storytlr uses seesmic and is inspired by Loic

[by Jeremy Vaught, Blogger - Seesmic]

I'm checking out  a new service that uses Seesmic along with other services on the web to help you tell your online story.  Or would it be tell our story online?  I guess it works both ways.

This new service is called storytlr.  The tag line is "your life online," and at first I thought it was another Friendfeed or Socialthing, but they have a twist.  What attracted me at first was that fact they use Seesmic, but then I found the twist, and then I found references to Seesmic's CEO, Loic Le Meur.

So first the basic service.  You plug in your other social data sources, like Seesmic, Flickr, Qik, Twitter, Google Reader, any RSS feed like your blog, or post from storytlr and more.  This gives you a basic timeline.  Then what you can do is tell a story.  This is done by picking the start and end time of what you are up to.  storytlr the puts together what happened in one timeline for you to and gives you the option of pulling out the irrelivant entries.  I created one for PodcampAZ I just attended this weekend.  A slick idea for sure.  And to date, not one I've seen yet.

The other thing I found that surprised me was that this project was inspired by the Seesmic CEO, Loic Le Meur.  On their about page, they explain:

A few months ago we saw this video from Loic Lemeur who was asking about a way to help him build 'the centralized me'. We liked the idea because it sounded like reinventing the good old 'personal page', realizing that a blog can only capture one angle of what we did online. More over, we felt that this page had to be personal, and not yet another profile page locked in a social network, and plastered with company branding. Storytlr brings you just that, a platform to build the centralized you, and it is really about you, not about us. 

Loic also gave us another idea in this post, where he explains that he 'lost' all his youtube videos ! We felt the same when we realized that our Twitter archives were not available due to Twitter downtimes. This brought us to the conclusion that we needed to 'own' our data. We needed a way to easily archive our online data and even back it up. In Storytlr, you own your data, you can download all of it whenever you want.

To wrap in up.  If you add Seesmic to anything, it makes it that much better. :) So storytlr is off to a good start.

Comments

[eschnou]

Thanks Jeremy for the review ! I like your Podcamp story, nice mix of tweets, pics, qiks,... just missing a seesmic video :-)

You'll soon be able to embed such a story in a blog post, which will make it so much easier to share !

Looking forward to your feedback if you continue to use storytlr !