Time Machiner: I will never forget a birthday anymore

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Time Machiner: I will never forget a birthday anymore

Written on March 29, 2008 – 1:41 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Yeah! From now on I’ll never forget a birthday of any of my friends and relatives. You know the awkward feeling after you’ve just discovered you have been with somebody in the room for 30 minutes without congratulating him with yet another year. Say goodbye to it, because now you can just paste your birthday calender in the Time Machiner:

Time Machiner

Moreover, you can also send reminders to yourself. Our promise things to you future self: “Hi, two years ago you promised me that by now, you would date Kate Moss”.

Of course there were some other ways to do this as well, yet the amazing thing about this mini app is that it’s build in just 4 hours for only 50 dollars. This seems to be some sort of new trend, building tools and apps in a ridiculously short time. See Tweetburner for example. Michiel Sikkes and Bob Jansen have build this improved Linkblip imitation in just 24 hours.

See the video blog of Jon Wheatly who explains the whole process. He had the idea and Paul Fraser developed it.

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12 comments/trackbacks to “Time Machiner: I will never forget a birthday anymore”

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By Patrick de Laive on Mar 29, 2008 | Reply

This would really help me. Plaxo is sending me messages like ‘in 3 days it’s Floris’ Birthday’ but then I always forget. I foresee one problem though, I think social network sites will make services like this useless. Already you can send birthday presents and postcards via snail mail to your connections (without the need of knowing their address, pretty cool).
By Paul Fraser on Mar 29, 2008 | Reply

How very cool!
I feel like a celebrity. Thanks alot for the mention :)

Paul
By Nick on Mar 29, 2008 | Reply

Does service aren’t that personal so probably I won’t use them.
By Jaap Stronks on Mar 30, 2008 | Reply

Tweetburner is different from Linkblip. The former is primarily used to post links to Twitter and to provide insight into what’s currently buzzing in the Twit-O-sphere, the latter emphasises on providing personal stats on privately constructed URL’s. They are somewhat related, but I wouldn’t call it an ‘imitation’.
By oooo on Mar 31, 2008 | Reply

I love this! it’s perfect for every little thing i forget, which is quite often.

ps. jon wheatley is cute. seriously.
By John Curtiss on Apr 1, 2008 | Reply

Looks alright from the bat. But it also seems to be a name/list collector… This means names/e-mails addresses collected might be negotiated with companies at a profit. These, in turn, would send us all kinds of garbage.
Sorry, but the way things are going in the net, I have no other way of viewing it.
If I’m totally wrong, then, congrats to the developers!
John
3/31/2008
By Paul Fraser on Apr 1, 2008 | Reply

All the emails are encryted and we have no need to try sell any information, worry not its all secure.
By Johannes de Jong on Apr 1, 2008 | Reply

Not such an unique idea; Joost de Baaij created http://www.l8r.nu/ back in 2007 that does something similar.
By joost on Apr 1, 2008 | Reply

Yes I did :) and also in a very short amount of time. Although I have continued adding features and now have quite a large group of users!
By dineke on Apr 1, 2008 | Reply

futureme.org is a successful example that has been around some longer. indeed a nice concept
By Laurie on Apr 2, 2008 | Reply

http://www.mailtothefuture.com/ did this ages ago, and then died through lack of usage. Maybe the idea’s time has come again, but it’s not original.