A new joint study released by Università degli Studi di Milano and Facebook, reveals that the social networking site is actually working to reduce the "degrees of separation", a popular theory created by Stanley Milgram. In his popular theory on the six degrees of...
Ever wondered where everybody gets their Facebook "Like Boxes", Tweet buttons, and +1 buttons? Well, every social media site has a "Developer's Workstation" (to borrow Facebook's terms) that contains all of the tools that they offer for web designers and site owners....
Ever since Google+ came to life, we've been wanting pages - a place for your company, band, or just about anything else that isn't a person. Well, they're here! You can now put your company on the social media site and it's brilliantly easy. You can either follow our...
A lot of people have been waiting since Day 1 to see brand pages become real on Google+, Google’s new social networking site. Unfortunately, they’re still in the works and we’re waiting to see what they’ll look like in real life. We recently caught a great post on...
You've probably heard of the Occupy movement. A largely dis-organized group of protestors and bystanders have been staging protests around the world, with the media slowly catching on to the themes and messages of the movement. Perhaps the biggest weakness of the...
Everyone wants more "likes" for their company. These days, it's become a primary metric for the success of a company's Facebook page. But, many administrators of pages don't have a clear understanding of what people expect when they "like" a page. As you can see...
If you have Netflix or have been following them in the news, you probably know that they're splitting their services into two: the DVD service will move to a new company called Qwikster, while the streaming service will stay branded as netflix. Besides the other...
Facebook held their own version of the G8 summit yesterday for developers, dubbed "f8". This year they announced some spectacular changes to Facebook, from the way people will see your profile to the way that apps can use your information. Here's the skinny: Profile ...
Checkins can be an excellent form of social momentum. A prospect or customer checks into your business or event and all of their friends see that check in which creates recall without you having to do any work at all. It's a win-win situation for both the customer and...
Let’s face it, social media runs the world. As this humorous video illustrates, social media and information sharing have overcome the speed of many of the disasters and occurrences that incite the use of such platforms. If there’s an earthquake several hundred miles...