Comments on: As iPhone Second Coming Approaches, Pelago Adds To Its War Chest

By: GPS Based Social Networking TechCruch « Manlingchen’s Weblog

GPS Based Social Networking TechCruch « Manlingchen’s Weblog — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:08:40 +0000

[...] has raised its funds from the iFund, Jeff Bezos, and T-Mobile (among [...]

By: KurtQian’s blog - The State of Location-Based Social Networking On The iPhone

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:00:12 +0000

[...] has raised its funds from the iFund, Jeff Bezos, and T-Mobile (among [...]

By: The State of Location-Based Social Networking On The iPhone

The State of Location-Based Social Networking On The iPhone — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:54:58 +0000

[...] has raised its funds from the iFund, Jeff Bezos, and T-Mobile (among [...]

By: Here Come The New iPhone Apps

Here Come The New iPhone Apps — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:42:23 +0000

[...] and reviews of local establishments with your friends. The company behind Whrrl, Pelago, was is part of Kleiner Perkins’ iFund. (Read our review [...]

By: Bilal Ahmed

Bilal Ahmed — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:31:00 +0000

looking forward for more ….

By: Raymond

Raymond — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:20:24 +0000

i have some friends who work there. word is turnover is unusually high due to some brutal personalities (even for a startup). there’s lots of internal hope that this new round of investment will come with some improvements at the top.

By: Kyle Mulka

Kyle Mulka — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:18:25 +0000

I hope their iPhone application is more compelling then their website (whrrl.com). It’s got too much stuff going on…. too many features, and none particularly useful. Maybe that’s because I don’t have any friends using it, but unless it works without many friends, its not going to be viral enough to take off.

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:11:33 +0000

>Location of your Friends in real Time?

Make sure you know who you friends are before you add them to your location sharing!

you better know it before=)

By: Prashant

Prashant — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:10:38 +0000

whrrl has just received investment from an indian conglomerate Reliance .

http://www.plug...portal-whrrlcom

I heard its a Majority stake . can you confirm that ?

By: Joke Cricket

Joke Cricket — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:13:53 +0000

nice move

By: ML

ML — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:13:08 +0000

Sometimes it feels like these stand-alone apps are just mini-collections of what 3 or so major brands already have going. So Google is moving fast on the “where”, i.e. the mapping, (despite MSFT’s go at it), FB, MySpace, and the micro-blogs, (and a million others), have the “what” friends are doing. You can link all these things together now. So are companies like Pelago thinking they will replace these larger established brands on certain devices? Users get attached to the familiar, so it seems unlikely they would want to change unless there was a very compelling reason… And the major brands have the funding to scale to any media. Or is there something else these apps offer?

How many accounts will a user have to have, to link all their social-media together? Or are these little mash-ups trying to become the overseers for users? Or, is this kind of development just proof of concept, in hopes that a larger brand like Google will buy them for the tiny bit of new functionality?

Placing your friends on a map, and logging it, seems like the new thing here, and this seems very interesting, as your human network becomes distributed in space, and you can observe them from a distance. They become abstracted geometric points. This will be useful for all sorts of other applications…(But isn’t this already being developled by Google and MSFT?)

By: Mogilny

Mogilny — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:06:51 +0000

Two major hurdles for mobile apps are service providers and the number of devices. Imagine if yelp initially only worked for linux boxes and comcast internet users. Yelp would be a fraction of what it is today. Plego seems to have both money and connections.. but will that be enough to solve these problems? I don’t know. Google has x times the money and connection, it ended up building its own mobile platform .

By: Oliver's Stuff » Now Pelago has raised an additional $15 million from Deutsche...

Tue, 27 May 2008 08:01:59 +0000

[...] in preparation for international expansion once the iPhone’s second coming arrives. — As iPhone Second Coming Approaches, Pelago Adds To Its War Chest May 27th, 2008 / 0 Comments / Tags: pelago, iphone / ‡ / [...]

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:54:41 +0000

Feels like Brightkite belongs in this list

By: Igor The Troll

Igor The Troll — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:38:21 +0000

Location of your Friends in real Time?

Make sure you know who you friends are before you add them to your location sharing!

By: trademanufacturer.com

trademanufacturer.com — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:13:45 +0000

In its current form,iphone is growth quickly,Mr.Jobs is happy to see it!~~:)