{"id":447385,"date":"2010-03-17T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/ce1122e462ee0539f126229d99303326"},"modified":"2010-03-17T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T23:18:00","slug":"article-iphone-app-need-a-%e2%80%9cdate%e2%80%9d-ppx-takes-the-%e2%80%9cx%e2%80%9d-part-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/447385","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: iPhone App: Need a \u201cdate\u201d? PPX takes the \u201cX\u201d part seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Between my gig here at PhoneDog and Today&rsquo;s iPhone, I get a tremendous amount of email. (Whenever I dare to take a couple of days off, I usually come back to 400+ messages. I kid you not. That&rsquo;ll teach me&hellip;)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So suffice it to say, it takes something to grab my attention. Here&rsquo;s one that stood out (for perhaps all the wrong reasons):&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em>Subj: Thrillist Nation: Use Your Cell To Score With Strangers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>From booty texts to racy pics, cell phones are helpful when coordinating lascivious meet-ups with people you already know, but when it comes to random strangers they&#8217;ve long been relegated to the pockets of your &#8220;flashing trench&#8221;&hellip;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, eeshk. Apparently the masterminds at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrillist.com\" >Thrillist<\/a> are intrigued about an iPhone app called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinpointsx.com\/home.aspx?utm_source=Rss&#038;utm_cammpaign=PhoneDog&#038;umt_medium=Blog\" >PinpointsX<\/a>, or PPX-to-go. The App Store page describes it as &ldquo;The Ultimate Resource That Points You To Romance.&rdquo;&nbsp;But&nbsp;Thrillist&#8217;s description of &ldquo;Adult Friend Finder for smartphones&rdquo; seems more accurate. PPX &mdash; which just launched on March 15 &mdash; is designed to find people fast hook-ups in their area. It even provides a text\/call function for integrated booty calls.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First users set up an online profile &mdash; with stuff like photo, age\/weight\/body descrip, what they&rsquo;re looking for, even adult proclivities\/interests. Then the app connects to that, and a &#8220;Passion Map&#8221; pops up that plots nearby matches, complete with profile information. That&rsquo;s not all &mdash; some of the results are pretty scary, including &#8220;Professional&#8221; users. (If you don&rsquo;t know what that means, you&rsquo;re probably too young to use this. Move along.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Users can text or call matches they&rsquo;re interested in, providing the recipient has approved an &#8220;Interaction Request.&#8221; Then PPX offers suggestions on nearby rendezvous places &mdash; from bars (to meet up), hotels (to hook up) and even strip clubs (for what, I don&rsquo;t even want to know). Afterward, users can log back in and rate their date and\/or save them to their &ldquo;My Fling&rdquo; list for future reference.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m no prude, but this is just in horrible taste. And yet, I have no doubt this will get plenty of downloads.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Man, I can&rsquo;t get Google Voice on my phone, but I have access to this? Yes I do know why, but that&#8217;s still nuts. Then again, who knows when the Apple censorship wagon will boot this booty app as well.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/3\/96922-0PPX-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"189\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/3\/96922-PPX-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/3\/96922-PPX-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>For iPhone apps, news, reviews and more, check out <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todaysiphone.com\"><em>TodaysiPhone.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Yi0ZS41Fli-O3FC94V3to_97VZI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Yi0ZS41Fli-O3FC94V3to_97VZI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Yi0ZS41Fli-O3FC94V3to_97VZI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Yi0ZS41Fli-O3FC94V3to_97VZI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/hj3Nyf2y7Ak\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Between my gig here at PhoneDog and Today&rsquo;s iPhone, I get a tremendous amount of email. (Whenever I dare to take a couple of days off, I usually come back to 400+ messages. I kid you not. That&rsquo;ll teach me&hellip;)&nbsp; So suffice it to say, it takes something to grab my attention. Here&rsquo;s one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}