The startup offers four regularly updated gift boxes, ranging in price from $80 to $175, as well as custom options, and cards that are handwritten in English, Chinese, or Spanish and mailed by a network of freelancers, called "scribes" by the company, around the United States.
The reasoning for this "A/B test" might be that Facebook wants to put more focus on the right-hand side of the site, which is the place that houses birthdays, engagement or marriage updates, gifts, and of course…advertising.
For years, I wanted to update "The Gift of the Magi".
To support the Kandahar Institute of Modern Studies, visit http://www.theafghanschool.org/ 28 October 2014 update: A $100,000 gift from an anonymous donor and a Guardian reader will allow the Kandahar Institute of Modern Studies to remain open for another school year.
Recipients can also write a thank you note (sent via email, text or Facebook update) to the gift giver.
The site also has a frequently updated rotation of gift guides across a wide range of budgets and categories, such as "tech," "booze" and "women's accessories".
On 24 December, the Holiday Gifts update added Christmas-themed items to the online mode.
Your prized Motorola Milestone (that's "Droid" to all you yanks) has just been given a most precious gift: an update to Android 2.1, affectionately known as "eclair".
Let's also not forget that this is the phone that nearly had to be renamed thanks to the litigious inclinations of a porn company, so I like to think of the update as a little gift to the Vivid for being such a little trooper.
Less than a day after the folks at AndroidPolice discovered that the Google Play Android app was quietly updated with support for gift cards, AndroidCentral has come across the first images of those cards in the wild.
