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Deviatore
It is a startup from Springweekend 2010. Demo Video Must Watch - http://vimeo.com/16474788

Example Timeline (of Scobleizer) - http://beta.memolane.com/scobleizer

It has not yet opened to the public, but I've got hold of 500 Invites, so you can get the invite code by visiting the blog

zazi
Thanks Deviatore. Used your invite code to get an account.

I was a little skeptical about the idea, but when I saw my own timeline after they pulled information from my social accounts, I must say that I was impressed. Actually seeing your timeline laid out in an easily accessible manner is a powerful (and more than a little nostalgic) experience.

One thing though is that they put the same emphasis to all my posts/tweets/facebook events etc. And there is a lot of 'junk' in my timeline. I wish they had some way of figuring out what is important to me and have display emphasis on the important nodes (mirror the way I think). Pretty neat in it's current beta stage nonetheless.

liuhenry
I agree. Implementing some sort of "most commented" or "most interacted with" sorting algorithm would really emphasize the most important items and cut through the "junk".
Deviatore
Agree to you both. This is what they must improve in their future updates. My timeline has photos that have been posted by others on facebook and have tagged me. I dont want them to show up in my time line.

But I'm sure the memolane team will come up with a solution soon :)

samkak
Thanks deviatore! Techsplurge Rocks!!!
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phrotoma
Extremely cool, thanks for the heads up!
mojaam
Sweet idea. Glad I was able to grab one of the 500 invites, I usually lose out on these kinds of things so thanks!

Although there might be similar ideas such as Dipity and Allofme as mentioned in the link, this has the best UI/UX in my opinion. Love their minimalism and the fact they use Tumblr as their blogging platform (for some reason I love when companies/startups use things I use on a daily bases).

thwarted
Nice idea, interesting interface. Was able to grab a beta account. So I've imported a few of my accounts from other services, now what? Their "create story" functionality will be the killer, unique thing, if it gets traction, I can definitely see this being a good way to get things organized after the fact. There is definitely the capability to get things organized, if you're that kind of OCD on your timeline, in this kind of product.

Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be using it a lot because it's just another place all my social media data is effectively locked up and managed by another party. Getting things organized is a lot of work to not have complete control over it. Facebook, for example, is already effectively a log of everything I've posted anywhere. Admittedly, there's not a really good solution to having your own control of all your social media data right now, but there are a lot of projects out there trying to tackle that.

(And of course, Twitter's API is down, so my twitter stream isn't being pulled in right now.)

elagier
Thanks for the kind words about Memolane. Really appreciate the great suggestions on how to make Memolane experience even better. We are still at a very early stage and with the many features we plan to add, we surely have our hands full for the foreseeable future.

@thwarted - We hope that Memolane is more than a log, but rather a destination to relive great memories and yes as its your content, we also wants to ensure that you can control it. Twitter api is always a pain ;-) @Zazi - great input on how to prioritize memo's, surely an important feature for the social media active super users. @deviatore - we will be adding features to control your memos.