Missing Features

Lifetracking is when you keep tabs on all of the changes in someone else’s online and offline world. This might mean tracking online video sites, new photos, blog postings, social networking updates, RSS feeds, wish lists, live video feeds, news aggregation resources, etc.

To put it more simply: lifetracking is the act of following a lifestream.

Sure, Tumblr is making it easy for a producer to share all of that information to the world Internet. But what about the consumers? Just look what reading A VC — an early lifetracking site — is like:

There are lots of problems: too many posts, to much overlap between headlines and body text, incomplete postings in the feeds, and too many annoying tiny urls.

It’s still too early to know what the critical features of a good lifetracking software consumer is going to look like. But there are ideas. Take tagging. Better tagging usage on the part of the producer would make it easier for the consumer to filter out the updates they don’t care about.

Not big into sports? Don’t see all the photos of the family going to the Jets game.

It’s early for lifetracking, but it’s coming. As it becomes easier to put more and more of your life online, more and more people will be interested — a few at a time — in following your life. Just make is easier to follow.

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