Tag Archives: Friends

Karma lets you send gifts by phone to Facebook friends

A new app from the founders of Tapjoy is emerging to combine mobile and social commerce on iOS and Android devices. The app, called Karma, makes gifting to friends a breeze, by integrating with a user’s social graph on Facebook … Continue reading

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Glassmap is like Find My Friends but better

There are all sorts of new apps popping up to help users figure out where their friends and friends of friends are hanging out: There’s Foursquare, which is the granddaddy of the Social-Local-Mobile movement. There’s Sonar, which aims to connect … Continue reading

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Got Spotify? Got friends? You should also get TuneTug

We’re smack in the middle of holiday house party season. Can’t bear to hear “All I Want for Christmas is You” one more time? You are in luck — a new app actually gives you the power to do something … Continue reading

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Hide DNS requests from friends, foes and the feds

TOpenDNS, which provides a domain name system resolution service that aims to be faster and more secure than those provided by your ISP, on Tuesday launched a new product it hopes will make DNS look up more secure. The company … Continue reading

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Six degrees: What does it mean to be Facebook friends?

Facebook released some pioneering social-networking research last night on its blog — the kind that only a company with over 700 million active users and 60 billion connections could help produce — that looked at how closely we are connected … Continue reading

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