I’m going to be keeping an eye on Yongfook’s website, as I think the format of it could be something worth doing. I like how it pulls the different services he uses together. If you’re interested, take a look at his definition and use of the word lifestream to get a better feel for what he’s doing. I think that if I go to something like this, I’ll need to change web hosts again, as my current host has limitations on what can and cannot be done by my website. I also cannot argue his reasons for ditching Wordpress, and I agree with him; it gets the job done, but tries to do everything.
Initially, I wanted to host everything on my own site as well, but have found that it’ll take a lot of work. As long as services like flickr, digg, del.icio.us, twitter and others become permanent and don’t develop a tendency to delete “old” information or restrict access to it, having a personal website like Yongfook’s would be enjoyable to use and read.
I was actually planning to do something similar, but actually pull everything into Movable Type (my current CMS of choice). Twitter, del.icio.us, and flickr were my main targets, but I do post the occasional video online. Hadn’t thought of that.
Can’t quite figure out how to write a script to import customized RSS feedy goodness into my MT, though. My code-fu is not that strong. (Although I admittedly haven’t given it much of a go yet…)
Ideally, I’m sure I could eventually get something to work, but chances are the username/password combos would be unsecure, or there would be some other security item I would miss; the job would get done, but nto quite as good as it should be.
The other issue I would see is the traffic created from constant polling of the different services, which is why I might have to look into a different host.
I’m not even that savvy. I’d just parse the RSS feeds to get the info I wanted. Most of the services I would integrate with my site have feeds of some sort — just not exactly in the format I want.