Monday, November 4, 2013

Viddy goes Supernova: can the one-time king of mobile video get back in the spotlight?


Mobile video app Viddy's heyday was April 2012. It was the number one app in the App Store, had millions of active users thanks to Facebook's Open Graph functionality, and boasted more than $30 million in investments. A year and a half later, Viddy looks a little stale. The company fired its CEO, laid off a third of its staff, and saw usage numbers drop as Instagram video and Vine took over. But president and founder J.J. Aguhob isn't throwing in the towel. In fact, he's hoping for a new lease on life by renaming his company Supernova and launching two brand new iPhone apps today: Epic, for sharing slow-motion videos, and Clique, for ephemeral group chatting.


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/4/5064746/viddy-supernova-clique-epic-apps

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