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 we did with regular blogs.

Many people keep travel journals filled with coasters from bars, ticket stubs, short anecdotes from their day. They are blips of what you’re thinking and what you’re seeing at that moment, and together they create a unique narrative.  When thinking about MessageParty, we wanted to build something that harnessed exactly this — a way to chronicle your life in a new way from the device that’s with you all the time. It is a product that is mobile first, web second, and we will always think about it that way.

What we have seen from our early users has been really cool to watch — people are writing these amazing urban vignettes that are all sorted by place. This is one of my favorites:


  

Smartphones are already beginning to change the way we publish and express ourselves digitally, and the shift will be a significant one.  “Blogging” is changing - it will soon be almost completely mobile, very here-and-now, and media-rich. We want to incorporate all of these factors into future versions of MessageParty and we are excited to hear your feedback.