As you can tell from recent blog posts, I have been spending time looking at traffic sources for various sites (Facebook, Huffington Post, Perez Hilton, etc).
New data from Hitwise reveals that one-third of Foursquare’s traffic …

A big, exciting day for Brizzly (whom I have written about more than a few times!). Today they announce two major product launches:
1. Brizzly for the iPhone

Mind you, this is coming from a someone who does not profess to understand Google Wave (after several attempts)…
and from someone who believes that Facebook is the bigger than most give it credit for.
Here are …

While leading natural search strategy at eBay, we had a motto: Content is King. It wasn’t a unique tagline – even CKX, Inc (American Idol, Elvis Presley, etc) stands for “Content is King”.
While at the …

Two excellent posts on the current status of geo-location companies by Robert Scoble and Hunter Walk (both bloggers are great and their blogs are must reads). Scoble argues that industry-first Foursquare is being squeezed by …

I might be in the minority here, but I consider Twitter’s launch of Local Trends Twitter’s most significant product advancement since… launch? It will no doubt be overshadowed by tomorrow’s Apple announcement – but local …

Mike Hirshland today has a blog post, “Friends or Followers“, which describes the frequent conversation / debate around Facebook and Twitter:
In the course of our meeting [at Facebook] the Twitter question came up, and we …

And just to continue the URL shortener theme… I just noticed that Bit.ly celebrates Hanukkah with a really funny / clever graphic. It’s part underwater blob (their normal ‘mascot’) and part dreidel:

Bitly Update from …

I wrote on Saturday that Facebook had rolled out a new URL shortener, FB.me (covered on InsideFacebook here):

Today, Google announced their own shortener: Goo.gl. Interestingly, it is available only on the Google Toolbar, as a …

This is my first time seeing Twitter results integrated within a Google search results page. The below query is for “Windows 7″ and you will notice a dynamic Twitter ‘widget’ in-line with other results. The …

I just raved about Google Chrome extensions and, in particular, the Brizzly extension. Well the Bit.ly Chrome extension is also great:

Once the extension is installed, it allows you to easily post to Bitly and access …

Google Chrome has released their “Chrome Extensions” library with nearly 400 functional extensions… and, just like the browser, the extensions are light weight, functional and great looking (the icons animate, have gloss, and so forth). …