HipGeo, a start up funded by Ash Patel, Morado Ventures and former EVP Yahoo, has created an iPhone app that lets you record what you do where ever you go and share that with anyone you want. No, it's not Facebook, it's more than that. In fact, you might say that it's more than we deserve. It's the next generation of location and sharing and blogging all in one and it's so easy to use, you might think something is wrong with it. But there isn't.
Think mobile check in, photo and travel app all rolled into one -- but the best thing about HipGeo is that it keeps where you went, how you got there and what the place looked like together in one place. A travel diary you can share with whoever you want to.
The founders of the company are GeoCities alumni and were at the forefront of "original location" -- making free home pages within neighborhoods topped with chat, bulletin boards and other community-type elements, that was 1995.
On Facebook alone, 800 million of us share 900 million objects that people interact with every day. So we are sharing, we are broadcasting, we are blogging to the tune of 164 million blogs.
HipGeo is the next generation of what we are already doing. All you do is download the app and start taking photos and the app builds a timeline around your photos and location and plots that to a map and you can decide who you want to share that with. Or you can be lazy about it, you can turn on passive tracking and just walk around with the app running and it will track your travels and plot your photos, comments and saved locations to the map, giving you an animated diary of your day.
It also creates a crowd sourced blog for a location- so you can see what other people did and saw by location. By example, if you are visiting Anaheim or Copenhagen, you can see what other people were up to in those cities - their photos, their travel route, etc.
According to Scott Daniel, CEO and Founder, HipGeo, the app is the second phase of location and check in technology. "We believe that people are going to get check in fatique and HipGeo just makes it easier to record your life and your travels."
So while you are waiting around for that voice controlled TV, get on with your life, travel and share. You can download HipGeo in the Apple iTune store here.
