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Lifestream? Yet another Aggregated Personal Data Feed?

We have a report from a reader that AOL Lifestream service seems to have data from .Mac and or Mobile Me accounts. After some checking, my .Mac feed has some stream information in it as well.

You have an account created for you if you have a .Mac or MobileMe account. This seems to be an automated process. For me, it only had my twitter feed but it is a service that I did not ask for.

You can either log into your account with your .Mac credentials or you can find your feed with http : // lifestream dot aol dot com / stream / username@mac.com

If you enter into account -> Settings you can restrict this feed however I did not find a place to delete the account.

Then click on the AOL Lifestream pull down menu and select which setting you desire. In my case I selected No one - Private.

And in the interest of being thorough, you can adjust your "Who can comment" settings. In this case I selected "Only you"..

Thanks Thomas for the report on this. There is a feedback button that you can submit if you want to comment to AOL Lifestream.

Richard Porter

--- ISC Handler on Duty