The WHERE 1.1 iPhone went live in the iTunes App store last week and was met with great reviews from users. The more vibrant map tiles and new widgets have greatly enhanced the user experience. We thought it might be a good time to take a closer look at the two new widgets available on the iPhone.

Local Notes

Local Notes is a new widget which allows you to leave notes about a location for everyone to view.
How to write a local note:
1. Touch down on your location and go to the list view.
2. Tap on “Add New Note”
3. Type in your note and hit “Save”
4. Go back to the map view and your note will be in red.

FlickPics

Flickpics gives you a photographic window to the world around you, with photos geotagged by other Flickr members.
To see images geotagged in your local area.
1. Go to the Flickr widget
2. Click on the list view at the top right corner.
3. Voila, you will see a grid view of all the pics tagged in that geographic location.

Part of our commitment to users is an enhanced GPS user experience. If you have any feedback or have an idea for a widget, find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter and let us know your thoughts.

Well, I have finally sent the engineering team home to get some sleep.   We have quadrupled our capacity to better handle the WHERE demand.  We are also posting an updated version on the App Store soon.  This will improve map rendering, and include a few optimizations to speed things up.  Existing users, hang tight and your copy of WHERE will be updated automatically.

Again we apologize for the slow performance that you may have experienced.  Please give WHERE on iPhone a try,  and as always, if you have any questions don’t hesitate to drop us a line at iphonesupport@where.com.

Best,

Jerry

What a weekend…with over 100k activations of WHERE, we had some noticeable strain on our servers. Our engineering team was on it all weekend, working around the clock to add more capacity. I am pleased to let you now that while we were never down, we have much more capacity and are experiencing minimal lag today.

So, please give the app another shot today, we know you will love it. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to drop us a note at iphonesupport@where.com

Best,

Jerry King
COO,
WHERE

Now you can get some of your favorite widgets from WHERE on your iPhone and iPod Touch! With widgets like Yelp, GasBuddy, Starbucks, Eventful, Buddy Beacon, and more, WHERE gives iPhone users the ability to discover nearby friends, places and things of interest. WHERE uses the location capabilities of the iPhone and iPod Touch to determine where you are, then finds what you’re looking for around your location. So now you can add the iPhone to the list of over 80 handsets that WHERE supports. Pretty cool, huh? Read more about it in our press release here.

Want to get WHERE on your iPhone? Of course you do. Just visit the brand new Apple App Store that just launched today! Download iTunes version 7.7 to access the Apple App Store. Once you have downloaded or upgraded to the new version, click here to be directly taken to the Apple App Store.