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Angela Natividad
Angela Natividad is a freelance copywriter, journalist and strategist based in Paris. She co-founded AdVerveBlog.com, a blog and podcast about ads and design, and writes MarketingProfs' “Get to the Point!: Social Media” newsletters. She likes people and animals, but not as much as books.
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James Martin
James Martin is the community manager of music & TV tradeshows midem & MIPTV/MIPCOM. He edits their respective industry news & trends blogs (blog.midem.com & mipblog.com) and also covers video games and technology for French cultural weekly A Nous Paris
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Stuart Dredge
Stuart Dredge is a freelance journalist based in the UK. He writes about digital music for Music Ally, and about apps and mobile for The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Appside, as well as his own Apps Playground site.
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Kahnoodle is Pair meets Groupon. Yes, a daily deals app for couples.

Take two trends, mash them together. What do you get? OH THE HORROR!

This may be harsh on Kahnoodle, a new iPhone app that hopes to be “the fun & effortless way for busy couples to keep their relationship fresh and exciting”.

No, not swinging. Shame on you. This is less about group sex, and more about Groupon. Well, daily deals anyway: a feature to “search every daily deal site in one app to find discounts on awesome dates”.

That, and “give each other virtual pats on the back (‘kudos’) for doing sweet things for each other”. But we sense that’s not the likely lucrative business model that’s being aimed at here.

So, Kahnoodle is essentially the trend for daily-deals apps mixed with the newer trend for social-networking-for-couples apps (see: Pair, Cupple, Between). Perhaps it’ll be as big as swinging was in the 1980s. Place some pampas-grass plants on your balcony if you’re using it.