Eventually GaymerConnect will be producing a related app, which Kayce Brown director of business development of GaymerConnect, said will be similar to Grindr.

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For example, the people who designed the original cell phone at Ericsson, none of them had any inkling that a use would be to enable gay people to hook up in bars as with Grindr.

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Many Internet dating companies, including Grindr, are trying to devise ways to make this kind of thing work for straight people, which means making it work for straight women, who may not need an app to know that they are surrounded by willing straight men.

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But thanks to Grindr, there are over three million gay men in 192 countries who have replaced that guesswork with a wireless device that lets them find others that may be as close as the next table in a restaurant, according to my November 21st interview with CEO, Joel Simkhai.

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