The CEO of Proximate Global met his college friend Umair Aziz, CTO of Creative Chaos and the idea clicked. Such needs of connecting sparked off an idea in Hameed Khan’s head. However, a key gap remains: how do we transport all our friends, followers and contacts from the cyberworld into our real lives?
FACE2FACE APP PROFESSIONAL
LinkedIn lets us expand our professional world. Twitter lets us shout (or tweet) crisp updates to our network of avid followers.
It goes beyond that and lets us (those of us who are really nosy) stay up to date with the lives of people who are friends of our friends. But how do we ensure such a chance meeting occurs without coordinating with one another in advance?įacebook allows us to stay up to date with our friends’ lives. We all love it when we bump into our best friends at the cinema when we go out to catch the latest flick – especially if we happen to be in the same cinema at the same time. And its creators are on their way to much much more!Įveryone hates to miss out on an opportunity to meet up with good friends. It has been featured in Mashable, The New York Times, the MIT Journal and Wired and hailed as an application inspiring genius and innovation.
Less than six months after its launch, Face2Face crossed 100,000 users in January 2011 in North America alone. A cup of tea and two Pakistani brains made it possible to bring to life the new online social network, ‘Face2Face’ App Alerts Users When Their Online Friends Are Nearby