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Watcha Doin’? iOS mobile game app combines gaming with social networking

Posted on December 22, 2014 by

whatchyadoinglogoWatcha Doin’? is a mobile game app for iOS that allows a group of friends to share photos & guess who took each photo.

The photo guessing game app therefore helps you discover how well you know your friends, & also find out more about them. It’s obviously also an addictive multi-user mobile gaming experience. The way it works is pretty simple. You create games with a group of up to five people per game.

You can then write in a question, or the app will provide one. All the players send in a photo in response to the question, & everyone has to guess which friend took which photo.  The scores tell you which of your friends knows you best, & how well you know your friends.

The good thing about it is that it allows you to share personal information safely, since you’re among a group of known friends & family members.

The mobile gaming experience & novelty of combining social networking with an iOS game app apart, another reason this game is getting a lot of attention (featured by Apple as best new iOS game) is that Watcha Doin’? is the first app from Palo Alto, CA-based mobile gaming startup Xoo.

The strong pedigree of the Xoo founders & their experience makes it a slam-dunk, so to speak. XOO Inc. was founded in Jan 2014 by Glen Wong, Philip Yun, Steve Lawrence & Wilson Li.

Philip Yun is the company’s CEO, & formerly at Sony & as stints as CEO of Naver USA & Outspark. Glen Wong is Xoo’s director of Engineering, & has worked at Microsoft, Google, & Red Robot Labs.

Steve Lawrence is the company’s CTO, with a background in Ph.D. Machine Learning at Google. Wilson Li is the Product Lead at Xoo, & has previously worked at Outspark & WeMade.

Click here to download the Watcha Doin’? iOS mobile game app from the App Store.

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Make custom rubber stamps of your face (or anything else) with Stamp Yo Face!

Posted on December 8, 2014 by

Stamp Yo Face! is a company that makes custom rubber stamps bearing your likeness. You can then stamp letters, letterheads & stationary, documents & any kind of paper you fancy with it.

It’s very simple – you send them a picture & they hand-draw a portrait using the picture. This hand-drawn portrait is then used to make a custom rubber stamp.

For US $65, Stamp Yo Face! will send you custom rubber stamps not just of your face, but virtually anything you want. You can send them a photo of your pet, or ask for a rubber stamp as a couple ($100) so you’ll have two mugshots on the stamp.

rubber stampsYou can seek a gift certificate from them, so that people you gift it to can then get their own custom rubber stamps made.

You can also get a stamp of a custom object like a dog bone, thumb up/down, donut, pizza slice, etc. You can get a small quote bubble, where the portrait appears to be saying something. Apart from the actual rubber stamp, they also send you the hand-drawn portrait, the digital file of the portrait & an ink pad. In other words, you’re ready to start stamping yo face both Online & offline.

Right now, though, these guys are right in the middle of the Christmas rush, so don’t expect overnight delivery. It can take up to 8 weeks for Stamp Yo Face to fulfill your order. They will send you the hand-drawn portrait first, so that you know how the stamp will look like before it is made.

The Wichita, Kansas, US-based Stamp Yo Face! was launched in Feb 2014 by Hannah Scott & Kevin Wildt. Hannah is an art student at Wichita State University, & the one who will be hand drawing the portraits from your pictures. Kevin handles the production, Website & shipping part of the business.

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