You can describe important stages in your life and illustrate them with photos. The geocoding creates local biographies with numerous stories that refer to a town or city, a district, a street or a house. In addition, members can apply to become street managers. This allows them to market local advertising space themselves and to make money with this. The number of streets that every member can market on annoknips.com has now been increased from five to ten.
Everyone has experienced great, terrible, exciting, romantic, dangerous, reflective or exhilarating events when they look back on their lives. Those who want to share these events with others can sign up at the free website annoknips.com – the autobiography portal that records contemporary history from the perspective of the "ordinary joe".
Every autobiographer to sign up is given a free homepage in the portal and up to 500 MB storage space for texts, photos, videos and sound files. All media can be marked as private and not visible to others, or they can be shared with other internet users.
annoknips.com stores all entries with a record of when and where the event took place. This produces a very special effect. If several entries are available for a certain address, the viewer can see them all at once and in this way gain a direct overview of the history of the building. This is a very exciting opportunity, especially when readers themselves have links with the place, and it might even result in the reestablishment old contacts. A popular function is using photos taken by other members of the same place for your own contributions.
Thomas Boettcher, Managing Director of annoknips GmbH says "So many exciting memories are lost for future generations because they were not written down. Even now it is very difficult to find people to question about their experiences during the war years. annoknips.com functions as and is growing into a portal that tells living history directly. The more people join in, the more closely knit the net that we weave becomes. In cities alone almost every house can tell numerous stories. We are really looking forward to storing them all."
Now additional streets can be registered on annoknips.com
Of course, becoming a biographer of history and your own personal story on annoknips.com takes time and effort. However, since the portal went online at the beginning of August 2008, it has proven to be more than just a normal online diary and many people enjoy using the unusual possibilities offered by the community.
An incentive is surely also the fact that members are actually also able to earn money with their work. annoknips.com is financed by advertising and for every address called up, four advertisements are displayed that are suitable for the address in question. An advertisement is displayed for the street, the town or city, the state and the country.
annoknips.com gives free street advertising space to those members who register to become street managers. Street managers provide pictures of "their" streets. In return, annoknips gives them advertising space that they can either use themselves or arrange to rent to companies operating in the region.
This concept has started very successfully. Whereas street managers could previously register a maximum of five streets in their neighborhood, the number of streets that can be registered has now been increased to ten. Thomas Böttcher says "Internet advertising is booming. To date many local companies haven't seen any way of placing targeted advertising for their local area on the internet. annoknips.com is the perfect portal for such companies. And our street managers can receive financial rewards for their efforts."
