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Bump was a very popular file sharing application back in the day. Users could share files with each other simply through “bumping” their devices together. The app might have lost its lustre recently but that didn’t stop Google from picking up the company in September 2013. It seemed like a talent focused aquisition because work on the company’s apps stopped soon after the acquisition. Now it has formally been announced that the company’s Bump and Flock apps are going to be shut down and removed from the App Store and the Google Play Store on January 31, 2014.

Even though Flock wasn’t as popular as Bump, users are likely to miss it as well. It is an automatic photo sharing application which is capable of recognizing faces in photos. Once it identifies people in a photo, Flock can share it with them. Those who have been using both of these apps for quite some time and have data in them can simply launch then right now and get instructions on how to take out their data. It should be kept in mind that all data is going to be wiped once the shutdown date has lapsed, so there’s no point in procrastinating if you have data in the apps. Even though the apps will be no more, the team will continue to work on projects at Google.

Google To Shut Down Bump And Flock Apps original content from Ubergizmo.

Remember Bump, that nifty little app that let you transfer data from phone to phone—or phone to computer—with a handy little NFC-free bump? Well now it belongs to Google.

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Flock, Bump Technologies’ photo-sharing app, has just added localization for 15 different languages, gaining it potential international appeal. Founded by CEO David Lieb, Flock is essentially a photo-sharing app that collects photos taken within a certain location and remembers who you were with thanks to that aforementioned geo-tracking data. It’s similar to Highlight or even Color, except the app doesn’t need to be open. Instead, a push notification is sent to all users in attendance, giving them a choice to create a group album of shared photos.

Lieb tells us that it’s picked up some notable user stats since the app’s debut in July last year. Apparently more than 60 percent of the photos that Flock recommends are actually shared, and push notification response rates are around 40 to 50 percent. He also revealed that the average user gets around 33 photos from friends every week, while active users share 25 to 40 percent of all photos taken. It’s no wonder then that the company aims to widen its reach with added localization — after all, we know how well that’s worked for other social networks. Head on past the break to see Flock in action, or just download it yourself from the source. Added languages are iOS-only, with the Android version remaining monolingual for now.

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