Within a day of Facebook announcing their new Deals platform, Starbucks started advertising for their check-in rewards.
Retailer H&M is now doing the same: rewarding checked-in users with 20% their purchase. H&M has been an …

Today Facebook announced Facebook Messages, which bundles together email, chat and text messages to create a single communication stream: “The New Messages: Texts, chat and email together in one simple conversation.” If you haven’t watched, …

Last week I wrote about two updates to Facebook Places: Deals (using Starbucks as an example) and Photo attachments. Those two somewhat combine when deals are redeemed.
If you haven’t seen an example yet: here …

When Facebook Places first launched, I wrote that a photo integration made sense:

Today Facebook shook up the local deals space with their Facebook Places announcement: the local deal platform which now competes directly with Foursquare, Yelp, Groupon, etc.

Facebook often uses their sidebar to promote other products and features:
- Image labeling
- The friend finder tool
- Facebook job openings
… etc

Earlier today, Facebook announced their Bing integration and the post on Facebook included a new Facebook commenting system. TechCrunch has since covered and confirmed that a larger commenting upgrade / system is coming.

Facebook has quickly become the largest sharing and storage platform for photos. It is in part because of the social desire to share, part because of the newsfeed and part because of the simple mobile …

The Social Network movie opens today (Yes: I loved it) and advertisements are appearing across the web.

Last night I saw a screening of The Social Network and it lived up to the hype / great reviews (100% on RottenTomatoes.com). The movie was well done, well acted, fun, and actually very inspiring …

I have written about the design of promotion and notification units several times – pointing at examples from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.

Facebook’s news feed is crowded (and more crowded with each passing day).
Consequently, visuals play a big role is drawing attention and driving clicks / conversions. This includes feed pictures, profile pictures, thumbnails, etc. With Facebook’s …