As of right now, some unfortunate social media people at Febreze are about 8% complete with their “Febreze Thank-a-Thon.” That’s a little over 80,000 “thank yous,” “thanks,” and even “dankas” that have been uttered by the team. The first 80,000 …

Who are the most active Facebook users? What are they doing with all that time they spend on the site? How many fall into this category? This next inforgraphic from Demandforce.com answers all those questions and more. It’s packed with …

Unless you’ve been living under a severely large rock for the past 24 hours, you’ve seen the news cycle – both network and online – dominated by one story. On Wednesday, President Obama officially came out in support of gay …

Despite what you might think about Adam Sandler’s recent direction in filmmaking, you can’t deny that he remains a popular pop culture figure. You don’t need to look any further than his Facebook page to see that. Sandler has just …

Matthew Inman, otherwise known as the guy who created and updates The Oatmeal web comic, has an awesome ability to condense things down to the nitty-gritty, cutting through the weeds to get to the good stuff. Take his latest creation …

You’ve seen campaigns on Facebook before: “If we get (X number) of likes, we will (name our son spider-man/ eat a pile of cat poop/ do something ridiculous)”. But odds are you haven’t seen one where they promise to take …

Social is more important to search rankings than ever. There’s no doubt about that. Should +1s and Facebook “likes” be used as significant ranking signals by search engines? Share your thoughts here. In a recent article, we asked if Google’s …

Today, Microsoft’s search engine has announced that its “decision engine” will now be influenced by what they are calling the “friend effect,” basically what is popular with one’s Facebook friends. If you log into Facebook through Bing, you will now …

Earlier this week Facebook released version 3.4 of their iPhone app. Hidden amongst the “advertised” additions are a few smaller changes, bugs, and oddities that are leaving some users perplexed on why they upgraded. Some iPhone owners are starting too …

Over on FriendFeed, which I joined in March, I’ve been quite busy. I’ve moved a bunch of my blogging time and Google Reader time over to it. How does that time translate? Well, into a few things:

1. Comments. (Those are items I’ve commented on — 1,893 so far)
2. Likes. (Those are items I’ve liked — 3,003 so far)

A few minutes ago I just passed 3,000 “Likes.”