Twitter has officially launched their Tweet Button – a natural move which will place them beside Facebook’s like buttons… and across millions of pages on the web (soon to be on this blog!). The question …

Yesterday was the launch of Madden NFL 11 (coverage here). Yesterday was also my first purchase through Twitter’s Earlybird.

It was a long time coming, but Twitter released their “Who to Follow” tool… and it’s terrific. It makes Twitter more navigable and more socially relevant:
For me at least – this translates to richer content, …

Last week I wrote about a Nike Golf / Golfsmith social media campaign that rewarded Facebook fans with special giveaways and discounts. The following ad units appeared alongside that blog post. They appeared instantly – …

The last week of tech news has revolved around: Twitter, Foursquare, Apple, Google (who today announced Google Places) and Facebook (who announced communities yesterday and has F8 tomorrow).
The common threads across each of these: …

As you can tell from recent blog posts, I have been spending time looking at traffic sources for various sites (Facebook, Huffington Post, Perez Hilton, etc).
New data from Hitwise reveals that one-third of Foursquare’s traffic …

Several social media best practices – particularly on Facebook – come from big consumer brands: Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks, Rockstar, Vitamin Water, etc. McDonalds is arguably the biggest brand, but….
Go to McDonalds.com and notice prominent links …

A big, exciting day for Brizzly (whom I have written about more than a few times!). Today they announce two major product launches:
1. Brizzly for the iPhone

Internet marketers used to optimize for the “first page” – in other words, being one of the top ten natural search results. While there was declining value with each search position, you could still derive …

Twitter handled the volume of Super Bowl XLIV… until Peyton Manning threw the game-ending interception and effectively sealed a New Orleans Saints victory. Immediately after the play, Twitter was overwhelmed:

A quick note to announce the move of my Twitter handle to @RyanSpoon (from @berecruited). I am not sure there is a better way to make the username move – but it was creating confusion …

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 …