Lifepress History
Lifepress started out as Sweetcron, a lifestreaming system for self hosting instead of relying on hosted services. Sweetcron was written by one person, Yongfook who got it working, made the software open source and encouraged the development of individual themes.
yongfook on sweetcron
The software didn’t evolve though, and Yongfook moved on to other projects, abandoning sweetcron to anybody who would be willing to take over.
* http://yongfook.com/why-posterous-instead-of-sweetcron
* Reclaim your lifestream feeds with SweetCron software
Sweetcron is an open source lifestreaming blog software created by Jon “Yongfook” Cockle based on the CodeIgniter framework. It was originally released on 3 September 2008 and the latest version following on 22 September. Sweetcron is similar to other web applications such as Tumblr and Friendfeed, but users are able to host their own lifestream on their own server and customize it in any way they want with the Sweetcron API.
Users can add RSS feeds from multiple social networks and sites, such as Twitter, LastFM, Flickr and many more.
Carlos Killpack then created a new googe code site page called Lifepress and forked Sweetcron over to there. Shortly afterwards the new project was again abandoned in turn by Carlos and Carsten took over.
Carsten wrote:
Lifepress is basically the last official version of Sweetcron copied
over to have full control over it. Carlos started it because Sweetcron
was abandoned by the original developer. Now Lifepress is abandoned by
Carlos and there is only me left as a kind of official developer.But I hope everyone interested in Lifepress and his own installation
will contribute parts of his modifications and extensions back to the
project. If you want to give back, visit the homepage of Lifepress at
http://code.google.com/p/lifepress/ and go to the Issue Tracker first:http://code.google.com/p/lifepress/issues/list
In: LifePress, Sweetcron · Tagged with: CodeIgniter, Friendfeed, LifePress, lifestream, Sweetcron, Tumblr, Yongfook