Kik It!
For those of you who haven’t been seeing Facbook statuses and Tweets sharing your friends kik screen names- get ready, because chances are you’re about to.
Kik is a cross platform messaging app for all smart phones. It’s very similar to Blackberry messaging (BBM), in the sense that it shows your message has been sent, delivered and read (so you can throw the “I never got that text” excuse out the window). The app looks for for contacts in your address book that have signed up for Kik, and suggests adding them to your Kik contact list simply by messaging them.
Kik’s website stated that “by Monday evening, we hit a peak of 3 new users a second, with no sign of a let-up.” Kik registered 450,000 downloads in the first 10 days since going live, and showed 150,000 new users in just 15 hours on Tuesday, according to chief executive Ted Livingston. 14 days after the launch the amount of users quickly surpassed 700,000 and is growing exponentially.
The most exciting and compelling news about Kik is its potential. Kik can let you take and send pictures, as well as stream the music you’re listening to directly from your phone over your friend’s phone. The same can be done for video, and here’s the best part: it can be done over any device, phone, computer, video game consoles- anything with a browser. While none of these services are available right now with the app, Livingston demonstrated this advanced streaming technology, and can update the app down the road.
Kik is a free application, available on iPhones, BlackBerrys, and Android devices. Visit the app store for your device and search Kik to find it. More information is on its website here.
