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Separating work colleagues from other associates and friends can be difficult for most social network website users.

After signing up to almost every social networking website he was invited to, Conor Devine found that he was receiving information he did not need, sometimes even from his friends.

Now Devine uses social networking site Whispurr.com which encourages members to create a network of friends that have a common interest e.g. workmates or perhaps customers and provides targeted information based on a person’s interests whilst protecting people’s privacy.

Devine, who is director of the company, says that Whispurr isn’t the next Twitter. “Despite sharing a similar interface to Twitter, Whispurr is a different concept. We intend our users to share specific information and to create realistic relations based on both similar interests and offline activities,” he told the Prosperity Digital Ezine.

Members communicate with ‘Whisps’ which are 300 character micro-messages and it will soon be possible to send a Whisp via SMS. This feature will allow people who work in teams to communicate efficiently and quickly regardless of location. The RSS integration system will enable teams to incorporate important live feeds into their networks which will add value to their communication in real time, explains Devine.
One of the advantages of Whispurr is selective privacy and the fact that networks will contain very specific information.

“You can create a different network for the different groups you are active with and users will be able to protect the privacy of each network by choosing to hide networks from each other. In this way your soccer team do not need to see your quarterly sales and your workmates do not need to know who is washing the soccer jerseys this week.”

The Whispurr team plans to expand its own work network of six in Q3, 2010. “We will be looking to employ two more programmers as we intend to increase the languages available on the interface. We would also like to have a sales team of two people who work actively creating accounts by demonstrating the power of Whispurr to Irish companies.”

Sign up at www.whispurr.com