The Federal Trade Commission has officially laid down their terms for Facebook, and through December 30th the public can make their own thoughts be known as to whether the foreset guidelines are up to standard. The FTC will publish Facebook’s consent agreement package in the Federal Register for all who want to comment. The commission [...]

Facebook reportedly has teamed up with HTC for a new smartphone. The operation, as many have probably heard, is named Buffy–yes, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Odd code name, but we’ll go with it. Although there’s been no confirmation from Facebook’s camp that this project is indeed in the works, the CNN interview with Mashable‘s Christina Warren plays [...]

In Google’s most recent attempt to attract more traditional consumers (not just tech snobs) to their Google+ platform, they released a television ad on Thanksgiving day during the Packers-Detroit game. Being as I’m not football watcher, I missed the G+ advertisement only to watch and read about it via Ben Parr’s blog the following day. So what [...]

Facebook’s growth and popularity is no-doubt well known by all. However, to partner such acumen with solid numerics can be a real eye-opening act. Earlier this month Woork Up released their infographic titled Facebook Facts. According to their release, Facebook has over 800 million users, the equivalence to 11.7% of the global population. Time has yet to reveal whether [...]

Today Wordstream released a new infographic on how Google’s Adwords auction works. In short, Google’s Adwords auction can be explained as such: Unlike a traditional auction where the highest bidder takes home the prize, Adwords auction works to accommodate all bidders so everyone wins. A bidder pays only the minimum amount necessary to beat out the person below. Increasing [...]

I must have missed the bullet. About a month ago an infographic came out titled Facebook Hall of Fame. From the amount of Tweets and Facebook shares this thing has got I feel like I missed the train to Hogwarts–or experienced an event similarly devastating. For the rest of you folks that missed the bullet too, have [...]

IBM recently released the results of their 2011 Global Chief Marketing Officer Study. After 1,734 face-to-face interviews with CMOs in 19 different industries across the globe, marketing executives are both overwhelmed and excited as the direction of marketing is drastically changing. Despite workplace, industry, size or success, most current CMOs are facing the same challenges caused by [...]

Can you really put a dollar sign amount on each of your Twitter followers? The answer is a definite Yes. Yesterday a California company filed a $340,000 lawsuit against one of their former employees for hijacking their Twitter account. The business’s Twitter account, which has 17,000 followers, claims that their followers are valued at $2.50 [...]

If you’re not a millennial, findings from the 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report may shock you. After surveying nearly 3000 people, comprised of college students and recently employed college graduates (many working in their first full-time jobs), it was concluded that more than half of the study’s respondents could not live without the internet. For [...]

You’ve heard it before, midweek between the hours of 9:00-11:00 am ET or 1:00-3:00 pm ET is the optimal time to post content online. Is this philosophy still correct? According to Argyle Social’s latest research, if connecting with your customers on Facebook is the aim, weekends are the best time to do so. After going [...]

In Jay Baer’s recent post, 70% of Companies Ignore Customer Complaints on Twitter, he explains that there are two things preventing businesses from answering customer questions via their Twitter accounts: Fear and Resources. Fear: Although companies would like to get more involved in directly answering their customers’ questions using Twitter, there is a heavy fear [...]