WhozAround Offers a Simpler Way to Plan Events with Friends

Yesterday Susan Mernit and Lisa Williams from People’s Software presented their project named WhozAround? at TechStars Investor Day in Boulder. It is already possible to try out the Facebook application for WhozAround! (in alpha currently, beta promised to arrive soon) to see what this nice little tool is about. And since Susan has shared the information on the company’s blog already, I decided it would not harm them to give it a quick look here as well.

Basically what WhozAround? does is providing an easier way to plan and organize all sorts of events and meetups with your friends from your contact lists – be it a list of friends on a social network or an address book of your email client or contacts in your cell phone. Once the application has access to your contacts, it will identify where those people are and will message them about various events you may be organizing using various available invitation delivery tools. What’s more, it will even maintain a calendar with planned events for you so that you could keep it all ordered in a very simple form.

The plan is that the application will be eventually available on any platform of a user’s choice, no matter where the friends are and what communication tool will be preferable for them. While right now the application is only available on Facebook – and thus limited to your Facebook friends only – if the development continues as promised and the application actually grows into a cross-platform solution, it has all the chances of growing into an ultimate tool for planning events – be it a coffee with a college friend or a bloggers’ meetup in your town – and keeping track of them. So I’ll definitely keep an eye on this startup because anything that promises to eliminate hassle from at least some portion of our lives definitely deserves attention in this crazy web 2.0 world.