[ad_1] Kit is the first Apple Watch app from NPE Team, Facebook’s research and development group. The team was responsible for meme-making app Whale, a chat service called Bump and social music listening tool Aux. More recently, it released Tuned, an app for couples to share things in private with each other. The availability of […]
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Facebook quietly released a meme creation app called Whale
[ad_1] NPE (which stands for New Product Experimentation) was set up a few months back to work on, you guessed it, experimental Facebook apps. The team’s previous efforts include Bump, a chat app that helps strangers connect over simple ice breaker questions, and Aux, a group listening app that lets you pick songs and compete […]
Facebook hires former Vine head for its New Product Experimentation Team
[ad_1] Now that we’ve moved to CA, I suppose it’s a good time to share what I’m up to next! In two weeks, I’ll be joining Facebook as a PM Director starting up a new initiative under the recently formed NPE team (https://t.co/HzK6Bjqzqx) — Jason Toff (@jasontoff) July 15, 2019 Toff left Vine in 2016 […]
Facebook is working on ‘entirely new’ apps and ‘experiences’
[ad_1] The NPE Team aims to be more nimble than Facebook. It says it will work quickly and won’t hesitate to shut down apps if they flounder. “We expect many failures,” Facebook wrote in a blog post. “We also want to minimize disruption to the billions of people who use Facebook apps every day.” The […]