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Re: Timetoast Creates Interactive Timelines to Share Memories and History

Bob Armour — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:27:05 -0000

Nice work on Timetoast. There are a bunch of good timeline offerings, depending on what you are trying to accomplish. Dipity, allofme, lifeblob and our offering, LifeSnapz are all worthwhile to check out.

Re: Timetoast Creates Interactive Timelines to Share Memories and History

Daniel Todd — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:20:18 -0000

Hi everyone, hope you like Timetoast! I'm going to be adding some cool stuff over the next couple of months but Timetoast is still a one man show, so bear with me!

Re: Timetoast Creates Interactive Timelines to Share Memories and History

Brian Patterson — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:41:45 -0000

The date boxes are a bit clunky, but I like the expandable/collapsable timeline. Would be very handy for a densely populated timeline.

Re: Timetoast Creates Interactive Timelines to Share Memories and History

Julie Warner — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:21:34 -0000

I created a Timetoast timeline last week chronicling the history of an issue going to referendum in Madison, WI. I ended up using xTimeline for the final product though. Timetoast makes users input dates in day/month/year, with no options for month/year or just year. So events that had no specific date are forced into a date that's not necessarily accurate.

Also, if many of your events happen around the same time, the points on the line begin to overlap and there's no option for zooming in or out or having a flipbook-type presentation as you can on Dipity.

Re: Timetoast Creates Interactive Timelines to Share Memories and History

Thomas Martin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:06:41 -0000

This is looking very beta. UI is on the mediocre side. I would have pointed to CircaVie as an interesting alternative, but they were shut down (Yahoo owned?) several months ago (without a long-enough warning for users I might add - GRRRR!). xTimeline.com is another intersting implementation.