Mysterious web service – Hipster – covers SXSW
The web service Hipster is covering the South by South-West festival. Launched in January to bafflement and a fierce debate about what the word “hipster” actually means – the web service turned out to be a kind of location based question and answer service. Like city-based version of Quora you ask? yes, like that.
I’m not holding my breath for the most insightful coverage of SXSW ever released. So far answered questions about SXSW include:
“How much do I have to pay someone to smuggle a pulled chicken sandwich back to LA for me?”
and
“What is the one, must-attend party at SXSW?”
Of course with location-based services – they’re only really useful when you’re actually there.
The domain is actually http://usehipster.com though currently the only location you can set is SXSW. SXSW is kind of a showcase location, but they better start adding some more cities quickly if they want to keep the momentum going..
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I have once used this service…
http://www.loqize.me – get local advice! we think we struck the right product mix for this problem, and you can use our service everywhere out of the box! no cities or countries have to be added. “It just works”! get on the invite list noe and watch athe video
http://www.LOCQL.com is a location based Q&A which allow users ask question about anywhere in the world. Give LOCQL a try and compare to useHipster.
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