Twitter Co-Founder, Biz Stone, has just launched a new mobile app called Jelly.
Jelly is a new way to search with pictures and people from your social networks. It’s also people helping each other—something that’s both meaningful and fun.
Well how does it work?
Say you’re walking along and you spot something unusual. You want to know what it is so you launch Jelly, take a picture, circle it with your finger, and type, “What’s this?” That query is submitted to some people in your network who also have Jelly. Jelly notifies you when you have answers.
Jelly is principally about a connected society where people help each other, more like a village where everyone is his neighbour’s keeper. It depends on someone out there genuinely extending a help in need. Stone believes in this and captures it in his blog like this:
Humanity is connected like never before. In fact, recent white papers have concluded that the proverbial “six degrees of separation” is now down to four because of social networking and mobile phones. It’s not hard to imagine that the true promise of a connected society is people helping each other.
Check out the founders, Biz Stone and Ben Finkel, talking about Jelly in the video below.
