Hackable Idea Of Week: TrustedPlaces

A friend of mine in the U.K. has invested in a mobile user-created content company called TrustedPlaces. They are just up and running in the U.K. mainly London. I love their idea. Members use their phones to capture pics of local places that are "trusted", good food, good service, good atmosphere, good stuff. They can then write a review via mobile, or when they return to their computer, on the "trusted place". The trustedplaces.com site does a bang-up web 2.0 job of displaying the places, tagging, reviews, average ratings, trusted places nearby, other fans, etc.

Members (Trusted People) can then use their phone to get a place forwarded to them, look up the nearest trusted place, find nearby places, search for a tag, and so on.

I love these simple apps that use the (mobile) web to support our real world pavement level needs !