Timbuctu

Timbuctu is new software which tells the user’s stories by locating their media on exact locations on a powerful map user interface.

It fits perfectly right between Facebook and Twitter and interfaces with both. It allows the user to create a map of the story of their adventures and records them for generations to come. It shares these events with friends (who track the user), groups, organizations, and societies. Groups can tell their global stories by feeding from the user’s adventures that are related to the groups. Timbuctu makes everyone valuable to the world and makes large of everyone’s story.

Cross-referencing events by location will bring a end to redundant humanitarian efforts, allowing global resourses to be used effectively. Timbuctu is free to the user, upgrades are available for real-time tracking.

Why Timbuctu?

Timbuctu: A remote city in Mali, West Africa, and a long-known metaphor for “exotic, distant land.” It became famous when it was the last city added to the first world map. Hence, it got the reputation of being, “the ends of the earth.”

Timbuctu was created because of the value of people’s stories, that the possibility exists to connect with endless tales of travel and adventure, knowing the possibility that those very stories may be lost to the next generation.

Timbuctu exists in order to place value upon the user’s stories. Where they go, what they do, etc. It exists to cross-reference those stories with the stories of others who are working for the good of this beautifully created universe. It exists to magnify the result of that good and use it to create a log of great endeavors to our generation.

Philip Smethurst, the Founder, as well as building his own organization, Overland Missions, wanted to connect with the stories of others who were doing the same work, and he had no way to learn on a large scale. That learning curve moved him to create a social network that allows the user to create a virtual map of their travels, a log of their works, a visual reminder of the people in the developing world who are so easy to forget. A network that is a humanitarian effort in itself, so that the efforts of thousands of humanitarians will not be lost. So that in 5, 10, or 20 years, there will be a testimony of the people… the stories… and the adventure.

Use Timbuctu to better the world, to impact the next generation with your adventures.