Great idea ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

That'll make it too easy to see what I am doing (or NOT doing) at certain times.. if you get my drift. But I like it :) - Tim Hoeck

Very cool. I found something that pulls my Tweets into my iCalendar but that's not nearly as neat and clean as this option is. - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

Excellent idea - Mo Kargas

because no one checks a friend's feed (often enough). Everyone is stuck on the home feed and rarely venture beyond. It's like those stats from google that say how few people click through to the 3rd or 4th result page. And this UI doesn't work well on the homefeed. Homefeed is all about "today" and "now". - vijay

Vijay, it would be easy enough to have options, though. As a user, give me options to make event X public to everyone, public to my subscribers, shared to specific people (like a DM) or private. Also give me different calendar views: My Events, Events within my circle (my subscribers and those I sub to), and Everyone. Roll all of that up and put it into another block on the right-hand nav. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Mark, that's great! - Majento

I would love those options myself Tina. Just thinking from the POV of the service provider. No one visits the "archive" view on Tumblr --->- http://vjk2005.tumblr.com/archive. Hence features more people are likely to use more often get bumped up the ToDo list. - vijay

This is something that could be slapped on to Best of Day pages - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

I'm just thinking about it from the X service killer perspective, Vijay. Adding calendaring capability like I've described above would make FF a real competitor to Yahoo Groups (which are still used by a crapton of people). It would also make it a viable option for business collaboration. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

*still thinking...* - vijay

I get the feeling you want the "feature set" to manage events than the actual Calendar UI. Meaning if you got the features you wanted without changing the current UI at all, you would be happy. Am I thinking right? - vijay

Don't know for sure. I think event management becomes almost counter-intuitive if there's not at least an actual month/week view of upcoming events. Other than that, though, it seems like event posts could be made almost like any other: where to post (or to whom), files to attach, the main message, and just add in a date/time option. Other than the actual date part, the only thing that would really need to be added is the ability for recipients to decline the event without hiding/deleting it (so they could watch the event followup on the event post) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Now if FriendFeed is going to integrate with Google Wave (and there's no question about it in my mind), you'll be able to interact with Google Calendar robots inside a Wave. Such integration would mean that FF would need deal with data coming in from robots, therefore it is natural to for FF to start adding apps much like - I gag as I say it - Facebook. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Interesting conversation you guys have started on this from a different perspective than I'm coming from. - Mark Krynsky

Really fantastic idea Mark, I'm sold. - Mitch

There is a few solutions that do this now, I have them bookmarked in my Diigo bookmarks group http://www.diigo.com/list... Dandelife is one of them I found some time ago that does a timeline. There was Kronomy, Storytlr and I will go look for the others - Chris Miller

Chris, I also listed Lifestreaming services that offer timelines in my post including Dipity, Lifeblob, and Allofme. I am also familiar with Dandelife and Storytlr. But none of these services offer a standard calendar view as I am proposing. - Mark Krynsky

check out 30 boxes widget, 30 boxed: http://30boxes.com/boxed - chrisofspades

here's an interesting look plugging your friendfeed into 30 boxed: http://30boxes.com/externa... - chrisofspades

I want this, too! Badly! So far, I cobbled together something by turning all my FF posts into Tweets, going through Twistory, and then piping that into Google Calendar. I want something much better, though! chrisofspades, I like what you did there, and I'm about to try it myself. Is there anything special I should know about doing that before I attempt it? UPDATE I did the 30 Boxes thing, and it doesn't pull in everything. It's a nice quick-and-dirty solution to this problem, though. - Kamilah Gill

Interesting feature on 30Boxes Chris. Thanks. Strangely I have an account there http://30boxes.com/lifestr... but that feature isn't available based on my existing account. Unless I can't find it. - Mark Krynsky

I think that "time" and a timeline are important yet forgotten components of a proper lifestream. There should be some relationship between what you have posted, and the timing of it (as a life experience). Time provides context to the data. - Allan Besselink

Kamilah, I don't think there is anything special. Mark, you don't need an account to use 30 boxed, it'll take any ical/rss/xml feed as a source. that's interesting that 30 boxes offers "lifestreaming" though. you could probably take your 30 boxes lifestream rss feed and enter it into 30 boxed. - chrisofspades