Tag: FRIENDS

A while back, Facebook introduced Twitter-esque @ tagging, allowing users to mention specific people in posts and status messages. Now Facebook has expanded that same functionality to include comments. The update also provides users with a notification when someone tags them, the same way Facebook notifies you about -- well, about nearly everything. There's also a benefit for Facebook Page ...

By default, Facebook uses a magical algorithm called EdgeRank to decide what makes it to your News Feed, and what falls by the wayside. Lots of factors affect what ultimately appears in your News Feed, but mostly it's determined by a) things you've explicitly signed up for ('liking' pages), and b) updates from friends that you regularly interact with. But what if you're bored of reading dull ...

Vivox offers a Facebook app which allows you to voice chat with your friends as you browse the site from your desktop, but what about while you're out and about? A mobile option would be nice, too. That's what the developers at Crisp App think, too, and its iPhone app lets you do just that. Grab Facebook Messenger for $2.99 in the App Store, and you'll have a convenient way to voice chat with ...

Can't stop gushing about your favorite new gadget or your latest album purchase? If you're posting about it on Facebook, there's a chance your words could wind up used by advertisers without your knowledge. Facebook has begun allowing companies to re-post endorsements from users as "Sponsored Stories," and there's no way for you to opt out at the moment. It's not all bad, though. Sponsored ...

Facebook, in a continuing drive to upgrade the most popular portion of its site, will roll out facial recognition auto-tagging of photos in the next few weeks -- if you live in the US, anyway. Now, when you upload photos, Facebook will compare the faces in the photos with the faces of your friends. If a match is found, you'll be prompted with a suggested tag. If Facebook can't identify a ...

Facebook's next big feature will be the "Friendship Page," according to a post on the Facebook blog. These new pages will gather all the public interactions between you and each of your friends -- back and forth wall posts, photos in which you're both tagged, and events you both attended -- and put them all in one convenient page. Friendship Pages will be visible to anyone who's friends with one ...

If you're lonely and friendless, Apple's iPhone Game Center can hook you up with buddies to play with. If you're super-popular, though, it's not really designed for you, as your Game Center social network reportedly tops out at your 500 closest friends. Granted, 500 friends is a ton, especially when they're just the friends you game with. Most of us will never reach that limit, but the folks who ...

Invisible Note is a social experiment/fun site by the guys over at DreamHost. It's like a game of bouncing e-mail: You send out an e-mail to any address @invisiblenote.com; if anyone else sends that address an e-mail too, they get your note, and you get theirs – along with the e-mail addresses you both sent your notes from! I tried an obvious one, and it indeed worked. Now a certain Mr. ...

FriendDA is not even a website; it's just a single Web page, pre-formatted for printing. It's a form, that at first glance appears to be a standard NDA (or other legal form). But when you read past the first WHEREAS, the whole thing becomes much clearer. I quote: WHEREAS I possess a bright idea that I am choosing to disclose to you, The Advisor, with the mutual understanding that you are my ...

Friendless Facebook user 'hotlou' seems to have picked up on a new Facebook feature! Unfortunately, other than the picture above, I don't have much to report. Facebook had a little to say to Business insider: "This is a test we're running to a small percentage of users who have very few friends on Facebook. This is simply to help them discover interesting content and create an instantly ...

Update (19:12 EST): Facebook has moved quickly and banned the App already! I don't actually own an iPhone, but if I had one, this would be my first app! A snip at just 99 cents, defriended lets you know when you've been removed by a Facebook friend. We've all been there: you wake up, sit down at your computer, tab to Facebook, hit F5, poke some cute girls... and then you notice your ...

Twitter search is a big business these days. Thanks to search partnerships with Google and Microsoft, Twitter is profitable for the first time ever. That doesn't mean Twitter search is any good, though. For example, what if you wanted to limit a search to the streams of people you follow? Search.twitter.com can't do it, but a site called Flocking.me can. Searching only within your friends' ...

Well, at least they're honest about what they do. A new iPhone app called Stalqer helps you locate your friends, even if they're not signed up for your favorite location-based service - like Google Latitude, Foursquare or Loopt. Users who opt-in to Stalqer ping the service with their location every time their phones check for email, which gives nearly real-time updates on the iPhone (which can't ...

One way to figure out whether you should follow someone on Twitter is by seeing who your mutual friends. Twtrfrnd makes that very easy: just enter your username and someone else's, and it does the rest. Soon, it will even let you log in to automatically see friends you have in common with people who have recently followed you. Finding common friends is a good way to know whether a specific ...

I remember being a little girl, and watching my friends fuss about what their babies would like if they married George Michael, or Michael Jackson (so I am not only carbon-dating myself, but I'm also showing how naive my friends and I were). Oh, c'mon, I never fussed about these things. I was too busy playing with the Commodore PET. The Commodore PET could only dream of doing the things modern ...