IRL Connect counts down to public beta

IRL Connect, our favorite visual social network, is counting down to its public beta launch and they are keeping quiet about the virtual launch party – but we know it must be something big! We have been using the platform for a while and love it – putting all our friends from Facebook and Twitter on the map, interacting with them and just plain feeling the love. If you wanna get on, use the invite key: senseit. They also have a Twitter feed: @IRLConnect or you can follow their leader on IRLConnect @frankschuil or Twitter @frankschuil. He talks to just about everyone. – JLH

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Geo Location

About a month ago, Mashable’s Adam Ostrow wrote a story abou Geo Location and why it was absent from Facebook and Twitter. You know where this is going right? I am going to say, well it is absent simply because they aren’t doing it. And you know where this is going next? So who is doing it on line? Well no one except IRLConnect. On the mobile, its all over the place, but still not pulling in the numbers like the good old Web does (sure argue with us later about it) but the fact is that there are 506 million or so users on the Web and those users are ready for a new experience. And geo objects is where its at.

So, the next evolution in this post is the fact that today IRL Connect announced that it has integrated Facebook with its application and you know what happened. Floods of people came into the application. I must say, it is the absolutely coolest thing to see all your Facebook friends on a map! I mean, You can see where they are and start up a conversation with them. IRL is the first visual social network.

I am an ex pat living in Amsterdam and today, Boston was flooded with my Facebook friends and the friends of my Facebook friends and I immediately had this connection again. It gave me something  I was missing. Not to sound sappy, but it really brought my social network into focus.

Try it- they have a public beta on April 2, but you can get a sign up  key here, use Tattletech.

– JLH

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