Ever wanted to get the benefits of communal television viewing without having to actually spend time around other people? Well in that case, the iPhone and Android app “SocialGuide” is the app you’ve been dreaming of.
SocialGuide is based around what CEO Sean Casey calls the “two-screen experience”:
“More and more, TV watching is
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It’s the kind of news you can use next time concerned parents bring up the idea that the internet is making people more withdrawn and closed off from the rest of humanity: A new study from the Pew Research Center has found that online social networks actually seem to make people more social.
Pew polled 2,255 Americans during October …
Wouldn’t it be grand if every time you opened a beer, Facebook automatically created an event and invited all your friends over? I know that every time I sit down to enjoy a series of smooth draws from a delicious craft IPA after a long day of work, I’m thinking, “Hey, I wish everyone I knew on Facebook could be here to watch me drink …
It doesn’t need to be reiterated but if you’re thinking of starting a business, make sure it has “social” in the name somewhere. Social is so very, very white hot right now. Even Pepsi’s getting in on the social action with its new “Social Vending System” machines.
They’re just ordinary vending machines, right? Right?!
Starting today, Facebook Deals will begin kicking off in five cities, according to the New York Times. The hotly anticipated Facebook Deals taps into the social online coupon market along with heavyweights Groupon and LivingSocial in offering discounts for shared activities.
The feature will initially only be offered in five cities: …
It’s the end of Google co-founder Larry Page’s first week back at the helm as company CEO, and it appears the game plan is still looking aggressive.
In a memo apparently sent out to Google employees, everyone’s 2011 bonus will grow or shrink based on how well the company does with its social efforts. Let’s just call this the Facebook …
Want to start a tech company? Make sure the word “social” is involved somehow. Social shopping site LivingSocial—second only to social shopping site Groupon—has just raised another $400 million, and is said to be worth over $3 billion now, according to the New York Times.
That’s still quite a bit short of Groupon, which “is said …
Google is taking another step towards its own social network without actually building its own social network (the company insists it’s only building social layers on top of the web) with the “+1″ button.
If you’re down with Facebook’s “Like” button, then Google’s hoping you’ll use the new +1 button, too. Simply put, here’s how Google …
The cloud? Good. No girlfriend? Bad. A cloud-based girlfriend? Better than no girlfriend, apparently.
The idea behind Cloud Girlfriend is simple: You pay a yet-to-be-determined price to have your ideal (yet not for real) girlfriend leave you loving messages on your Facebook Wall for all to see.
It’s an easy four-step process, says …
What’s better than having one farm on Farmville?
Having two farms –- and subsequently no social life –- of course! Last week, Zynga slowly rolled out Farmville English Countryside, the biggest expansion to Farmville since the launch of the game. English Countryside gives players level 20 and above an additional farm to tend …
Given the prevalence of advanced mobile devices in Japan, there’s been no shortage of citizen-broadcast videos and imagery from the recent earthquake. Here are some of the better places to follow along online.
VIDEOS
YouTube’s CitizenTube channel has established a playlist of videos related to the disaster, with footage rolling in …
FriendShuffle takes the idea that you share similar interests with your Facebook friends and runs with it. You go to FriendShuffle.com and sign in with your Facebook credentials, and then any web address—article, video, blog post, whatever—that one of your friends has tagged using Facebook’s "like" button will show up chronologically
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