You can tell a lot about a person from their mobile app library. Are they avid Doodle Jumpers, or do they prefer to challenge their wits with a few rounds of Civilization? Do they stretch their vocal chords to the beats of T-Pain or Glee's background choir? You get the idea.
Given how much time people spend building out their app libraries, it doesn't come as much of a surprise that they love to share their collections with friends. In fact, Bump an app that makes it easy to swap contact information, music, and other data between mobile devices says that users have been asking for an easy way to share lists of their favorite apps for ages, and that it's the second most popular request overall (behind music sharing, which has already been implemented). Today, all of those users are getting their wish granted.
Bump has just launched a new version of its iPhone application that makes it easy to share apps with your friends. Fire up the new feature, and you'll be shown a list of apps that have been installed on your phone (more on that in a moment). Tap the ones you want to recommend to your friend, Bump your phone with theirs, and they'll immediately receive a list of your recommendations along with links to the App Store for each.
Now, Bump isn't the first application that lets you get a list of your iPhone applications. We've seen others like Chomp and Appolicious, which let you share app recommendations with friends and can also suggest applications based on your previous ratings. Update: Appsfire allows you to detect the applications on your phone and share them over the air.
The difference, says Bump co-founder David Lieb, is that the app exchange using Bump is more personal. You aren't posting your recommendations to followers on Facebook, or through the application's internal social networkyou're tapping your phone together with a friend and swapping recommendations immediately (assuming they have Bump too).
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