Last week Whrrl had a booth at the WTIA monthly meeting and I had the good fortune to run into Tim Reha as he was interviewing the guys from Melodeo. They’re promoting the new nuTsie music service (see their interview with Tim here).

Tim and I talked about how social discovery with Whrrl helps you find new places to visit in the real world. We also discussed privacy settings, publishing your location to Twitter, our recommendations engine, and engaging with the Whrrl user community.

Tim Reha interviews Danielle Morrill about Pelago’s Whrrl, a Mobile Social Network Application from Tim Reha on Vimeo.

At the end of the interview, Tim asks about emerging trends in location based social networks and beyond, and the broader application of “the web of the physical world”. To hear more on the ongoing instrumentation of devices with sensors (beyond location), check out Tim O’Reilly’s talk Web Meets World from Web 2.0 Expo New York.

Whrrl has been nominated as one of the best mobile technology start-ups in 2008 by MobileBeat (hosted by VentureBeat). They’re asking for people to vote for their favorite company online at VentureBeat2008, so your vote counts. Please spread the love and vote for Pelago now. You can vote up to five times, but only once every 24hrs.

Voting ends on July 2nd (did we mention you can vote 5 times?). Click here to vote, you’ll have to register first but it’s painless - All it asks for is a username, email, first & last name, and password. Pelago, the creator of Whrrl, is listed under the “Application Companies” in the first grouping.

Thanks for your help!

-Whrrl Team

We were featured in the Wall Street Journal today as being one of the companies working on cutting edge GPS mobile technology. Just to be noted as an industry leader makes us proud! It’s press like this that makes all the hard work worth it!

Read the article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120666235472370235.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Whrrl was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal today! Click here to read about how our investment firm has aligned with Apple to offer the iFund. The coolest thing is, we are the first company in the fund! Excitement is at an all time high around the office! More on the Apple event and the iFund soon!