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"Following in the footsteps of Storify, a new free, open-source online timeline tool is innovating storytelling on the web. \nTimeline, created by Zach Wise, a multimedia journalist and journalism professor, was developed in partnership with the Knight News Innovation Lab at Northwestern University, where Wise teaches. The interactive tool allows users to generate timelines on the web by curating content from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Google Maps and SoundCloud.\n\"The tools that already exist on the web are almost all either hard on the eyes or hard to use,\" said Wise. \"Timeline is an open-source, JavaScript and HTML/HTML 5 based tool that creates elegant timelines.\"\nAudiences can see the \"elegance\" Wise is referring to with the examples the folks behind Timeline have created to illustrate its potential. A timeline on the life of Whitney Houston features several YouTube videos, for instance \u2014 an ideal form of storytelling for a performer. Another timeline on the Republican presidential campaign not only features YouTube videos, but also Flickr photos from the primaries and quotations from news articles.\nWith the timeline, a specific date, its description and any media (if any) associated with it fills the upper two-thirds of the browser. Meanwhile, the bottom third of the browser shows how that item fits in categorically within the larger subject of the timeline. So audiences can concentrate on one specific date and navigate to another specific date, all while still being able to see how these moments fit in within the larger timespan. \n\nWhile Timeline is similar to Storify in that it allows users to aggregate media on the web, it differs in its operation. With Storify, users can drag and drop content into a post. With Timeline, users can either embed the code onto their website using JSON, or \u2014 if they don't want to mess with any coding \u2014 they can fill in a ready-made Timeline template on Google Docs. The project is currently hosted on GitHub, and users can find specific directions on how to both embed the code and use the Google Doc template there, too.\nFuture plans for the project include support of more media type, as well as iPhone compatibility, B.C. time support and better seconds and milliseconds support.\nWhat do you think of this new timeline tool? Do you think you'll use it for any projects? Let us know in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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