Over the past couple years, the talented team at Buffalo has successfully tackled one of the greatest challenges of web design: merging complex applications and interactivity with slick, intuitive design.

Buffalo and the design consultants at Makemode reach new heights with Rememble. The name sucks but the concept is strong: Rememble enables you and I to easily sort and organize all kinds of digital content - photos, videos, texts, posts, audio clips, even Twitters (all defined as “membles”, yuck) - into a timeline format.

Rememble takes something Facebook already does (historical data organized as feeds displayed vertically) and makes that content horizontal. Why is this cool? Because it makes it easy to understand ideas on a macro scale. Whether it’s charting your concert ticket stubs or press clippings on your startup’s debut, you can see how things, ideas, tastes, etc. change or evolve over time in one fell swoop.

There’s also room for socializing. Share your membles with others, or create a timeline where you and people with similar interests contribute different ideas.

So how is this different from a social networking site group complete with discussion board and photo gallery? Think mapping complex events with multiple variables. Jon Bellona’s Run for the Fallen comes to mind. Next summer Jon is running across the country - one mile for every U.S. military casualty in the Iraq War - and will commemorate their collective service by planting a plaque every mile along his route. Rememble can not only enable Jon to constantly update his whereabouts and catalog Flickr photos of every plaque, but bystanders, friends, and family can track and comment on photos and the run itself. Press clippings and video from the event are easily interspersed, whether it’s coverage of the run itself, interviews with veterans met along the way, or video of the final lap into Arlington National Cemetery. The final result? A comprehensive and interactive timeline that charts all 3,800 miles.

In the end this is just one more way to organize all your crap, but the possibilities for social interactivity and event mapping make this service worthy of further inspection over time.

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