Introducing: Mastering Facebook in Kindle and Paperback
February 21, 2012 – 8:53 am | Comments Off

I’m excited to announce that I’ve turned the last 2+ years of Facebook blog posts into a book focused on Facebook: exciting campaigns, product development, virality, and platform developments. There are 200+ screenshots in the …

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My One Major iPad Complaint: The VGA Adapter
April 25, 2010 – 7:49 pm | 225 Comments
My One Major iPad Complaint: The VGA Adapter

I have glowingly written about the iPad and its potential to disrupt markets and consumer behaviors. My laptop has become less relevant to my daily life: I no longer bring it home from work and …

Levis + Facebook’s Open Graph = Awesome Social Shopping
April 24, 2010 – 12:11 pm | 350 Comments
Levis + Facebook’s Open Graph = Awesome Social Shopping

Facebook’s F8 announcements featured prominent partner integrations with Pandora, IMDB, ESPN and Yelp… but Levi’s quickly demonstrated that the Open Graph and web-wide Like functionality are highly applicable to e-commerce and social shopping. Just as …

Adding Facebook Social Plugins
April 23, 2010 – 1:28 pm | 709 Comments

Fresh out of Facebook’s F8 conference, I have added two of the announced social plugins the blog:
1. The Like Box in the right column, which features an activity stream of the latest ‘liked’
2. The Like …

Jibe Hiring VP of Technology in NYC
April 23, 2010 – 1:14 pm | 64 Comments

Jibe is hiring a VP of Technology. The job is based in New York and a great opportunity to work with leading social technologies as the fourth employee of a great startup.  I blogged about …

Quick Math: 100m+ Birthday Actions on Facebook per Day?
April 23, 2010 – 9:30 am | 328 Comments

A rather obvious finding from my birthday yesterday: Facebook is immensely popular. My Facebook wall, email, notifications and SMS alerts were bombarded with birthday notes… several magnitudes greater than last year… and similarly the year …

Game Mechanics, Badges & eBay Feedback Ratings
April 23, 2010 – 7:12 am | 245 Comments
Game Mechanics, Badges & eBay Feedback Ratings

Thanks to the success of Foursquare, Booyah / MyTown and Zynga, “game mechanics”, “badges” and “leaderboards” have become cornerstones of any web marketer’s dialect and user-acquisition strategy.
What these three companies have done so well is …

20% of All Google Searches are Location Related
April 20, 2010 – 8:44 am | 306 Comments
20% of All Google Searches are Location Related

The last week of tech news has revolved around: Twitter, Foursquare, Apple, Google (who today announced Google Places) and Facebook (who announced communities yesterday and has F8 tomorrow).
The common threads across each of these: …

Zynga’s Treasure Isle: Economies of Scale in a Social World
April 19, 2010 – 10:38 am | 198 Comments

There are two camps in the world of social gaming:
- One side thinks that it has been won outright by Zynga
- The other side believes that we are in the early innings of a nine-inning …

Sprout Enables HTML5 & Flash Ads – Simultaneously
April 16, 2010 – 12:55 pm | 221 Comments
Sprout Enables HTML5 & Flash Ads – Simultaneously

After last week’s Apple announcement, I declared HTML5 as one of the winners. Generally, I believe that mobile represents a significant change in our web usage / consumption… and HTML5 plays an increasingly important role …

Join Two Amazing Companies: Formpsring and ShoeDazzle
April 16, 2010 – 10:38 am | 685 Comments
Join Two Amazing Companies: Formpsring and ShoeDazzle

I have been slow to update my blog’s “job board“… but have two great companies and opportunities to add to the list. I am fortunate to spend time with each of these companies: excellent products, …

Google’s Q1: 60,000 Android Devices Activated Daily; AdSense Revenue Growth (+24%)
April 15, 2010 – 2:42 pm | 215 Comments
Google’s Q1: 60,000 Android Devices Activated Daily; AdSense Revenue Growth (+24%)

During their Q1 earnings announcements, Google revealed some good tidbits about their business and strategic initiatives… which clearly include Android and Chrome:
- 34 devices from 12 OEMs are Android operated
- 60,000 Android devices are sold …

Facebook Testing New Feed Posts to Drive Additional Comments?
April 11, 2010 – 11:25 am | 497 Comments
Facebook Testing New Feed Posts to Drive Additional Comments?

It appears as though Facebook experimenting with new formats of news feed ‘announcements’ to escalate noteworthy, relevant content to your “top news” feed?
This is the first time I have seen notifications like this via …