February 2012
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Hi Friends — You might have noticed that messageparty.com now points to this blog. We have taken down the old site and are working on a new and improved MP — follow us on Tumblr for updates. If you’d like to grab your data from the old site or have questions for us, email us at hi@messageparty.com. Thanks!
Feb 1st
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June 2011
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Jun 8th
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May 2011
4 posts
New App + Update
Hey all - there’s a new version of MP in the app store. A few things to check out: —We added a button called “me” to make it super easy to see your own posts —You can now share your messages on Twitter and Facebook directly from the iphone app —We added a handy walk-through for beginners —You can now view all nearby messages on a map to see those...
May 31st
Mobile Blogging and Urban Adventures
Smartphone growth over the past few years is nothing short of astounding. With this exciting device growth comes all kinds of new opportunities in personal publishing — you can take advantage of previously arduous tasks, like geotagging and incorporating rich media, completely seamlessly. Because of our phones are with us all the time, we can now record our lives in a very different way than...
May 26th
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May 1st
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April 2011
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Apr 26th
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Apr 22nd
A Bright Future For Location Based Communication →
Cool analysis of MessageParty from “Politics and the New Media” blog at Yale. From the post:  “Location-based apps are all about exposing you to new people and places and informing you about events and ideas going on within your community. Yes, of course, these apps are very specific because they are catering to where you are, but they are significantly expanding your horizons...
Apr 20th
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March 2011
8 posts
Place as Filter
What’s most interesting about digital media is how you discover it. There are millions and millions of videos and photos and words and links circulating around the web, yet we only click on a tiny fraction of them in the course of any given day.   New methods for discovering media have changed dramatically over the past few years. I’m not talking about hand-curated sites, which are...
Mar 31st
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Changes! The New MessageParty. And stuff.
Hey Party People — Lots of changes to MessageParty coming in the next few weeks. You’ll hardly recognize it!  Thank you for providing such amazing initial feedback — we really listened. What’s different?  We started as a chat service, now we’re not. People were leaving too many interesting notes and messages at different places and chat lacks permanence. We realized...
Mar 24th
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Mar 20th
Mar 13th
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MessageParty Sneak Peek: SXSW Stories
Hi Everyone! We are super pumped about the new MessageParty that we’ll be releasing in a few weeks. To give you a sneak peek of what it will look like, we put a feed from the SXSW Conference in Austin on our homepage:  http://msg.pr.  Check it out! Also - come to our party in Austin tomorrow night:  http://thewatercooler.eventbrite.com/ Later The MP Crew
Mar 12th
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Mar 7th
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The Makery on CNN →
The Makery gets a plug on CNNMoney!  Sweet.
Mar 3rd
Coming Soon! The New MessageParty. →
Hey all - lots of changes coming to MessageParty in the next few weeks that we are super excited about! Sign up at http://msg.pr to get all the news + an invite.
Mar 3rd
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January 2011
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Jan 11th
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