Both of the lifestreaming projects discussed in this Ars article are both built using PHP frameworks, one Zend and the other is CodeIgniter. I was pleasantly surprised, I expected them to be Python or Rails projects.
In days of yore, all a self-respecting Internet enthusiast needed to be at the forefront of Web hipness was a simple vanity page with pictures of their dog and maybe a few moderately coherent rants about technology or politics. In the modern world of Web 2.0, where our thoughts and activities are strewn across the global network of tubes, we need slightly more sophisticated solutions to capture and convey the ethos of our Internet identities.