Why You Should Care About Facebook Social Plugins

Facebook held its annual developer conference F8 yesterday and as expected announced not only their new Graph API and the Open Graph Protocol but also a suite of eight social plugins designed to not only be extremely easy to integrate into your existing site but also extremely powerful. As explained by Facebook during the keynote the Social Plugins work to create a web that is instantly sociable and personalized....

Promoted Tweets And The Twitter Monetization Strategy

The day before Twitter kicked off its developer conference Chirp this week they announced they had a monetization plan and that plan would include paid tweets and that they were now rolling out in a limited fashion. During the Chirp conference they talked a little more in depth about what exactly paid for tweets meant and how they would implement them on the site. If you don’t feel like watching the entire 30...

Facebook Launches Promote Your Post

It appears that Facebook has turned on a new Facebook advertising feature that gives Facebook page admins a new way to promote their pages. Now below your page post and to the right of the Share link you will see the Promote link. After clicking the Promote link a window pops up and gives you the option to either Create Advert, Edit Advert or Cancel. Clicking on the Create Advert will take you to Facebook Review...

Where You At? – The Rise Of Location Aware Apps

One of the major trends that appear to be forming in 2010 is the location aware applications made popular in social games such as Foursquare, Gowalla, MyTown and Brightkite. Facebook is also getting ready to debut its location aware service at their annual f8 developer conference next month, Google Buzz which launched just over a month ago includes location awareness on the mobile side and Twitter introduced...

What’s All The Buzz About?

Google has launched a new social networking platform heavily integrated into its webmail service Gmail. The new platform called Buzz is the latest effort by Google to enter into the social market. Google quickly began to roll the new service out to its current Gmail users and expects that all users will have the Buzz service within a couple of days. As of this writing I do not have the Buzz feature integrated into...