Tweet Crunch

• Uses Friendfeed.com as a core lifestream backend (tweets, video, photo and bookmarks currently supported)
• Uses Disqus.com to support comments on articles & stream updates
• Articles can be written using Textile, Markdown or HTML
• Published articles will display Tweet-this, Digg and Addthis.com if voting is enabled
• “Me on other sites” are automatically gathered from Friendfeed

• Autotagging of tweets and articles using Zemanta.com
• Conforming to many Web Standards, Microformats and Nanoformats
• Pinging the Blogosphere through Technorati and many others

For my blog, I have been using Mephisto for several years now. It’s a fine piece of Ruby, but I found it extremely difficult to customize (has everything to do with their Liquid templating engine). For a while now I’ve been meaning to write my own hackable blogging software. However, Kakuteru has become much more than just blogging software.

Luckily I started mashing this together after witnessing an awesome presentation by Yongfook. He developed Sweetcron, an open source Lifestreamer written in PHP. Sweetcron beautifully combines online micro activity with editorial blogging content. As you will notice, I ripped off Yongfook’s design almost completely (hence the attribution in the footer). Although greatly inspired by, Kakuteru is not just the RubyOnRails version of Sweetcron.

You can sign up for a private beta test of the service which will be coming soon but If you want a sneak peak of what it will look like you can see a very early demo running on the developers website