Timelines.com Launches; RailsConf 2009
Geoff, Zach, Trevor, Bob, Brian, and I (Scott) recently launched Timelines.com. Timelines is a place for people to record and share history about any topic. We want it to be the Wikipedia of event-based information, but unlike Wikipedia we want everyone to have a voice and add their own perspectives (and photos, videos, etc) about events. We’ve got lots of plans for the site and a feature list a mile long, but we thought we’d launch it as soon as possible to start soliciting event information.
This site was built using Rails, jQuery, Postgres, Lucene, and CouchDB, and we’re hosting it on EC2 (3 instances, one each for: application, postgres, and couch). Zach has really gotten involved in the CouchDB community, and he should be putting some interesting info on using Rails and CouchDB on his blog soon.
We’re off the RailsConf this afternoon in Vegas. While we’re there, we’ll be gathering info for our RailsConf 2009 topic on Timelines.com. See you there.
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