Introducing: Mastering Facebook in Kindle and Paperback
February 21, 2012 – 8:53 am | Comments Off

I’m excited to announce that I’ve turned the last 2+ years of Facebook blog posts into a book focused on Facebook: exciting campaigns, product development, virality, and platform developments. There are 200+ screenshots in the …

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Thinking About Facebook’s Expanded Like Button
February 27, 2011 – 7:09 pm | 238 Comments
Thinking About Facebook’s Expanded Like Button

Today Facebook rolled out a rather significant change: the Like button has replaced the Share button’s functionality. It’s an important transition because, at least for me, it has already changed my “liking” behavior. Auto-publishing a …

Facebook Connect As a Registration & Login Flow
February 26, 2011 – 8:22 am | 481 Comments
Facebook Connect As a Registration & Login Flow

Reading OM’s article “My web without Facebook Connect“, I was reminded of an blog post I recently wrote and regularly reference (“Facebook as a conversion tool: registration flows.“).

Facebook’s Slick Photo Tagging Interface / Interstitial
February 22, 2011 – 8:35 am | 338 Comments
Facebook’s Slick Photo Tagging Interface / Interstitial

Facebook Photos continues to roll out new functionality. When uploading pictures yesterday, I noticed a new post-upload flow: “Who’s in these photos?” It is important for a few reasons.

Facebook Announces New Facebook Photos With Hover Promotion.
February 13, 2011 – 4:03 pm | 571 Comments
Facebook Announces New Facebook Photos With Hover Promotion.

Perhaps because they are continually rolling out new products and split tests.
Perhaps because they are terrific product marketers and designers.
And/or perhaps because they need to figure out how to message 600m+ users in efficient, effective …

Lady Gaga Uses Facebook Event to Launch New Single
February 11, 2011 – 3:47 pm | 422 Comments
Lady Gaga Uses Facebook Event to Launch New Single

230,000 have RSVP’d to the debut of Lady Gaga’s new single: Born This Way. Why? In part because it is Lady Gaga (who only trails Justin Bieber in internet popularity) and in part because the …

Tech takes to Super Bowl XLV Ads… & Takes them to Web before the Game
February 6, 2011 – 12:45 pm | 293 Comments
Tech takes to Super Bowl XLV Ads… & Takes them to Web before the Game

Tonight you’ll likely see a handful of tech companies advertising during the Super Bowl (a 30-second spot runs $3,000,000). Techmeme – which is usually filled with tech and gadget news – is headlined by forthcoming …

Facebook as a Conversion Tool. Registration Flows as Example.
January 26, 2011 – 10:32 am | 373 Comments
Facebook as a Conversion Tool. Registration Flows as Example.

It is common to think of Facebook as user / traffic acquisition lever (perhaps the best available considering its 600m users, its viral network, and the developer platform and tools). But thanks to a recent, …

Adam Sandler’s Just Go For It Trailer is Facebook Themed
January 23, 2011 – 4:03 pm | 300 Comments
Adam Sandler’s Just Go For It Trailer is Facebook Themed

Continuing the theme of posting about TV commercials… here is the latest spot for Adam Sandler’s new movie “Just Go For It.” The entire spot is created around Facebook: it opens with a Like button …

Exclusivity And Facebook Fan Pages – Whats the Incentive?
December 22, 2010 – 12:22 pm | 222 Comments
Exclusivity And Facebook Fan Pages – Whats the Incentive?

Over the summer I wrote about the four keys to Facebook page marketing: authenticity, consistency, regularity and engagement.

Facebook’s Latest “Friend Finder” – Universal Login
December 21, 2010 – 9:26 am | 310 Comments
Facebook’s Latest “Friend Finder” – Universal Login

I have written several times about Facebook’s continued promotion of the Friend Finder tool … which one attempt by Facebook to encourage user invites.

Facebook Photo Zoom Chrome Extension: Applied to the Web?
December 17, 2010 – 2:55 pm | 306 Comments
Facebook Photo Zoom Chrome Extension: Applied to the Web?

I have been playing with several Chrome extensions and applications… and while several are great utilities / efficiency improvements, one in particular has made me rethink web experience: Facebook Photo Zoom.

It’s All About Personalization (2011)
December 10, 2010 – 11:07 am | 288 Comments
It’s All About Personalization (2011)

Two years ago (somehow it’s been that long), I gave 20 predictions for digital media & e-commerce in 2009. This year, I am going to do it slightly differently and write individual posts about various …