Yongfook is a crazy-awesome “web producer” (php nerd with social sense) and has just released Sweetcron, a simple way to aggregate your web activity on your own site.

I’m planning to play around with it for a while, and hopefully move all of my short-form stuff from other places on the web to my Sweetcron lifestream. My blog, though, would hold any sort of post that requires real thought.

Here’s a shot of some recent lifestream items using the shipped theme:

What do I like so far about Sweetcron?

• I can control the design (and so, the user experience). As much as I like Kevin Fox’s creations, I want to dictate how people experience my lifestream (in a way that is quite different to friendfeed).
• It aggregates tags. Blog tags, delicious tags etc get pooled together. I haven’t seen this functionality before, and it’s very cool. If you only care about the ‘maths’ part of my life, you can go and see anything tagged ‘maths’ as a vertical cross-section of everything I do on the web.
• Anybody can comment on anything. Users don’t have to sign up - they just comment using whatever external commenting system you choose (such as Disqus). And it can be in response to any item (like on friendfeed). I like this way of handling comments - less social, but more open than a centralized system like friendfeed is.

What don’t I like?

Nothing I can see right now. Besides, it’s open source, extensible, and written in php. So if there’s anything I don’t like I can probably just fix it!

You can see my Sweetcron lifestream at /life/ or download the platform itself at the Sweetcron site.