Capzles.com - Rich Online Timelines

So what’s the latest in social networking? The trend seems to be capturing niche audiences and markets catering to everything from nanobots to crowdsourcing movies. One of the latest of these is called Capzels which offers users the ability to create their own online time capsules and share them with the world. You can store pictures, videos, documents, music along with any other media file. Capzles offers a slick, entirely Flash based, interface that’s reminiscent of Apple’s coverflow . Files are organized in chronological order and you can scroll back and forth in time as is your preference. Find a file that piques your interest, and click on it fore more information. You can rate each moment or file with up to five stars, add it to your Favorites, flag it or send it to a friend. And it’s absolutely free to use.

“time, captured”

Capzles is a nifty tool to post pics or media files in a sort of high tech scrapbook fashion. It’s UI is slick and easily understandable even to the most technologically challenged. It’s great for sharing pics, trips and more.

Will this method of social networking catch on? How will it differentiate itself from the heavyweights like Flickr or Photobucket? What about the rest of the social networking sphere?