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People often look at social networking sites and public blogs as a way of journaling or recording one’s life online.  However, there is one inconsistency with the “journal” metaphor.  Most people have never posted the content of their physical journals or diaries in a public place for anyone to see and add comments whenever they want.  Meanwhile, social networks and blogging sites such as Facebook and Tumblr set everyone’s status updates and photos to public by default so that anyone can see or comment on them.  Cool person in technology Siqi Chen has created an app that seeks to address this inconsistency by giving users a truly private multimedia journaling experience.  Chen calls this new app “Heyday”.  While users can update their Heyday profiles the same way they would update their social network accounts and even set automatic updates, none of the information on Heyday appears to a public audience.  Chen wants Heyday to be a private experience, unlike so much of what social media is on the rest of the web. 

Chen and his team designed the current Heyday app specifically for iOS 7, which means that users who need help downloading or using it will want help from an iPhone tech support provider.

Heyday isn’t limited to text entries or specific content that a user manually uploads.  Chen’s app takes the convenience of a social network and applies it to keeping a private account of one’s life.  Users can set the app to upload any photos taken with their phone automatically or automatically include location data from the iPhone in Heyday entries.  The app then displays all this information in a timeline that is searchable and convenient for any users who want to look back on their day, week, month or year.  Users can still share any specific posts or photos with their friends, but only ones that they specifically choose at any given time, much like sharing one entry from a physical journal with a close friend would be like.  Any users having issues sharing Heyday entries can find Apple support to help them.

Before founding and becoming CEO of Heyday, Chen worked at social games company Zynga for several years.  This cool person also previously worked at Powerset, a natural language search engine startup that Microsoft eventually acquired.  Despite his relatively young age at 31, this UC-San Diego graduate has managed to build quite an impressive resume, with the creation of Heyday being the latest positive entry into his body of work.

For more information about this cool person and Heyday, visit http://www.hey.co/.

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