Founder of Scribr here. We're stoked to see this on HN and curious to see what the minds here think of it.<p>TheNextWeb has a good article detailing our book here:<p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/12/30/scribr-preserves-your-social-media-posts-turning-them-into-a-beautifully-printed-journal/" rel="nofollow">http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/12/30/scribr-preserves-your-...</a><p>We also have Timeline-esque features that aren't very public at the moment. We delve into these in our blog here:<p><a href="http://blog.myscribr.com/post/15036430644" rel="nofollow">http://blog.myscribr.com/post/15036430644</a>
I love this but I would love it even more if it would support Wordpress. I migrated my old Livejournal (I know...) to Wordpress so it's like a record of my past ten years at this point. It'd be fantastic to have all of that as a physical item.
Some reasons why this may not be a great idea:
* No one really reads their own posts afterwards.
* The crap you write on facebook is for others - ie, rarely deep enough to keep for yourself.<p>One place I think you could make money: New Parents.<p>These guys post pics of their kids all the time and text. Grab all that put it into a book. I think that would be very easy for a new parent to do (because they already do it) and very valuable. It would be 0 effort for parents which I'm sure they would appreciate. Otherwise they'd have to download all the pics and then make a book adn add text etc ...
I like this idea. I already keep a notebook/journal, and I've started writing more frequently on my blog, but so much of what I do that's memorable goes onto Facebook or Twitter (not so much Foursquare, but maybe if I was recording it for posterity in a book, I might be more interested in using Foursquare).<p>I think the key is being able to easily select and exclude entries from being included. I doubt I would want links I post on Twitter in such a book, or most @reply conversations.
Scribr makes me think of Scribd. Otherwise great idea. I thought of this a few years ago, but never followed through with it. Glad to see someone is doing it! Left my email.
Looks like a interesting idea. Would be cool if you could incorporate YouTube into it as well. YouTube is my primary Social Network (<a href="http://YouTube.com/Urgo" rel="nofollow">http://YouTube.com/Urgo</a>) where I did a video a day for a whole year may 2010-may 2011 and still make a couple vlogs a week. If that could be tied in as well with my twitter, flickr & foursquare I think I'd be sold into trying it out :) I signed up for a beta invite.
<i>Even after Scribr, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet itself are gone.</i><p>I like how this is presented as if it is a certainty such a day will come to pass :)