Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn’t sell this information, since many companies would be interested. Turns out they are interested. More » Gizmodo: top

Double rainbow awesome. There’s no other modern way to describe this. I won’t spoil it too much, but whatever you do today, visit that website and select some of your closest friends from your Facebook graph when prompted. You won’t be disappointed. TechCrunch

We broke the news yesterday on Facebook’s most recent acquisition – social activity service Hot Potato. Like most of Facebook’s acquisitions, this deal looks to be mostly about getting a great team of engineers on board, not about the product. And like many of these acquisitions, investors in the acquired company don’t stand to make [...]

Facebook’s worst-kept secret is finally ready for its closeup: the company is starting to roll out Facebook Questions, a Q&A service that allows users to poll all of Facebook. Facebook has been inviting users to apply to join a sneak peek of Questions for months now, so we’ve seen much of this before, but this [...]

There’s more to social media than just Myspace, Facebook and Twitter In the last 12 months, the extraordinary growth in Social Media has lead to a huge amount of public attention. With celebrities on Twitter and bands on MySpace, it could seem to many that Social Media means little more than Facebook & Co. But [...]

Social Media Marketing through Facebook If you want to make the most of social media marketing today, you better sign up with Facebook. According to a recent report from the Orlando Business Journal, Facebook has far outpaced its competitors in the first quarter of 2009, garnering 78 percent of US social network participants against MySpace’s [...]

Social Media Marketing Errors of Wal-Mart at Facebook hereas Target’s social media marketing efforts at Facebook were lauded and hailed as a resounding success, its competitor, Wal-Mart did not do as well in the same social network. In fact, in the estimation of some social media marketing authorities, Wal-Mart’s social media marketing foray failed miserably. [...]

Insights on Social Media Monitoring for Luxury Brands: Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums Major B2C companies should increase their marketing investments in On-Line activities in 2010 according to a recent survey completed by Forrester Research. Social Media should be the Big Winner. However, the main question remains the optimal allocation of resources in Social Media Marketing: [...]

Social Media Marketing Guide. How To Use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube And MySpace To Grow Your Internet Marketing Business As I mentioned in one of my previous articles, Social Media has became extremely popular in the last few years. Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube are growing faster than any other type [...]

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc ? The Emergence of Social Media in the workplace Unless you’ve been on a desert island recently I am sure that there are not many of you that have not heard of the term ‘Social Media’. Well, what is social media? According to Wikipedia “Social media is media designed to be [...]