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Google releases new 'Who's Down' app to make it easier to make plans with friends

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 31 Oct 2015 7:09 User comments (1)

Google releases new 'Who's Down' app to make it easier to make plans with friends

Google has released a new app this week, "Who's Down," to make it easier to make plans with your friends.
The app, in its basic form, will let you know what friends are free and looking to go out, but of course for it to really work it will require a lot of people actively using it and as of now there are very few. Compounding that problem is the fact that the app is invite-only currently.

In the app, you can toggle a switch that lets your friends know you are available for the next three hours, and it lets you choose from a list of popular activities like "dinner" or "movies."

The app also allows you to see what friends are down for, and chat with them from within the app.

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11.11.2015 12:14

First thing I thought of when I saw this article was the old "What's uppppp" TV commercial. lol

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