Everplaces, the 'new real- world Pinterest’, debuts social discovery

Posted by Cash On on 2012-04-30 0

Everplaces, a service that lets you save and share snap shots
of interesting places via the
Web or smartphones, came out of private beta about 6 weeks ago and was promptly
dubbed a ‘Pinterest for the real world’ because of its focus on the bookmarking
and curation of content in a
very straight forward, visual
way.

The Everplaces service is one of many in the social travel and local recommendations
space, but the app is beautiful
and may just end up hitting
the sweet spot for users
looking to capture, store and
share only the best restaurants, bars, museums
and what not in any given
location.

Today, Everplaces is going live
with a new feature called
social discovery, basically
enabling people to get
‘insider’
recommendations for places
to visit, eat, party, hang out etc. in their immediate
neighborhood or upcoming
travel destination.
The previous version of
Everplaces allowed users to
‘bookmark’ locations, but the
new extra social layer makes
it easier to discover
interesting places based on friend recommendations,
which are ultimately the ones
that tend to matter most. To use it, you’ll need to hook
Everplaces into your Twitter
or Facebook account.

Worth noting: the social
discovery function is only
being released for the Web
app.

Everplaces co-founder and CEO Tine Thygesen explains:
“Our users have been crying
out for social discovery, so we
started with the Web because
we could build that the
fastest.
Duly noted. For now, users
can keep using the iOS app
(Android version
forthcoming) to keep track of
their place collections on the
go; the new social discovery feature will be added to it
later.

There are plenty of similar
services, including Dabble, Trover , Hipster, Pinwheel , GyPSii , Snapr, HipGeo, Foursquare, Ditto, Storie and Penzu

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