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Trying out some new ideas for stickers within the Cupple app. You can now attach the stickers free of charge and have fun playing with the Sad Panda, Star and Horny Devil ;) This is one of our new designs - we'd love to know what you think of it? What would you call it? 

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Love shines a Light

Private sharing is a relatively new concept in the mobile digital world. To date, the emphasis has been around building networks, collecting ‘friends’ and accumulating digital contacts to share things with. 

The start of the 2012 has seen smaller, more meaningful networks emerge. Earlier last year Path and Google dipped their toes in the water but it’s the recent rise in popularity of Apps like Cupple, Duet and the recently launched Pair that signify a change is coming. The network of just 2 people makes as much sense online as it does in life, certainly for many couples. Our most significant adult relationship surely comes with our partner; the person we share the journey with closest. 

Cupple is a mobile app for iPhone that launched last year and has received various plaudits from the US, most notably The Wall Street Journal who recognised that Cupple puts a ‘welcome premium on privacy’. Designed for just 2 people in a relationship to share moments when they’re apart and identify places they want to go, Cupple cleverly harnesses a powerful network and delivers a simple solution.

This distilling of our social network and online life is a natural progression. Our lives become more refined as we make decisions around how we spend our time and who with. The role of our friends evolves to a quality over quantity arrangement; we spend time and share most with those who mean the most to us.

These methods of using social networks for more grown up exchanges makes perfect sense when you align them with the real world. Facebook has a teenage feel to it and perhaps that’s where it’ll always be best suited. It’s a flurry of events, likes, links and ads leaving the users not quite sure why they’re using it but unable to pull themselves away from it. But the first Facebook generation is growing up.

One can feel a groundswell of change. The smart money and time is in the refinement of bigger ideas and established platforms. Facebook won’t be caught and their recent acquisition of Instagram highlights the fact even further. Perhaps the change in trend is in not trying to light up the room in one go but simply putting a candle on a table for people to sit down at. Allowing users to express themselves together in smaller circles, with no fear of ex classmates or people they met for fifteen minutes listening in and commenting on the conversation. 

Private sharing and intimate networks facilitate a new kind of online publishing and expression. A place where the indecision around sharing broadly to big groups is taken away and creates a timeline to truly be part of. 

Mobile products need to be more thoughtful and mindful of the people using them. As Facebook becomes a social scrapbook of lives gone by, a space has emerged for new products to reflect the way we live our life tomorrow.

'Love shines a Light' by Tim Allison, Cupple CEO & CO Founder appeared in The Journal, Tech Notes section on April 26th. 

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Cupple version update

We're pleased to announce the new version update 2.1.3 is now available for download from the App Store. Please update your version to fix the issues we encountered over the Easter weekend. Thank you for your patience and support and we hope you enjoy the new version. Share the Love. Team Cupple. 

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Got some lovely badges delivered tonight. Looking forward to handing them out at SXSW in a few days time! 

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Green light on the T-Shirt designs. Ltd edition run of 5 for #SXSW

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It's Date Night for Cupple in the App Store. We had an email from Apple last week announcing their new 'Date Night' section of the App Store and telling us we would be featured in the U.S. We're really happy to be included in such an exposed part of the store and we're in with some really cool Apps. We've seen our downloads increase by over 200% since last week with lots of people using the service. Thanks to everyone for their support and keep your eyes open for the new update of Cupple coming very soon! Cheers, Tim. 

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Designing of Cupple V2 is well underway. We're grateful of all the feedback we've had over the past few months and we're really looking forward to showing you what's been going on. The new version will be with you in time for Valentines Day. Tim. 

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Happy New Year! Well, 2012 is up and running. Thanks for all the support in 2011.

We wanted to give you an update on what we're working on and what you can expect from Cupple the start of this year. We're very close to finishing an update for the current version that sees a few core improvements you've asked for. In the main these involve the sign-up process being easier, keeping you in-app for any web pages like FAQ's and Terms and also letting you start sharing content before your partner signs up. These were the main things we wanted to address for you and we hope they improve your experience and enjoyment of Cupple.  In other news we're working on some really cool updates and features for a new version due in February. These developments are geared around your experience of sharing with your partner in Cupple and adding ways to make this more fun and personal to you. We're really excited about these developments and look forward to telling you more about them a bit closer to the time. 

Speak soon, Tim.