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

Thanks 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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Find My Friends Is Already Live [Apple]

By Kyle Wagner Oct 12, 2011 9:41 AM 19,550 43

iCloud isn't totally off the ground yet, but the new Find My Friends app is already available in the iTunes Store.

Find My Friends is Apple's new location service that lets you continuously share your location instead of checking in. You can also set aside specific blocks of time to share.

The rest of Apple's software goodie bag, including iCloud, iOS 5, and OS X Lion 10.7.2, is expected to drop early this afternoon. But if you already have iOS 5, you can get ahead of the curve and start stalking your friends and family like animals in real time right now. [iTunes via 9to5mac]

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Skype Now Lets You Chat With Facebook Friends and See Your Wall [Facebook]

The latest version of Skype for Mac allows you to chat directly with your Facebook friends, hopefully bringing you a better user experience than the latter's clusterzuck chat system. It also allows you to see your wall and your friends'.

I wish this happened more often, because I'm tired of having to deal with so many ways to communicate with my friends and family. Imagine a world in which every single instant messaging, voice and visual communication system operated between each other, regardless of the company who owns the system. Or imagine the same in reverse: a world where you couldn't call someone's cellphone because they were in a different network. This is stupid. [Skype]

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Facebook's Rolling Out Smart Lists and Summaries for People with Too Many Friends [Facebook]

Facebook's doling out new features to the masses this week. Their Google-Plus-alike Smart Lists will help you divide up the friends you care about. And their new email summaries will mush together the thousands of notifications you get from friends you don't.

Smart Lists, as you know, allows you to cull through your friends and divvy them up according to how they relate. That's not all that smart, so they'll automagically create lists for you based on associations—college, workplace, etc. You can also determine how you see them in your feed. Select your Work list, and you'll see your work buddies in your feed. Meanwhile, put someone in the Acquaintances list, and you'll simply see them less.

Facebook's also reportedly testing out new summary emails for those of you who didn't turn off all email notifications a long time ago. People who get bombarded with emails about people commenting on how much they loved True Blood can now expect emails digesting all the comments into one simple place. That's nice of them... but I kind of don't want the emails at all. [Facebook Blog, Inside Facebook via Geekosystem]

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Facebook Is Getting a Translate Button for Your International Friends [Facebook]

According to Inside Facebook, Facebook is currently testing a translate button for international users to getting around the language barrier. Facebook will provide a button to translate users' comments on the fly.

Inside Facebook reports that only a few languages, including Spanish, French, Hebrew, and Chinese, are currently supported, but that's just the start. The benefit of such a feature is pretty obvious; the people you couldn't talk to because the spoke another language can now be brought into the conversation. Cool. You potentially have the opportunity to broaden your circle of friends. But what about the privacy issue? Supposing you don't want people to translate the conversation you have with family members in your mother tongue? No word on that just yet. Hopefully Facebook gets it right. [Inside Facebook]

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