Publk Web Client 1.0 Almost Ready

Publk, the new local and (presently) anonymous broadcasting service, is about to launch Beta version 1.0 if its mobile web client. Publk lets you share words and images with people in the same venue. The web client is intended to allow extra features that our SMS users lack, namely image broadcasting. I guess it’s sort of an extension of Foursquare, and in fact we intend to incorporate the Foursquare API in our standalone app that should be ready in the next several months.

I believe the web client will be proof of concept that we need before moving onto the app. It will debut at Drink the Tree next week in Boston where we hope to gather all the documentation and user feedback necessary to build a very strong mobile application. The app will contain current functionality as well as some surprise features that will have to remain under lock and key for now.

While it will likely be in development up to next Friday, I encourage you to take a look at the web client on your iPhone or Android device. Like many mobile sites, it looks sort of like junk on a desktop browser, so until I get device detection on it I’ll just have to trust that you won’t look at it on anything but a phone. If you have any suggestions or recommendations, feel free to submit them right in Publk!

publk.com/client