COMPANY: GroupSmarts, LLC | URL: www.memoryminer.com | TYPE: Database | PLATFORM: Mac | PRICE: $45
		MemoryMiner is the award-winning Digital Storytelling application for Mac and Windows used to discover the threads connecting peoples’ lives across time and place. It lets you zero in on the stories depicted in your photos by linking them to each other based on people, places and time. Using simple drag and drop actions, you specify who is in the picture, where the picture was taken and when. MemoryMiner helps you get the most out of every effort you put into creating your libraries. For example, using portions or a full address or city/country, the application uses Google Maps to specify the exact location where a photo was taken. It uses the intersection of a photo's date and the birth date of a person to create icons representing people at different stages of their life and to display the age of a person when the photo was taken. It uses the selection markers you make to display your photos as slideshows using the famous "Ken Burns" pan and zoom effect. Drag and drop audio, video, documents or URLs from the Media Browser onto your photos and add text annotations to add depth and context to each photo. In this way, you get the very most out of your photos, particularly those rare photos from a generation or two ago. You can then automatically publish your stories to the web (via .Mac or FTP): MemoryMiner creates a great interactive presentation using highly advanced, dynamic HTML and Flash. MemoryMiner is an application used to organize and share digital media using a simple, yet powerful metaphor, namely "People, Places and Time." At its core, are a simple set of tools for treating photos as individual frames in a type of endless story board. A variety of other digital media, including sound, video, documents and URLs, can be added to each frame. The story elements are linked to each other by way of annotation layers identifying the people, places, dates and events captured in each frame, and can be exported for automatic publishing online. MemoryMiner can be used for a variety of different purposes, from personal history and education through to art projects and marketing for business. Whatever your purpose, the process of creating and publishing a digital story with MemoryMiner is fundamentally the same: 1) Import images (simply by dragging and dropping from a folder or photo organizer like iPhoto) 2) Create of a list of relevant people and locations 3) Connect people and locations to images 4) Add descriptions to images 5) Attach other digital media to images 6) Select images for export (other relevant media will be automatically selected) 7) Export your photo-data package to a server of your choice (including .Mac) 8) View your digital story online The GroupSmarts team is currently working on developing a set of network services that will link individual MemoryMiner libraries using the descriptive metadata that goes with story elements. This will be useful to help people find digital story elements securely and efficiently in order to fill in gaps they may have as they set about recording and publishing their personal histories and other stories.