Give Whrrl a whrrl

Whrrl does a couple things really, really well. Here’s a quick rundown:

• A kick ass iPhone App – I know I’m an iPhone n0Ob but this is one of the better iPhone apps I’ve used (and I’ve used a lot).
• The social aspect – Whrrl lets you check in to a location (think brightkite) but that’s the beginning, you can continue posting photos and text, building a “story” along the way. Others can join the story and contribute. Anyone can comment on a story.
• Connectivity – Facebook connect allows you to use your Facebook account to sign in to Whrrl and connect with your facebook friends. This means you don’t have to go through and refriend all of your friends as they join Whrrl. This is key, and a great feature, as I hate refriending. That’s so friendfeed 2007.

Check out a few of my Whrrl stories:

• Blues game with my friend Saint
• Trip to Whole Foods
• Breakfast at Denny’s

Another cool thing about Whrrl is it kind of takes the load off your friends from other networks like Twitter and Facebook. So instead of annoying your twitter/facebook friends with 10 posts of how good your dinner is you can post to Whrrl and share a link to that story.

Here’s a good rundown on how to actually use Whrrl.

Here’s a couple things I think would make Whrrl all the more better:

• More networks: Facebook and Twitter is a great start and will probably cover a big percentage of their user base. I think either integrating with a service like Ping.fm or adding more networks would be stellar. I’d like to broadcast a new story to a place like Friendfeed and Tumblr, maybe the ability to post any photo I send (while adding to a story) to Flickr.
• Make stories embeddable: Wouldn’t it be cool if after creating a story about your night out, you could blog about it the following day and embed your Whrrl story? I think that’d be awesome. Maybe I Whrrl the whole time I’m in the delivery room (no photos, sorry!) and later want to embed that story into a blog post.
• Mobile site, for users who browse the site from their non-iPhone mobile phone the lightbox style overlay is hard to swallow. The cool thing is if you’re on an iPhone and you follow a Whrrl link to a story the app automagically loads up. Anyway more support for non-iPhone mobile users would be nice.

If you have an iPhone or SMS enabled phone (more info) and already use a service like brightkite, I would definitely give this a shot! You’ll love it. If you do, Friend me up!