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Appearing in the the 2009 edition of Exchange Magazine, Matt Knopf and Chris James, both MBA ’99, have been gaining national attention for their free iPhone app, SnapDat. Their most recent claim to fame: The New York Times’ App of the Week. 

From The New York Times 

One of the coolest features of the old Palm organizers was that you could beam business cards to other Palms. The iPhone will soon get a feature like this, but in the meantime there’s SnapDat, a free application that lets iPhone users send virtual business cards to other people.

SnapDat has roughly 40 card designs that you can use as templates. Users can maintain an unlimited number of designs, so as to have different cards for different occasions. To send a card to another SnapDat user, you simply look up the user name on the SnapDat app. Cards sent between SnapDat members are automatically transcribed into your iPhone’s address book. Non-SnapDat members can also receive cards, which are e-mailed as standard vCard attachments.

On the virtual card are one-touch buttons to dial, text or e-mail the person. There is also a link to any Web pages they have specified and a button to map the card’s address. You can also mark on a map where you met (“Denver sales conference ’08”), as well as “flip” the card to make a note on the back (“Bob likes margaritas, but watch out after his third.”)