Dynamic Timelines – the people’s choice feature
When people first hear about the concept of LifeSnapz, their typical reaction is “That’s very cool. The site organizes my photos and videos around events and lets me record my family’s (or my group’s) history.” When they start using LifeSnapz, they invariably zero in on the timeline and their (almost unanimous) reaction is, “Wow, that timeline is really awesome!”
So I thought I’d take some time to point out what makes our timeline so special.
1. The visual presentation of the timeline is clean and easy to comprehend; rolling over an event shows date, title and primary photo thumbnail. This view provides a fun way to browse through your events.
2. The timeline moves in a smooth and “liquidy” sort of way. You can drag the zoom bar at the bottom to specific events or dates or you can scroll with the arrows on the right and left. It is fast and highly responsive.
3. You can quickly expand or contract your timeline segment view (from 12 hours to 100 years) with one click or with successive clicks on the “+” or “-” buttons.
4. Last but definitely not least, “They were There” and “Event” tags enable timelines to be created dynamically. So if you want a timeline of your dad or your mom (or anyone that’s been tagged as being at an event), all you do is click on their name and voila, the timeline is created. Similarly, if you want a timeline of birthday parties or vacations (or any other tag that have been used to describe an event), just click on the tag and now you have all of these events on their own timeline – instantly created.
If you have not created an account on LifeSnapz and want to see the timeline in action, check out the video that is on our home page or watch this review of LifeSnapz from G4TV. (And then go and create an account!)
Please let us know what you think and how you think we can improve the timeline (or anything else) on LifeSnapz.
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