The search engine king brought in $37.9 billon in revenues this past year. In an infographic released today by WordStream titled “Breaking Down Google’s 2011 Revenues” they were able to use their analysis to determine the top 10 industries that spent the most on Google advertising in 2011, as well as reveal some insights into the current [...]

With a network of over 800 million active users, Facebook is a platform marketers cannot afford to ignore. Advertising on the social site is relatively inexpensive, easily accessable and offers advertisers the unique opportunity to narrowly target their market on space that’s intensely popular and frequently visited by millions every single day. According to the [...]

According to a post by All Facebook, the way Timeline distributes users’ wall content and activity will be different in the near future. Currently, Facebook distributes both user application activity and wall activty  on both  the right and left side of Timeline’s columns. This will soon change. From the report, it was noted that the [...]

Marketers and advertisers have a new reason to love Facebook: Sponsored Stories are now being featured in users’ News Feeds. Camouflaged amongst other News Feed posts, Sponsored Stories are revealed only by the text “Feature” located at the bottom right of the post. As reported by Inside Facebook, Marketers can only pay for posts to be [...]

Not surprisingly, there’s a swarm of unhappy, newly converted Facebook users already wanting to opt-out of Timeline. For those in a panic, rushing to try and revert their Timeline profiles back to the old profile view, I’m afraid you’re out of luck. It can’t be done and anything or anyone telling you otherwise is a scam [...]

This past summer I can recall watching a video of Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, at the Nielsen Consumer 360 conference speaking about how email will soon be phased out and replaced most predominately with forms of instant messaging. Her thoughts, pretty radicle, but foreseeable. Facebook is now offering a desktop chat application for Windows, a [...]

Earlier this week Inside Facebook released an article titled, “EdgeRank and Graph Rank Defined.” For anyone who has ever had any confusion over the two algorithms, I’ve provided a summary of the post below. Here’s exactly what you need to know: EdgeRank EdgeRank determines what content shows up in the News Feed. This algorithm’s value is [...]

According to All Facebook, who covered a post made by The Sociable, Facebook’s new Timeline profile does not support Internet Explorer 7 users. Here’s what All Facebook had to say about this: “…the old [Facebook] profile comes complete with display issues for IE7 users, as some of the style-sheet language does not mesh well with the [...]

A recently released infographic titled, “How Social Media is Ruining Our Minds,”claims social media has had a profound effect on the human mind. More specifically, such things as multitasking skills, social interactions and even our ability to focus have been dramatically affected by online activity. The infographic, created by Assisted Living Today, states that ten years ago [...]