Ex-Facebook engineers introduce location-based biography tool
A team of former Facebook engineers are back in business with a location based biography tool which charts an individual’s movements through their online life.
Fabric, available now on iOS, works by drawing together your photos from Facebook, Instagram and your camera roll before plotting them on a map with a sidebar timeline structuring movements and pictures by date.
From there users can swipe to explore particular days of their past, exploring places visited, people seen and any photos which happened to be taken at the time. Future functionality will allow the upload of written notes, songs and any other digital content.
Brainchild of Arun Vijayvergiya, who previously developed Facebook’s Timeline feature, and Nikolay Valtchanov, who devised various running and biking applications for the social media giant, the new venture ultimately aims to build an automated journal of a person’s life.
Vijayvergiya remarked: “In the really long-term, we want to be an augmented memory solution. You want to be able to search through your brain at some point – we think that will exist. We’re trying to take the first step towards that.”