Lifestreaming is the next step up for web 2.0. Most simply it is an aggregated view of your online and offline activities.  You can track what you listen to, your blog entries, your links,  twitter, what videos you are watching, what you are buying, what you are reading, your IM status as well as videocasts and podcasts.

One application that is getting a lot of buzz and has been called “The New Twitter”  is FriendFeed.  It allows two-way conversations via twitter as well as integration with Delicious,  Flickr, Amazon, Google Talk, Google Reader, LastFM, YouTube, Netflix (a company that rents movies by mail and has a rich Web 2.0 interface.) as well as many others.  FriendFeed has also created a Facebook application to embed into your profile and people can access your friend feed via RSS, email and through Facebook. You can take a look at my lifestream here.

Facebook is quickly jumping on the lifestream boat by adding auto-import feature from Flickr, Delicious and other applications into your mini-feed.

There are a number of other lifestreaming applications which you can read about here.

Facebook is now releasing statistics on  words used on The Wall - a place where friends can leave public messages on your profile.  Take a look at thier Lexicon application and read more on their blog.

I’m a sucker for music websites. Here are a few new Web 2.0 sites that have caught my eye recently.

SeeqPod simply scrapes mp3s and music videos from the web and makes them searchable - similar to the Baidu mp3 search but more. It also searches video and there is also a discovery tool to find related music. Additionally SeeqPod has a profile system that allows you to save songs to a playlist to listen to them later.

Songerize is a simplified interface to SeeqPod. Very simple. Very fast. Very user-friendly.

Songza is another music search engine similar to SeeqPod but has a much simpler interface as well as twitter integration.

The next two sites come from the mixtape trend that existed before the advent of mp3s and playlists. One of the most treasured gifts you could get from someone was a good mixtape of songs. People developed their own art and method for creation, sometimes having strict rules for the placement of songs. They often were created for certain reasons such as the ubiquitous break-up mix or a mix to tell someone you had a secret crush.

First, my recent favorite, Muxtape. It allows you to create an MP3 mixtape by uploading songs from your computer. It is really simple, there is no social networking aspect, but you can add favorites.

Mixwit is a similar site, but instead of using your own songs it seraches Seeqpod and SkreemR to find the songs, often making the searches too complicated. You can create a profile and have multiple mixtapes as well as add artwork to your tape. Fuzz is perhaps a good alternative to Mixwit - providing the ability to decorate your tape as well as embed it in a widget. Mixaloo further allows you to embed a mixtape in your site and earn money if people buy the playlist. Finally, take a look at Mixx where collaborative mixtapes are made by request.

An earlier analog site is Tiny Mix Tapes, a music blog that will also create a playlist for a requested type, for example one requested is “We’re both artsy, neurotic, pretentious douchebags. We’re perfect for each other. Let’s make out. ” This actually uses humans to create a mixtape for you.

Here is another handy mashup for people who read Pitchfork - an indie music review site. It combines recent reviews with the audio from rhapsody. There is nothing fancy about the site - just a useful reference.

For many other music sites check out the roundup at Mashable.

Here at Yah we’ve all become quite interested in mashups and quite disappointed at the lack of open API’s in China (or the lack of quality APIs). With the number of open APIs in the US on the rise, I’ve been wondering when China will follow suit and it may bet that Taobao might be the ones to start the trend.

Taobao, an online shopping site, announced their plans to open an API in the latest issue of CEO & CIO online magazine in an effort to increase traffic to their site. Let’s hope that the opening of their API will encourage other large internet companies to follow.

[via: China Web2.0 Review]