In my quest to find the best life streaming application, I logged back in to my tumblr account (which I must admit I haven't used since I set it up). I tried to import some feeds, but the only one that appeared to be successful was my blog feed (which imported one post). My flickr, del.icious and digg accounts appear to have not imported anything. Finally, I decided to add my flickr as a photo url instead of importing it via my username and that worked but only for one photo, which is displayed with a description but no name. I guess these features are still a little buggy. I have contacted support, we'll see what they say.

If they get these bugs sorted out, which I'm sure they eventually will, I think I would use this. There is some pretty interesting functionality built into the site. Probably the most interesting feature is the ability to host your tumblr on your own domain, although I haven't tried that yet. Also, they seem to have specific support for video, which is nice. And of course, their mobile stuff works (unlike jaiku...for the US at least). Your tumblr page is also much more customizable then many of the 'lifestreaming' software I've subscribed to recently. Although I have stuck with a default setting for now, I can see how this could be useful. By using the customize option, it seems that one could have ultimate control over the design. I like this idea because it seems to take the concept of blogging software a step further by looking and having functionality similar to a blog but allowing you to import feeds from everywhere, without having to download, install and deal with annoying modules and making things yourself.

However, perhaps because of this blog-like setup, tumblr does not feel very social to me in the way that jaiku could potentially become (a problem I have always had with blogs in general). This is not necessarily a bad thing, but perhaps the merging of these two applications would actually produce something more interesting then each on its own. Plus tumblr has no badges to promote the service on other sites, something that could be helpful in promoting the service as well as making it more social. Maybe thats in the works?? So far my vote goes to jaiku as long as they get their shortcode soon. But, if my feeds ever get imported, I have some plans for tumblr :)

***Update: It seems that my flickr feed may actually be working now. Still no luck with del.icio.us....it says there is an error accessing the URL of my username.