This is one of the more creative and fun Facebook Connect implementations. Predators – a surprisingly good movie, promise! – launched a Facebook viral campaign in conjunction with their national launch two weeks ago (opened …

But tying together the web’s most visited site (Facebook) with arguably the most important communication platform (email) is both natural and a long time coming.
And with this week’s announcement of Microsoft’s ‘Outlook Social Connector‘ …

As I have written numerous times before: “finding” (ie search and filtering) becomes exponentially more difficult as inventory grows. Apple’s app gallery faces this problem (as do giants like eBay, Amazon, etc). For instance, it …

The blog has been dormant for the past couple weeks – but back from our honeymoon (pictures coming!), I have a slew of quick posts that should have been covered earlier and warrant greater depth… …

Vitaminwater has introduced its newest flavor: Vitaminwater Connect (named after Facebook Connect)… and they are giving away 100,000 free bottles of Connect to their 1.2 million Facebook fans. If you remember, over the last few …

I have been asked several times recently for great Facebook Connect presentations and takeaways from our Dogpatch Labs / Facebook event (which you see here). Below are a handful of great presentations and demos. Any …

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 …

MyTown is best described as Zynga meets Foursquare. Take the best aspects of social gaming (Zynga) and combine them with location based networking (Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp) and you have MyTown: a game that awards points …

I have been asked to share some of the presentations from the Dogpatch Labs / Facebook Connect event this week. I will try to make presentations available depending on their public availability (and most importantly, …

As Mike Hirshland wrote, “last night was a truly epic evening at Dogpatch Labs“. Alongside Facebook, we hosted 150 people at Dogpatch Labs San Francisco to discuss Facebook Connect and demo their implementations and best …

Last night I posted that over 650 million downloads have occurred on the Playstation Store. Today, a related and significant milestone was achieved on Xbox Live: 2 million users used Microsoft’s Facebook integration in the …

Facebook and Zynga in particular have become the center pieces for micro-transactions, social gaming and in-game purchasing habits… so much so that the activity on Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Playstation’s Playstation Store are often overlooked. …