Free, New iPhone App Brings Trivia into the Social Gaming Age

LOS ANGELES, OCTOBER 19, 2011 — Border Stylo today announced the launch of its new social gaming app, Trivia Together. Available now on the App Store, Trivia Together adds a new twist to the classic game of trivia and brings it to the iPhone, enabling casual and competitive gamers alike to compete against each other and prove themselves ultimate trivia masters!

With features such as Facebook, Twitter, SMS and email integration, players can easily start a game against one of their friends at any time from anywhere. Each game consists of ten trivia questions that are answered in turn, giving each player 30 seconds to answer the question. Players must race against the clock and answer as many questions correctly as possible to earn more points. The player with the most points wins the game.

Trivia Together appeals to trivia newcomers and hardened enthusiasts alike and sets itself apart from the competition with the ability for users to start games with their friends on Facebook and Twitter, challenge another player at random, or simply play a few games at any time against a trivia-playing bot. In-game chat and real-time push notifications enable fast-paced games that keep players on their toes, engaged with the other player, and fun-spirited throughout. When games end, players can instantly share the results on their Facebook and Twitter streams, encouraging their friends to join.

“Trivia Together captures the best of both worlds as it maintains the authentic look and feel of a classic 1970s-era board or quiz show game while also leveraging the latest in cutting edge social gaming,” said Adam Sexton, CMO of Border Stylo. “Online social interaction is becoming one of the most important features of entertainment these days and we are proud to have designed and released a mobile game that takes this to the next level giving users a whole new mobile gaming experience.”

Whether played casually at home, competitively at a bar, or with your Facebook and Twitter friends on the other side of the country, Trivia Together attracts a wide audience of people to the classic game of trivia. Trivia Together is available for free download here: www.triviatogether.com

With the nonstop proliferation of social media platforms and mobile communication-based apps, sometimes I think email is going the way of the dinosaurs. For further proof of that theory, check out Glass.

Launched by startup Border Stylo last year, Glass allows you to share your thoughts with friends and colleagues about anything on the web by literally placing notes and embedding pictures or videos on top of a website. Conversations about the marked-up web page are instantaneous and occur in real-time.

You can also check out what other Glass users are doing by viewing popular slides curated by the Glass community, or you can search for slides about interesting topics.

Previously only available for Firefox and Chrome, they just released their Safari plug-in for all of you Mac users.

Keep your eye on Border Stylo. I just covered their “Retrollect App”, which runs on Glass, and from my vantage point, their product development team seems to be full of cool ideas.

Thanks to the invention of Border Stylo, the user can talk about everything, but not with everyone.

In fact the comments are exclusively for people with whom you choose to share a thought, a critique or just organizing an evening at the restaurant.

A default private formula. As a Post-it stuck on the fridge, Glass allows you to display your thoughts, actions and news with your friends that, in this way, can share the experience.

-This article was first featured on Space Cool Hunting. You can read the original article here.

Whoever has played with, seen or tried at least once a View-Master, raise your hand! The original View-Master was created in the late 30′s as an updated version of another popular optical device, the stereoscope. The initial intention of the creators was to produce a new postcard viewer, making use of recently introduced technologies (Eastman Kodak had recently released its Kodachrome color film on the market). Differently from the older stereoscope, the View-Master could hold several slides at once. The slides were mounted on paper discs containing seven pairs of slides – each pair composing a stereoscopic image. The View-Master was then marketed as a children’s toy, and many of us have probably known it as thus.

This article was originally written by Pu the Owl and featured on appotography. You can read the original article here