Jaffe Juice

Forget the Long Tail, this is all about the Linkory Tale. You see the problem with stories living on forever, is that they need to be remembered and written down first.

Enter Linkory, one of crayon's newest clients. Officially:

Everyone has memories.  We share them with friends and family throughout our lives. Linkory.com is the only place that makes capturing and sharing memories fun, easy and free.

Your posting of a particular memory will act as the first link in a chain. Others in the global community with similar experiences will add to the chain. This powerful and exciting Linkory process will reveal the complete recollection of an event, enhance the experience for all participants, and generate an historical sequence. You will reunite with family and friends and connect with others who share common or related memories.

Recall huge world events:  Where were you when 9/11 happened, what were you doing when you heard about the death of Princess Diana or when the Berlin Wall came down? Were you in Myanmar in September, 2007?  Post your photographs and describe your visit to the 1969 Woodstock Festival, your attendance at the Simon and Garfunkel concert in Central Park or the Olympic Games. Share your experiences with others who were in your military unit , at your university, or at a summer camp with you. You can choose to make your memories public, or you may limit who may view and contribute to your Linkory.

In this small world,  Linkory.com is indeed a powerful collaboration and social networking space that connects all of us, globally.

For the first time, the world's history is being written in real-time, collectively and un-edited.  Linkory.com is the future of history.

Linkory isn't a social network per se; instead it provides a suite of conversational tools pivoting around the simple (yet profound) act of memories; life experiences; personal history or just personalized accounts or interpretations of events as they happened.

Like many start-ups in the conversational space, Linkory's success will be determined by the number of memories and the proficiency and extent to which people tag, link, share, embed and comment accordingly. In many respects I see Linkory as a very busy hub, with millions of commuters passing through on a continual basis. On the other hand, I see the Riddler's giant memory bank in the sky (although less sinister)

Either way, I love the idea of people coming together to share in moments that united, divided, mesmerized or shocked us. It can be as serendipitous as "Remember when South Africa won the Rugby World Cup in 1995" to "where were you on 9/11?". In the former case, two people could have been at the same game at the same time, but sitting in completely different places in the stadium...and yet today, they live next door to each other in San Diego. Or with 9/11, it could be a myriad of people from around the world expressing their pain and shock in unity.

Scott blogged about it here on the crayon blog. He also created a memory for Blogger Social '08 (you know, the one where I feigned illness in order to maintain my high maintenance primadonna reputation!) You'll notice btw that Greg (blogged about it here and thanks to his post, Bon Jovi is seared into my memory for all the wrong reasons!) added to this memory (one of the features/functionality associated with the interface)

I've already added my personal memory (as fresh as Friday), documenting my swearing in as an American citizen. I've also included a few photos and a video.

Check it out and perhaps add your own personal immigration experience as well.

Of course, you can always add your own memories here and be sure to provide a link to your own memories on this thread. I'll send a signed copy of my book to the one that inspires me the most.