My new favorite iPhone app – Bump #blogher

Let’s say that you’re hanging out in your office one day when all of a sudden you spy one of your oldest friends.

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After a passionate kiss, you decide to exchange contact information, but you don’t have any business cards.

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Whatever shall you do? Don’t fear, Bump is here for iPhones! Bump is a quick, easy way to share contact information with any other iPhone user with the Bump app installed. It’s free, so download it, install it, and you’re ready to go.

Step 1: Open Bump and either create your profile or select an existing one. Save your settings and wait for a friend to show up so you can Bump them!

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Step 2: When you meet someone to Bump, just open the Bump app on your iPhone:

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Step 3: Wait for the app to notify you that it’s ready, then Bump with your friend:

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Step 4: Confirm the transfer, and now your friend’s profile is saved in your Contacts. It’s that easy!

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If you’re going to BlogHer in four days, and you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, I want to Bump you until you’re sore. Be ready.

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90 Responses to My new favorite iPhone app – Bump #blogher

  1. my cell company doesn’t even support the iphone. Oh, sometimes I hate living in the boonies

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    @thepsychobabble, only AT&T supports the iPhone.

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  2. Miss Britt
    Twitter:
    says:

    You should have included video of all of us bumping this weekend!

    Remember? Hilly and I giggled?

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    @Miss Britt, we were bumping like crazy. I wish I had video of it, too. That was hot.

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    @Miss Britt, We totally giggled like little girls. It was fun!

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  3. Shelli
    Twitter:
    says:

    No bumping for me. I have a Blackberry. Which I love enough to not be envious of bumping iPhoners.

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    @Shelli, you should be jealous. The Blackberry has nothing on the iPhone. :)

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    @Shelli, I’m with you. :D

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  4. Poppy
    Twitter:
    says:

    (Be careful what you ask for.)

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    @Poppy, I’ll bump and give two-armed hugs!

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    @Avitable, I’m gonna be at the zoo and at the IMAX and at restaurants and partying my 35-y-o ass off in Queens/Manhattan. How are you going to give me two-armed hugs from Chicago?

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    @Poppy, very carefully.

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    @Avitable, you’re going to fly in just to give me a hug?! WOOT!

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    @Poppy, well, that would mean visiting NYC, which I’ve sworn never to do!

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    @Avitable, you’re visiting POPPY, not NYC.

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    @Poppy, but that means I have to enter NYC!

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    @Avitable, I will accept a video made on my birthday of you hugging someone who looks like me or whose name is the same as mine, then a direct look into the camera to say, “Happy Birthday, Poppy!” That works.

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    @Poppy, maybe I was going to do that but you ruined it so I’ll have to do something else.

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    @Avitable, but maybe not. So I guess I see if I get anything at all. Lump of coal, I’m guessing.

    @Poppy, lumps of coal can be fun too!

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  5. I command you to Bump me hard.

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    @Angie [A Whole Lot of Nothing], ooh yeah baby.

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  6. Laurin says:

    This solves my don’t have a Poken problem! I’ll just say I don’t want to be poked, I want to be Bumped.

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    @Laurin, and I shall Bump you!

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  7. Faiqa
    Twitter:
    says:

    Bumping crotches is NOT mandatory? You bastard. You could have told me that before.

    Reply

    @Faiqa, that’s what you get for being so gullible.

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  8. kapgar
    Twitter:
    says:

    Please tell me you do not own the rights to firecrotch.com because, my friend, that would be cybersquatting and you’ll be hearing from my attorney!

    Reply

    @kapgar, I wish. I totally should see if it’s available.

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  9. Amanda
    Twitter:
    says:

    You look for any excuse to post a photo of your crotch, don’t you?

    Reply

    @Amanda, why yes. How’d you guess?

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  10. Sybil Law says:

    Nice! I’ve now copied all of Thor’s information. He’s hot!

    Reply

    @Sybil Law, call him anytime.

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  11. Poppy Buxom
    Twitter:
    says:

    This app sucks! I did just what Avitable said. I went to the app store, downloaded it, fired it up, and tapped it with my penis. But guess what? Nothing happened.

    Reply

    @Poppy Buxom, I’ll try tapping it with my penis then.

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  12. Miss Grace says:

    Works on iPod Touch? Yay or nay?

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    @Miss Grace, I believe that it does, yes.

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  13. I’m going to download it now. My God, technology never fails to impress me, or freak me the hell out.

    Reply

    @Overflowing Brain (Katie), it’s fun, too!

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  14. Maria
    Twitter:
    says:

    Bumping the SHIT out of you.

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    @Maria, I’ll bump you until you’re sore.

    Reply

  15. Julie says:

    holy macaroni, is that a penis pointer I see?

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    @Julie, yes it is. Studies show that penises pointing to items work better than any other pointer.

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    @Avitable, you’re joshin’ me boy. but i love you for it!

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  16. Kris says:

    Well since crotch bumping isn’t mandatory, why bother?

    Alas, I am technology less. I have a VIRGIN mobile phone, because um…that’s the only virgin I gots, ya’ll. ;D

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    Oh, and um, it helps that I’m not going to BlogHer either…so there’s that.

    Still, crotch bumping should be mandatory.

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    @Kris, Virgin has some good phones, too. Nothing quite like the iPhone, though.

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    @Avitable, Heh…I have a reallllly old one. They don’t even make it anymore I don’t think. It’s the VOX 8610. Methinks it’s time to update.

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  17. Dave2
    Twitter:
    says:

    I’ve had the app installed since it was released because it sounded so cool. To date I have found nobody with whom I can bump. I’ll be sure to bump you when I show up for Avitaween.

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    @Dave2, nobody? Hilly’s a Bumper now, too.

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    @Avitable, This made me giggle.

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  18. OK. For a second there, I was going to beat your ass because I installed it and it kept crashing. So, I deleted and tried it a second time and, whaddaya know, it worked!

    So, we’ll be bumping ugl… iPhones in Chicago? :D

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    @Coal Miner’s Granddaughter, yes. We’ll be bumping pretties!

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  19. jordie says:

    This sort of unnecessary bumping seems lewd and naughty.

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    @jordie, that’s why I wear protection.

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  20. Christy says:

    I must admit, I’d not heard of this app until I read it here. And I try to keep up with these things!!! As soon as I read this post (reading in bed, using my iPhone..Google Reader Mobile, natch) I downloaded the app. Then I commandeered the huz’s phone so I could “bump” him in bed. Niiiiice.

    Now how do we get the rest of the world to catch on?

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    @Christy, one blog post at a time.

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  21. John says:

    Soooooo… Thor works at Bath & Body Works. Huh.

    And you Sir, are the Incredible Shrinking Man.

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    @John, I’m actually the Incredible Shrinky Dink Man. I go into the oven and come out 50% smaller!

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    @Avitable, As long as the dink doesn’t shrink, right? *snerk*

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  22. Yo is Me says:

    i read that web address as “lou be da’nus”.

    Reply

    @Yo is Me, it’s related to Lou Bega.

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  23. bethie says:

    wooooah buddy!

    I wanna be bumped :(

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    @bethie, I’ll bump you next time I see you. Even if you don’t have an iPhone.

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  24. I have Bump, but I won’t be at BlogHer. However, I hope to attend your Halloween bash. We shall bump then.

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    @Amanda of Shamelessly Sassy, I hope you can attend too – did you fill out the mailing list?

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    @Avitable,
    I think I filled it out. It was in a post, right? If not, then I may not have filled it out, because I haven’t received any sort of email about it.

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  25. Daduck says:

    What an awesome little application. Too bad I don’t think we will ever be in the same area to Bump. *cries*

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    @Daduck, never ever never?

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  26. Lynda says:

    You mean I could have bumped you in Kentucky? I’m so disappointed now.

    Maybe in October instead?

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    @Lynda, I didn’t have it on my phone then. October it is.

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  27. Toni says:

    Okay I am coming out of hiding. I am officially deflowering myself in your comments. Fearing that I may be one of those mommy bloggers you blast I have never commented (Dear God Please Give Me Favor With Avitable). However, you and I seem to be on the same page about some things I figure I have that going for me if nothing else.

    *A mental insert: Although it is totally tempting to wish for a bash post here about yourself, I could totally market an “Avitable Bashed Me and Made Me Famous” something or other.

    Back to the original point of my comment. I just found out about this bumping last night. Now I feel complete and maybe a little dirty. I can be bumped and poked all weekend at BlogHer. It will be especially fun if I get to go back and blog “I was bumped by Avitable”. Regardless I do so look forward to meeting you this weekend.

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    @Toni, I don’t bash people unless they actively deserve it. Do you? :)

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  28. muskrat
    Twitter:
    says:

    Isn’t this the new trend in the UK, where they go into bushes with strangers in public parks? Chicago is so going to be full of VD after you leave.

    Reply

    @muskrat, that’s felching.

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  29. NYCWD
    Twitter:
    says:

    Hmmm… I wonder if this works for the iPod Touch too…

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    @NYCWD, I was wondering the same thing. I would guess if you are connected to WiFi, it would work.

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    @NYCWD, if you actually read my post all the way through, you’d see that I said that it works with both! Damn skimmer.

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    @Avitable, I did read the post all the way through… but if an iPodTouch and an iPod Touch bump, how do they swap the info if there is no wi-fi? That’s really what I was wondering… trying to figure out how that would work… damn not explaining reviewer!

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  30. The Demigod
    Twitter:
    says:

    No seriously, this made me a little wet.

    Reply

    @The Demigod, and hard? Or did you just pee yourself and that was it?

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  31. Mrs. Flinger
    Twitter:
    says:

    BRILLERZ! (And yea, I just said fucking brillerz…)

    I’m downloading it now. However, I don’t have a penis to tap the screen so I’m hoping a hard nipple works?

    Reply

    @Mrs. Flinger, that should work. You can demonstrate for me soon.

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  32. VDog
    Twitter:
    says:

    FUCK YEAH!!!!

    I’m TOTES gonna bump you baby. Tomorrow. Raur.

    Reply

    @VDog, my crotch looks forward to it!

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  33. Daduck says:

    Unless you come here. Florida is a bit far from me when I visit my folks back home (again) in Indiana.

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    @Daduck, pfft – only a few scant hours.

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  34. Daduck says:

    True True, maybe we set up a bumping session in late June early July?

    Reply

    @Daduck, I guess I could be cool and reply to the actual thread instead of starting a new one, but alas, I am not cool.

    Reply

  35. Ever kiss a gastronomically banded bunny between the ears?

    I give you permission to use that line.

    Reply

  36. cat says:

    Very coo! I need to get an iphone one of these days! Thor sounds like a fun guy ; )

    Reply

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