Bump Technologies launched in 2008 and is located in Mountain View, Calif.
(meta data) TITLE: Bump photo-sharing app Flock finally flies over to Android | VentureBeat (meta data) PUBLISHER: https://www.facebook.com/venturebeat/ (meta data) PUBLISHED DATETIME: 2012-12-18T20:00:00+00:00 # Bump photo-sharing app Flock finally flies over to Android J. O'Dell December 18, 2012 12:00 PM ## MOST READ Waymo cars refuse to drive in unsafe conditions LG Dual Screen review: A foldable enigma If Apple Watch adopts Apple Card's poor titanium coating, look out Huawei details AI chips for training and inference VMware acquires Pivotal and Carbon Black for nearly $5 billion ## UPCOMING EVENTS GamesBeat Summit 2020 April 28-29, 2020 Flock, the stupidly simple app for dealing with group photos, has finally make its way over to the Android platform. Basically, Flock recognizes the photos on your phone that were taken with your family and friends. Then it automagically creates a single album in the cloud and shares it with everyone in that set of pics. It all happens in the background. All you have to do is download the app; the rest is set-it-and-forget-it simple. The app comes from Bump, the startup that brought you its flagship bump-phones-to-exchange-contact-info app. "Android has been growing at unprecedented rates, and even those folks not using Android have friends and family who are, so we expect this launch to make the Flock experience better for everyone," said Bump CEO Dave Lieb in a blog post on the news. "As with our iOS version, we've taken care to make sure that Flock for Android is a great experience for people, and we're experimenting with a few new UI ideas that are well-suited for Android." Here's a demo video showing how Flock works: The Flock team says the average active Flock user will get around 26 photos each week — pics snapped by other people, and pics that they would never have seen otherwise because they're not being publicly shared on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, or other social services. You can download Flock free in the Google Play store. Bump was founded in 2008 in Chicago and is currently based in Mountain View, Calif. It's raised roughly $20 million in venture capital to date. Flock's competitors are few and mostly reside in the private-photo-sharing space — for example, Kicksend. Top image courtesy of NinaMalyna, Shutterstock
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Bump (application)
History.
The underlying idea of a synchronous gesture like bumping two devices for content transfer or pairing them was first conceived by Ken Hinkley of Microsoft Research in 2003. This idea was presented at a user interface and technology conference that same year. The paper proposed the use of accelerometers and a bumping gesture of two devices to enable communication, screen sharing and content transfer between them. Similar to this original concept, the idea for Bump app was conceived by David Lieb, a former employee of Texas Instruments, while he was attending the University of Chicago Booth School of Business for his MBA. While going through the orientation and meeting process of business school, he became frustrated by constantly entering contact information into his iPhone and felt that the process could be improved. His fellow Texas Instruments employees Andy Huibers and Jake Mintz, who was a classmate of Lieb’s at the University of Chicago’s MBA program, joined Lieb to form Bump Technologies.