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. …

Two months ago, Facebook rolled out a series of widgets that showcase activity from from your Facebook account or fan page. Today, it appears that Facebook has rolled out a new kind of widget billed …

Just a few weeks ago, Modelinia live streamed the Heidi Klum Halloween Party through Facebook and Facebook Connect. Tonight is the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show and Modelinia is doing a live stream on Facebook for …

Wendy’s has been advertising their new Bacon Deluxe burger which features four strips of Applewood bacon:

So unless you love bacon, why is this interesting? Because Wendy’s has been promoting the burger heavily in an interactive …

If you have visited TechCrunch today, you likely noticed the Meebo chat integration in the page footer. The Meebo bar allows users to connect via Facebook, AIM, and other popular clients. It also acts as …

Rails Rumble 2009 concluded yesterday at 5:00pm pst. About 250 teams submitted their 48-hour projects and the early results look great (here’s an excellent write / thread on Hacker News). Judging for the event begins …

It’s no surprise that social recommendations work – they are based on connections, shared interests, references, etc. I’ve written many times that I believe conversation – enabling it, aggregating it, filtering it and applying authority …