Flagr.com - Bookmark the Real World

Flagr allows you to keep tabs on where you have gone, what you have done, and what the rest of your friends are up to. All of this is possible through sending text messages to Flagr with the “flag” message you want to put for various locations. Messages can include anything from a really tasty sushi restaurant, to places where you can get free condoms. You can also add flags on their site and check out flags tagged by other users in your area. Maps of tags can be created by a group of people, or just for you. Each tag can include pictures, a caption, and comments from other users.

“The founders believed there should be an easy way for EVERYONE to share where they go, while on the go. Such a system would not be limited to use with fancy GPS-enabled mobile phones. Instead, it would rely on the already-popular text messaging infrastructure available on almost every cell phone. With such a system, users previously excluded from such services can take part in an extraordinary social experience. They can Sharewhere, anywhere.

They take the tagging-places idea and make it possible by a new medium by including text message tagging. Being able to embed the maps into whatever website you want is also a cool feature people will enjoy, and is something businesses could use to show where their different chains are, where their employees are from, and more. The “worldliness” percentage feature will also encourage people to get others from all over the world to get involved and make maps in distant countries have more labels, which is another feature other sites don´t include.

Why will people go for Flagr versus Plazes? How will they get people to go to their site when Plazes has already had so much press?