Lifeblob is open for registrations!!
We are excited to announce that we are finally moving out of closed alpha. You no longer need an invite code to sign up and use lifeblob. If you don’t already have an account, go here and sign up for one.
We’d love to hear back from you on what you liked and what you didn’t. Please send us your comments at feedback@lifeblob.com.
Sparkling new office
Its a proud moment for all of us - we just moved into a new office, our first Lifeblob office.
The office is located off Bannerghatta Road in Bangalore and is really easy to reach. For those unfamiliar with Bangalore, IIM Bangalore is also on Bannerghatta Road.
It was surprisingly easy to get the office started. We just got a few tables and chairs, one wireless router, had the traditional puja and presto, we were all set to go. There is one aspect that we paid special attention to - all workstations are within 6-feet of the snack table and there is unlimited supply of tea and coffee :).
We presented at Proto.in, July Edition
Last week, we demo-ed lifeblob to an amazing crowd at proto.in. The event was held in IIT Delhi and was very well attended by startups, venture capitalists, media and bloggers.
Check out our coverage of the proto at the timeline embedded below:
New addition to the lifeblob family
Lifeblob is growing and we are excited to welcome Vishwas Narendra to the Lifeblob family. We know Vishwas from Trilogy and he brings with him a wealth of knowledge in web analytics in addition to excellent technical and management skills.
Prior to joining lifeblob, Vishwas worked at Trilogy for three years. During his stint there, he worked on several services for the automotive industry. He was part of the team that created Dealer Order Services (DOS), a system that automatically replenishes automotive dealers’ inventories in an optimally based on demand and other market conditions.
Subsequently, he worked as the product manager for a couple of services for the Indian automotive market. This included the Lead Scoring service which statistically predicted a prospect’s propensity to buy a vehicle, a first for the Indian market.
Outside of work, he has a wide range of interests including economics, philosophy, film and tea-tasting.
We are all really excited to have him on board!
Lifeblob covered on DesiStartups
We were pleasantly surprised to find an excellent review of Lifeblob on DesiStartups today. Thanks to Prabhu for covering us and also putting a screencast of our service online, that marks the first video of our service :).
Checkout our coverage at DesiStartups here.
Checkout the screencast here.
Lifeblob is on WATBlog today
It is a good feeling to know that the community likes what we have been working on for the past several months. Today, we are featured on the popular WATBlog - thanks to Rajiv for writing about us.
Check out the entire coverage here and join the discussion.
Lifeblob is on pluggd.in
Pluggd.in is one of the most popular startup blogs in India and we are pleased to see Lifeblob covered there today.
Thanks Ashish for covering us. You can catch the entire discussion on pluggd.in here.
Lifeblob covered in Lifestream Blog
Today, we got covered in Lifestream Blog, a popular blog that covers the latest in lifestreaming services. Thanks to Mark Krynsky for covering us.
You can find the complete coverage here.
Lifeblob covered in Startup Dunia
Surprise surprise ! This morning, we woke up to find ourselves covered at Startup Dunia. While the post provides a good summary of Lifeblob, I think it is time to dispel a few myths about Lifeblob and tell everyone what we are really upto.
Lifeblob Is:
- A huge mesh of timelines inter-connected though various posts on them.
- A place where you can record your personal diary and connect events in your life with other people, places and things.
- A cool new way to write your blog and showcase it using an interactive timeline.
- A way for people to keep their friends and family posted about things going on in their life and collaboratively build timelines.
- Especially useful for parents - they can post photos and videos ( coming soon ) of their kids on their timelines and the service automatically builds a timeline for the kids.
- Alumni groups can add posts about the alumni interactions on their timelines and the service automatically builds a timeline of the alumni group.
- A way for you to view interesting slices of your life. As a personal example:
- I view My Timeline to see my entire life, instances where I interacted with friends and family and all the thoughts that I have blogged about.
- I view Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore timelines to view slices of my life that I have spent in these three cities with my friends and family.
- I view Trilogy and Lifeblob timelines to view slices of my life that I have spent in these organizations.
- I view OCC and Barcamp timelines to view slices of my life that I have spent in these unconferences and to keep a tab on activity happening in these groups.
- A way for you to discover other people with similar interests ( using tag timelines ).
- A way for you to find out what is going on in your city or connect with people around you ( using place timelines ).
Lifeblob Is Not:
- Yet another aggregation service. We only support aggregation to get our users started quickly.
- A place where you are only supposed to capture real-life events. You can use it to express your thoughts just as well or a mix of both.
- A direct competitor to LifeInLines, Plurk or Dipity. Our focus is not just to provide a beautiful timeline view, but to provide value to our users by exploiting the relationships that exist between these timelines ( or the mesh of timelines ).
If you are interested in more details, these two older posts on our blog are highly recommended:
What is Lifeblob all about ?
The power of dimensions
Notifications are here
This is one feature that you never asked for, but we know this would make you smile by the time you finish reading this post.
What are notifications?
Notifications are gentle reminders of activities that are pending an action from your side. Currently, we support notifications when you import your blog or photos from picasa/flickr to enable you to share the imported content easily with your friends and family.
In future, we will also extend notifications to include any pending friend requests or messages from your friends that you haven’t answered.
Why do I need them?
Sometimes, you may be really busy and may not have time to take an activity to completion. This is where we take the responsibility of reminding you when you visit us the next time of the activities pending your action.
How does it work?
Yesterday, I imported my blog into my timeline. I wanted to share some of the imported posts with my friends at Lifeblob and notifications made it really easy for me.
After the blog import finished, I got the following screen with a list of posts that had been imported, giving me the options of either updating the post or skipping it.
On selecting update, I got the options to add email ids of my friends, add tags and set the visibility of the imported post. There is also an option to import the email ids from the address book - that would turn on type-ahead completion of email ids.
By providing all the new posts in one location, this made it really easy for me to set the visibility options and also to share the imported posts with my friends.
What if I don’t have time to update all of them right now?
You can always click the “Remind Me Later” button at the bottom and we will show you this screen the next time you visit your timeline.
Please do email us to let us know how useful you found this feature.
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Recent Posts
- We are in Mashable Web Awards next round
- Vote for lifeblob at Open Web Awards
- Fresh, new, minty timelines
- We have a news feed too
- Tag your photos.. and everything else too
- Import tools available for topic timelines
- Import individual albums from picasa
- You are now free to talk with friends
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