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Some Facebook users who live to the east of the Atlantic can now share their location on the site. Today, Facebook Places launched in the UK, allowing people to check in a...

Why the New Twitter May Benefit Businesses and Marketers Greatly

This week, Twitter introduced a new redesign of Twitter.com with a two-pane format aimed at providing a richer user experience, and...

Justin.tv Broadcasting Comes to iPhone

At the beginning of the month, Justin.tv launched its Android app for live...

A Brief Look at What Diaspora Will Do

The source code for Diaspora has been released. It has generated a lot of buzz since it gained funding through Kickstarter and Facebook started drawing more privacy scrutiny e...

Arguing Against NFL In Game Tweets

I am a pretty big NFL fan. Have been all of my life. Why? Because the product is fun for me. The product of football that is. Anything else about the drama and the thoughts o...

A New Option for Businesses to Levarage Facebook Places

Social app developer Fan Appz has just announced that it has integrated its platform with Facebook Places. The company says this gives busin...

Schwab Launches Financial Advice Page On Facebook

Financial services provider Charles Schwab has launched “SchwabMoneyWise,” a Facebook page aimed at helping younger people manage their money....

Facebook And Twitter Driving Referral Traffic

Online video viewing grew across all media categories in the second quarter with unique viewers increasing on average 2.8 percent per month, and consumers watched 11 percent mor...

More Opportunities To Gain Traffic From Facebook Likes

Facebook continues to make changes that have implications for benefiting businesses and driving traffic. They have now launched three new updates to its Like button social...

GMC Partners With NFL For Online Contest

GMC has launched the “GMC Never Say Never Moment of the Week,” in partnership with the NFL and ESPN that allows football fans to vote on the best moment or play of t...

Zynga Strengthens Ties With Facebook Credits

Facebook and a social game developer with which many (or maybe most) users are familiar are now closer than ever. Zynga's officially made Facebook Credits the exclusive pa...

Twitter Sees Big Usage Increase Over Summer

For some people, summer's a time to live at the pool. For others, it's a season better spent vacationing in another state or country. But as it turns out, a lot of p...

How Will Bit.ly Work with Twitter’s Link Wrapping?

Besides hinting at new features and talking about user stats, Twitter also made a couple announcements this week. One is that all Twitter apps use...

Location-Based Advertising To Reach $1.8 Billion

Location-based advertising is still in its early stages, but according to ABI Research, businesses will spend $1.8 billion on it in 2015 as part of their overall mobile marketin...

Twitter CEO Talks Stats, Ecosystem, Hints at New Features

Twitter CEO Evan Williams revealed some numbers about Twitter usage on the company blog, while talking ab...