Tokyo’s web service juggernauts Voyage Group (previously known as EC Navi) has announced it has set up a new division exclusively for developing Facebook apps – and today released a new Facebook app called Mosaic Face Me.
The app uses your profile image on Facebook, breaks it down into many tiny parts, and re-organizes a new image of you made up of small pieces of your Facebook friends’ profile images, as pictured below. It takes around one to three minutes to complete the own mosaic, which can be placed on your Facebook timeline with tags of the friends whose pictures it consists of.
Prior to the mosaic picture app, the company also introduced a Facebook app called Friendly Cover in November, which aggregates profile images of your Facebook connections and creates a cover image that fits your Facebook timeline. Osamu Yazawa, a manager at Voyage’s new FB app section, unveiled the app and said that it is currently used by 40,000 people in 160 countries worldwide.
According to CNET Japan, Mr. Yazawa was majoring in social welfare at his university and had been interested in developing an app that helps people meet, inspired by the need to tackle Japan’s low-birth rate issue. In May, he released a Facebook app that helps you find your potential partner, which is called ‘Menurut Anda?‘ (meaning ‘what do you think?’ in Bahasa Indonesia), and now it has more than 130,000 users in Indonesia.
[Hat-tip to Yuhei Iwamoto for his awesome story on CNET Japan – article in Japanese]
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