Enter thisMoment, a new lifestreaming application currently in private beta. It lets you create a slideshow (called a "moment") containing different kinds of media - links, text, images, audio and video clips - which, ideally, fully captures an important moment in your life.
The application is thorough, which is both its main strength and its biggest flaw. When you create a new moment, you start with choosing a name, time and place, then you can add files from various social networks or media repositories such as Photobucket, Flickr and Facebook, or upload your own files. Lastly, you add links from anywhere on the web, and choose a label, degree of importance and appearance for your moment.
It results in a sleek, media-rich slideshow which, if you put enough time into it, can really be a great way to share memories from a trip, wedding or a celebration. You can see an example of how it works over at the official site.
However, it also contradicts with the way most other lifestreaming apps work. Twitter, Tumblr and FriendFeed do exactly the opposite; they let you share stuff quickly, easily, from anywhere, and anytime you want. Over time, it creates a lifestream which doesn't differentiate various "moments" in your life, but rather gives a continuous stream of your activities.
thisMoment presumes you'll be more likely to look over your photos, videos, and other stuff after an event has occured, and then create a rounded-up collection of all the media related to the event. It's an approach I can relate to, and it definitely works very well for certain types of events, e.g. weddings, but it lacks the virality of Twitter, and hence it will probably be harder for thisMoment to receive wider popularity.