JM: I think there's a big difference, I think they're both opening up a new space of what you could
call social discovery.
Meet Moi (iOS and Android): Meet Moi
calls itself a social discovery service rather than an online dating service, but the basic idea is the same: the app matches users with one another based on preferences and proximity, and alerts users with a push notification when there's a match in the vicinity.
Not exact matches
Nguyen [Color's founder] has visions of fundamentally changing some aspects of
social interaction and local
discovery with the app, which he considers part of the so -
called Post-PC movement.
Asked whether the
social network
called the ICO in the wake of the
discovery, Schroepfer said: «I don't think we did.»
MeetMe uses a fun array of
social discovery applications to help members meet, including games, a virtual currency, an anonymous question feature
called Ask Me, and a real - time live feed of all the most interesting activity on the site.
Meet Moi
calls themselves the mobile matchmaker and states clearly that they are not an online dating service, and fall into the category of
social discovery.
Indigo Books and Music released a
social community and book
discovery app in 2016
called Reco for iOS.
Barnes and Noble is trying to compete against GoodReads with their own ebook
discovery and
social media network
called Browsery.
Barnes and Noble has launched an ebook
discovery and
social media network
called Browsery.
Recent controversy towards the state of data safety and privacy on Facebook has been heightened by the
discovery that the
social media company scraped data on
calls and texts made on connected Android smartphones, at least during the period of November 2016 and July 2017.