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 …

Services and brands enter mainstream pop culture when they:
1. Reach critical mass, and/or
2. Provide value in a way that makes their usage critical
Use Facebook and Twitter as examples. From print to television, both are now …

When I last covered Perez Hilton, it was when he hit 14,000,000 pageviews in a single day – a remarkable feat considering big brands like Huffington Post had topped out at 7,700,000.
An interesting outcome of …

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Thanks to Chai’s new Newsfeed RSS application, you can now use Widgetbox to create Blidgets and Blidget Pros from your Facebook Feed. Add you Twitter activity, blog and/or RSS …

There is no arguing that Twitter is a powerful marketing lever. There is also no arguing that Twitter can be remarkably noisy and difficult to navigate (in part because of the presence of so many …