LifeinLines is a newly launched startup that wants you to tell your life’s LiL (i.e LifeInLines) story.
We have covered other players in this space (like LifeBlob, Dandelife etc), but what distinguishes LifeinLines is the simplistic UI and multi ways to share your life story.
Apart from directly posting using the website, users can also share their life stories by sending LiL an email, a message from a Google Talk messenger, an sms or even record your voice by calling LiL from your phone.
You can choose to keep an entry personal, or share with selected people by using LiL’s 5 layer privacy settings, add location tags, share your mood etc.
The product, even though in closed beta has a good attention-to-detail calls and a pleasant interface.
Having said that, I am not too sure whether this product will see a mass adoption unless it solves a serious pain or has super cool benefits.
Personal blogging is by far the easiest way to share one’s life and LiL’s missing point seems to be the interactivity among users (which Twitter has really banked on). In the newly open world, it’s not about just my life, but also about other’s life.
Seeding content is always a pain for a product like this and I recommend LiL to get their Orkut and FaceBook app asap, as that might help them test waters and measure the uptake.
What’s your take on LiL? Will you use such a service?
Do share your opinion.
Thanks so much for the story Ashish.
To answer a few things,
If you’ve noticed our response system and the tracking of different friends according to the level of access they’ve given you – it’s simple and yet a powerful enabler of tracking and responding other’s life stories and moments.
For instance, a friend, on a tour to paris happened to go to an irish pub and posted celtic music via a voice call, and it spurred interest among us back here about the whole thing – more of a multi-party conversation in a thread..
And.. again in a thanks to you, your readers can use an invite code ‘ashish1708′ to register on lifeinlines.
All feedback most welcome!
Ankur
In my opinion sites like these are very useful as we are able to almost instantly relay our thoughts and feelings at each moment(while we have access to the internet, of course.)
They are connecting everyone in the globe more and more, as well as allowing unprecedented levels of freedom to express your thoughts whenever, (and sometimes more importantly) however you want. It’s the natural progression from having such speedy technology.
Sharing and recording your life has the added benefit of allowing you to look back on your life, like having diaries which are larger, faster and much more vibrant than paper journals.
Whether the sites become popular to masses of people or not is perhaps less likely, I agree, but at least they bring joy to those who use them.
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