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.