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It is Friday afternoon and I can’t help but think, where has the week gone?? How many times have you asked yourself that?

If you are on a Mac, there’s a new application you can use to track what you do on your machine throughout the day. Maybe it can help you get a better answer to the eternal question “where does the time go?” It can definitely show you some interesting visualizations of how and when you use different applications on your machine.

The tool is called Slife, from Slife Labs. From the website:

Slife is a new application for the Max OS X that lets you visualize and organize your computer activities like never before. Slife observes your every interaction with applications such as Safari, Mail and iChat and keeps tracks of all web pages you visit, emails you read, documents you write and much more.

From what I keep reading and seeing from the “MySpace” generation, there is a strong desire to share status with friends, family, and even loose contacts. And Slife Labs has an add-on tool to allow you to share your Slife captured actions and publish them to your contacts. So if you want to share more information with your friends about how you are spending your time, SlifeShare offers you a new way to do that:

A Slifeshare is an online space where you share your digital life activities such as browsing the web and listening to music with your friends, family or anyone you care about.

It is all very interesting stuff and reflects the current trend of capturing and sharing life data.

This article on arstechnica discusses a backlash that Flickr is facing from its original members. Early users of Flickr are being forced to abandon their Flickr account names and switch over to Yahoo account names. I totally understand why this is annoying. Early Flickr users have cooler names and have much higher credibility on the site than some random yahoo user. Give them some sort of “founder badge” so they can continue to strut their stuff on the site.

It is Friday evening so I can’t think of anything more to say. But it is an interesting and not very long article.