To be frank, we at TimeGlider (formerly Mnemograph) has made very few efforts to promote ourselves. About two years ago, we sent out invitations to about 30 prominent education technology bloggers telling them about ourselves, and have done little else since then. Strictly through word-of-mouth (delicious, twitter, blogs, etc etc) we’ve grown to having about 12,000 users. That’s pretty small by most standards, but a nice number when one considers it to be “organic” growth. It’s a clear testament to the power of our current networking and broadcasting tools.
Most recently, we’ve caught the attention of Mashable, the New York Times, and the BBC:
In September ’09 we were featured in a Mashable article on novel writing tools:
http://mashable.com/2009/09/16/write-novel/
Just before Christmas we appeared in the New York Times education section:
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/from-00-to-10-defining-the-decade/
And we got the new year off with a bang with some fabulous coverage on the BBC’s ‘Click’ program, including a very nice video segment (about 1/2 way through)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8443401.stm
So thank you to those of you who’ve helped spread the word. As I’ve said, 2010 promises to be a year of leaps and bounds.
Wow, what a morning. We got a nice little mention in Slashdot — one of the most widely read science/tech blogs on the web — and signups are going through the roof. We’re also getting lots of positive feedback and helpful bug reports, including the fact that I’d forgotten to re-install our blog after a server move.
The Slashdot piece headlines with “Timeglider Software…” but it’s ostensibly about a fantastic timeline put together by Steve Usdin, at the Wilson Center in D.C., about the Rosenberg spy case.
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We moved our server just in the nick of time, it seems — to a (dv) account at MediaTemple.
In other news, we’ve just struck up a relationship with David Knape, aka Bumpslide Inc., who’s a bona fide Jedi Master of Flash and Actionscript. He’s going to help us rebuild the application, not entirely from scratch, but in a new (“model-view-controller”) application framework.
Earlier this month, we were very pleased to see that the Dutch broadcaster NOS built a very nice and extensive timeline about the U.S. election and featured it on their site. NOS is sort of the Dutch equivalent to the U.K.’s BBC, specializing in news and sports.
Here’s the page on the NOS site, and here’s the timeline that they link to.
This is a fantastic way to use Mnemograph — as an accompaniment to a larger, ongoing media story. NOS was able to update this timeline in real time, during Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, even while as traffic to the timeline was popping like popcorn.
Notice, also, how they cleverly used short but wide images to save vertical space.
Thanks NOS, and congratulations Senator/Pres. Elect Obama.
