Hill staffers said they are excited to see how the app develops as it adds more users.
Last year was its most successful, with 10 sites launching in cities including El Paso and Atlanta, Georgia, as well as the launch of a Hollaback! app developed to combat street harassment on the go.
But these issues could be addressed in time, as the app continues to develop.
As web apps developed, Chromebooks started to get significantly more useful, and these days, when you can do almost everything on the web (and yes, I know Photoshop isn't one of those things), only having access to web apps really isn't such a big deal anymore.
Whisper co-founder Michael Heyward told me by phone that the app was developed as a side project at secure messaging startup TigerText.
As the app grows, it will develop different verticals, such as travel, fashion, or electronics.
Glass isn't perfect and will only be as good as the apps that are developed for it.
As well as the app, Facebook are also pushing into developing markets by making deals with carriers to offer free or discounted data access when using the social network.
The monitoring world is going through a seismic shift as the ways we develop apps changes.
TechCrunch understands that it will be launching with a number of applications out of the box from Yandex itself (Search, Mail, Disk, and some different geolocation apps), as well as those developed by third parties — 40,000 at all from launch.
