Available now on the Apple App Store and the Google Play store is Jelly, a new app developed by the company of Twitter co-founder, Biz Stone. This app is meant to act as a social encyclopedia, answering questions not by pulling data from the Internet, but through notifying your social network friends to respond to them.
Let’s say you foolishly ask the waiter at a Chinese restaurant to surprise you with an unknown preparation, and surprise you he does. You find it too peculiar to start eating it. You can then click a picture of your dish, crop it, zoom it or draw on it, and upload it via Jelly to know what it is. If your friends or friends of friends know the answer, you’ll probably get know what you’re eating.
But what if they don’t? Well then you can forward the question to anyone in the world from outside the app. Also it needn’t necessarily be an image, as textual questions can also be posted. And of course, it works the other way round as well. As in you too will be prompted to answer questions set by your friends or friends of friends.
The obvious question that’s probably on your tongues right now is why should I not use Google search or Google Goggles for that matter? To answer this question, the makers of Jelly have emphasized on the ‘experience, inventiveness and creativity of the human mind,’ suggesting that you probably won’t get the kind of information through those channels which you’ll get from your friends.
It wouldn’t hurt to give Jelly a try, especially since it’s already available right now, and that too free of cost. Head here to download it onto your iOS devices and here for Android. Since it’s a completely new kind of social networking, it is indeed expected to take some time in order to find its groove.