Three Open Source Timeline Tools And Thoughts On The Future Of News Timelines ...
20.05.12
This timeline was designed to work on tablets and other touch-enabled devices. I couldn’t find any examples of a news organization using this tool.

Don’t want to code? There’s always Vuvox.
There are other free options out there for creating a timeline if you have no coding experience or technical resources at your disposal. I mentioned Dipity at the beginning of this post. If you use a free account, you’re limited to only three timelines, which isn’t sustainable for a news organization. If you want to shell out $5/month, you get five timelines, which still isn’t very reasonable.
Vuvuox is another oldie-but-goodie drag ‘n drop tool for creating panorama-style sliders. Although not natively a timleine tool, it can easily be adapted to create timeline-like displays for information. As far as I can tell, Vuvox is still free with the ability to create an unlimited number of projects. It’s not fully-customizable, but you can work around its limitations by uploading custom images. See an example of a timeline I created for CoPress below.
Source: mediabistro.com