Blerp Launches Open Alpha - Allows Users to Rewrite the Web

San Francisco (PRWEB) May 13, 2009 -- RocketOn, Inc., a venture-funded startup located in South San Francisco, is launching a second product, and this time it's a site called Blerp! http://www.blerp.com

Imagine taking any video on YouTube or photo on Flickr and posting it on top of any website you choose:

- If your favorite band has a website, but it doesn't have the latest concert photos, you can go to YouTube, find those videos and post them right on the band's website for everyone to see.

- Or if your favorite gossip site is missing out on the latest rumors, you can add them to the mix.

- Or if CNN is covering a story but doesn't see it the way you do, you can add your POV to the article by posting comments, photos, maps, polls, data and more.

"Blerp liberates the Web," says Steven Hoffman, CEO of RocketOn. "It hands the web over to the users and lets everyone start discussions wherever and however they please."

With Blerp, people can effortlessly layer content and comments over whatever site they choose and share their layers with friends. Blerp requires no download and no browser plug-in.

Users simply go to Blerp.com and can see all the discussions that are taking place online. When a user clicks on a discussion, they're taken to the website and can see the blerps (user-generated posts) on the left-hand side of the screen. Each blerp represents either a comment, photo, video or some other widget that a user has placed on top of the site.

"The exciting part is that you can see what your friends are blerping about in real time," says Hoffman. "The more you use it, the more you realize the power of blerp lies in connecting with your peers and participating in discussions taking place on all the websites you care about. Users can even tie Blerp into Twitter, Digg, Facebook, MySpace and other major social networks."

Blerp is structured as a giant social forum that spans the Net. Not only can you join in discussions, but you can see what and where your friends are blerping. In this way, Blerp is the ultimate comment board, where you login once and start a dialog across an unlimited number of sites.

Blerp originated from the idea of hyperlayers. In a layered universe, instead of websites being exclusively controlled by whomever owns the domain name, every domain will be open to anyone who wants to access or alter it. Over each domain will exist independent layers, where users can interact with one another, share content and dispense information.

For more details on hyperlayers, you can read Captain Hoff's Blog at http://www.captainhoff.com/?cat=9

ABOUT BLERP:

BLERP is owned and operated by RocketOn, Inc., a venture-funded startup that has been pioneering hyperlayers for the past two years. RocketOn's virtual world was the first implementation of a layered virtual space that spans the Web. Blerp is the company's second.

If you'd like more information, please contact us at dl at rocketon dot com or visit www.blerp.com or www.rocketon.com

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