There’s A New Internet Sheriff In Town

I Think Facebook Just Seized Control Of The Internet: ” The opening keynote at Facebook’s f8 conference today in San Francisco was short and sweet. But don’t let that fool you. It contained some huge announcements pertaining to how the service will interact with the broader web going forward. The three big ones: social plugins, [...]

Chris Cox Discusses Facebook’s Recipe For Success

Facebook VP Chris Cox On The Company’s Past, Future, And Recipe For Success: “ Today to close out its f8 developer conference, Facebook VP of Product Chris Cox took the stage to talk about the evolution of Facebook over the last six years, and how the company’s core principles have largely remained the same. During [...]

Why Facebook, Twitter & The Little Guy Should Be Scared: Google Wave

Have you ever tried getting in contact with Google customer service? I’ve thought about it, but have never actually tried. If you have been successful, please let me know how your experience was with them in the comments below this article. I simply never had the ambition to even try. Someone once likened their customer [...]

Facebook Is The MVP Of Traffic

Facebook Is the Most Valuable Source of Traffic [Stats]: “ Between search engines and social media, there are a lot of different ways that people can get to your website. But which of these sources provides loyal users that come back to your site multiple times? That’s the subject of a new study by ad [...]

Employers Blocking Facebook, Twitter & Myspace

More Than Half of Employers Now Block Twitter, Facebook, MySpace: “ Can’t check Facebook or Twitter from the office? You’re not alone. In fact, you might be in the majority. According to a new survey of 1,400 CIOs of companies with 100 or more employees, 54% now completely block employees from accessing social networking sites [...]

Should High School Admins Be Sued For Forcing Cheerleader To Turnover Facebook Password?

Abuse of Power: High School Admins Coerce Cheerleader for Facebook Password: “ Earlier in the year Tony La Russa got sue happy with Twitter, only later to drop the charges, and yesterday we learned that a woman was sued over a defamatory tweet (though there does seem to be some cause). It appears as if [...]

Facebook Considers Changing Ad Policy

Facebook Unlikely to Change Platform Ad Policies on User Data Any Time Soon: “ Two months ago, Facebook tightened the rules on the types of advertising units Platform ad networks could display after user concerns about privacy and Facebook Platform ad networks spread. Since then, user complaints have died down. However, some Platform ad networks [...]

Facebook Makes It Easy To Connect

Facebook Just Made It Super Easy To Put Connect On Your Site: ” Facebook Connect launched to the public less than a year ago, and already it’s seen an incredible amount of traction. Unfortunately, for those people with little to no coding experience, implementing Facebook Connect has seemed like more trouble that it was worth. [...]

FundRazr: Great Payment Collections Service For Facebook

FundRazr: A Simple, Social, Payments Collection Service for Facebook: ” ConnectionPoint recently launched FundRazr, a new way to collect money through Facebook for everything from sports team dues to charity donations. The application is the company’s first, utilizing the PayPal X platform to make the payment process more interactive and innovative, as well as offering [...]

Facebook Pollster Being Investigated By Secret Service For Asking If Obama Should Be Killed

The secret service will be investigating a man that posted a poll on Facebook asking if you think Obama should be killed.  The poll was evidently poster over the weekend but Facebook has since taken the poll down. In case you weren’t aware, it is illegal to post death threats about the president or plan [...]