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As a commuting cyclist, I've noticed one thing about non-cyclists: They massively underestimate the cost of purchasing a bike. Friends and acquaintances often approach me about buying their first bicycle since they were about 14, and the story usually goes like this: They've got $100 and they'd...

Web services like Foursquare allow users to use their smart phone to "check-in" to stores and other venues as a means of sharing their life and location 24/7. Recently, in addition to sharing where you are, users have been able to earn discounts at stores based on the frequency of their visits. The...

What do you like? That's the question Facebook and other websites ask, or will soon, every time you visit. In a quest to make it easier to share the things you like with your social network and to know everything you like on the web the Facebook Like button is now showing up on popular websites...

Facebook's new Open Graph initiative, which aims to spread Facebook infrastructure and "like" buttons across the Internet, signals the beginning of a new Web where social interactions become the key focus of users.

We don't go to movies alone, we don't watch our favorite teams alone and most of us don't even watch Lost alone; so why do we continue to watch our online videos alone? That's an issue that Qlipso, a new social-focused web company, wants to fix. Qlipso made news recently by buying popular...

The few, the proud, the dealhunters. Though our ranks have grown during the past year as frugal became not only fashionable but practical, dealhunters like myself have long enjoyed the thrill of finding an item so deeply discounted you almost felt bad buying it. We loved finding deals so much...

Undoubtedly someone will show up at your house or a holiday party this year bearing a gift for you; but you won't have anything, even a standby bottle of wine, to give them. So what are you to do? Last minute e-gift cards work, but they reek of, "Oops-I-forgot-about-you" to anyone who gets one time...

It's obvious that you like people to know about your day. You post status updates every five minutes to Twitter, upload pictures to Facebook like it's going out of style and are video-blogging your every move on YouTube. So why not turn that compulsion for sharing into a payday by entering the...