Now, the creator of Grindr produces founded an innovative newer program Blendr that replicates Grindr’s template, with one crucial position: it permits female to join up, aswell.

Grindr chairman and President Joel Simkhai pledges that Blendr, which founded through the new apple iphone 4 and myspace on Sep 8, is not about hookups, but friendships.

a€?we have seen social networking and thought that it wasn’t actually social,a€? Simkhai mentioned in a position interview. a€?With Blendr, the audience is getting a€?social’ into social networking. Your come at myspace and you will probably show matters, nonetheless cannot actually meet new-people. With Blendr there will be no better way to manufacture brand-new contacts.a€?

There’s reason to be suspicious of Simkhai’s reported factor, considering that Grindr, which claims obtaining a€?quick, convenient, and discerning,a€? is actually far more dating website than myspace and facebook. But Simkhai claims that Blendr and Grindr don’t have a lot of in respect when considering [...]