Facebook gained pop stardom by allowing college students to create their own little PR campaign: the pictures they wanted seen, the books and films they wanted to boast they loved. It was an orderly, sanitized place where users could ...READ»
You've got to credit Google for trying to be the one-stop shop for everything online: It just grabbed hold of the craze for social networking, and built it right into Google users' homepages. Will everything soon be social ...READ»
The network has posted an exclusive look at the pilot for its new Thursday-night comedy Community on Facebook--with almost no feel for how social networking works.READ»
The social-networking giant finally improves its search tool, letting you sift through a month of news feed data. It's also another sign that a collision with Google and Twitter may be imminent.READ»
Friendfeed was once called the "coolest service no one will ever use" by TechCrunch, but now that Facebook has acquired the 12-person company for an undisclosed sum, that maxim won't stay true much longer.
Friendfeed's trajectory ...READ»
Mari Smith is a Relationship Marketing Specialist and a natural-born networker. Fast Company recently called her the Pied Piper of the online world. I had a chance recently to interview Mari and talk about how small businesses can get started with social media marketing and leverage it to grow their business, and what the future of social media might look like.READ»
Combining search functionality with social networking is all the rage, and Facebook's been testing stuff for a while...but it's just given its system a new sound effect: When you use Facebook search now, you'll get a Bing. That'll be ...READ»
This morning you logged on to Facebook and Twitter, only to find you had no way of announcing to the world that you were starting a new diet. Or eating Raisin Bran. Or hungover. So you stormed away from your computer, irate: how could ...READ»
Social gaming company Zynga, creator of several popular Facebook games including FarmVille, is growing at a pace that would make even its most productive virtual agrarians jealous, adding 12 million players in the last two weeks. The ...READ»
Remember SETI@home? Launched in 1999, the alien-tracking effort was one of the first (and most popular) distributed computing efforts. It's still going, but a number of new distributed computing projects have popped up. The latest ...READ»
The documentary Our Time at first sounds like a standard 20-something road trip movie. But it will challenge your stereotypes about Millennials in the end, and includes some excellent interviews--like this one, with a fresh-faced Mark ...READ»
Of all the bits and bobs of news about Facebook, this latest really should be a surprise to no one: According to a survey by Nucleus, it's a huge distraction for office workers. What is interesting is just how big a distraction it ...READ»
Smoothie operator Jamba Juice finds itself in the social-media whirl for an ad that reputedly rips off a popular comic strip. Exclusive interviews with Jamba CEO James White and cartoonist David Rees.READ»
Facebook now has 250 million users spanning the globe, but when it comes to serving up ads, the social network is benefiting from a decidedly local approach. Ad research firm Borrell Associates says that of the $310 million in ad ...READ»
How would Facebook be different today if its social operating system was built into Apple's OS X? The two companies spent a lot of time collaborating early on. But, as Facebook's senior platform manager and former Apple employee Dave ...READ»
Verizon's just added something to FiOS that's either a blessing or a curse for Twitter addicts--a live feed of your Twitter account that'll appear on your TV over the show you're watching, part of a new Widget Bazaar that also ...READ»
In June, U.S. Web users
spent roughly 4.5 hours writing on Facebook walls, flipping through Facebook
photos, and stalking total Facebook strangers, according to new data from Nielsen. That’s more time than they logged on
any ...READ»
