New App Records Your Friends’ Reactions to Your Photo Messages (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7n90zp7-ks1Sf3FjoZUi31KXYNhNnxuMrvyj136XtGuKDgmmmFs5j0_GL-wxAyEz4XLj_Pa0tIBcRgYP3wG27xp8HVja8Q-BZ5AC7DGY7YyaejsNAVSbBu0gwdxGKIIuZoodf398HRt0/s1600/757e05827b53a4ce8ec2dc94e83e444dd4a6a01d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7n90zp7-ks1Sf3FjoZUi31KXYNhNnxuMrvyj136XtGuKDgmmmFs5j0_GL-wxAyEz4XLj_Pa0tIBcRgYP3wG27xp8HVja8Q-BZ5AC7DGY7YyaejsNAVSbBu0gwdxGKIIuZoodf398HRt0/s1600/757e05827b53a4ce8ec2dc94e83e444dd4a6a01d.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">One of the great things about the Internet is experiencing things together in real time. You want to see what people are saying about Miley Cyrus’ tongue, Olivia Pope’s white Armani suits and Richard Sherman’s post-game interviews as they appear on your TV screen. Twitter is a great, sprawling public forum for that, but not so much for personal interactions between friends.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">This is where <a data-rapid_p="48" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;g:62893677-1cd0-3392-a1c4-120693f44d01;ct:1;t1:a5;t4:18;itc:0;" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dumbstruck/id713590482?mt=8" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Dumbstruck</a> could come in handy. It’s a messaging app that records your friends’ immediate reactions to private photo messages. As soon as your friend opens your message, their smartphone’s camera records a short video of them and their subsequent reaction and then sends the reaction to you.  </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">The recorded reactions are automatically deleted after a day, but you can also choose to save them to your camera or to share them via Facebook or Twitter.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">Interested? Here’s how Dumbstruck works:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">1. <a data-rapid_p="49" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;g:62893677-1cd0-3392-a1c4-120693f44d01;ct:1;t1:a5;t4:18;itc:0;" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dumbstruck/id713590482?mt=8" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Download the Dumbstruck app on iOS</a> and open it up.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">2. Tap on the camera button on the bottom right of the screen.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;"><img alt="image" height="750" src="http://l3.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w423/96f008779bb26acdddebf4dfd4d736884c5b858d" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="423" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">3. The camera app will open up. Snap a photo of whatever you’d like to send. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">4. Below the photo, you’ll have the option to add text or draw on the photo (as show below). </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;"><img alt="image" height="750" src="http://l1.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w423/90cf3b01948b0c657cf16a9ca5b67dd908fe569d" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="423" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">5. Spice up that photo. Or don’t and be boring. That’s on you.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;"><img alt="image" height="750" src="http://l1.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w423/fa62a29422468bf78121ca1609bcda208492f535" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="423" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">6. Choose the lucky recipient for your masterpiece. And click <strong>Send</strong> in the upper-right corner of the screen.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;"><img alt="image" height="750" src="http://l3.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w423/9664b8a3a9fa57cbb5b44057bfc4bffdf5ec2976" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="423" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">7. Wait patiently for the person to see and react to your message. When your recipient opens your image and records her reaction, the sent item will be marked as “Reacted” in your inbox.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;"><img alt="image" height="750" src="http://l3.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w423/a55ec8053fc93043de94f1ef06fac6ba84cb9f36" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="423" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">8. Tap on the message. You’ll be brought to the screen where you can play your friend’s reaction. Maybe it’s one of joy, confusion — or disgust over your incessant obsession with new apps. You’ll only know when you press the <strong>Play</strong> button at the center of the screen.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;"><img alt="image" height="750" src="http://l.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w423/ce9aac516ea7a37c847b81691dc30fef7650decb" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="423" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">9. Watch the reaction. Oh, she’s smiling! Phew. That was fun. Sort of.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;"><img alt="image" height="750" src="http://l1.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w423/c9cc1e83869f9d4a437b7181c2ac012232ee7c59" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="423" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">That’s about it! Now go weird the world out. It’s free, after all.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">You can <a data-rapid_p="50" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;g:62893677-1cd0-3392-a1c4-120693f44d01;ct:1;t1:a5;t4:18;itc:0;" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dumbstruck/id713590482?mt=8" style="color: #324fe1; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">download Dumbstruck right here</a>. </div></div>

New App Records Your Friends’ Reactions to Your Photo Messages (BLOG)

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