What social media marketers can learn from one company's hockey puck giveaway at a trade show.

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What Social Media Marketers Can Learn From Trade Show Marketers: The Hockey Puck Strategy

Facebook's privacy policy states that users must be at least 13 years old to create an account. Nevertheless, scores of underage users allegedly skirt the social network's rules by listing false ages.

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Facebook Removes 20000 Underage Users Every Day

Facebook Removes 20000 Underage Users Every Day

I like to talk about all the steps Forbes is taking to put authoritative journalism at the center of a social media experience. It was great to see one of our posts on the health care issue recently rack up 61000 Facebook shares.

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Forbes, Facebook and “Like” Clouds: A Social Media Report Card, of ...

Forbes, Facebook and “Like” Clouds: A Social Media Report Card, of ...

In the same way that 'Mafia Wars' has drawn attention to Jersey, and 'FarmVille' has drawn attention to... uh... Iowa (or something), Zynga's newes.

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Facebook Game Offers Free Trip to Ireland for Best Virtual Roof ...

Facebook Game Offers Free Trip to Ireland for Best Virtual Roof ...

ribes have a purpose that is different than business thinking and media influence of the past. Tries aim to improve situations, thinking and old business models. Tribes recognize constraints to progress and use their collective voices to remove old constraints created by past thinking. Tribal behavior will change institutional learning models of the industrial era; here is what you need to know to do what others want you to do.

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The Gathering and Influence of Tribes

(Nanowerk News) Genes interfere with each other in the same manner that the social network Facebook suggests friends, according to research published in the online version of Nature Methods. The study was funded in part by the ...

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Genes mimic Facebook workings

Genes mimic Facebook workings

Guest writer Kristina Allen, Online Marketing Manager at ion interactive, describes her approach to using Slideshare presentations. "Slideshare is a directory of presentations. Think of it as YouTube, but for Powerpoint."

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Top 5 Slideshare Marketing Tips

During a small period on Tuesday, internet data between AT&T broadband customers and Facebook was directed via Chinese ISP China Telecom, routed by hardware inside the country before reaching its destination, The Register has confirmed. ...

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Routing error momentarily sends AT&T Facebook data via China

Routing error momentarily sends AT&T Facebook data via China

Facebook Apps and Games have undeniably been an integral part of the social network's success. For those apps, one major income generator is the ability to purchase and unlock virtual goods using an online currency, Facebook Credits. ...

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Facebook Credits coming to India soon

Facebook Credits coming to India soon

MinoMonsters is a Facebook game that combines social gaming and emotional engagement in hopes of becoming a modern day Pokémon.

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Teenagers Translate Pokemon For the Facebook Generation

Teenagers Translate Pokemon For the Facebook Generation

[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] I have had quite a few opportunities to go briefly hands-on with the BlackBerry PlayBook now, but for some reason always forget to login to Facebook and see what it loads like on the PlayBook's ...

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First Look: Facebook on BlackBerry PlayBook Web Browser - Allows ...

First Look: Facebook on BlackBerry PlayBook Web Browser - Allows ...

A new Shazam update for the iPhone and Android lets user can tag music and immediately upload it on Facebook to share with their friends.

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Share Music on Facebook With Shazam Update

Share Music on Facebook With Shazam Update

Obviously, we'd all like to imagine that our parents joined Facebook just to make our lives miserable. But, according to Pew Internet, the olds got.

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Your Folks Joined Facebook to Talk About Politics, Not You

Your Folks Joined Facebook to Talk About Politics, Not You

In the late 1990s, the Internet was not a fun place for the masses. It was difficult to get around, set up an email address, or share files. America Online had just begun carpet bombing the US with millions of free AOL CDROM disks delivered through the US Postal Service in an attempt to snag as many subscriptions as possible.

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Facebook Today, Reminds Me of AOL in 1998

In acquiring Israeli mobile app developer Snaptu, Facebook gained three things: a strong feature phone development platform, a presence in the white-hot Israeli startup scene and a team who's development philosophy mirrors Facebook's ...

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Snaptu Is Facebook's Foray Into Feature Phones, Israel: Tech News ...

Snaptu Is Facebook's Foray Into Feature Phones, Israel: Tech News ...