The development team visited San Francisco, U.S. to attend an event called SF New Tech. It was a great opportunity for us to introduce Drrop and hear inputs from peers. A big "thank you" to SF New Tech & btrax!

We also had opportunity to see our test users in San Francisco. It was an amazing experience to actually meet up with people who have been helping us online. Testing users, thank you for your support and help. We really appreciate you!

(Photographed by Maiko from btrax, Inc.)

Now we are making plans for future developments. Please stay tuned. We will release the next version of Drrop soon!

The Development Team is going to visit San Francisco next week to attend an event called "SF New Tech Japan Night."

We are honored to be a presenter at this tech event, while we are thrilled to talk about Drrop to the folks in San Francisco. If you live in the area, please come cheer us. You can find detailed information on this event at:

This event is organized in a collaboration of SF New Tech and btrax, inc.

Now Drrop is published. However, it is still on its "testing phase" which we define as "one-step before Beta." The development team is welcoming public testers to try Drrop and give feedback. Without your help, we believe it is impossible to develop the drrop toward a right direction.

We thank blogs and other web media that wrote about us. We just got started a few days ago, but wow, we are getting visitors from all over the world! We are very excited about it while we really appreciate all the media introduced us. A big "thank you!" to you.

Welcome!

Thank you for visiting Drrop.com!
We are very happy to welcome you to our brand-new service called "Drrop."
 

An easier way to say "hi"

With Drrop, you can say "hi" to people before getting to know them.

We communicate online. We often use social networking websites to communicate with friends in our networks. We, the Drrop development team, thought it seems similar to go to school / workplace and chat with classmates / co-workers.

However, in our real life, you also meet people on the way to go to school / workplace and enjoy random conversations. You may say "hi" to people passing by, or talk about the weather at a fruit stand while talking about the perfect balance of coffee & milk at a donut shop.

With Drrop, you can do just the same on the internet.
 

A modern way to throw a message in a bottle.

In some ways, using Drrop is similar to throwing a message in a bottle to the sea. When you use drrop, you can post messages called "drrop," while you can see drrops from people around the world.

So, is it exactly like a message in a bottle? The answer is "no." There are some differences we would like to explain here.

1. A drrop (message) only shows up one by one
   When you log into Drrop, automatically you will see one drrop from someone in the world. There is a "wipe" button below the drrop. If you click "wipe," then you will see the next message.
    
2. Once you wipe it, never again
   As a rain drop hits you only once in its life time, a drrop can be encountered only once.
    
3. 24hours, not forever
   At this time, a drrop will be invisible in 24 hours after it is posted. After 24 hours, people will not be able to see your drrop, unless they have saved or replied to the drrop. In this way, we keep the drrops always fresh and up-to-date. As drrop.com grows and more people drrops, we are planning to shorten this time constraint, so that we can keep it even fresher.
   * Note: This function is disabled for now. Once we finishes the first phase of testing (which is where we are as of today – Sep. 6th, 2010), we will start running this function.

Now, let's give it a try! You can sign up from here. We hope you'll enjoy Drrop!