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Contact us

By email on london@moonri.se or post in our discussion group or in facebook. We have an official blog for the latest updates.

The team

Amit is the founder and architect. moonrise is a project of Quotations Book. Emran Hasan and his awesome team at Right Brain Solution are building the engine.

Advisors

Maz Hardey is a social technology analyst who is at the forefront of what is emerging as a newly digitally connected culture. She's a leading thinker about how technology creates new opportunities for social action.

Thanks

• Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris, whose beautiful project we feel fine spawned the first ideas
• Twitter and Jaiku who brought us instant broadcasting from the web and mobile about what you're doing
• Our testers and users who talk about improvements and iron out ideas
• Most of all .. the makers and people who use FlickR and YouTube which feed this beginning. We will soon be able to embrace any content site through our API

Share your feelings with friends & family

moonrise helps you post an answer to How do I feel?

Why post feelings?

Feelings matter the most, they make us human. In years to come, you remember your feelings - and you remember great moments in your life. At some sites, you can post whatever you want, and you end up posting too much. When you look back in years to come, there will be too much to read and only a few posts will bring back memories. If you post on moonrise, one day you can look back and say this was my life. moonrise will hold your true memories.

Our Guiding Principles

• We want a future for the web where people understand each other just like in reality
• The magic of discovering someone who feels like you is incredible. We must understand how to foster this discovery
• We must help people to find self-worth and empathy with others
• As time goes on, we want to show you great ways of seeing your posts. Years from now, perhaps bring back vivid memories.
• Feelings do not have to be shared publicly

We see that millions of photos and videos are not just bits and bytes - there's people, places and feelings behind them. We had the simple idea of helping you discover them while you post how you feel. Signup and start mooning. Learn more about us.

Frequently asked questions

Why use moonrise when I can use blogs, twitter, etc.?

The focus for moonrise is feelings alone. There's too much to keep up with so many blogs and services. Some of us are overloaded with places to check, we're not able to sense what people we know well are going through. If we knew this, we would be closer to them. You can get moonrise to also post to your twitter/blogs/social network. With Twitter - just enter your twitter details in 'My Profile' and that's it! We think you'll be very satisfied using moonrise - why not try it?

What is this "send a feeling" link at the top?

You can send a feeling to any email address. So, instead of sending an online greeting to someone, to say thank you, because you miss them, or for birthdays, weddings, etc. - send them a feeling. It's personal, simple and powerful.

Can I develop my own apps on moonrise?

As a minimum - moonrise lets you post feelings, and follow feelings. You can read these on the web or through any application that uses or supports our API. The API is being built at the moment. You'll soon be able to produce and consume feelings from any application, with moonrise as a conduit.

For example - we have an idea that our upcoming facebook application lets you post how you feel on facebook but also publish your feeling to the web using your facebook identity. We link to your facebook profile page, but that's the only identity for that poster. You never need to be a moonrise member, but your posts can still be public here! By the way - do you want to take over/help us build the facebook app? Get in touch!

How do I promote my site/service on moonrise?

If you're a developer you will be able to do anything you want with posting, viewing or presenting via federated identities, and any social object, not just FlickR photos and YouTube videos - we'll be an open service. We're developing a feature that lets you bookmark or post feelings about a URL via a small button you can put anywhere. This will be more meaningful than digg, and also a different way to bookmark links.