I loved the HipTop. It really was one of the first "smart" phones on the US market. The article's claim "we all started microblogging/lifestreaming" needs a lit

I loved the HipTop. It really was one of the first "smart" phones on the US market. The article's claim "we all started microblogging/lifestreaming" needs a little context as it claims credit that I feel belongs to someone else... While Danger had a very basic implementation running internally (pretty cool, see [1]), they surely didn't have a clue of the potential/value of lifestreaming/public status updates. Neither did I. As an initial beta-tester in May/June of 2002 I too had developed a HipTop mobile blogging site for private use (CF/SQL/Email, mostly cat and food shots!) -- demoed it to Om Malik who introduced me to T-Mobile -- but it was really Mike Popovic's HipTopNation [2], the first communal moblog launched on Oct. 4th 2002 and his Oct. 31 Halloween Photo Scavenger Hunt that sparked the popularity and showed the potential. After HipTopNation quickly gained traction [3] with 1000+ mobloggers, Danger decided to launch a "hiplog" service/site to consumers on Jan 13, 2003 [4]. Joi Ito has a nice timeline [5] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20041205233554/http://www.spies.com/~jersey/hiptop-pics/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20041205233554/http://www.spies.... [2] http://hiptop.bedope.com/index.php?FILTER=zvxr@gevny.qnatre.pbz&GIMME_ENTRY=1 http://hiptop.bedope.com/index.php?FILTER=zvxr@gevny.qnatre.... [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20050915215559/http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/webwatch/story/0,12455,858719,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050915215559/http://www.guardi... [4] http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2003/01/13/danger-announce.html http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2003/01/13/danger-announce.html [5] http://archive.today/e4Ie#selection-685.35-685.47 http://archive.today/e4Ie#selection-685.35-685.47