Abstract: An approach is provided for automatically matching contacts between a contact list and a members list of a social networking service. A contact matching platform retrieves one or more entries from a contact list and one or more entries from a members list of a social networking service. The platform then automatically determines matches between the entries from the contact list and the entries from the members list according to predetermined criteria.

Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer program products are provided to allow the generation, transmission and the reception of reminder notices in a very simple fashion. An independent reminder handling application allows a user to simply enter information including the names of one or more recipients, a trigger time, and a main body of the reminder notice. Upon transmission of the reminder notice to one or more recipients, a representation of the reminder is exhibited at the recipient devices. The reminder handling application drastically facilitates the generation and reception of reminder notices since the user and the recipients are not required to navigate through several screens, browse through one or more lists of available options, or access other applications.