Roundup: YouTube to Twitter, Photo-Blogging, Share Email Attachments & more.
We've been insanely busy at MessageDance the last few weeks adding features requested by our beta users. The enormous value we believe MessageDance will bring to the social media is starting to take shape. MessageDance is revolutionizing messaging by enabling a single publishing of content to be transformed and distributed to disparate end-points. Huh? OK, enough of the marketecture buzzwords. Share whatever you want — videos, photos, music, rich content, text — to where ever you want in your network — all from one message. We'll take it from there, transform it, and render nicely for its final destination.
Portable YouTube Playlist: all the way to Twitter: If you're into YouTube and want to share videos to your friends in Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, its ridiculously simple to do with MessageDance. Music-video-philes can even create and update a playlist and display it in their MessageDance widget. When you've found a video on YouTube, you just need to click on "Share" and put in your or your friend's MessageDance email address (or send to all of them using "friends @ messagedance.com"). It will go to all of the places you and your friends have MessageDance — this includes Twitter. I sent this video from YouTube.com and it went to my blog, Facebook profile, and Twitter. Clicking on the link shows the video rendered in MessageDance.com where my friends can make comments about it.
Photo-Blogging: I got an iPhone for my birthday and it really hit me as to how easy it is to share anything with all of my social channels. I can take a picture of something I see at the park and send it to my network of friends from my iPhone. You can even make a game of it. The next evolution of this is to have the easy-ability to reply or comment by photo. It's in the works.
Share Attachments: We believe in the future of email. It is easy to use and is an efficient way to transport messages and data. It's just being abused. MessageDance doesn't clutter your or your friends email inbox. We just use email as the vehicle to deliver digital media and share it in ways no other service does. One thing our beta users constantly ask for is the ability to share actual file attachments. Now you can. Send photos, images, music, videos, PDFs, Word, Excel, whatever you want as attachments and they can be shared with your friends.
And since the first release, you can embed and copy & paste in rich content into a rich email client (like Gmail!) and it will render in MessageDance.
The next few weeks you'll see some more stuff that will make your social sharing even easier. To reward you for reading this far, here is an unreleased feature that you can try (we're working on something sweet to make it better). If you're a MessageDancer and added us to Facebook, you can email photos to "photos @ messagedance.com" and we'll automatically drop it into your My Photos section of Facebook Photos. With Facebook, only cellphone users can upload photos using email, but with MessageDance you can use any of your email clients to send photos. Freeeeeeeedom!
