Flickr Founder Caterina Fake Has A New Startup That Lets You Leave Notes Around The World

6:47 pm, February 16th | by Hillary Reinsberg

Caterina Fake is well-known the tech startup world for starting the popular photo site Flickr, which she sold to Yahoo for a nice little fee. Now she’s got something new in the works.

Fake announced the new startup “Pinwheel” on her blog today. It’s in private beta, but if you’re of the early adopter breed, you can try to snag an invite at Pinwheel.com.

So, what’s Pinwheel? It’s a site (and soon-to-be iPhone app) that lets you leave “notes” around the world. Fake explains:

“On Pinwheel you can find and leave notes all around the world. The notes can be public or private, shared with an individual, a group or everyone. They can be organized into sets, such as, say, the “Tales from the Road: KISS’s 1974 Hotter Than Hell Tour”, “Best Spots for Butterfly Hunting”, “Every place that you told me that you loved me, circa 2008″ or “Find me a Nearby Toilet NOW”. You can follow people, places and sets. And in the future, you will get notifications on your phone from who and what you choose. Following sets is useful, because that friend of yours with the great taste in coffee shops may also have an unhealthy obsession with, say, 1970s glam metal band KISS, and frankly, in childhood you were traumatized by a photograph of Gene Simmons and don’t need to repeat that in your dotage.”

Sort of like Foursquare without the check-ins? Or as Fake puts it, Flickr without the photos? Sign up and let us know.

 

TAGS: caterina fake | flickr | pinwheel

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