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Red Laser: the proactive consumer's best friend
As with many things, if you look hard enough down the long tail you can discover something that can truly enhance your life, whether it be a certain obscure genre of music, a movie, or a book. In our case, it’s an iPhone app. With iPhone apps, the gamut runs from the q... more
LivingSocial Gets a Makeover!
Here at LivingSocial we're all about keeping things fresh and appealing, which is why we're proud to introduce you to the newly-redesigned LivingSocial! We appreciate your patience as we roll it out and welcome any comments you have at feedback@livingsocial.com. We've been ... more
What's Your Literary Flavor?
This week we found a cool article from British newspaper The Guardian talking about how more than 4000 people have signed up for a Facebook group in support of ice cream icon Ben & Jerry's launching a library-themed ice cream flavor after a campaign by a New Jersey librarian... more
Setting the record straight
Hi everyone, There have been a few articles and posts in recent days that claim LivingSocial sells or shares private user information from Facebook or our applications with advertisers. The claims are untrue, and are based on (false) assumptions and unchecked facts. L... more
Frank McCourt Passes Away
There is sad news in the book world this week after the passing of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt on Sunday July 19th. As a tribute to McCourt, we thought we'd write this post about his work, and the reflections of LivingSocial members like you! Although he wa... more
Your LivingSocial Reviews on Newsweek.com!
We’re very excited to announce that Newsweek has integrated LivingSocial user reviews into it’s 50 Books of Our Time piece. Have you read/reviewed any of the books on that list? If not, do so and let your thoughts be known to the masses! As always, thanks for Liv... more
Honoring Michael Jackson - (Aug 29, 1958 - June 25, 2009)
It’s a sad day for millions all over the world today as we cope with the loss of Michael Jackson, the undisputed “King of Pop,” who passed away yesterday at 50 years of age. Jackson was not breathing when the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call at... more
Oprah's Top 4 Summer Reading Picks
She's the 2nd most powerful celeb on the 2009 Forbes Celebrity 100 and made $275 Million in 2009. She's built one of the largest entertainment/lifestyle enterprises in the world, and what Oprah likes, people get! So what is the entertainment diva recommending that you read t... more
Can You Get "Wrapped Up in a Kindle?"
Let's talk about Kindle, Google, and the digitization of books in general for a second. We here at LivingSocial have a Kompany Kindle, and we like it plenty. The size, weight, and convenience make it a pretty cool little device to have, especially for gadget geeks. And hats ... more
LivingSocial Events
One part of LivingSocial that you have probably never seen is our LivingSocial Events page. Our events page help bring LivingSocial users in New York City, and soon others cities, together for free cocktails. This event at China 1, is just one of our many upcoming events... more
Polls by LivingSocial
A lot has been going on here at LivingSocial lately. You already know all about our nine LivingSocial categories and the PickYour5 Facebook application. Recently you might also have noticed our Which actor is best?
What's Popular On LivingSocial Lately?
Between the nine LivingSocial categories and the PickYour5 application on Facebook, a lot of things (from albums to video games) are being rated, reviewed, picked, and added to collections by the LivingSocial community. That begs the question: Which things are popular lately? ... more
Introducing Pick Your 5
Here at LivingSocial, we are all about creating lists and categorizing stuff. With 9 subject areas already in place (from books to slopes) and more coming soon, our aim is to help you manage the things you like easily and socially. It was with those goals in mind that we int... more
How do you describe LivingSocial?
First off, let me apologize for the long radio silence over the past few weeks. We haven't been taking an extended holiday, but rather working on a bunch of behind-the-scenes improvements and bug fixes. In other words, we haven't had any cool, new features to talk about, unl... more
We're Back. Please excuse the dust.
Ten hours. 100% Processing Capacity. Five Developers with no sleep. 24 Krispy Kreme Donuts. Unknown Amounts of Coffee. 100 Million+ reconfigurations of our data. The team at LivingSocial has been a little busy since midnight last night, working to complete our largest mai... more
Show Images On Your Collection Page
Today we have two small (but hopefully significant!) changes to announce that impact users’ collections. First off, the “Manage” page is no more. We renamed the page’s title in the header “My Collection,” which is a bit more accurate and e... more
What iPhone Apps do your friends use?
After launching Slopes last week, we’re excited to announce our next new subject area: iPhone Apps. If you are like the LivingSocial team, we don’t have a ton of time to download every new app that comes out. Instead, we use the recommendations of our friends to fi... more
Ski or Snowboard into LivingSocial: Slopes
With winter in full effect, the LivingSocial team is pleased to announce our newest subject area: Slopes. Slopes allows you and your friends to catalog your favorite ski and snowboarding destinations, while getting recommendations from LivingSocial on where to go for your next... more
Whoops!
Last week we rolled out some major changes to our recommendations page. Based on huge amounts of user feedback, we've rolled out an updated version of our recommendation page. The major change on this page is the addition of a "Skip, Don't show this again" button. This button ... more
Customize Your Profile Module
We have heard from a number of users that want to further customize the the look and feel of their profile boxes on Facebook. With that in mind, we’ve recently updated our profile boxes to be more configurable and to better fit with the both the Facebook Boxes tab and Fa... more
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Recent news
Red Laser: the proactive consumer's best friend
As with many things, if you look hard enough down the long tail you can discover something that can truly enhance your life, whether it be a certain obscure genre of music, a mo... more
LivingSocial Gets a Makeover!
Here at LivingSocial we're all about keeping things fresh and appealing, which is why we're proud to introduce you to the newly-redesigned LivingSocial! We appreciate your patie... more
What's Your Literary Flavor?
This week we found a cool article from British newspaper The Guardian talking about how more than 4000 people have signed up for a Facebook group in support of ice cream icon ... more
