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 …

Facebook’s new “via” sharing functionality (think Twitter’s retweet button) has been reported for days (InsideFacebook’s Eric Eldon writes here) but last night was first time that I had seen it in the wild (after much …

Earlier in the week, I got a lot of flack on Facebook for becoming a fan of the movie Dear John. I noted that it was for a purpose: my usual Facebook advertising and brand …

NBC has been running ads on Facebook to promote the upcoming season of Chuck – airing tonight at 9pm. The ad use Facebook’s event units: you can RSVP to ‘attend’ the event. That RSVP then …

Another great job by JibJab with their end-of-year celebration video: Never a Year Like ‘09.

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This is my last short Facebook post of the day… and it is also speculative as it is based on the fact that this is the first time I have seen behavior like this on …