Google has just quietly released a new app on the Play Store, called “Who’s Down”.
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It’s not a bad idea for an app, but maybe not something that will be all that useful to many, especially since it requires your friends also actively use the app and because the only way to use the app right now is through an invite system.
We put together a list of five apps you might find helpful before your children hit the neighborhood this week. After this step, the user can proceed to see the plans their friends are “down for” and start chatting with them from within the app itself. Perhaps, Google is initially targeting this app towards college students, not unlike the early version of Facebook.
Who’s Down is an invite-only app that shows you whether you’re “down” to hang out or not – that, in today’s modern lingo, means you’re available to hang out somewhere. So we’ve set quite a few things in place to make sure this is preventable and detectable and so forth.
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There are various other games and activity apps out there, both specific to the holiday or with Halloween specific downloads, like The Simpsons Tapped Out. Google’s product comes with a slick and fairly well designed user interface. After selecting I was “down to hang”, the app ostensibly began waiting for other people to signal that they were interested in the same. This software opened up in June and has been a viral success and now this software that is indeed on the up and up will be strolling down Android’s lane and taking the Android users by storm.
“Apart from Google” autocomplete feature used to reduce the time to take to type in interests, Google’s design choices are hardly any different.
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No word yet when everyone else will be able to jump aboard the app. Will you be down when it does?
