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Vinq, LLC, a leader in innovative web site development announced that Vinq CEO Mark Torrance attended the iPhone Dev Camp in San Francisco on July 7 and 8, 2007 and developed two new games for the iPhone. The games are Qix, an interactive geometry game and Doodle, an interactive drawing game. The games can be downloaded from Vinq.com/wegame. The games are popular among iPhone users as over 4000 downloads occurred within the first two days of going live.

In addition to developing these games at the conference, Mark contributed to the development of "The Pool", a massive multiplayer iPhone visualization experience.

Vinq's iPhone applications are developed in Javascript, and delivered through the web -- they can also be viewed and used on the Safari web browser.

Vinq is well known for its ability to rapidly prototype sophisticated Web 2.0 applications. The ability to develop two sophisticated games in one day for a new platform is characteristic of the spirit of Vinq.

About Vinq
Vinq is a web consulting firm that rapidly designs and implements highly interactive public web sites. Vinq's team includes experts in usability and user testing, interaction design, and software development. Vinq seeks opportunities to help clients '2.0 their web' by:

• Assuring that the site design and capabilities achieve high degrees of usability and effectiveness for their target audience
• Building dynamic database driven web services which
  • Include context sensitive 'intelligent' front end to retrieve data or services best matching user interests
  • Accept data additions at any time from the web or other sources and automatically extend taxonomies and interface choices to reflect new content
  • Are robust and scalable, based on Vinq's deep back end capabilities
• Rapidly prototyping new concepts and offering comprehensive design consulting services
• Providing ongoing web site performance tracking tools to assure continued success

Vinq has built sophisticated services meeting the needs of clients servicing millions of web users for prestigious organizations including the Fannie Mae Foundation, DataPlace.org, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and SRI International.

Vinq was founded in 2003 by Mark and Leslie Torrance, experienced Silicon Valley web services entrepreneurs best known for founding StockMaster.com which was one of the web's leading equity investor information sites servicing large public corporations and individual investors until it was acquired by Red Herring in 2000.