Hasta La Gadget!

Most of your friends are on Facebook, only the nerdiest of them are on Twitter and your professional colleagues are on LinkedIn. Stalking everybody by checking all these sites can be a colossal waste of time.

Enter the Friends app from Taptivate, who developed the beautiful Postman app I covered previously. Friends takes your contacts from different services — Facebook, Twitter, MySpace (whoever’s on there anymore) and LinkedIn —  and shoves them all into one tidy list.

If I were to select my friend Phill from the list, for example, I’d be able to tap a tab to check his Twitter feed, a different tab to check his Facebook stream and another tab to dial his phone. Check out the video below to get a visual sense of what I mean.

Friends from Oliver Cameron on Vimeo.

Friends isn’t out yet in the App Store, but I had some hands-on time with an early build of the app. I enjoy the detail and simplicity of the design; I’m probably going to be using this app to quickly check on some people while riding the elevator or standing in line at a grocery store.

Taptivate expects to release Friends in a few weeks in the App Store. It will cost 2 bucks. Keep an eye out for this gem.

Product page [Taptivate]