Continuing Yahoo’s strategy of social centered offerings like Flickr, Delicious/MyWeb, Yahoo Answers, Jonathan Harris (of wefeelfine, justcurious, phylotaxis, etc.) has launched Yahoo! Time Capsule.
For 30 days, from October 10 until November 8, Yahoo! users worldwide can contribute photos, writings, videos, audio - even drawings - to this electronic anthropology project. This is the first time that digital data will be gathered and preserved for historical purposes. In addition to submitting your own content, you can view, read, or hear the images, words, and sounds contributed by users from around the world. You can also comment on the content you and others have submitted - and engage in a digital conversation that is just as revealing and important as any of the content you’ll witness. And by November 8, you will have helped create a digital legacy of our times, a mosaic of revealing snapshots that will be sealed and entrusted to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings based in Washington D.C., officially taking its place in history.
I’m not sure how they can claim that this is the first time digital data has been gathered for historical purposes (!!) but I think Yahoo is pretty effective at making or buying things that encourage people to interact in novel ways.
(thanks Luke Biewald)
Comments
@ 12:45
It is a great idea of Yahoo time capsule ! I just submit my photo to Yahoo time capsule
! It seems Yahoo nowadays becomes more interactive and proactive to compete with Google. Even the new Yahoo.mail become “outlook-express-like”. ( Is Yahoo partnership with Microsoft now ?? )
All the while i support Yahoo more than Google. Simply because i found Yahoo more “human” compare to Google. I think Yahoo has found its direction to stand a leading seat in the search engines industry.
@ 05:43
Oops, seems i miss the time capsule, does anyone know will the Yahoo re-organize it again ?
@ 23:40
the time capsule project is over, guess not re-open until March 2, 2020.
@ 11:30
hmm….this time capsule project seems intesting, but i doubt how many people will really remember it when it reach the due date….. Will Yahoo still there ?
@ 05:27
Yahoo is great ! hope it can come out more ideas like this for the community.
@ 00:15
No doubt Google is leader in search engines market, but i still prefer yahoo….. simply because they are more human-oriented.
@ 01:27
As the name describe, Ya-Hoo ! , it is still the first choice of a lot of people because of its human-orinted services compare to Google
@ 10:40
hope Yahoo can extended the participation of the time capsule
@ 01:19
Google recently launched “universal search”. Hope yahoo also can upgrade themselve.
@ 11:07
hope Yahoo can come out a chinese version for time capsule
@ 01:06
the latest news : Yahoo CEO is resigned due to poor performance.. I hope Yahoo can be more competitive to compete with Google.
@ 17:16
Can it save in to youtube ?
@ 17:21
Yahoo is great ! hope it can come out more ideas like this for the community.
@ 20:50
Great information…but regretly, it is over.
@ 11:47
Yahoo should concentrate more on search engine intellegence , not on those funny stuff in order to compete with google.
@ 07:42
Hope yahoo can come out another project similiar to this… I think this is the strength of Yahoo compare to Google. : Community focus !
@ 08:43
Yahoo’s market share is decreasing compare to Google…. hope Yahoo can come up some new killer applications or business idea like this.