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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.

Image Credit: iTunes/Xoo

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Use Cross Post app to share across social networks from your iOS device

Posted on November 10, 2014 by

Cross Post is a social networking app that lets you share & post text, links & photos on social networks with ease, using your iPhone or iPad.

The app’s key feature is “cross posts”, as in, you write your text & add pictures if you want, & Cross Post will do the rest. Your update gets posted on Facebook, Twitter & App.net.

The Cross Post extension also allows you to share & cross post text, links & photos from your other apps in the same way. You can easily set which social networks your post should be published on. One tap adds a network to the list, & one tap turns it off.

Once you’re done typing & hitting the Post tab, you don’t need to hang around until the post gets published on all the networks. You can move on & do something else or even put your phone away. The app toils on & makes sure the posts are published on all your chosen networks.

crosspostscreeshotNot having to visit each network individually is no doubt a time-saver, but it’s hardly new. Plenty of social media management tools allow you to do this.

The intention here is not just to avoid the duplication of effort, but also to keep you away from the pesky distractions once you visit a social network. Otherwise, most of your working day goes in responding to cute kitten or puppy photos, & selfies posted by your friends.

Not having to duplicate your effort across networks is also not a trail-blazing innovation. But Cross Post’s developer claims it’s better because your post on each network looks like it came from the site’s official app, without the ugly 3rd party links.

Oh, & you also get to use this feature of posting to multiple social networks only in the premium version of Cross Post. The free one will only allow you to send a post to a single social network. You have to pay US $2.99 to unlock the premium features.

Cross Post was developed by Stowe, VT-based White Peak Software, Inc. The company was founded by Kirby Turner in Nov 2003.

Click here to download the Cross Post social networking app on your iOS device.

 

Image Credit: Cross Post

 

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