Giving virtual gifts is extremely popular on Facebook. Just to give you an idea of how popular it is, social goods and services raked in over $2 billion in 2008 and those are paid goods and services. Imagine what unpaid gifts could do for your business. They wouldn’t make you money directly but they will [...]

Adam Blake of Hubspot discusses how you can be the first result in Google in a matter of minutes – all you have to do is post an update on Twitter. It sounds strange, I know, and I was extremely skeptical of this also. After looking into it however, I am convinced that this could [...]

When you are using the Links Widget in ShortStack, you may notice that you can create links with clickable images instead of just using text. This may be hard for many of our users though that don’t have appropriate images for their links. RSS, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, WordPress and Digg images can be hard to [...]

Are you tired of some unknown entity controlling the Mayoral position at your business? Foursquare is now giving business owners the ability to impeach those check-in cheaters, allowing the prestigious title to go to someone who deserves it, Brenna Ehrlich of Mashable reported. “If a Mayor is flagged by a business owner, they’ll be removed [...]

Not only was ShortStack built to allow anyone to build a Facebook tab quickly and easily but it was also built to get all of your important information in one place, making it easier for your fans, followers and customers to get the content that they require. In an age where everything is fast and [...]

Group gifting has been around ever since the stone age. When a clan wanted to get the chief a new spear then they would all contribute and that spear would be the greatest spear in the entire clan. This form of gift giving isn’t very popular though since one person always gets stuck making the [...]

A new feature that we are excited to give to our users is the Google Analytics widget. All you have to do is create a Google Analytics account, if you don’t already have one, and then create a new profile in order to get the required UA code (you need one UA code per website/Facebook [...]

The social check-in battle is heating up now that Facebook is updating “Places.” This update will allow iPhone users to check-in at a Place and then have to option to check-in the friends that they are with, Josh Constine of InsideFacebook.com reported. They can also take photos while at the Place and upload them to [...]

Many of you may have heard that Facebook is moving away from FBML and by the end of the year they won’t allow new FBML applications. If you haven’t heard, feel free to read this. Facebook will be moving towards IFrame and developers will have to start building IFrame apps instead of using Static FBML. [...]

Amazon now allows users to purchase gift cards to be delivered through Facebook, Adam Ostrow of Mashable reported. All you have to do is head over to Amazon, select the Facebook option, select the gift image, and enter your friend’s name, the amount you want to send and a personal message. After you pay, the [...]

Stunts like this have the potential to receive a lot of coverage online and even get picked up by local, sometimes national, broadcasters. It probably wouldn’t be effective to freeze a bunch of cash now but you may want to try breaking a world record like world’s longest burrito.

Remember when you were young and adults would always tell you to share? Sometimes you didn’t want to share because the item in question was too awesome to give up or because the kid you were supposed to share with was a dork. Well, no matter how selfish or selfless you have become, sharing content [...]

We are always trying to add new features for ShortStack that will make the lives of our users easier. This week we have added a CSS Recipes guide to the Style tab in ShortStack. When you click on Recipes then a window will pop up containing suggestions on how to make your Facebook tab more [...]

A local FOX affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas created a fake news report  that highlights the often ridiculousness of social media usage. “Fox 4 DFW Roast of Social Media” starts out by reporting on a gunman that is overshadowed by outlets like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. The funny part about the video is how detached [...]

A common misconception that people have is that a viral video (or other content) can be made. False! Content can be made, virality is something that is achieved. If you ever decide to sit down with your business and say to them, “What do we do to make a viral video,” then you are already [...]

Hubspot.com recently reported on the top three reasons that people will unfriend others – these reasons were determined by Christopher Sibona, a PhD student at the University of Colorado Denver Business School. The biggest reasons that Sibona found for the act of unfriending were that people were boring, they ranted about hot topics and/or they [...]

What is one thing that you can also count on people to do? Want free stuff. One way that you can keep your fans engaged with your business and its fan page is to have some form of contest every day, week, month, year or any variation of time that you can think of. Contest [...]

Starbucks Digital Network is ALIVE! Starbucks launched their Starbucks Digital Network, which is exclusive to Starbucks stores. Starbucks addicts can now appreciate all the things that Starbucks has to offer in a digital form. SDN has different sections to enhance the Starbucks experience like free news selections and full versions from The New York Times, [...]