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 [...]

The biggest, most popular social network is rightfully confident in their product, but perhaps Facebook has gotten a little too confident. After all, arrogance has the reputation for blinding. Does Facebook need to dip their toes in modest waters, or are they doing just fine? You decide. Here are six things Facebook is overestimating—and underestimating. [...]

Welcomed by surprisingly positive reviews, Facebook’s new profile design Timeline makes it feel as though Christmas came early to its over 800 million active users. Tucked away into Facebook’s Timeline profile design are various submenus, all of which unlock little hidden treasures.These features, although not the shining star of the new design upgrade, are worth noting and raving about, too. [...]

Infographics have been all the rage this year, but as we embark on a new year, a new style of information sharing has recently been introduced– the video infographic. In a summary of 2011′s social media activity, a video infographic titled