Lifestream

A lifestream is a list of all your recent (online) activities.  What music did you play,  what articles did you post, what photos did you upload, what wikipedia articles did you edit, etc.

Lifestream.fm

Lifestream.fm is a free media and social aggregator that will keep you and your friends informed about what you’re doing online at a glance and in realtime. With Lifestream.fm you can put all your profiles and activity from your favorite web services all on one page, making it easy for your friends to see your newest bookmarks, your favorite videos, your tweets, your wikipedia edits, photos you’ve uploaded, your newest blog posts, and more.

Installation

Upload the Lifestream fm plugin to your blog, Activate it, then insert the badge code you got from http://lifestream.fm/badges under settings/lifestreamfm. Add the lifestream.fm widget to one of your sidebars under design/widgets.

Download

lifestream-fm.zip

[ youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=4yX1F_nTcfc]

This works fine for blogs hosted on wordpress.com, but with standalone setups of wordpress it doesn’t work at all.


That’s why I quickly put together a plugin that makes the bracket code work. I used the Quicktime posting plugin as a starter. Thank you, Shawn Van Every.

Usage
Setup your standalone wordpress blog at YouTube and send a video to your blog. Or just copy the url of the YouTube video you are watching and put it in your blog like this:

[ youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=4yX1F_nTcfc] (without the space between bracket and y, though).

You can also set the size of the video in your post. Do something like this: [ youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jjgk1-ac1I 150 100] (without the space between bracket and y, though).

YouTube.com directions
1. Go to YouTube.com
2. (Create an acount and) login
3. Go to ‘My Account/Account settings/Video posting Settings’
4. Choose ‘Add a Blog/Site’.
5. Choose ‘WordPress Self-Hosted’, fill in username and password of your WP blog, fill in api URL (http://your blog’s URL/xmlrpc.php) and a random WP API key (get one here).¹ and click on the ‘Add Blog’ button.
6. Watch a video at YouTube.com and choose ‘Post Video’ from the options below the video.

Download

YouTube Brackets 3.0

Changelog: Cleaner code, pretty url support (youtube.com/v/), css (span class youtube). -Special thanks to Mike Thompson-

Youtube Brackets 2.1

Changelog: Resolved conflict with Shawns great quicktime posting plugin and added html-comment around code.

YouTube Brackets 2 beta

Change log: Code now validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional (thanks to Karen). Is only tested with Firefox and Internet Explorer though, but most probably works with all browsers. If you want to be sure, use version 1 (below).

YouTube Brackets 1

Change log: Added size variables and cleaned up the code a bit.

YouTube Brackets 1 beta

Installation
Upload to plugin directory and activate through admin-section/plugins.

1. You have to register at wordpress.com in order to to get an api-key. You can register without creating a blog. It’s stupid YouTube asks for an API key with Self-Hosted WordPress blogs. They don’t need it at all. With Flickr you don’t have to provide an API key.