I was thinking recently whether an online timeline would make a good Web2.0 application. It could combine geneology information, calendar entries, news events, festival dates, wiki updates…the combinations seem endless. And if you mashed it up with spatial information like Google Maps you would get some really cool observations, like a map showing the birthplace of people born at the same date and time as me.
I haven’t found anything like this yet but I did find an interactive open source timeline developed by the SIMILE Project at MIT. And that led me to My Timelines, where you can use the SIMILE timeline application to create your own timeline of ATOM, RDF or RSS feeds. So I created a timeline of RSS feeds from Stephen Downes, which I think is pretty cool.
**UPDATE: I’ve just found xtimeline, which may do what I’m after. Check it out.**
Tags: MIT, open source, SIMILE, timeline
