Michael Jackson’s death was remarkable in several ways - one of which was what it signified for news delivery and discovery. Like millions of others, I first found out through Facebook, Twitter, text messages… all …

Today Widgetbox reached a significant milestone in its three-year history: 100,000,000 monthly uniques (covered by TechCrunch here). Measured by Quantcast, our widgets are now seen by 100.5m unique users each month and served over 700m …

Starbucks is approaching 3,000,000 Facebook Fans (a huge number - they have 220,000 Twitter followers) and is engaging those users to find out how to better utilize Facebook and their popularity:
Starbucks Coffee Company: About to …

Want to know the value of being a “Suggested User” on Twitter? Jason Calacanis offered $250,000 to lock in that slot for two years. Twitter rejected the overture.
But TechCrunch has one of those coveted …

Before Facebook’s vanity URL land grab, I speculated that it would be a major SEO boost and could result in an additional 275m monthly visits. Just three days after Facebook’s URL release (9:01pm pst on …

Unfortunately, as much as I wanted to befriend this anonymous user - Facebook won’t let me… It’s also unfortunate because I wanted to give him / her this Prius ‘Air’ Freshner:

Facebook friend ’suggestions’ seem to …

Facebook Pages are powerful ways to communicate with users, customers and fans… but the power is predicated by the size of its audience (a lesson well demonstrated by Twitter). Thus, it’s a natural move for …

Facebook’s vanity URL push (covered by TechCrunch) is a big deal for two reasons:
- the direct business model opportunity
- traffic via natural search
Let’s leave the business model alone for the now as it is …

11 days and 7 hours remain until the much-anticipated Palm Pre launch… at least that’s what Sprint’s ad campaign has drilled in my head (again and again). The ads are running on sponsorships across major …

The NBA clearly has MLB.tv envy…
And it’s not a bad thing! (now if only the NFL would start experimenting)
I have written before that Major League Baseball is the only major sports league to grasp the …

MacRumors has screenshots of Apple’s new iPhone Push Notifications (running through the new iPhone 3.0 software).
Think of it as the real-time feed (or stream) going mobile. Just as Facebook’s feed opening sparked new innovation and …

Despite the big traffic and abilities to engage with consumers, some brands are still afraid of social media. Most grasp the power of social media (from blogging to widgets and from Facebook to Twitter), but …