Yossi Vardi Invests in Media Timeline Startup AllofMe
Mark Hendrickson
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Yossi Vardi, founding investor of ICQ’s Mirabilis, has put an undisclosed amount of money into Tel Aviv startup AllofMe.
The company is developing a product, currently in private beta, with which you can lay out your digital assets (emails, photos, videos, documents, etc.) along a digital timeline. While few details about AllofMe have been revealed, it appears as though you will be able to include media files from online services such as Flickr and YouTube.
Founder Addy Feuerstein has described AllofMe in the following way:
“The idea is that if I or someone else has a picture that includes my son, alone or with friends, I or anyone else will be able to tag the people in the picture and transform these digital assets into part of my sons. When he grows up and takes control over his own timeline, he will have a timeline of tagged material from his childhood…We will also transform the timeline created by each person into a video movie, through a widget on an internet site [and] enable comparison of your timeline with that of your acquaintances, or chronological data files. For instance, you will be able to compare your own timeline with historical events of Time, and see where you were when some important world event occurred.”
Sounds a lot like Gordon Bell’s MyLifeBits, description and details at http://research.microsoft.com/users/gbell/
And when Google adds this type of feature (when there are significant users interested) with googlevid/youtube, picasa, opensocial, android, googlemaps, etc., these ppl will cry. I guess a yahoo acquisition isnt a horrible exit.
“When he grows up and takes control over his own timeline, he will have a timeline of tagged material from his childhood.”
Assuming this startup is still around when that child grows up.
#3 - Erick…lol! Hey! You can’t knock a company on your own site!!
Glad you saw this “minor” flaw…I’d be more comfortable storing long-term with a Microsoft, Google, Yahoo.
#3, #4…right on the money. the only people who ever contributed to any of these sites in any case were the very-leading edge of valley obsessive early adopters…the rest of the world will never hear of these flameouts so no one in the wild will be harmed when the disks stop spinning.
i’m warming up for a great deadpool-fest in 2008, which i am going to label the ragnarok of the web2 startups. folks we are in recession-land…if your startup has not been bought by now, you missed the boat!
Seems like a nifty idea, though I think services like Facebook are better positioned to take advantage of this idea.
#3 > Assuming this startup is still around when that child grows up.
So true! I doubt these folks will be around by the end of 2008.
too complicated. This is for the x-gen.
i dont know what to call it… lame or genius! oh wait… i know… its LAME!
what kind of people have time to do this kind of stuff!
may be they woudl reach a tipping point by 2020 and then everybody woudl be doing it… from there space pods!
Yo, Yossi! There’s a lot of news about you today. Not one word on me so far! Grrrrr
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AOL has something like that already with circavie.com which is quite well done. I guess at some point Tumblr will do that too
WTF is with these companies being in ‘private beta’. It’s such a web 2.0 cliche now. They have no solid app, no revenue, and idiots invest in them. How stupid can someone be? If that’s not yet another example of the 2nd bubble then I’ll be damned.
why so cynical? i can see the value in this - but it does sound very much like a start-up called Miomi.com that was featured on techcrunch UK a while back - see
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/.....-play-dla/
6. > There is a service on Facebook called ‘Dipity’ that is already doing this, launched sometime in Nov. It allows you to see your timeline, your friend’s timeline and compare them. You can also add movies, images etc.
http://apps.facebook.com/_dipity_/