App shows friends' tweets, Facebook status updates when they call | abc7news.com

Over the years, ring tones have gotten a lot cooler -- but that's about all that's changed about the phone part of your smartphone -- until now.

Alex Algard, who founded WhitePages.com,
wants to help the good old telephone play
catch-up. He has an app for that -- it's
called Current Caller ID. Every time the phone rings, the app scans your social networks to find whatever useful information it can about the person who's calling -- before you pick up.

Some of the information the app looks for
includes the caller's job title and employer,
their recent Facebook status updates and latest tweets, Algard said. And if you don't know the person, the app will at least try to get a name and address from WhitePages.com to help you decide whether to answer and to be prepared when you do.

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