As you can see in the sample below, Motion features a simple blog editor for quickly posting text, images, or video. The blog itself contains not just updates you post, but also updates from third-party services like Flickr, YouTube, and Twitter. Beyond that, Motion comes off-the-shelf with support for Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, and OpenID, meaning that in Movable Type’s words, “there are half a billion web users who can comment or vote on your content without hitting a registration barrier.”
On the surface, Motion is an intriguing product – something I’d love to have running on my personal site as opposed to being limited to standard blog posts – which tend to be few and far between. It’s an all-in-one package that appears to make your site easier to update, while also making it easier to build community. We'll wait to see some actual implementations though before rendering final judgment as to whether or not this is the next big thing in blogging.