What? Another iOS photo sharing app? No, wait, keep reading! The just-released Piictu app (official site, iTunes) has some new tricks to show you.
Piictu’s big idea is to treat the photos you post not as the traditional timeline view we associate with blogs and apps like Instagram, but rather as a series of conversations, each on a certain theme.
Suppose I post a picture of my dogs, Daisy and Jake. Any of my friends who see that — or anyone on the service as a whole — can then post a picture reply to that photo, perhaps of their own dogs, or some other pet. Someone else can post another reply, and so on. Piictu groups responses together to encourage an ongoing conversation.
The power of this simple idea is perhaps best demonstrated by this photo thread pictured in the second half of this post, where an impromptu multiplayer game of tic-tac-toe took place between several of Piictu’s beta testers.
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Piictu puts the fun into iOS picture sharing originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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