Filed under: Odds and ends, Internet, iPhone
iRovr: social networking for iPhone only
Our good friends over at DLS just posted some news about a service called iRovr, which purports to be a "unique social experience" made exclusively for the iPhone. Basically, you sign up, and are given a set of email addresses to which you can send content directly from your iPhone (including blogs, photos, videos, and even comments), which is then archived on their pages. It's definitely an interesting concept, and even if you aren't ready to join yet another social networking service (especially since Twitter is already on the iPhone, and Pownce is sure to follow), I actually entertained myself for way longer than I planned to just browsing through the content that's been uploaded.You have to give iRovr credit for using email hackery, a squeezed design, and probably a heck of a backend just for getting this all working smoothly together as an app that is completely accessed only by the iPhone. I'm sure an app like this is just what Jobsy had in mind when he spoke of the "very sweet solution."
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G said 10:59AM on 7-28-2007
After they spammed our mail list with a promotion for iRovr, I wouldn't trust them with any of my stuff. Too bad. It seems like a decent idea. Maybe they just had some overzealous interns? :)
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Erik Madsen said 4:41PM on 7-28-2007
G - Not sure what you are referencing here. Nobody on our team would ever spam, certainly not a mailing list. Can you help me to figure out how this happened?
erik@irovr.com
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Mat said 1:09PM on 8-02-2007
I'm really enjoying iRovr-- even though the original poster is correct in that we hardly need another social bookmarking / twitter / vid-sharing / photo-uploading site, the key difference here is the exclusivity of this place for iPhone users. Hence all the aggregated content creates a needed iPhone-specific community.
Looking forward to seeing the site blossom.
Nice work Erik! No idea about that spam comment.
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Mat said 1:15PM on 8-02-2007
Oh also-- the original poster didn't provide an iRovr username for us to add as a friend!
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A. Kidd said 8:11PM on 10-14-2007
E u r the truth
iRovr is the shit!
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