Pinwheel: Pins Your Notes to the World Map
Pinwheel lets users pin their notes to the world map. The notes can be public or private, shared with an individual, a group or everyone. Notes can also, Pinwheel hopes, be easily monetized through a sponsored content model. A realtor has, for instance, started leaving sponsored notes on Pinwheel’s map about properties for sale.
Users who are participating in the invite-only private beta can follow people, places and “sets” of notes. Eventually they’ll be able to receive push notifications from yet-to-be-built native apps.
Pinwheel is that a note, like a photo, can be a container for all kinds of things. It is the perfect social object. Stories, advice, jokes, diatribes, information, memories, facts, advertisements, love letters, grocery lists and manifestos can all be put into a note.”
