Friday, June 19, 2015

Lauren Talbot: Making Texting and Dating Mesh

Lauren Talbot learned that texting during dating was a minefield of its own. While dating apps were great for meeting people online, texting was a different genre with different rules – when to text, what to text, and why text in the first place – which bewildered her.

Talbot decided to do something about it and PVLL (pronounced as “pull”) was born. PVLL is Talbot’s attempt at answering the Digital Age question: Can data be a solution in solving the riddles related to early-romance texting? With her new Android app, she appears nearer to answering it.

PVLL is an application that can control, monitor and analyze text messages, which can then be used to create graphs showing useful information for users. The information includes which partner initiates the text exchange and who takes longer to reply to text messages. The app also provides users with the tools to send entire text conversations to others for their inputs as well as edit and recall texts by up to 5 seconds after pressing the “send” button.

While the app has only gained 2,000 users, Talbot is confident that PVLL will be the next big thing in texting.

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