Showing posts with label Feature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Feature. Show all posts

Monday, February 13, 2012

Foursquare's New Radar Feature Is Better Than Find My Friends [IPhone Apps]

By Casey Chan Oct 12, 2011 12:54 PM 8,033 12

Foursquare's New Radar Feature Is Better Than Find My FriendsThanks to iOS 5, Foursquare has a new Radar feature in its iPhone app that's insanely cool. Radar will smartly let you know if you're near friends, around a place on your To-Do List or followed and will even notify you when the app is closed. It's like a super useful Find My Friends.

Foursquare's examples are, "If you follow a list, like the 101 Best Dishes of 2011, foursquare will let you know when you're next to one. Or you save that yoga studio to your To-Do List (because you really want to try it); we can remind you when you're close."

It just works! Radar finds the places you've already wanted to go but didn't know were next to you. So smart I might start using Foursquare. The new update of Foursquare should be hitting the App Store soon. [Foursquare]

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Facebook's Potentially Creepy 'Subscriber' Feature Isn't Actually Creepy [Facebook]

Facebook's Potentially Creepy 'Subscriber' Feature Isn't Actually CreepyFacebook, in a rare coup, has rolled out a new sharing feature without somehow completely botching its privacy implications and freaking everyone out. It sounds scary—people you aren't friends with can read your updates—but it's opt-in! Thanks, Mark.

The Subscribe Button is meant to let you follow (HELLO, TWITTER!) "interesting" people you aren't friends with, like Mark Zuckerberg and other venerable public figures. You can also set your account to be followed, making public status updates of your choosing.

Basically, if you don't care about this, you don't have to do anything, and it's as if it doesn't exist. Which is how everything on Facebook should be. I'm hoping Facebook's learned from its past mistakes that not everyone wants to gyrate and writhe in Zuckerberg's Roman orgy of life sharing.

But isn't this entire thing what Facebook Pages are for? Why would Beyoncé set her account as followable when she has a fan page for that? Why would any remotely famous person not do the same thing? Who would want strangers reading what they say, if not on Twitter? Do you? [Facebook]

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