User/Inventors

There's no great feature to announce today,(that'll change very soon;) but I couldn't let another day go by without pointing out something that we'd hoped from the beginning has come to pass. Users are inventing. We're a fairly creative bunch, and any good cup of coffee will bring forth two or three new uses for a voicethread, but from the beginning we all said that although we would start it, it would be the users that led the way, that if you put a compelling new tool in peoples hands they would use it, inventing new ways to tell stories and collaborate. It has already begun to happen. We don't think we're drinking our own Kool-Aid when we say our users have created some awesome content. Many voicethreads are explorations and first time attempts, but the human voice is filled with complex meta-data that can't be reduced to symbology. People are using this oldest of tools to transform images that held no meaning to the outside world, sometimes no meaning even to close family, into complex, and sometimes even sublime, stories.
Again, no features to talk about today, just a thank you from the whole development team for rewarding our hard work.

-Steve