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Recently occurred to me that my lifestream is becoming a big echo chamber for all my integrated/aggregated feeds. I publish and share using wordpress, twitter, Ovi, Facebook, last.fm, Flickr, YouTube and Google reader from mac and mobile device. I aggregate using Friendfeed and lifestream.fm. and use a widget on my blog to share the combined social stream. I also have connected most of the services now to cross publish (e.g. Google reader to twitter). The problem is that I am fast losing track of what is connected to what and ending up with a kind of confusing social soup with an ‘echo effect’ whereby a posted item is duplicated in my aggregate stream due to the cross publishing effect. As more services come online and the API’s become ever more interoperable plus the volume of items shared increases and publishing/lifecasting becoming something we can do anywhere/anytime I wonder where this will lead. The noise to signal ratio will increase steeply and potentially be a real turn off. The tools need to be smarter and already I notice some services are removing duplicate feed items which is a good start. I need a cross service lifestream management tool that makes it easy to control what I publish where and when…mmm…maybe a startup idea.