thisMoment.com is a new social networking site offering members a place to show their ‘moments’ in a timeline to share with friends, family and new contacts.   thisMoment.com is like having your own vitual scrapbook that you can add blog posts, events (past, present and future), photos, podcasts, videos and more. Each entry becomes a ‘moment’ that appears on your ‘MomentFlow’, a timeline of entries on your profile page.  However being a social networking site, this brings the idea of a personal scrapbook to a whole new level, because users can now add to each others pages and collaborate on moments.

thisMoment.com say “It’s incredibly easy to capture Moments using our Moment Maker. Just give your Moment a name, and then easily add things like photos and video, how the Moment made you feel, who shared it with you, and much more. The Moment Maker connects with your existing Web services – including Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and others – allowing you to illustrate your Moments with photos and video you’ve already uploaded to the Internet. You can even pull in publicly available content for any shots you may have missed, utilize high-quality professional media from our partners, and invite your friends so they can contribute as well.”   I would have to agree on how easy it is.  I went straight in without using any of the ‘how to’s’ or watching any videos and set up with my profile page, arranged a dedicated url, linked it with Facebook and Twitter and had my first moment published all in 7 minutes.

The site itself is very sleek and grown up looking with an ‘easy on the eye’ design and sophisticated colour scheme. Offering mobile web for any SmartPhone and a new iPhone application in the pipeline, navigation and access is certainly not an issue.

With Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Picassa  intergration you can update all your contacts in one place, sharing your moment not only to thisMoment.com viewers but all over your social media/networking profiles.

The ability to add moments from past, present and future make this site stand out from the ‘scrapbook’ trend.  For those of us who have scrapbooked in the real world (yes actually cutting out our die cut shapes and using our acid free 12×12 papers, come on your scrapbookers, you know what I am talking about!) you know that your scrapbooks are filled with moments of your past.  thisMoment.com allows you to add future events, which is not only very clever but also very uplifting.

The possibilities of how you could use thisMoment.com are wide and vast.  You could use it just as a photo album/scrapbook, or as a photo blog, or as a podcast blog, or as a calendar for both personal and business events.  You could even set up a business page and use this as another ‘latest news’ outlet.

I have been very impressed with all functionality of this new site as well as the sheer look of it.  Well done thisMoment.com – keep up the good work!