Whrrl For BlackBerry
Where are you? It’s Friday night and ALL of your friends are looking for you to hang out. Your friends don’t have to look that far now because there’s another solution besides GPSed. It’s called Whrrl (pronounced like whirl) It’s an application (social site) that allows you to track your friends and family wherever they be on the planet.
So we went over and signed up and it looked pretty neat. It allows you locate your friends, receive notifications of friends in the immediate area…etc. Also it allows you to locate/rate stores, restaurants to your likings and see how others rate these locations as well. We will report back once we collect more data in regards to the application. In the meantime go ahead over and check out the site.
Official Whrrl Site for BlackBerry
Whrrl now available for BlackBerry Bold
Location-aware social networking and discovery service freely available
to millions of BlackBerry users
SEATTLE – September 26, 2008 – Whrrl, the location-aware social networking and discovery service from Pelago, Inc., today announced mobile support for the new BlackBerry Bold. Users of the new Bold device now join the millions of BlackBerry Pearl, Curve, and 8800 users that have free unlimited access to the Whrrl experience.
At the nexus of social networking, local discovery and user-generated content, Whrrl combines mapping and micro-blogging technology into a new mobile medium for discovering and sharing local information about people, places, events and experiences. With integrated GPS, a vivid new display and enhanced performance capabilities the Bold is perfectly suited to deliver an exceptional experience for Whrrl users.
Whrrl shows users not just where friends are and what they’re doing now, but also where they have been and what their experiences were like in the past. By highlighting the places, events, and experiences of people most interesting to users, Whrrl creates a socially charged map of the physical world.
Whrrl goes beyond social networking and real-time friend finding by harnessing the experiences and opinions of the people users know best and applying a powerful recommendation algorithm to deliver a highly personalized discovery experience for the real world.
The Bold is the first BlackBerry smartphone to support tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks around the world and comes with integrated GPS and Wi-Fi®, as well as a rich set of multimedia capabilities.
“The device’s superior performance, stunning display, rich multimedia and powerful Wi-Fi and GPS make the new BlackBerry Bold an ideal match for the Whrrl service,” said Jeff Holden, CEO and co-founder of Pelago. “We’re extremely excited to introduce the Whrrl service to a new set of BlackBerry users, so many of whom are power users not just during the work day, but after hours, too.”
Currently, the Whrrl service is available nationally in the U.S. with an information database detailing millions of businesses and events across the country. Get Whrrl by visiting http://m.whrrl.com from your phone’s browser.
About Pelago
Pelago, Inc. is an early-stage company based in Seattle developing a new generation of consumer experiences based on breakthrough technology, including Whrrl, a new mobile and web-based service at the intersection of social networking and local discovery. Pelago was founded by former senior executives from Amazon.com and is backed by leading venture capital firms from the U.S., Europe and India.
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