more significantly, sources said, AOL’s People Networks has new versions of its AIM and ICQ messengering clients ready that it is preparing to launch soon with new more robust and socialized features.
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Debating the "Real-Time" Web at Stanford University

in News on September 17, 2008 at 8:15 am PT

Last night, BoomTown was invited to moderate a panel for MIT/Stanford Venture Lab at Stanford University’s Business School on the topic of lifecasting. In other words, the digital version of TMI (too much information!). Called “Lifestreaming: The Real-time Web,” it was aimed at debating the trend toward “sharing our lives with others as they happen,” with three entrepreneurs and a venture capitalist in the space.