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Netflix, which for better or worse possesses a rather unique ability to entertain solitary users for hours on end, is about to get both more social and more specific. The...

Steps For Creating Custom Facebook Page Content

A few months ago Facebook officially did away with the idea of adding “boxes” of custom content to Facebook pages and instead forced users into adding “applica...

Do You Keep a Personal Social Media Scorecard?

Personally, I've never been overly concerned about receiving a perfect grade as long as I know I've done my best. I raised my kids to think the same wa...

The Silly Quora Debate

Over the past month or so there’s been an escalating amount of hype and discussion about Q&A startup Quora in the tech world. As a quic...

New Twitter Feature Shows Mutual Connections for Users

Twitter has launched a new feature accessible at Twitter.com that shows connections you may have with other Twitter users. If you go to someone's Twitter p...

Facebook Launches Secured Connection, Social Authentication Features

Computer users who have learned not to submit important info online unless a "lock" icon is visible - and who've also come to fear captchas - should soon have a much-i...

Self-Served Twitter Promotions

The Twitter brain trust has decided to turn some of their exponentially-growing traffic into a monetary outlet with the upcoming launch of their self-serve ad platform....

Is Facebook’s New “Buy with Friends” a Hint at Bigger Things to Come?

Facebook is all about friends, so it stands to reason that friends be the main facilitators of marketing through the social network. This is a sentiment driven home by...

Facebook Buys Mobile Ad Company Rel8tion

Facebook has reportedly acquired Rel8tion, a mobile advertising company. While you'd be hard pressed to find much info about the company on its own site, it has been made clear...

Facebook Credits To Become Universal Currency On Site

A currency - whether real or virtual - is only as good as the extent to which it's accepted. So to increase the value of Facebook Credits (figuratively speaking), Facebook...

Visualize Your LinkedIn Influence with InMaps

LinkedIn has launched a new LinkedIn Labs product called InMaps, which shows you what your network looks like in a visual way. ...

Twitter Ad Revenue Forecast To Triple This Year

Twitter's efforts to generate ad revenue will kick into high gear this year and be quite successful, according to a new report. eMarketer estimates the company will earn $...

JetBlue Launches Facebook Deal App

JetBlue Airways has introduced a new app on Facebook called “Go Places” that rewards people with TrueBlue points and discounts so they can earn free trips....

4 Ways to Improve Your Twitter Strategy

A few months ago my friend Dr. Ben Hanna led an extensive statistical study to discover the optimal tweeting strategy by runnin...

Additional Facebook Data Center Lined Up In Oregon

Facebook users' messages, likes, and photo uploads may at some point have (another) very tangible effect on Prineville, Oregon. It's starting to look like Facebook - which...

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