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Rando’s 5M Anti-Social Photo Shares Could Be The Canary In The Social Networking Coalmine

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Rando only launched in March but the anti-social photo-sharing app that deliberately eschews the standard social network clutter of likes and comments and connections — simply letting users share random photos with random strangers and get random snaps in return — has blasted past 5M photo shares after a little over two months in the wild. It is now averaging around 200,000 shares per day. → Read More

May 5th, 2013

On Rekindling A Sense Of Mystery

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In the tangled web of digital social networks that we weave one thing is increasingly absent: a sense of mystery. We are so wrapped up in our digital social graphs there’s rarely room for gaps. The challenge now is about piecing together the endless jumble of data that’s being pushed at us. Instead of dreamers, we’re policemen sifting through a bottomless box of evidence. → Read More

March 18th, 2013

Ustwo’s Rando Is A Random Photo-Sharing App That Deliberately Snubs Social Features

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UK mobile games and app developer studio ustwo, creator of games and apps like Whale Trail and MouthOff to name a couple, has launched a new photo-sharing app called Rando. The kicker is it’s entirely random photo sharing. In other words, each of your photos (‘randos’) is randomly sent to another user (you never know who gets it). In return you receive a random rando — also from a random user. → Read More