Social networking has made explicit the connections between people, so that a thriving ecosystem of small programs can exploit this "social graph" to enable friends to interact via games, greetings, video clips and so on.Coming up for airBut should users really have to visit a specific website to do this sort of thing?
Mr. Morris suspected that one place to look for countervailing evidence was the arrival notices that 19th-century newspapers would print whenever someone significant checked into a local hotel — a forerunner to the tweet, enabling friends to know someone was in town and where to find them.
But more than just working with individual users' videos, Ferris also enables friends and family members to collaborate and mix together videos from moments that they shared together.
M-Changi enables friends of family of the deceased to make mobile payments into an easily created fund for the funeral or (more cheerfully) the wedding or any other social event.
"Consequently, over the next eight months to the end of this current financial year we need to develop a plan to enable friends and supporters of the Cornish Pirates worldwide to take ownership through a basic share issue format.
Few people are enabling "friends of friends" only on the privacy settings, and perhaps there are plenty of people at SXSW who feel relaxed about discovering new people anyway.
The Berlin-based startup competes with a host of sites that enable friends and other groups of people to club together to raise money for a purchase or occasion, most of which are probably better funded.
Better still, the service enables friends to follow the user's run in real-time from their PC in which they can send messages that are converted to audio and blasted at the person trying to get fit.
The idea is in part to enable friends and people with shared experiences to tell stories with each other and re-use popular assets that define moments they were a part of.
Mobile SNS applications such as Foursquare, Loopt and Google Latitude amplify this type of functionality further, by enabling friends to locate one another in their community in real-time, enabling spontaneous meetings at restaurants, bars and shops that would otherwise happen only by coincidence.
