When Micheal Broukhim of Totspot.com joined me for a recording of Technology Gazette back in June 2008, I noted to him that the idea of his company which is exactly the same as Keepaboo.com was
an interesting play on parent’s collecting memories of their child’s
younger years. It would almost be a little concerning to some children
as they grow older knowing that their parents may have collected so
much incriminating data about them in an online portal, I find it bad
enough with the physical photos of me in the younger years but to know
that parents would be storing this data online which would have an
infinite longevity did unsettle me a little.
However, Keepaboo.com
continues Web service trends of mapping out all of your newborn’s life
in an online scrapbook, their exact reasons for why you should use
their service read as follows:
- Record Milestones
- Add Pictures to your area
- Track Growth of the Child
- Save Quotes
All very interesting, yet quite unique ways of documenting a child’s
life but all incredibly sentimental to many parents. With these web
services I believe it is a matter of allowing the parent to make note
of specific events and moments very easily, this would require minimal
effort to provide them with a long lasting journal of everything to do
with their child growing up.
A nice addition to this service, that I don’t believe Totspot.com
has is the use of a 3-D “LifeBook”, there is a sample book made up on
the homepage (of course with them being very smart there is no direct
link to the sample book), however check the homepage and you will see
the link “View Sample Book”. It transposes key events in a child’s life
incredibly well and I feel that the short exerts of text below each
item highlight the meaning of a picture very effectively (however, one commenter at the Mashable.com review didn’t seem too impressed)
However, one key feature I felt Totspot.com caught onto well was the
use of VIDEO! This feature is so critical to making a service feel more
real for the parents or whoever they share the information with, video
brings alive those precious moments and goes one step further for many
on conveying just what happened. Even if it’s a short 30-secs clip it
is important all the same.
And of course what have the promises of Totspot and Keepaboo got
in common, privacy! There is going to be nothing more important to
parents then to know that any pictures, videos and text clips they put
into the service are kept safe and out of the reach of people not
designated to use the account. It will also be important for the child
concerned because the internet is a vast arena and things get shared
around in an instant, I can see this being a tough challenge for both
companies but one that I am sure both of them hold as the highest
priority.
Here is what others around the Web have to say about Keepaboo:
