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"\r\n\r\nOpinionaided, a free app for iPhone and iPod Touch, allows\u00A0users to get advice and opinions on anything, in real-time.\r\n\r\nWhen we reviewed\u00A0Opinionaided the app was in its infancy, and had room for improvement. \u00A0Kurani Interactive, creators of the app, have done just that with recent updates, while experiencing huge growth and receiving $1.2M in new funding.\r\n\r\nUpdated, version 3.0, offers\u00A0the ability to further customize the voting process by filtering questions by gender, while simplifying the way users ask questions directly to their friends.\r\n\r\nFurther, Opinionaided now includes a method for discovering friends, and push notifications to keep track of the results of the questions while not in the app.\r\n\r\nCEO Dan Kurani:\r\n\u201CWe\u2019re filling a pain point out there that hasn\u2019t been solved by any other social media service, big or small. We\u2019re delivering super-fast opinions to virtually any question on-the-fly, which has proven to be compel 40 million responses to about 500,000 questions.&amp;quot;\r\nOpinionaided's growth has resulted in an additional seed round of $1 million from venture capitalists General Catalyst, SoftBank Capital and\u00A0Draper Fisher\u00A0Jurvetson. .\r\n\r\nIn addition the company is announcing angel investment contributions from DeamIt Ventures\u2019\u00A0Mark Wachen,\u00A0Jonah Goodhart of Point Ventures Group, Early advisor to Facebook Karl Jacob, ENIAC Ventures and Vince Monical, former head of Emerging Platforms, Google among others.\u00A0\u00A0This new round takes the company\u2019s total funding to $1.2 million.\r\n\r\nThe new funds will allow Opinionaided to further expand its mobile question and answer community and expand to other mobile platforms, including an Android device offering.\r\n\r\nPick up Opinionaided\u00A0here and discover what others think regarding your questions, and answer those of others!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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