The founders of Fabulis and GayCities, as we’ve reported, are both aiming to build social networks that help gay people find friends both at home and on trips. Fabulis has just launched its iPhone app, which focuses on finding events and members nearby. GayCities has had an app since last year, but has revamped it twice to add location check-ins and friend-finding.
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Publicly, Goldberg and Gatz have nothing but compliments about their rival sites, depicting them as part of a movement to satisfy a generation of gay and lesbian consumers that’s embracing social and mobile media and looking for experiences that aren’t all about hooking up. But it’s clear from looking at their constantly revised sites and apps that they’re carefully watching each other’s development and pushing their products forward.
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