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xtimeline.com - Explore and Create Timelines the Web 2.0 way
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Product: xtimeline.com is a site that allows you to create and share interactive timelines. The timeline widget allows users to upload images, videos, sound, and text. As more timelines are created, the site will become a reference destination, like a wikipedia for timelines.
The site already has some interesting timelines about history, biographies, and more. Here are some examples:
Timeline of facebook.com
http://www.xtimeline.com/business/Timeline-of-Facebook-com
History of Video Games
http://www.xtimeline.com/entertainment/The-History-of-Video-Games
Life of Britney Spears
http://xtimeline.com/biography/The-Life-of-Britney-Spears
Problem: Content is a crucial aspect of the site — what’s the best way to generate it?
Question for you: A) How would you create a group editing system? What are the best collaborative editing systems that you know of? B) What timelines would you like to see?
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Noah Kagan wrote xtimeline.com - Explore and Create Timelines the Web 2.0 way on July 12th, 2007 and there are 3 comments. There will be one more after you add yours, though. Read more posts by Noah Kagan.
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3 Responses to “xtimeline.com - Explore and Create Timelines the Web 2.0 way”
July 12th, 2007
3:23 pm
Very cool. A guy I knew in NY had this idea a couple years ago. I wonder if this is him.
Msging him now via Facebook to find out…
July 12th, 2007
4:25 pm
For certain timelines, like the History of Video Games, you could contact sites like Gamespot and IGN and maybe try to work out something there. Their users would be able to add lots of content in that area.
Like that, I suggest starting a bunch of timelines and promoting theme on niche sites to get content added.
July 16th, 2007
8:19 am
Noah asks… “A) How would you create a group editing system? What are the best collaborative editing systems that you know of?”
…I think this is really the question of the moment, for this point in Internet history.
Social + UGC = group editing mindf***
I’ve experimented w/ a few concepts on paper*, and frankly, i continue to suspect that a.) the winning model will feel usable to a young generation & not us olderz, b.) will come out of some unexpected but pervasive platform (ie, NeoPets or Flikr Geotag), c.) won’t be designed initially as a group editing solution, but will make sense to that (broad) group & catch on. (boy, i sound pessimistic, eh?)
*My experiments lead me to think of edits & “downstream response edits” like linear time & sci-fi parallel universes. Edits are data, with pre- & post-edit states being reconstructible. Either you commit every change and keep only the “current copy,” (simplest) or you allow users to some means of back-tracking, tweaking (personalized accept/reject model) and veiwing the full picture excluding some edits, edits by a specified user, or comparing point-in-time versions.
What was useful in this was thinking about how adding changes from each user are like layers, and removing one user is like removing red from a photo, or sharpening the contrast of a photo (…).
What you can see here is, i opened myself up to the sense that edits can be plyable. Try it with a group essay, written & edited by 5 hypothetical students, then remove everything done by one of the students. If their contributions were lame, then the effect of removing them is minimal; if their contributions lead to a flury of other participation, then removing them (& all down-stream edits) has a huge effect on overall, final value.
Word change tracking was helpful (to me) for visualizing, as well as accounting ledger.
If there’s a final interface that would help make sense of this… i’m guessing it’s a timeline, sort of like MS Office’s “Journal” (but add clickable access to past versions/edits).
Ironic that i’m finally posting these thoughts in response to a 2.0 timeline tracker. I’ll definitely give it a whirl.
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