MySpace has begun rolling out a new user homepage which prominently displays the activity stream and is designed to simplify the content discovery experience. At log-in today, MySpace users can opt-in for an early look at the new homepage.  It  will formally launched to all users on Monday 8/19.

There’s a big difference between building a fan base and leveraging a fan base. So in this post, I’ve ranked the same top 50 branded Facebook pages by their value, at least as determined by Vitrue’s social page evaluator.

A new survey by The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration shows that 30% of U.S. consumers do not access the internet, but for most it’s not because they don’t want to.

There is a lot of talk about the Facebook privacy policy that has been handed down from Mt. Zuckerberg along with the tablets. The talk is not positive. Why? Well, it likely has something to do with the great Facebook sell-out of its dedicated users. In the sales world it is known that a “bait [...]

In light of the FTC’s recent scrutiny of Social Media practices and the activity that connects brands to influencers and ultimately consumers, we will soon see guidelines and corresponding penalties to serve as governance for future engagement. My views and opinions of how the FTC is flawed in its dissection of the blogosphere and Twitterverse [...]

It seems like a new report on social media marketing is released weekly. Today, we see a new report from Razorfish–which surely must help with its attempts to find a knight in shining armor.

Man, hardly a week goes by without the European Union getting after some Internet behemoth for bad business practices or invading individuals’ privacy, or both. Usually it’s Google on the receiving end, but this time it’s social networks that are getting scrutiny from the supranational regulator. As Facebook begins testing greater and greater publicity, with [...]

One of the most useful WordPress plugins I have installed on my blogs is Chat Catcher by Shannon Whitley. What it does is connect comments made on Twitter that reference content in your blog, and links those comments to your content by placing a reference to a particular tweet in a post it mentions, as [...]