With.ME Wants to Help You Take More Group Photos on Your iPhone
Remember Path? Unlike most mobile photography apps, Path for the iPhone lets you share photos and videos with a small group of 50 friends or family. Path only recently introduced selective Facebook sharing. Now their team, led by CEO Dave Morin and VP of Business Development Matt Van Horn has made an entirely different iPhone app – it’s called With a.k.a. w/ and you can find it at With.me.
w/ who are you with?
With is available for free on the iTunes App Store and it basically lets you share group photos of you and your Twitter friends. You might have already seen the use of “w/” in Foursquare’s sharing of locations: when 2 Foursquare friends check-in at the same location and share it on Twitter the tweet will use “w/”. With.me goes a step further, creating a group photo application that you can use with your Twitter friends.
First, you write in your friend’s Twitter usernames and what you’re doing together. Then you snap a photo and share it. The post is then shared with your friends both inside With’s iPhone app and as a tweet on Twitter. Why? Well, With uses Twitter as its login and friend system and only asks you for your e-mail to use it. With also makes a note of how many times you shared you were with someone, indicating it with a 1-9 system.
Interesting fact: With got their short and sweet With.me domain name in the .Me Development program, which lets interesting startupa and projects use exclusive .me domain names. It has already been used by Facebook (Fb.ME), Yahoo (Me.ME) and even WordPress (Wp.ME).
Twitter gets a big push for apps like With
When you download iPhone new iOS 5 in the fall, you won’t even have to login if you already login into the iPhone’s or iPad’s system-wide Twitter integration! With uses Twitter exclusively and with Apple’s integration of the fastest social network out there as a system wide preference a lot of new users may start tweeting. Once they start and login in their iPhone, each next Twitter-powered app will be easier to test and start using.
And there will be more experiments like this at Path. As MG Siegler notes in his TechCrunch article, With is a sideproject for Path. The application grew from a project in one of their monthly hackathons so we might see more little experients like With. What do you think of w/? Is their use of Twitter as a core user system wise?
