Memolane

• 2012-03-28

  Public Google+ posts premier on Memolane

  We’re excited to welcome Google+ into the family of services that we support on Memolane. There has been a lot of interest in our forums to see Google+ added to Memolane, and the wait is finally over.

  Google+ works a bit differently than some of our other service integrations. When you add Google+ to your Memolane profile you will be able to see only the text posts, images, and locations you have marked as “public” on Google+.

  We hope to offer more content with other privacy settings in the future, but the Google+ API only makes content that has been shared publicly in this way available at the moment.

  You can check out a great example of a Google+ lane from Robert Scoble below:

  We look forward to seeing how you will use Google+ to create memories from all of your favorite moments. If you are missing something from our Google+ integration, please let us know - we’re always keen to improve Memolane.

• 2012-03-11

  A New Way to Create Lanes - Keywords

  When our CEO Eric Lagier first had the idea for Memolane, it was primarily to create a tool that he could use to look back at the history of his family. He and his wife Chloe take a lot of photos of their daughters with their iphones and share them with each other and their extened family through Flickr and Instagram.

  Eric envisioned creating lanes with Chloe for each of their girls, so that friends and relatives could watch them grow on Memolane no matter how near or far they live. Memolane is about making memories easy to find and easy to share, and we’re happy to announce that now you can create lanes around keywords.

  Memolane’s keyword lane filter allows you to filter a lane based on keywords contained in the titles and descriptions of your memos. Just enter the keywords, hit enter, and finish editing your lane and you will see a collection of memos that only contain those keywords.

  You can see Eric and Chloe’s lanes for Emilie below

  Emilie’s Lane
  

  
  To learn more about the new keyword lane filter check out our support article.

• 2012-03-01

  MemoMail, Facebook Connect, and Android News

  We’ve been working on some exciting new things here at Memolane.
  
  1) We have created a nifty new email reminder that goes back in time on your lanes and sends you a snapshot of your past that we call MemoMail. We’ve been testing it with a small group of users before rolling it out to the entire Memolane community. There has been a really great response so far, and we are working on further improvements. Please share your ideas and feedback about MemoMail in our support forum.
  
  

  
  
  2) Then we went and added support for Facebook Connect to make signing up and logging in that much easier. You can find more detailed information about how Facebook Connect works for current users of Memolane in our Knowledge Base.
  
  3) For the web savvy among you, we have also created a little widget that will generate the code you need to embed any lane on your own website or blog. The mini lane below is an example of an embedded lane, and you can see an even more rad one on Iration’s Tour Page.
  
  
  
  4) Do you use an Android phone? We are sending out beta invites to our new Android app. Sign up at m.memolane.com.
  
  If you live in Japan, then today is your lucky day, because you can get our app without an invite from KDDI’s au Smart Pass Market.
  
  
  
  Cheers,
  
  The Memolane Team

• 2012-02-02

  Sh*t People Say: the life of an interweb meme

  If you’ve been enjoying the “Sh*T People Say” meme, we wanted to share with you an easy way to discover all the related videos and social media updates at one place through Memolane’s “Sh*T People Say” lane.

  What can you do with the “Sh*T People Say” lane?
  • Discover all the videos and related social media posts in one place – You can easily see, search and share some of our favorite “Sh*T People Say” videos out there.
  • See the progression of the meme – With posts dating back to March 31, 2011, we are able to track the progression of the meme through our searchable, visual timeline.
  • Like and comment on any video or tweet – Tell us which videos are your favorites by clicking on the heart icon to like them and leaving a comment.
  • Interested in a particular topic? We’ve segmented the videos into various topics of interest such as technology or work and hobbies (see full list below).

  We’ve started building the “Sh*T People Say” lane but we need your help. There are more than 600 videos out there and we’d like to invite you to help us select the best of the “Sh*T People Say” videos and tweets by liking them on Memolane. We’ll be counting up the likes and comments to create a lane of the best of the meme.

  Here’s how to get started:

  1) Go to www.memolane.com and create your own Memolane account
  2) Go to the Explore Page in your Memolane navigation bar and click on the “Sh*T People Say” lane
  3) Like and comment on all of your favorite videos and tweets

  Looking for videos on a specific topic? check out all the different sub-categories:

  Technology: Videos about developers, social media professionals, graphic designers, etc.

  Work and Hobbies: Videos about occupations and hobbies like running, cycling, teaching, surfing, etc.

  Girls: Videos about what women or girls say

  Guys: Videos about what men and boys say

  Politics: Videos about political parties, candidates, and politicians

  Regional: Videos about locations such as San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York

  Parents: Videos about all types of parents from the perspective of their children

  Students: Videos about Sorority and Fraternity members, college freshmen, medical students, etc.

  People: Videos about what one group of people says to another group of people

  If we’re missing one of your favorite videos, send us a link to the video at @Memolane, and we’ll add it to the lane.

  
  Cheers,

  Team Memolane

• 2011-12-08

  Memolane in English, and now in Japanese

  

  We’ve been hard at work with the amazing team at Digital Garage on our latest project - Memolane Japan.

  Now the Memolane community can use Memolane in either Japanese or English, and they can interact with us on social media in Japanese on our Memolane.jp Facebook Page and @memolane_jp Twitter account.

  Today we sent our first Japanese newsletters, but we may have missed you on our list. If you would like to receive your Memolane newsletters in Japanese, please email us at support[at]memolane.com and we’ll take care of the rest.

  We are also very happy to now offer customer support in Japanese through our Memolane.jp UserVoice platform. We look forward to providing better support to our Japanese community, and building a better Memolane with the collective feedback of our entire community.

