Lifestreams to go mainstream?
By Jill Pyle
Yesterday, Google acquired Jaiku, a tool for sharing your online activity stream or, as some have come to call it, lifestream. With Jaiku, you don’t have to bounce around the internet to see what your friends have been up to. Instead, you can view their latest Twitter status, flickr photos, Google Reader shared items, blog posts and Facebook updates all in one place.
Jaiku has decided to focus on innovation instead of scaling and is currently not accepting any new users. Once their doors reopen, I’m sure lots of people will be eager to create lifestreams. With Google backing a service like Jaiku, I think it’s only a matter of time before we see lifestreams go mainstream.
