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I see a big problem with the semantic web and social networks. We have all these great tools like twitter, last.fm, youtube, etc, but it becomes time consuming and unmanageable to update them all. For instance, you want tweet on twitter, you have to login in and post your update. You then update your facebook status, same thing – login and post your update. The process repeats. As soon as your list of social services grows, this can take quite some time. Wouldn’t it be easier if this was streamlined from your desktop or mobile devices? In my opinion, yes! There are a handful of apps already developed to do so, and many more to come in the future. Here’s a list of some tools to help you streamline your social updates.

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A few months ago I read an article by ReadWriteWeb about the future of blogging. I never noticed this trend until it was pointed out by them. To quickly summarize the article, it’s about how personal blogs have been shifting to horizontal updates, in a manner similar to how you post Twitter updates. I really like how information is presented to users in this fashion, and decided to design a few concept ‘LifeStreaming’ wordpress themes. I hope to have these ready for download within the next few weeks. The design is nearly done, it just needs to be sliced and coded. Subscribe to my feed if you wish to be notified of when they are available.

Note: The white lifestream wordpress theme is now available for download.

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