Pew Internet Research has released the results of study which reveals the attitudes and inclinations of social networkers and how they feel about the environment on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin. The authors of the study use the term …

Facebook has partnered with Bango, a provider of billing and analytics for app stores, mobile apps and sites. Bango will provide payment services to Facebook. Growing mobile use, and the lack of monetization of mobile users were highlighted in the …

According to research by specialist business insurer Hiscox, entrepreneurs that have incorporated social media into their business models claim they use it to not only to increase brand awareness (27%) and boost sales (15%) but to also improve their customer …

Facebook’s good, but not that good according to ByteLevel.com’s recent findings. Google passed the social networking giant this year to take the top spot as best global website of 2012. The “Web Globalization Report Card” as the report refers to …

Any estimations about how strongly the Internet would influence election results this year might have been greatly exaggerated, according to a new Pew study. As it turns out, only 25% of Americans are getting campaign news from the Internet and, …

For an industry that wasn’t even around in 2007, the “app economy” has grown significantly in the past five years. TechNet sponsored a study to show the growth of what they call the “app economy.” There are now 466,000 jobs …

Anthony DeRosa, social-media editor for Reuters news service says: “Social media now is not an option, it’s a necessity,” “A couple of years ago that wasn’t the case, but I think now people have to be a part of it, …

Apparently, Facebook makes people happy. No, seriously. We now have proof. A new study reported in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a peer-reviewed journal, actually dug into the physiological responses to people who visit social networking sites. Measurements of physical …

Full disclosure: I’m much, much more socially liberal that the average bear. I won’t get into specifics about certain policy positions – but let’s just say that I fail to see how a little lightening up could do anything but …

Statista has come out with some interesting new figures about how much money a company generates per employee based on their reported figures. I know this is the technology age, but these figures are huge! Below are the bar graphs …

Congressman John Fleming (R-LA) posted an article on his Facebook page yesterday about Planned Parenthood. The article announced the grand opening of an $8 billion “Abortionplex’ in Topeka, Kansas, funded by Planned Parenthood. If all this sounds familiar, you probably …

I noticed a VentureBeat article via a prominent link at the top of LinkedIn this morning that makes me shake my head in amazement at the writer’s lack of understanding of online advertising. Rocky Agrawal’s sensationalistic headline, “Yelp advertising is …

It’s expected that Facebook’s IPO is going to make a lot of people rich and richer whenever those shares hit the stock market. One person who will fall into the latter category is U2 frontman Bono, whose stocks in Facebook …

Late last week we brought you news that Facebook was testing a new photo viewer that looked an awful lot like the one found in Google+. Now it looks like Facebook is beginning to roll out the new look for …

Facebook appears to be loading slow for many users this morning. Here in our office, we experienced various levels of slow downs. Sometimes the news feed would fail to load completely, other times pages would fail to load. And when …

Hackers have defaced the website of the Muslim cleric who petitioned the government of India concerning “objectionable” content on Facebook, Google, and other search and social networking sites. The website, FatwaOnline, is sponsored by the Islamic Peace Foundation of India …

About six years ago, a young graffiti artist named David Choe traded his services for a couple shares of Facebook stock. Now that Facebook has announced they are going public, he finds the stocks are worth millions. Who would have …

You would think that businesses would use LinkedIn more than any other social media site because it is built for them. Facebook is the everyman social networking site. This infographic finds that LinkedIn may not be all that it’s cut …

A recently released study by Forest and Wood reveals that your self-esteem can effect what type of comments you make on Facebook. Participants from both high and low self-esteem categories were selected. Then each participant was paired with a coder. …

I’ll start this out the way that it really should be started – with a warning to have your grain of salt ready. From the some-guy-is-bashing-his-former-company-on-reddit files, it appears that Zynga focuses the large majority of their attention on folks …

Facebook announced that Open Graph apps can now enable the posting of historical actions to users’ timelines. In Facebook’s latest Operation Developer Love post on the company’s developer blog, Justin Moore writes, “Apps can post historical actions to help people …

You probably use Facebook to share photos and witty anecdotes on a daily basis. Did you know that Facebook is quickly becoming the largest employee recruitment Web site as well? This infographic from HireRabbit details everything a company needs to …

I’m what you might call the old guard in gaming. I come from a time where games were only played by nerdy kids with titles like Mega Man and The Legend of Zelda. This whole social gaming craze caught the …