If you're already an handivi user, you might've notice that there's a new version for your phone. It's more slick, fast and with lots of bugs reported in the previous versions squashed!

But that's not all, we've open our site also, go check it out: http://handivi.com


There you can see your shared photos, the public timeline, read messages and manage your buddies or your profile.
Our team awaits your feedback at hello@handivi.com

This year's SHiFT edition is right around the corner and judging by the speaker list it's going to be a great conference to attend. All five of us at 7syntax will be there and this means we get an extra ticket for the conference but, since we don't have a 6th person, we'd like to bring someone else with us. This is where you come in :-)

If you'd like to attend and want that extra, free, ticket all you have to do is drop us a message letting us know why you should be the one to have it. Simple isn't it? You can use Handivi (text us or, better yet, express yourself with a nice photo - and sure, we love kitties too so if that's all you have, that's ok) or send an email to hello@handivi.com. We'll get in touch with the lucky winner this Friday.

Rudy De Waele, dotopenfounder and Mobile 2.0 Europe organizer, talks about digital storytelling, which "is an emerging term, that arises from a grassroots movement that uses new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own 'true stories' in a compelling and emotionally engaging form. These stories usually take the form of a relatively short story (less than 8 minutes) and can involve interactivity." - slides here.

I consider Rudy one of the true "watchman" of the mobile trends, so it was great to know that he gets handivi as one example of mobile storytelling, which in fact is true, we propose people to share their experiences with others, by telling their own story as it happens. handivi is just a tool to come along a larger broader device, that's always at hand and ready to interact - your phone.

To support it and looking at his presentation graphs, we can find that mobile users usually (and this is not new) send sms, took photos, send mms and play games. Actually, the boring part of the experience is that along with those actions, people also transfer photos or videos to PC and then upload to some kind of social software. Sure there are now software that streams from your phone to the internet, but it's a half broken experience, they only do that and forget that the mobile phone is also interaction between people.




Taking the flickr "tell a story in 5 pictures" example, handivi allows everyone, with a regular, low-end mobile phone to tell a story as it happens, whenever it happens and for how long it takes.
It's not only allowing people telling stories, but rather engaging people to share experiences.