WhirtWhirl Wants to Connect You With That Cute Coffee Shop Guy (Or Gal)

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We love interesting socially-focused websites and services. But what we love even more is when they are local operations. Take, for example, WhirtWhirl.com. WhirtWhirl has one purpose: connecting missed connections in Philadelphia. They provide a simple, straightforward interface that keeps the focus on the connections themselves, displaying a timeline of posts. WhirtWhirl also offers the ability to tag words in your post for easy searching later on. Every post has its own "reply" link, too, so if you stumble across the missed connection of your dreams you can try to unmiss it. Best of all, they don't require account creation, so you can dive right in.

A mobile phone application (this Palm Pre-rocking Phillyist hopes that doesn't just mean "an iPhone app") and map integration are in the works. We'd also suggest a mobile-optimized version of the site itself, an "About" page to offer easy explanations to newbs, and maybe some way to contact the developers with feature requests, bug reports, and other stuff. In the meantime, head over to WhirtWhirl.com and try it out. You never know who you might find.