Create Interactive, User Friendly & Shareable Posts With Webdoc

Among the numerous launches at LeWeb ’11, one particular site to note was social media site Webdoc, a site that has been in beta for months before being officially launched today. Webdoc is a site that allows you to mix different factions of the web to create interactive posts and begin social conversations.

Designed to expand upon a traditional status update or tweet, the site allows you to create web documents powered through HTML-5, combining all the different social media outlets into one post. So videos, tweets, images, drawings and audio can be combined reflecting your interests and shared across the web. You can also add additional content such as polls, games and comparisons among others in your posts.

The site is for those who want more than just a simple status update to tell their story but don’t want the hassle of starting up a blog. The interface is easy to use and setting up a post only takes a matter of moment when you’re adding in different characteristics into your post.

The service has been used by many different media groups including The Guardian who used it on their Music Tumblr page, Playboy who ran a ‘Pose For Playboy‘ campaign and Universal Music who promoted the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s iconic album Nevermind.

The site looks like it can be quite versitile in what it can achieve, yet its real test is how well its content links up with the main social media sites. Its content is clearly made for sharing as stated by Webdoc and so it will succeed or fail depending on that alone.

It would also be nice to have such a site as an downloadable app so that you could post updates while you’re on the go but the customisation means that it would take a lot of compromising and redevelopment of the current setup before they get a system that works. Still with social media becoming more about the individual and finding new ways to express yourself, Webdoc could be the site that would signal the next step in social media expression.