FAQs

What is Miomi?

Miomi is a new website that enables you to browse through time – it’s a completely new way of viewing and sharing content on the internet and captures the world’s memories online

What is Miomi’s vision?

To create a constantly evolving record of time enabling anyone and everyone to make history.

How can I view information differently?

Miomi presents information in one giant timeline stretching from the dawn of time into the distant future. All of this information is displayed on our new, patent pending timeline

What can you do on Miomi?

Add your footprint in time by creating personal timelines made of key moments in life

Preserve your memories, by adding content in a number of different formats including photos, video, audio and text

Users can share the timelines they create with friends/family

Find out who was in the same place at the same time as you

View history at a glance – either by second, minute, hour, day, month, year, decade, century or millennia

Access historical information from respected sources including Encarta, Wikipedia, and many more.

Witness, record, comment on and observe world history, presented in chronological order

Understand your place in history, see your life presented in context with the rest of the world’s memories

Set the record straight – Miomi offers a hub for the world at large to share their opinions/views/experiences

Rank the importance of events – ranging from the Cold War to the Spice Girls reunion

Read other sides of the story – get first hand accounts of history – by the people, for the people

Why would I visit Miomi.com?

Miomi appeals to everyone and anyone who is interested in capturing history both from a personal and wider perspective. For example:

Parents - preserving memories of their children, child’s first steps, words, by uploading audio, videos and photos.

Travellers - creating an online journal of their travels and experiences to share with friends back home

Individuals - Archiving their own memories, ensuring important moments such as marriage, graduation, first car or home are kept alive and never forgotten

Groups and teams - sharing their experiences together, enabling them to create timelines specific to universities, local football teams, workplaces or even local pub!

Teachers and students - bringing history to life by making it personally relevant

Truth seekers - setting the record straight, e.g. what really happened in the Iraq war – read a real-life soldier’s account

Families - creating timelines that chart family history past and present

Fans - exploring and sharing their passions e.g. Chelsea supporters sharing their views on Jose’s departure or Britney fans adding their memories at the height of her success

Do I need to pay to use it?

Miomi is free to users but makes money through advertising and syndication partnerships.

Q Do I have to join Miomi to create information?

A You can add anything you want in digital format, whether it’s text, video, photos and audio. We accept most common file formats, but if there’s something you have that you don’t think we support, get in touch and we’ll see what we can do.

Who can see the content I create?

A It depends on whether you make your stuff private or public. In fact, you can do both. Stuff that you make public can be read by anyone on the internet. Stuff that you make private can only be seen by the people you specify. You can change those settings in your profile. This means that you can have some private moments for just you and your mates, and create public content for everyone to see.

What happens if I don’t like content I see on Miomi?

A Next to every Moment is a button marked “Flag as Inappropriate”. You’ll need to be a logged in user to do it, as we need to know who is flagging what. Be careful how you use this, as only content which is truly inappropriate should be flagged. This broadly includes anything which could not be viewed by the internet public at large, and includes indecent images, offensive language and stuff that insults or disparages people in a way that would be defamatory. We take this kind of thing very, very seriously. As soon as content is flagged as inappropriate, we suspend it pending a review by one of our human editors. If it is truly inappropriate, we’ll keep it suspended and will take appropriate steps regarding both the content and the person who created it. If stuff is arbitrarily or unfairly flagged as inappropriate, we may take action against the person who wrongly flagged it.

Can I believe what I read on Miomi?

A Almost all of our content is created by people just like you. Most of our content is peer-reviewed, which means that anything public can be reviewed, commented on and (in some cases) even changed by your fellow Miomi users. This means that you can get a pretty good picture of the truth by reading Miomi, in the same way that you can with something like Wikipedia (which you can also see on Miomi). However, you really shouldn’t rely on stuff you read on Miomi; it’s mostly meant for fun and general information.

Who writes the stuff on Miomi?

You! Some stuff we get in from content partners, some is created by us and the rest comes from you, and people like you.