MYMINUTES.ORG
Myminutes.org is the first collective sentimental calendar in which it is possible to associate to the minutes of a solar year the most significant moment of one’s life.
One can buy one or more minutes and insert in the associated pages, text, video, images and links to their own site or blog.
One can buy minutes for themselves, for who they love, for their friends.
The acquired minutes will be visible at the same time throughout the 24 time zones.
Every year the minutes will be re-visualised at the same time.
The minutes can be indexed or sought for through key words such as: birthday, first time, wedding, anniversary, event, party, animals or date, and if the minute becomes popular it could be added to The most Popular Minute list on the home page.
The acquired minutes will correspond to a "Purchase Document" which can be printed so as to be a tangible record to keep or to give as a gift, strengthening our memories.
One can buy the minutes they wish for as long as they are available (526.000 minutes in a calendar year)
Once all the minutes are sold the site cannot resell them. To buy a minute you have to contact the owner directly. Contact information can be found only if the owner consented to the option when originally buying the minute.
WHAT DO YOU BUY?
One or more minutes where you can post on the home page of myminutes.org, whatever you wish. Photos, video or audio clips which can be connected to titles, texts (i.e poems, stories, diaries), links to yourown site or blog etc... The minute can be voted or commented on, and be inserted into the database while waiting to be shown again the following year. The acquired minutes will be displayed the moment those minutes turn throughout the 24 time zones.
Minutes will be visible once a year in every time zone at their corresponding time. For example acquiring the minute 12:01 on the 1st of January in Rome also buys the corresponding minute in London (11:01), New York (07:01) etc Objectionable or obnoxious material is prohibited.
TO WHOM IS IT AIMED
Myminutes.org is aimed to all those who have lived fantastic moments and want to relive them with the same intensity But also to those who: feel or have felt special emotions and want to share them, want to share a dream, want to express their fears, their certainties, their joys and their pain want to be protagonists on the internet, want to give a special present.
OBJECTIVES
Myminutes.org was born to finance web projects of creative young people. I believe that all of us should assume an active and positive role in our society and shape it according to our ethical and positive principles The proceeds from the site shall be used to finance new ideas I will periodically, through the newsletter and the blog inform you of all the initiatives carried out, in order to promote the development of these projects I believe in radical and incremental innovation in research, design and creativity. I believe it is necessary to help all those who have something to express and don’t have a means of doing it to “come out of their shell” I like people who love risk, who put themselves on the playing field, have courage, explore and believe in their own dreams. It is through dreams that reality forms itself; from being visionary it becomes real, from possible to achievable. My dream is to live in a world where one can understand and value ideas and initiative, where it is possible to be creators of beauty and innovation.
THE CREATOR
Daniele Alberti, 29, young entrepreneur, graduated in Industrial Design from the Faculty of Architecture, Polytechnic Institute of Turin 110/110 Honours Degree.
Co-Founding www.glomera.it ( web tv) , Founding President of ALTREMENTI ( www.fucina-altrementi.it ) and Director of the “Altrementi” magazine, 10,000 copies published. Manager of strategic development, budgeting, cost management for the magazine as well as Brand Manager.
Marketing Director of www.Bakeca.it until January 2006, currently the first free notice and advertisement site in Italy with more than 1,100,000 single visits a month.
Since 2003 he has occupied himself with the promotion of young innovators
Currently he works as a consultant ( www.danielealberti.com ) concentrating his efforts on the product development of innovative technological products for the telecommunications sector.
Daniele Alberti
