Radar Blog

New friending features
October 9, 2007
Joshua Kaufman
Comments (3)

"Radar: It's is only as fun as you and your friends." It's a phrase that we repeat often at Tiny Pictures because we believe it to be true: Radar becomes a lot more fun when your friends are playing as well. But we also realize that it's not always easy to get them to sign up for another service. And if they are on Radar, it may not be easy to find them. So in this release we've worked hard to improve the invitation and sharing experience all around.

We started by creating the new Add Friends page. We took the old Invite page, which previously was only used for inviting friends via email, and added a few new ways to invite and find friends.

You can still invite friends like you always could, but we've made it even easier thanks to a new contact importer which allows you to import your contacts directly from Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail and other popular email services.

Already know someone who's on Radar? Just click on "Invite Code" and add them to your Radar immediately. Finally, look to the right side of the Add Friends page to find friends of your friends who are already on Radar. If you don't see them in the initial list, click on "Show all friends of friends" to see the entire list. You might be surprised to find out who else is in your network!

We've also made it easier to share your pictures and videos with your friends and family who may not have Radar accounts. Now whenever you invite a friend from the Add Friends page, they can immediately access all of your shared pictures without having to register. Just by bookmarking a link, they'll be able to browse your pictures anytime. When they want to post their own pictures, they'll need to register, which they can also do anytime.

We hope you enjoy the new invitation and sharing features, and as always, we'd love to hear what you think.

Comments

Indian Stallion October 9, 2007

Cool feature. I got some friends who don't wanna register but at least now they can check my pics out when they want even if they don't.

Another thing I would love to see is a list of supported handsets so that we don't need to go to the mobile version of the website to check if our phone is supported.

Amber Bennoui October 10, 2007

This is great!
It's easier to invite my friends now
since the application does all the guesswork
for you.
I must say that Radar is the best!
No lie.
Photobucket come close to you guys.

John Poisson October 10, 2007

Thanks guys. Indian, we're working on a new page that goes into much more detail about supported devices (there are now 225 or so devices). Stay tuned.

We've also improved the mobile browser experience on a huge range of new phones.

Keep the feedback coming.

John