Hands-on with WerYoo: Free social networking photo app maps your moves
WerYoo, a free social networking photo app released on Wednesday, advertises itself as a different type of sharing environment. With the hundreds of photo apps out there these days, WerYoo (Were you there?) puts equal emphasis on the where as on the what and encourages international conversations and new contacts.
WerYoo certainly provides a fluid path from phone to public view. Theres virtually no filter between shooting and sharing. After you sign in and create a profile, youre a bona fide community denizen among its visually prolific inhabitants.
After you shoot an image is the only chance you get to edit it. But the white bevel is hard to see especially in the sun.
The moment you shoot an image is your best chance to make decisions. You can immediately reshoot the picture, which overwrites the original shot, or you can edit it before showing it to the world.
WerYoo provides only one opportunity to edit your photos, and thats directly after taking them. You can add special effects such as Instagram-like filters, flash, crop, orientation, sharpness, brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, red-eye, whiten, and flip.
I found the interface of the program agreeably minimal, from the navigation to the editing icon labels, but their tiny size and white color makes them hard to read. Basic fuctions are accomplished via the bottom menu bar (the app functions in portrait orientation only). There you can access Photos, Activity, the camera, Find, and Me. Photos is your intro into the community. There you can see the popular tags as well as nearby and popular images. The app's concept of nearby is relative, however, since one nearby entry was in Australia, clear across the globe from my current location of Northern California. But, hey, it's a small world.
Where is this place? Keep pinching to adjust the map until it becomes obvious that this is Australia.
While I'm on the subject of maps, it took quite a bit of careful pinching to make sure I actually could tell where a portrait of Nando's Mild Peri-Peri Sauce was located, and that speaks both well and ill of the mapping feature.
WerYoos sensitive geo-location capabilities are the strongest part of the app. Even if you shoot at distances of a block or two, the app recognizes that you are in a different location than the last shot you took and places map markers fairly accurately. It's just that the map does not adjust when you tap on the image, so initially you may not be able to tell where a picture was shot.
The app excels at making fine location distinctions.
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Hands-on with WerYoo: Free social networking photo app maps your moves