#meegloo

Hi, I'm Moxy, and I have a social reporting app. It's called Meegloo, and I want to use its powers for good. Also I want to help people understand where it could be useful as an alternative to Twitter or where CoverItLive doesn't quite fit.

So if you're running or attending a meetup, a small conference or anything that would require a bit of social reporting or liveblogging, I'm just asking that you keep me in mind. I'll create content for your event using Meegloo, and show you how you can embed it in your site. It might cost you a cup of coffee and a sandwich if there's any going, but I certainly won't charge for the service.

There's no substitute for an experienced liveblogger or social media consultant, but if you can't afford one right now*, then please feel free to email [email protected]. And if you are a liveblogger and you'd like to know what Meegloo is about - or you've got some ideas on how to improve it - then you're more than welcome to do the same.

My social reporting app Meegloo has just been accepted into the Race for Apps contest. In their own words:

Race for Apps is a competition to crowd-source mobile apps from the digital community for visitors, business people & journalists coming into the local area during the 2012 Games.

The contest is divided up into a number of categories (or "lanes"), and my submission comes under the Citizen Journalism category. It's a contest to find useful apps to use around the Olympics events in Shoreditch, and is supported by Digital Shoreditch and the UKI among others.

In April, the competing apps will be crowd-tested, and the judging panel will decide which apps are awarded gold, silver and bronze in each category.

On this day in 2011, I decided to embark on a little hack project, to shake off some mental cobwebs. That project was called Meegloo, and was a dashboard for events. The premise was that, if you were running an event you could collate tweets, Facebook statuses, Flickr photos, YouTube videos and more into one constantly updating page that you could throw up onto a big screen or whose address you could give out to attendees.

I developed the basic proof-of-concept in around 48 hours, uploaded it and showed it so some friends. From there, things started to move on a little; I spoke to e4f about joining their ranks to develop this as a business, but found after a few weeks of mental processing, that I couldn't get behind Meegloo in its current state as a paid product.

I rethought and re-engineered it from the ground up, to be a social reporting and citizen journalism tool. Those who follow my blather on Twitter or the like might notice that I haven't really made much mention of it since the focus group testy thing at the end of February. There's a reason for that, and I'll be able to talk more soon.

It's interesting though, to look back on a year and to see how much has changed. There's also a degree by which things are coming full circle, but again I'll come to that later. I'm massively excited for the future, and am armed with the lessons I've learned since last April. It's not exactly been a roller coaster - more of a bumpy car journey - but the journey's not over yet.