About an hour after I posted this, our lead developer sent me an email asking if a certain SB could be added to our “featured” list. I had to chuckle when I saw that the title was yours.

Thanks for the kind words about Storybird and for making one. I read it this morning and enjoyed it.

We just released v0.1 of Storybird a couple of days ago, so there are many features to come. I thought I’d share just a few in relation to your experience and a few of the comments here.

-Thumbnails: (the small art icons that you drag onto the page). We’ll be experimenting with various ways to make them easier to see and manipulate. We’ll also turn on “visual typing” in the next release which enables you to start a story simply by writing. Images/thumbnails then surface based on your keywords and more closely align with the narrative you’re exploring.

-Podcasts: voice is a major feature we’re planning for release v0.4 or v0.5. It’ll be a paid feature (likely purchased per Storybird or as part of a monthly membership), but one we think will add enormous potential for kids who can’t yet write or for collaborations (mom writes, son does the pictures, and gran does the voice). PS. The core Storybird experience of making, reading, and sharing SBs will always be free.

-Embeds: absolutely. We’ll be adding them, along with share tools for Facebook and Twitter, in the next few weeks.

@mj: nothing better than hearing you spent time with your son using SB. Our goal, aside form a fun storytelling service, is connecting people through narrative (especially on rainy days

BTW, if any of you are teachers, we are planning a teacher’s account down the road. That’ll make it easy to use the service with multiple users.

Cheers.

Mark
Cofounder, Storybird

PS. Kevin, hope it’s ok for me to post here. Google Alerts led me to your blog and I thought it might be helpful to comment.

Thank – you.