Have you noticed that your Facebook news feed has come to crawl since the new homepage rolled out? Here’s why: in addition to various layout changes, Facebook seems to have altered the Facebook news feed …

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 …

My Facebook redesign took effect some time early this morning… and the only big ‘surprise’ (for lack of a better word) was the prominence of “Facebook Credits” in the new header. Three links (Home, Profile …

For many, the Super Bowl is more about advertising than football (though last night’s game was far better than the ads). Last night was about integrated ad campaigns:
- In real-time, Dockers rain a Facebook premium …

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 …

A week ago, I wrote that only three of Apple’s top twenty grossing iPhone Apps feature in-app purchases. I wondered whether developers have determined that direct sales were more dependable and profitable than relying on …

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 …

Royal Pingdom has a recap of 2009 web usage by the numbers. There are several nuggets – but here are a few that really stand out:
350 million – People on Facebook.
50% – Percentage of Facebook …

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 …