Social-network Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Ping reaches a million, attacked by spam

by Mike Schramm (Sep 7th, 2010)

Apple's new social network, Ping, has been around for about a week now, and all of the pundits have had their chance at weighing in on what Apple got wrong and right. And what's the result? Not bad, but not great -- more than a million people joined the network in just 48 hours. That's not terrible ...

Flipboard turns social network content into a virtual magazine

by Mike Schramm (Jul 21st, 2010)

The latest hotness wandering around the blogs is this iPad app called Flipboard, which turns your favorite social network content into an easy-to-read magazine-styled layout. It does look good -- the idea is that pictures and text are all pulled in from various social feeds, and then assembled ...

Shazam picking up investors, boasts 50 million users

by Mike Schramm (Oct 20th, 2009)

Shazam is one of the first apps I actually used in context on the iPhone, and while we haven't heard much about the app since it debuted way back in the early days of the App Store, apparently the company itself has been blowing up, thanks to the free app. They've picked up a nice round of ...

Booyah releases Booyah Society, an app/game that tracks "life achievements"

by Mike Schramm (Jul 27th, 2009)

Booyah is a company I've had my eye on for a while -- they're a couple of veterans from Blizzard Entertainment (makers of the popular Diablo and World of Warcraft games, two of my favorites) who have been teasing a big-time iPhone app. Just today, they've finally showed their cards, and have ...

OpenFeint drops dev fees as Chillingo announces social gaming network Crystal SDK

by Mike Schramm (Jul 15th, 2009)

The social gaming market on the iPhone has taken two sharp turns recently. First up, right after announcing that their system hit a full million users, OpenFeint announced that their social gaming platform has gone completely free for developers. Originally, the SDK was free to download, and then ...

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