Beware that this tutorial is slightly unmaintained. Images are lost thanks to my hosting provider, and my own lifestream has since been changed to work with a Symfony backend. To understand Yahoo Pipes though, the text can still provide a good insight.

So, as you might have noticed I build my own little copy of a Lifestream, much like Jeremy Keith (Adactio) did on his website. Although it is fun to build a lifestream, it isn’t the simplest thing to do, so I took a different approach to use mine and build one using Yahoo Pipes.

The cool thing of using Yahoo Pipes is that my Lifestream is all Javascript+HTML and no server side logic (a.k.a. PHP). I gave a little talk during BarcampBerlin2 explaining what I did, but in the next few paragraphs I will hopefully explain with a bit more detail how it was exactly done, and also focus on some quirks of Yahoo Pipes that I had to work around.

[Next up: Combine Your Blog Posts]

As some of you might know, a popular game to play during BarCamps is the game of Werewolf. Werewolf is a very social mind game (based on the Mafia game), where a group of villagers go to bed at night to find that the werewolves ate one of them when they wake up. So, as a revenge, the villagers decide to lynch one of their fellows who they suspect to be a werewolf. This goes on until either all the werewolves get lynched, or all villagers get eaten during the night. Obviously there is basically no way the villagers can know who the werewolves are which makes it a very fun and mind-fucking game to play.

So I wanted to get some special cards for a long time now that assign all the players their character, and I was actually planning to use Moo-cards for this, just as some other people had done. I didn’t want to order 100 cards though so I was in a pickle. Imagine my surprise when I found actual real Werewolf cards in an ordinary game shop in The Netherlands! 24 nice cards for only €9 (£6.5)!

There are some weird characters in the game which we will probably never use, but if you go to the Flickr photo and take a look at the notes you will see what every character is supposed to be.

I am at the Essential Mediatech Conference today, organized by Library House, and quite similar to their earlier Essential Web conference I attended a while back. I must say, it is quite interesting as I am less familiar with these technologies and marketing strategies, let alone the companies. For more in dept posts go to FourStarters.com as I will be live-blogging all day.
Ik zit in de Essential Mediatech Conferentie vandaag, georganiseerd door Library House. De conferentie is een beetje het zelfde als de Essential Web conferentie waar ik een tijdje terug naartoe geweest ben, maar nu gefocussed op (new) media. Voor meer diepgaande artikelen verwijs ik iedereen door naar FourStarters.com waar ik de hele dag zal live bloggen.

So, after a lot of work I managed to finally set up my own, 100% equally styled website including my blog, resume, and lifestream. The theme for the site was borrowed from the blog and I think it looks pretty much ok now. From now on, the ibbydibby.com website where all my content used to be hosted will be slowly deleted to host some other content.


Zo, mn website is nu echt 100% verplaatst van ibbydibby.com naar cristianobetta.com. Alles heeft nu de zelfde stijl (geleend van mn blog) inclusief mn CV en Lifestream. Vanaf nu ga ik de oude site wat afbouwen zodat ik er ooit weer wat anders op kan zetten.

I found a USB stick in the St Uberholz cafe after the Web2Expo in Berlin. The owner said he found more of them, so I took a quick (and safe) look on my mac to see what the content was. Strangely there were 2 movies on it, PASS_AUF_MICH_AUF.m4v and PASS_AUF_MICH_AUF.wmv, both with the same content. The content seems to be some kind of viral video, but I don’t get what they try to promote. The video is shown below:


Tijdens de avondfeestjes in het St Oberholz na de Web2Expo in Berlijn heb ik een USB stick gevonden. De eigenaar zei dat hij er meerdere had gevonden dus ik had er even snel naar gekeken op mn Mac. Vreemd genoeg stonden er 2 films op: PASS_AUF_MICH_AUF.m4v en PASS_AUF_MICH_AUF.wmv. Beide filmpjes waren het zelfde en waren bedoeld als een soort “viral video” maar ik snap niet helemaal voor welk product. Voor de video zie hieronder: