Social-networking Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

OkCupid: iPhone users have more sex

by Mike Schramm (Aug 11th, 2010)

I've been a huge fan of social dating site OkCupid's OkTrends blog for a while now. They're constantly sharing data (anonymized, of course) from their social site about what people find attractive and interesting in each other. The latest post has some fun information about cameras -- ...

WWDC 2010: Farmville for iPhone coming soon

by Mike Schramm (Jun 7th, 2010)

Zynga showed up on the stage at the WWDC keynote this morning to show off one of the most-awaited (and most hated) apps coming to the iPhone: Farmville. The popular Flash-based social networking game is finally making its way to the iPhone by the end of June, and it'll be bringing at least one new ...

iGroups patent suggests Apple is looking at social networking

by Mike Schramm (Mar 18th, 2010)

A new Apple patent is going around that offers up something called "iGroups" functionality -- it seems to be a kind of location-based social networking, including an ad-hoc currency functionality between a crowd of Apple devices. It's pretty interesting, though it sounds more like an idea Apple is ...

Macworld 2010: TUAW talks to OpenFeint

by Mike Schramm (Feb 17th, 2010)

On the day before Macworld last week, I got a chance to sit down with Eros Remini, VP of Marketing for OpenFeint, to talk about his social gaming network for iPhone apps. He shared with me that the network has claimed a gigantic 12 million users total, with about a million of them active in iPhone ...

Google Buzz now available on iPhone web app

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2010)

Google revealed its new social communications feature Buzz yesterday while we were all traveling to Macworld, and the new service is now up and running in the Mobile Safari web app, as well as in your Gmail account everywhere else. The mobile app has all the features of the main service (it's kind ...

Yelp updates with check-ins, Foursquare not happy

by Mike Schramm (Jan 19th, 2010)

Location-based social networking on the iPhone is a tough game to play, apparently -- the popular Yelp app [iTunes link] has recently updated to version 4.0, and along with a friend finder, hooks to Facebook and Twitter, and an updated version of their augmented reality Monocle feature, they've ...

Fieldrunners updated to 1.3, offers two new maps as in-app purchases

by Mike Schramm (Dec 30th, 2009)

Touch Arcade has word that one of 2008's best iPhone games (our 2009 list is coming out this week), Fieldrunners [iTunes link, $2.99], has released an update (1.3), in which they've released two new maps available as in-app purchases, and they've included OpenFeint 2.4 functionality, with ...

Digital Chocolate to use OpenFeint for scoreboards, achievements

by Mike Schramm (Oct 8th, 2009)

Developer Digital Chocolate (who, according to that recent slideshow report, is one of the most frequent publishers of content to the App Store) has announced that they'll be going with OpenFeint for their social networking features. We've been covering OpenFeint for a while here on TUAW (and ...

Booyah starts off slow, offers $1000 in contest

by Mike Schramm (Aug 6th, 2009)

I've been playing with the hyped-up Booyah Society app for about a week or so now, and I don't think my reaction is too singular: it's not all that great. The idea is certainly a good one: take your real-life achievements and turn them into a game, complete with points and an avatar, but in ...

Freeverse goes with ngmoco's Plus+ for iPhone social gaming

by Mike Schramm (Jul 31st, 2009)

Freeverse has picked a partner in the ongoing dance of social gaming networks on the iPhone. They've joined up with ngmoco and their Plus+ system for all of their games, including Flick Bowling, Flick Fishing, and Moto Thunder. The first Freeverse game to use the system (which allows players to earn ...

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 ...

Dunkin' Run lets you live in the future, Dunkin' Donuts style

by Mike Schramm (Jul 2nd, 2009)

Ever wanted to order a bunch of coffee and doughnuts along with your friends online, and then go and pick them up in the store? There is, in fact, an app for that. Dunkin' Donuts has released Dunkin' Run (iTunes link), an app that not only connects you and your friends together (through a strange ...

TUAW interviews OpenFeint's Peter Relan, Net Jacobsson, and Jason Citron

by Mike Schramm (Jun 25th, 2009)

Danielle Cassley and Jason Citron are the folks with their names on Aurora Feint, but as Danielle told us in an interview a while ago, Peter Relan is the real mastermind behind the growing Feint empire. Not only did he put the two together in an idea lab, but he's one of the driving forces behind ...

OpenFeint 2.0 brings social discovery to the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jun 11th, 2009)

The Aurora Feint folks are at WWDC with the rest of the Mac development world this week, and while out there, not only are they having a party, but they sent out an announcement: OpenFeint 2.0 is out now, and it has some "social discovery" features now included. Their open platform already supported ...

Another fistful of apps: Ember, Headspace, myMovies, Nozbe, Juglir and LiveView

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 14th, 2009)

According to my completely unscientific research, about 90% of the TUAW mailbag is comprised of iPhone app announcements. In our continuing effort to not deluge you with iPhone app reviews, I present another "fistful of apps": 6 iPhone app reviews in one post. If you don't have an iPhone, you only ...