I had a chance to correspond with founders of burrp! a platform established with the goal to build highly localized online communities around local businesses and events. They have acquired the most comprehensive database of lifestyle-related local businesses in the country and their aim is to provide people a platform to access that information both through the PC and the mobile device. It will be a platform for interaction By the People and For the People 🙂
This might remind you of MouthShut, but burrp! differs from MouthShut, with a strong niche focus on lifestyle and leisure related businesses and events in local communities. Currently burrp! is live in Mumbai. Bangaloreans can get to use burrp! within the next 4 weeks. If you are a Mumbaiite and looking for Hotels in Juhu, you can browse this tag and transfer the Hotel Address and Phone Number to your Mobile by means of a FREE SMS which burrp! sends you within few seconds. Your SMS may contain a discount coupon code from the hotel or some other business in the same area 🙂 Some of the big upcoming features include SMS querying from the mobile device (send an SMS to a short code with any type of unstructured query and burrp! will respond via SMS with listings information); group SMS invite and event planning (create SMS groups to make organizing and planning events much simpler); social events calendar (add, search, and share local events in your city); & local movie timings and online ticketing. Awesome!
Anything you do on burrp! will always be FREE for you. And if you are using it, you better take the moral responsiblity of writing reviews about the local business or service you dealt with to help the platform grow and also filter out the bad establishments out of the society. A healthy 25% of burrp! users are writing reviews, for example, as a feedback of the Hotel they dined at, but I would like to see this go to 50% as your review will help others and also raise the quality and level of service in that business establishment.
burrp! is developed by professionals with strong expertise in their domain, Telecom and Web. They have rich work experience and global exposure as well. They are backed by angel investors from the Valley (California) and will seek Series A funding in Q1-2007.
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