It’s been another furious few weeks for us working on new features. This release is in many ways centered around blogging.

Blogs are extremely popular and powerful. The majority of social network users have one. Conversations keep us informed and engaged but we all know how painful it is to keep it updated. Continuing with our larger theme of allowing users to express their ideas from any social networking site, we enabled blog posting capability from a diverse set of popular social networking destinations.

Now, MessageDance social messaging platform users can send blog posts from Facebook, Amazon, iPhone, YouTube, Google Reader, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Outlook. We are working on many more clients and social network destinations but for now I am sure these will keep our users busy.

Rich blog post using Gmail, iPhone, YouTube, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Outlook. You can send blog posts to WordPress and Blogger based websites using your favorite email service. We added powerful photo attachment (actually, any file type — use your blog as a file-sharing website!), tagging and rich html support to make the blogging experience as powerful as existing blog clients. Added bonus: Make blog post using email and we take care of updating your Twitter status. Tinyurl link points to your blog and will bring new visitors.

Blog post and tweet posting from Facebook. Good thing about having email-based architecture is that we can leverage existing tools. For Facebook users, big freedom lies in making use of their Facebook inbox for sending blog posts and even sending YouTube videos to Twitter.

Reblog your favorite blog posts from Google Reader. Re-blogging is fast emerging as the lazy and efficient way to park blog posts on your blog site. It lets us normalize attention tax by re-posting quality blog posts. One of our colleague calls it delicious-meets-wordpress.

Share product recommendation with Twitter friends using Amazon. We all shop on Amazon website but our conversations happen on blogs and Twitter. Users would like to engage their friends in product selection process. We enabled Amazon users to send blog posts directly from Amazon website.

At MessageDance, our day-to-day obsession is to go beyond social network boundaries and create new solutions for powerful sharing. By allowing extremely simple ways of sharing blog posts and tweets, we are offering users freedom and convenience. I hope users will like these new features. As always, please keep sharing your suggestions and feedback.

Here are few screen shots showing typical user interaction. We believe users will happily use tools they are familiar with.

Happy Dancing.

Blogged with MessageDance using Gmail