  Get started on Memolane today and share the stories of your life!

• 2011-11-01

  Memolane 2.0 - When one timeline just isn’t enough

  

  Since our private beta launch one year ago we have been overwhelmed by the amazing support and great feedback we have received from our community.

  As our community grew we learned about brands, schools, musicians, and festivals that were using Memolane in exciting new ways, so we have made some changes to the structure of Memolane to make it more adaptable and customizable for our entire community.

  We are quite excited to share with you what we have been working on for the past several months – a faster, sleeker, more powerful social media platform – Memolane 2.0 

  Here are some of the highlights of Memolane 2.0

  - A new design with larger memos and simpler navigation that works on touch devices and tablets like the iPad

  - The ability to build as many lanes as you like with your own social media and the memories that your Memolane friends share with you

  - Edit from your lane drawer by streaming entire services, selecting contributors, and setting start and end dates

  - Hide individual memos from any of your lanes by changing the privacy setting on the memo

  - Quickly and easily find the lanes that are most important to you by adding them to your favorites

  - Keep track of all your lanes, friends, services and favorite lanes from your dashboard

  - Don’t worry about your memos getting lost on your lane, we’ve eliminated vertical scrolling and widened the days to fit your memos

  - Use the privacy settings you have already set on your services with our import privacy feature now available on even more services

  - Browser support for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox - plus Internet Explorer 8 & 9 and Opera too.

  
  Get started with your Memolane today! Find additional information in our Knowledge Base And share your feedback and questions in our feedback forums and help desk. We’re here to make Memolane 2.0 a better experience for you.

  - Team Memolane

• Memolane is coming to Japan with Digital Garage

  Since our private beta launch nearly a year ago, we have seen amazing growth within international communities on Memolane. Japan has consistently been our largest market outside the United States, despite the fact that Memolane is only available in English. To further support our growing Japanese community we have partnered with Digital Garage to represent us in Japan and create a localized version of Memolane.

  Digital Garage has invested in Memolane, Inc and will help us better serve our Japanese community. We are very happy to be working with the great team at Digital Garage who continue to be instrumental in representing social media services such as Twitter in the Japanese market with amazing results.

  In the coming months Memolane will in partnership with Digital Garage begin localization in Japan, including adding support for popular social media services and providing customer support in Japanese.

  We look forward to the unveiling of Memolane Japan and fully embracing a community that has been at the forefront of social communication online and sharing information from mobile devices. Memolane Japan is a big leap towards our goal of becoming a global platform for social media.

• 2011-10-21

  What we call the past is built on bits.

  — 

  - John Archibald Wheeler

  From James Gleick’s “The Information: a history, a theory, a flood”

• 2011-10-20

  At Memolane we watch a lot of documentaries in our spare time, and it is no surprise that we are fascinated and intrigued by people who are devoted to documenting the world around us. The other day I came across the film “Bill Cunningham New York” by Richard Press. I am in awe of Bill, the New York Times’ venerable photo columnist, and one day I hope that the contents of his filing cabinets will make their way onto a Memolane.

  His work is a treasure of visual history and it makes me wonder what other riches will be revealed in the future as more and more of us are actively documenting our lives with social media every day. Do you have a daily documentation routine with social media or photography? I’d love to hear about it in the comments below.

  
  - Meghan

• 2011-10-12

  Memolane’s Timeline of Your Life (more than just your Facebook posts)

  Here at Memolane we do not claim to be first with a timeline concept, but we do think that time is the perfect tool to organize social media. What you see pass through your social media applications every day is the tip of the iceberg. Memolane takes a dive with our users to show them what is under the surface, exposing the entire volume of content they have been creating since the beginning of social media. Our community tells us again and again that they love seeing all of their great memories captured over time, in one place, where they can edit them into the stories of their lives, careers, bands, organizations and businesses. 
  
  From the beginning we wanted to delight our community, allowing them to capture the life as they live it, gathering all their great moments and turning those great moments into everlasting memories. Now Facebook has awoken to the promise of the timeline to organize and give structure to the vast amount of content that is being produced on its graph every day. There is no doubt in my mind that introducing Timeline was a smart move on the part of Facebook. I am thrilled to see such an influential leader in social media validate the concept underlying Memolane.
  
  Memolane has supported Facebook since our beginning, and we have continued to grow our supported services to reflect the breadth and depth of the social media marketplace. Memolane embraces the diversified world of social media. We aim to become the timeline of your life where you can make stories from the content that you create across a multitude of social graphs. We know from our community that while many of them are active on Facebook, they are also using a multitude of other social services as well. Across the world our users have requested that we add support for more than sixty new services to Memolane.
  
  The world of social media is constantly in flux, and Memolane is here to provide a platform where anyone can create a social media timeline of the services that they use, when, where, and how they use them with the option to share that story with everyone, no one, and any combination in between. 
  
  We want Memolane to help individuals, brands, artists, and organisations to liberate their social media content and present it in a beautiful interface embedded on their own site to share with their communities. This is why Universal Music, Atlantic Records, and many others are working with us. 
  
  As we continue to move forward at Memolane, we draw on lessons from our own stories. When I worked for Skype they were not the first company to create VOIP, still they managed to make the complex simple with a fantastic offering, “the world can talk for free.” Our goal is not to become Facebook, or any other social network, but to provide a place where the larger social media community can create visual timelines that tell the stories of their lives, across services, across time, across boundaries.
  
  
  
  - Eric
  CEO of Memolane