We’ve covered a number of groups using the Facebook Timeline to create narratives, but a new Microsoft site is doing the opposite by pulling your Timeline events into an interactive slideshow. After giving the site permission to view your posts, A Year In The Like generates a sort of scrolling movie using posted photos and comments. If you have the time and the inclination, you can also splice pieces together into a film to share with friends, who presumably don’t get enough of you from ordinary Facebook posts.
Microsoft’s ‘A Year In The Like’ turns your Facebook timeline into an interactive movie
Microsoft-created site “A Year In The Like” turns Facebook Timelines into an interactive slideshow complete with photos and comments.
Microsoft-created site “A Year In The Like” turns Facebook Timelines into an interactive slideshow complete with photos and comments.
is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011.
The site has a bit of a Metro-style aesthetic, but there’s no obvious nod to either Windows Phone or the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, so our guess is that it’s one of the web proof-of-concepts Microsoft’s been fond of doing lately. Based on the hosting note on the page, it looks to have been created by PR firm Edelman. Personally, I’m more of a text person, but the filter and interactive options make it an interesting alternate method of browsing.
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