While timelines in most of our lives are dictated by the needs of others, LifeBlob – a new web service launched by Pranav Bhasin lets us set our timelines in a very different and interesting way. LifeBlob generates a personal diary that is updated when a person decides to either update it manually or when that person has some activity on an online application (eg, flickr, picasa, blogger, etc) which is connected to LifeBlob. So, now you can keep an online record of things you do, people you go out with that you can revisit later on, share with your friends, embed on your blog and perhaps show to your children and grandchildren one fine day in the future.
I tried reviewing both LifeBlob (which said it is upgrading its service today morning) and Dipity, another company with a very similar product. Dipity was very easy to set up and use and has a Google map style zoom in/out scrollbar which I hope LifeBlob has too. I think that exporting activities to LifeBlob is a more important feature than importing content from services like Flickr so that when we do something online, we can ‘Blob’ it like we ‘Digg’ it. Here is the presentation from Pranav and a screenshot of Dipity too. See the LifeBlob screencast here. LifeBlob has given us 200 free accounts on the service, get one here.
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