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.

July 6, 2008 · Filed Under Features

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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.

July 5, 2008 · Filed Under Features

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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.

June 28, 2008 · Filed Under Features

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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.

June 26, 2008 · Filed Under Features

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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

June 24, 2008 · Filed Under Features

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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.

June 21, 2008 · Filed Under Features

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Integrated service aggregator with feed management

If you liked the “Blog Importer ” and “Photo Importer”, you are going to like this even more. We now present to you an all-in-one service aggregator that not only allows you to import your digital content from other services, but also lets you manage them.

Here is how it works:

1) Click on the “Applications” link in the top navigation bar and select “Import Your Stuff”.

2) In the screen that opens up, choose the service from where you would like to import your content. We currently support blogs ( and any RSS feed ), flickr and picasa.

3) Once you have chosen the service, you will be asked to provide the details required for the import. The screenshot below shows you how the screen would look like for blog import.

4) Once the import is complete, you will be shown statistics from your import. The screenshot below shows the statistics from my recent picasa import.

5) You can also click on “See All Imported Sites” link to view all the services that you have configured for import and manage them.

Note: You can only configure one account for each service that is supported by the aggregator.

June 20, 2008 · Filed Under Features

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Help, powered by Get Satisfaction

Today, we announce the launch of new improved help powered by Get Satisfaction. Here is our mini-faq of the questions you may have on your mind:

What is Get Satisfaction?

Get Satisfaction is a place where people can get the most from the products they use, and where companies are encouraged to get real with their customers.

How do I use it?

Nothing changes for you. You can simply visit our help page and either browse through a set of pre-defined help topics or post a question in the get-satisfaction box if you don’t find what you are looking for.

What are the benefits?

Ask a question, report a problem, share an idea, or join in conversations already in progress. The most useful replies rise to the top and you will be notified when people respond to your queries.

June 16, 2008 · Filed Under Features

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Minor enhancements that you asked for

Today, we pushed out a couple of enhancements that you have been asking for:

1) For blog imports, blob on the timeline shows text
We want your timeline to look gorgeous, so wherever possible, we try to use photos in the blog content. However, for blog imports, it may be more important to showcase your thoughts. We have therefore updated our rendering engine to show blog text wherever the post has been imported from a blog.

2) Clicking on a person/place/tag shows you the same post in a different context
When you make a post on your timeline, you can link it up with other people, places and tags. This association gives you an interesting ability to view the same post in different contexts. With this enhancement, you will now be able to click on a person/place/tag on a post you are viewing and land on the same post on the other timeline.

3) Scroll buttons lock on double-click
Scroll buttons are small arrow buttons that show up on the top-left corner of your timeline. If you keep your mouse pressed on a scroll button, you can move the timeline forward or backward in time. With the new enhancement, if you double-click on the scroll button and leave your mouse, the timeline will continue to scroll in the chosen direction as long as the mouse remains on top of the scroll button. To stop the scroll, simply move your mouse out of the scroll button.

Keep sending us anything else you have on your mind - we love to see your mails :)

June 13, 2008 · Filed Under Features

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Sharing timelines just got easier

You can now share timelines with the click of a button. Here is how you do it:

1) Use the navigation tools to get the timeline view that you would like to share.

2) Click the “Share” link in the top navigation bar.

3) Simply copy the link in the dialog box that shows up. If you wish to embed your timeline, the dialog box also contains the code that you can embed.

Didn’t I say it was really simple :).

June 9, 2008 · Filed Under Features

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