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 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 [...]

Top 20 Up & Coming Facebook Apps

Top 20 Up and Coming Facebook Apps: Eid, Rosh Hashana, Football and More: ” By taking a look at the fastest-growing Facebook apps with between 10,000 and 100,000 monthly active users, we can sometimes spot hits early, before they hit major growth spurts. However, this past week we saw a few apps that told us [...]

Facebook Has Highest User Penetration In Cold Places

Facebook Used by the Most People within Iceland, Norway, Canada, Other Cold Places: ” Among the 12 countries in the world with the highest penetration of Facebook users, a surprising number are in cold parts of the world. Iceland is in first place, with 49.5 percent of its 300,000-some population on the site in August, [...]