Tag: FRIENDS

Facebook just launched a new feature called People You May Know, which suggests -- get ready for the surprise -- people that you may now. Wow. It finds these people based on "your existing connections", but we don't know how it decides the order of the list. Our guess: the more people you both know, the higher on the list the person gets placed. We didn't recognize any of our first four ...

Social networking sites like Friendster, MySpace, and Facebook are great for keeping in touch with your friends. But not everyone you add as a "friend" is really someone you would share your innermost thoughts with in real life. That's why it's important for social networking sites to let you differentiate between different types of friends -- something you haven't been able to do so far on ...

You know those 15,274 friends you have on Facebook, MySpace and other social networks? We know you're going to find this hard to believe. But they're not actually your friends. Well, not close friends anyway. We know, it's shocking, but it turns out that if you asked 15,268 of them if you could borrow a car, odds are they'd say no. Well, while that may have seemed obvious to most of us, that ...

Twitter and Gmail - some would say they're two great tastes that could taste great together. While these two services haven't quite melded into a cutting-edge new way to communicate and micro-blog at the same time, Twitter has just made it a little easier to find your Gmail friends who also have Twitter accounts. Like so many other services (Plaxo, Facebook, etc.), Twitter now has a ...

Dopplr is a notification service for travelers. This once private location built for a mysterious international team of world travelers is in the early stages of public launch. Dopplr gives travelers who travel more than five times per year, and their traveling friends the opportunity to share future travel plans, and notify friends in far away places via email or mobile device when they are ...

Friends, Babylon 5, MADtv, The Jetsons, and The Flintstones not only are some great tv favorites, but they are also set to be released by Warner Bros. onto Apple's iTunes Music Store for download. Warner Bros. and Apple are releasing these great television moments for the world to download on iTunes for $1.99 per episode. This is a great way to check out a favorite episode of Friends, and the rest ...

Development on the somewhat unpopular Google Reader doesn't seem to go at a furious pace, but every couple months they drop a new feature into it and usually it's at least marginally cool. Yesterday was such an event, and the feature they've added lets you share selected items from the feeds you read with your friends. Now each label in Google Reader has a "make public" option, and when ...