Explore geo-tagged notes on a map to learn about insights and experiences from people around the world.
Social media quenches our thirst for sharing news about ourselves and our surroundings. But those messages are typically constrained to people we know, or their immediate followers.
Caterina Fake, the mind behind the popular Flickr photo-sharing site, is looking to break down that wall with a new map-based social discovery platform, dubbed Findery.
Inside Findery, currently available on iOS, the world becomes a blank canvas: Explore geo-tagged notes on a map to learn about insights and experiences from people around the globe. Users post public or private notes with historical facts, personal stories, and unique perspectives via text, images, videos, and sound bites. Then the app annotates and organizes that information based on location.
The social network uses your current location to surface interesting notes in the immediate area, making it easy to find stories and photos pertinent to your own experience.
So, say you're exploring the Scottish highlands or visiting the Eiffel Tower. Just open Findery to find out what other folks did, learned, saw, and found in those same spots.
"Every place has a story, or a thousand stories," Fake said in a statement. "Findery brings places to life, be they where you stand or where you hope to go."
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