Trying out MemoLane.com (updated)
December 27 2010
Last week, I was in New York for a few days and had a great lunch with Mitch Cohen. We were talking about a recent frustration of mine -- finding things I talked about on Twitter or Facebook. There's simply no good way to go back and data mine -- what exactly was the name of that Belgian Beer I had that I actually liked? -- on either service.
Mitch mentioned a new beta service called MemoLane.com. It seems like this is made for me. Memolane aggregates your Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, TripIt, and FourSquare into a digital timeline, or as they say, time machine.
Memolane - Your time machine for the web from Memolane on Vimeo.
I signed up for the beta, was accepted, configured and was up and running pretty quickly. I love it -- the combo of physical breadcrumbs from TripIt and FourSquare along with the status and visual updates from Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr is laid out very nicely. It provides a simple impression of your history -- your life -- on a single timeline. Oh, and most importantly, it's searchable.
So, that beer was called "Forbidden Fruit" :-)
What I don't get yet is the social aspect of MemoLane. I know why *I* want access to all this stuff, but I'm not sure why I want to make it open to others, or to what granularity. Time to explore some more.
UPDATED: Memolane has kindly offered an invitation code for edbrill.com readers. Use invite code "brill" at memolane.com/signup >
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Eric Lagier http://memolane.com | 12/27/2010 1:44:25 PM
Thanks for a great write up. Memolane is still in early beta stage and we have a number of features to add to make it more social. Memories are in general often touch-points between 2 or more people. With Memolane we want to make it easy to relive these great memories and create stories together with friends and family. Your family Christmas is a good example of a story waiting to be 'written' and shared on Memolane.
btw: we are just about to release a much improved search feature.
Eric Lagier
co-founder Memolane
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Alan Lepofsky http://www.alanlepofsky.net | 12/27/2010 10:48:25 PM
Hi Eric. Great work on Memolane. Ed and Mitch recommended it to me last week after my blog post on the difficulties social media has created around searching for things I've said: { Link }
I love the graphical UI of Memolane for manually looking around, but I'd also enjoy a slimmed down UI where I can just search the text of things I've shared. ex: When I mentioned that great restaurant in Palm Springs was it via Twitter, Foursquare, a caption of a Flickr photo, Facebook?
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Michal Nowak | 12/28/2010 1:41:14 AM
Ed, thanks for sharing that. Wow, that's a great time machine. I have to admit that I've not been excessively active on Facebook/Twitter and so on but only thanks to Memolane did I realize that it's been over a month now since my sweet baby was born :-).
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Steve Mullen | 12/28/2010 9:15:12 AM
Thanks Ed. I really like it. Although I'm not real active on Twitter/Facebook/Blog, it's really nice to see a historical view of my postings.
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Dimitri Prosper | 12/28/2010 11:42:45 AM
I really like the idea and it seems to work very well for a Beta version. However, I doubt I would be using it much to share with others as I find the idea of making available to you some content I may not have shared with you on another "pick a social outlet". Unless they somehow figure out to enforce the same ACL from "pick a social outlet", this will be strictly for personal use.
Wish List:
I really need this for my SMS/MMS, would be nice if they wrote a version for the iPhone.
Thx for this info.
I also had this need for ME.
But as you say:
"What I don't get yet is the social aspect of MemoLane. I know why *I* want access to all this stuff, but I'm not sure why I want to make it open to others."
Kind Regards
Werner