German startup Who-R-You is a dead simple social network. It also may turn out to be one of the most straightforward online dating sites (although that it not its stated use).
Go to the site, tell it your email address and add a picture of yourself. Confirm your email. Done.
Visitors to the site can browse pictures, or type in an email address and see if a picture is associated with it. Users who’ve elected to allow people to contact them can receive messages from other registered users.
This isn’t a technology showcase, nor does it have a complicated business idea. But like certain other sites we’ve profiled, just because a new web service isn’t necessarily on a liquidity event trajectory doesn’t mean it isn’t worth taking a look at.
As I mention in the first paragraph, Who-R-You may be online dating in its simplist form, as people peruse the pictures and contact users that they find attractive.
Keep an eye out for another site to be launched by the same company, called Weekendr.
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i definetly would have picked a different name
whor(e) you
and those ‘x’s in the name don’t help either
I thought the exact same thing regarding whor(e)you.
Hehe. Was just browsing the site a few mins ago and saw your pic - wondered when we’d see a post.
I get the sense that this is actually just a teaser before the Weekendr launch. Here’s the mail they sent to beta testers on Monday:
“Well, we don’t have a weekendr beta ready by now - but soon we will
- but we have something special for you right now to make you happy. We call it “WHORYOU” and it is a special pre weekendr service that launched
one hour ago.”
Who is this?
http://www.weekendr.com/whoare.....9c16b86bae
I agree that the name is unfortunate.
John,
heh!
It’s not a dating service but hey, you can try to sand her a message and hope she’ll write you back
Digg the story here:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Who-.....with_Photo
So simple. Yet so intriguing.
Is it safe to say that Web 2.0 has turned into such a “bigger and better” mindset that many etrepreneurs and VCs are overlooking the obvious?
Yup, the name’s utterly bitterly unfortunate. Here are some more domains which will tickle your funny bone if not make business sense:
http://independentsources.com/.....pany-urls/
you whor !
is it a joke?
After reading the (sparse) information on the page, I’m not sure what the point is. At first I thought it was like Gravatar, but for e-mail, and was pretty excited. But, it appears that the page basically does nothing but allow you to e-mail random people by clicking on their pictures.
who-are-you is not another Gravatar but we are working on some service that let you use your who-are-you buddy image on your myspace, blog or what ever website. We will soon release some add ons that allow users to add their Skype and IM accounts and also a short profile to who-are-you. Also, users will have the ability to activate a reverse search on their profile if they want.
Name reminds me of PowerGenItalia.com. I would split up the logo to be “WHO” “R” “YOU” on separate lines.
oh dear.
“PowerGenItalia.com”
you have GOT to be joking, no way that was a real site (unless on purpose). NO WAY.
Yup the name is unfortunate. But it’s catchy isn’t it? How many times has it been mentioned already? 3, 4, 5 times?
I think the “whore” angle will help bring in a lot of extra traffic. (18-35 males mostly).
powergen italia was apparently nothing to do with famous Powergen, but more a ’specialised battery product’ supplier. Wonder what the batteries were for though… buzzzzzzz…
i’ll take the penis mightier for $4,000, Alex.
i’ll take a dozen! do they really work…
Hello !
I like very much your blog !
Greetings from Belgium.
Cheers.
Reno
It would be nice of they had an API that would return a headshot when passed an email address.
Well, John, if she happens to be Chinese, and you need someone to write in Chinese, you can always ask me for help. Heh heh heh.
@Rob Doblin:
An API about retreiving buddy images by passing an email address, skype or IM account name is on our to-do.
ummmm…. not sure about the name… the idea is simple, but it would seem from the email they sent out to users is that this something that they will add to weekendr.
I wonder what Flickr and Zoomr have to say aout Weekendr… LOL
OK what’s in place to stop people from playing gags by sticking in any old email address? How do I reclaim my address if someone else has claimed it?
DOH by confirming it stupid. Still half asleep.
@Andreas
Congrats! Herzlichen Glueckwunsch!
I am happy that Web2.0 from Germany is not dead. I was afraid that the (typical German) negative press killed most of the Web 2.0. Keep up the good work and get some investment to boost your service. It definitely has great potential.
Edmund Yeo , I found out who is she now.
She is Liu Yi Fei
http://asianfanatics.net/forum.....28701.html
Playing in Returns of condor hero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....dor%20hero
http://www.weekendr.com/whoare.....9c16b86bae
It is amazing that this site served 5.4GB in first 24 hours live.
I couldn’t resist… for an alternate take on their logo: http://www.dead20.com/2006/07/.....ur-domain/
andreas — minus the skype thing, that IS what gravatar already does.
Who-R-You is a Clone 2.0 of Gravatar with fancier colors, funnier name, and less capabilities. Gravatar already enjoys a relatively wide support thanks to its already working API. Why people waste their energy on cloning instead of creating something new or at least in something significantly different and hopefully better? Also, put yourselves in the shoes of the developers who will have to support all those different APIs, if they manage to survive, of course.
John, did you know the email address of liu yi fei?
i want know tooooooooooooooooooooooooo
does anyone have liu yi fei’s contact info or email?
if so, please share the info and email it to me at b_ly99@yahoo.com