Have you ever been somewhere taking some photos with your iPhone and wished you could put together and publish a little photo story to your Facebook page instead of just loading up a bunch of photos? Then you’re in luck.
Whrrl 2.0 is a photo storytelling application that uses Facebook Connect to publish your story on Facebook and can also publish to Twitter. Full functionality to view and edit stories is on the web application, but you can create the story using photos and comments with the Whrrl 2.o free iPhone app or by using SMS on other cell phones.
Every story begins with a location and ends when you leave that location. So you check into a location and then begin taking photos and adding comments. Friends can see your story unfold in real time, and can even join your story. While you can publish the story from the phone, the story will be better if you use the web application to edit the story and then publish it.
First impressions?
- I think it’s something I’ll use and enjoy. It’s a great idea for those of us who love to take photos with our cameras and would like to be able to tell the story that goes with them.
- It’s not as intuitive to use as I’d like, either for operation or for contacts.
- You can’t edit the story on the iPhone, which it would be nice to be able to do.
- While I understand the strategy behind being location-based, a lot of the stories I would like to do are location independent. It would be nice to have an option to do a location-independent story. I’ll make up some of my own places to be able to do this, but I just wish it were a built-in option.
Give it a try, particularly if you have an iPhone and use Facebook or Twitter. I think you’ll like it.
by Jim Hughes
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