Memolane: a timeline of your life

Social media has allowed us to preserve and share moments from our lives in ways we never could before. But with so many different social media services out there, these memories are often scattered in multiple places making it difficult to search and retrieve the specific moments we want to re-discover. Memolane has created an application that pulls all of this content together to create a timeline of our lives.

"What we see is basically everyone is getting more and more active in posting their lives on the Internet, and contrary to [what] many believe, it's actually happening much outside Facebook. And the number of amazing, great social media services is ever-growing. You have Foursquare, you have TripIt, you have Gowalla, you have Foodspotting, you have SoundCloud. All these services all capture different parts of your life, and it's all happening now, so more and more people are capturing more and more of their life on the Internet, and it's capturing and presenting all these moments, but the problem is, I think, also now how do we consume this?"

One challenge with many social media services is that you miss whatever content appears during those times that you're not looking at the live stream. Memolane indexes all of this content by time and presents it in a format that allows you to see, search and share.

"A lot of our users are coming back and saying, 'I tried to find it on Facebook, I tried to find it on Twitter. Where was it I actually posted this?' And then they come on Memolane and they search and boof, it's there. And what we've really emphasized is a nice visualization of their search result."

Content on Memolane is organized in "lanes". You might have your own lane or a lane with friends, and you decide how much you want to share and with whom for each lane. To sign up, you simply provide an email address and password, select the social media services that you want to feed into Memolane and then create your first lane.

Memolane recently released an updated version of its application with additional features. It also has been optimized for touch, so it will work well with iPads or Android tablets.

"We have emphasized a number of cool, new features to make it even more engaging for users. Your life is not just about one timeline. Your life is consisting of multiple timelines, like the time when you were back in high school, or the time when you were on vacation with your best friends or your wedding or something like that. You create lanes with your friends, with your family, with your kids, and we pull in all that content and suddenly there's a lot of different, fantastic lanes that come to life."

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[szabiakanich]

This looks pretty cool. I just checked out your lanes and it looks pretty interesting. Might give it a try.