Stamped

November 22nd, 2011

Stamped is a new network of sorts for iOS, and the idea is that you “stamp” things you really love and highly recommend to your friends. You can stamp pretty much everything—restaurants, books, music, movies, et cetera. You can see what your friends have stamped and stamp it yourself, or add it to a to-do list of things you need to try.

What Stamped gets really right is that it’s fun to use, because it’s so simple and such a beautiful app. It’s fun to go through and make a list of sorts of your favorite things in the world, and to see what everyone else likes, too.

With enough people using it, this could be very, very useful; imagine you’re traveling and using Stamped to see what restaurants around you are most liked, or have been stamped by your friends—that’d be a great way to find somewhere to eat without sorting through reviews on Yelp. It could work as a sort of travel guide.