14 DAY TRIAL // thisMoment is a new social networking and sharing site just launched in public beta. While there's hardly a lack of social media sites, this one has a different focus than most others. While Facebook, and especially Twitter, may be all about the real-time information, thisMoment aims to celebrate and preserve important moments in your life.
“thisMoment moves beyond simply storing media, sending friend requests and broadcasting status updates,” Vince Broady, founder and CEO of thisMoment.com, said. “We’re offering something ultimately more meaningful by giving people a way to capture the context and emotion of their life experiences. In doing so, we’re helping users create an enduring digital reflection of their lives.”
The site was founded by GameSpot Co-founder and former Yahoo Executive Vincent Broady and is part-YouTube, part-Flickr and part-Facebook, but all centered around specific “moments” in your life. The moments are in chronological order and can be past experiences, but also future events.
The idea is to celebrate the ones you found interesting, allowing you to add your comments and also use all types of media and content, either original or from services like Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Photobucket, Picasa, Joost and YouTube, bringing them together in a meaningful way. And it's all focused on the user, not the event, with a caption saying, “This moment made me feel...” showing on the moment's page.
The moments can be made available to everyone, just to your friends, and can even be kept for yourself, and you can easily share them, or an entire timeline, on other sites or blogs with a Facebook app coming in the near future. The service is free and plans to make money from advertising and licensing the platform.