Posted on March - 22 - 2009
why won’t you Whrrl with me?
Whrrl is an iPhone social network that centers around the concept of “story telling” . The hope is that people would want to share location based story and events. Whrrl makes it very easy to enter your location (iPhone GPS) and start you story.
Once you have you story entered, your friends can add comments, let others know about the event and network with everybody.
You might say that you can do that with twitter already, simple add an hash-tag and start the conversation. However Whrrl makes this process much easier for you.
- Whrrl knows your location. This creates a unique identifier.
- Whrrl lets you interact with the story, even though you do not know the person that started the story.
- You can easly see who else is at the event or involved in the story. Great real-time network opportunity
Now the question is; Will Whrrl make it? My guess is, probably not. This is not because Whrrl is not good, it is just we are oversaturated with social apps at the moment. I personally can only deal with Twitter and Facebook, building up a new network is just to time consuming. I will keep Whrrl on my iPhone for the next 3 month or so, just to see if maybe over time Whrrl can gain critical mass and became useful, if not I probably going to end up deleting it. So download it today and prove me wrong, I would like see Whrrl succeed. Would have made it easier for me to find good parties at SXSW!
