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Meet Rooms, Facebook’s semi-anonymous app and first real attempt to fix the broken problem of social

on October 23, 2014

Facebook aims to “recapture the original magic of the Internet” — chatrooms — with its latest standalone app. But can the next big thing in social really come from the old big thing in social?

Convore is reborn as Grove.io, a chat service for businesses

on January 10, 2012

Group chat startup Convore had pretty good traction after launching out of Y Combinator last year. But in the competitive world of consumer social apps, “pretty good” isn’t enough. So Convore’s founder Leah Culver built a new, business-focused iteration of the group chat service, called Grove.io.