About MessageParty

MessageParty, an early-stage Y Combinator-funded startup, is a new kind of location-based blogging service. Users can add links, stories, photos and notes to physical locations through MessageParty, and these bits of content live at these places. Users can discover new content through several filters: nearby, global and featured. The site is meant to encourage self-expression around places - and provide a new kind of distribution channel for location-specific content. The service is available on the web and on the iPhone.

Find out more by visiting messageparty.com.

Cofounder
MessageParty

Amanda Peyton is the cofounder of MessageParty, a Y Combinator-funded geo-blogging service. Prior to MessageParty, Peyton worked as a geopolitical briefer at Stratfor, an intelligence research organization. She has an MBA from MIT Sloan, where she was a recipient of the Anderson Fellowship in Entrepreneurship, and a BA in Chinese history and urban studies from Northwestern University. Peyton currently lives and works in New York City.

Presenting April 7, 2011