Social Networking

Buffer for iPhone lets you track Facebook and Twitter analytics, schedule posts, and more

By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 a 2:23 pm

Buffer is a service that allows you to monitor and post to your social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and App.net. This includes queueing up posts to be shared at a later time or date, monitoring information such as retweets, likes, and replies on posts, and more. The Buffer for iPhone app allows you to take the service with you wherever you are and check data or post things on the fly. This can be especially useful for business owners that find value in knowing how well their social media techniques are working.

Elixr is a social network that helps you find a drink

By Joseph Keller, Thursday, Mar 14, 2013 a 4:04 pm

Elixr is a new app and social network for the iPhone that helps you find a good place for a drink. Elixr lets you share your potent potable discoveries with your wider social sphere through pictures and ratings.

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Beta Google+ SDK now available for iOS app developers

By Simon Sage, Friday, Jun 29, 2012 a 2:20 pm

Soon Flipboard won't be the only app to plug into Google+; Google has recently opened up an early preview to their social network's SDK for mobile developers. With these APIs, developers will be able to implement sign-up and sign-in with Google+, share and +1 buttons, and add social elements such as profiles, posts and comments.

Facebook for iOS due for a big speed update

By Simon Sage, Wednesday, Jun 27, 2012 a 4:15 pm

Facebook's app for iPhone and iPad tend to get a bad rap, but two anonymous engineers close to the source say that a completely rebuilt version is on the way with a heavy emphasis on speed. The current Facebook app for iOS is written with a lot of HTML5, but the updated one will be made with Objective-C and be released later this summer.

Flipboard to start pulling in Google+ content

By Simon Sage, Tuesday, Jun 19, 2012 a 2:33 pm

Flipboard, the hugely popular social reader app for iOS, will be among the first to feature integration with Google's social network, Google+. Google's VP of Product Management recently revealed in an interview that Flipboard will soon be able to pull in stories shared by friends on Google+, much as the app can already for Facebook and Twitter. This is a big deal because Google has been taking their sweet time opening up a developer API to their fledgling social network.

OS X gets iOS-style Twitter integration, is this Apple's answer to social networking?

By Simon Sage, Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 a 10:45 am

Among many other new features announced today for OS X Mountain Lion was Twitter integration, built right into many of the core Mac apps.

Localmind 2.0 review: Ask questions and get local, expert answers right on your iPhone

By Simon Sage, Wednesday, Feb 15, 2012 a 8:07 pm

Localmind 2.0 uses your iPhone's GPS to help you zero-in on local experts so you can chat with them live and ask them questions about the things that are important to you in your area. If you're familiar with Foursquare and Quora, it's almost a hybrid of those services where you can questions like, "are there any good bars around this restaurant you just suggested?"

Path apologizes for taking your address book, wipes data from their servers

By Simon Sage, Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 a 10:35 pm

Despite iPhone address books being transferred over SSL, and the data only being used to notifications when friends signed up, Path has apologized profusely and wiped any personal information from their servers.

Geohot quits Facebook and joins new startup Backplane

By Allyson Kazmucha, Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012 a 3:00 pm

Iconic iPhone hacker George Hotz was hired at Facebook a while back. That didn't seem to work out very long as he's no longer there. What's he up to these days? It appears he's back to hacking and coding. This time he's with a brand new startup as well.

Apple patents "Places" as a social networking trademark

By Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Feb 25, 2011 a 4:23 pm

While Apple and social networking didn't get off to a good start with Ping!, it appears Apple may be willing to try again with a new patent pointing to a social networking feature they are titling "Places". (Does this sound familiar to anyone else?)

The patent shows that Places will be a social networking type service that will use the assistance of GPS to locate users on iOS devices. Whether or not it will integrate with Ping! is yet to be seen. The service is pretty much the same thing most mobile users already know how to use through apps like Gowalla and Foursquare. Ping! didn't seem to do as well as Apple would have liked so this may be a move to try and tie in the two services.