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Facebook Technology

Alexa Has Facebook Outranking Yahoo Globally

I discovered a very “unexpected” ranking today on Alexa.com – a service that monitors the popularity of websites.  And what did I find? I found Facebook ranked #2 and Yahoo ranked #3 globally: It actually took a minute to register what I was looking at – and then it hit me – WOW… Facebook is […]

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Facebook Marketing Technology

Want To Promote Your Facebook Fan Page? Try A Billboard…

Are you trying to find creative ways to promote and drive traffic to your Facebook Fan Page? How about using a billboard on the highway? That’s what a northern Wisconsin community is doing in an effort draw visitors to their area. The Forest County Chamber of Commerce had a billboard placed on Highway 32 to […]

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Facebook iPhone Mobile Technology

LG GW300 – The Latest Social Networking Handheld Device

LG has just annouced the release of it’s LG GW300 phone that is pre-packaged specifically for social networking. And did LG do to make the phone specifically a social networking device?  They added a Facebook application that is already installed when you buy it! That doesn’t sound too revolutionary to me. As an iPhone owner, […]

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Facebook Technology Twitter

The Olympics Is Turning To Citizen Journalism & Social Media

The Olympics Embracing Social Media I remember watching Michael Phelps during the summer Olympics and during one of his interviews, he mentioned that he’s received hundreds of thousands of friend requests on his Facebook profile.  This moment was my first awakening of the impact that social media is having on a global level. It seems […]

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Facebook Technology

Promote Your Facebook Fan Page With A Fan Box

** UPDATE ** As of 12/8/09: Apparently, Facebook has decided to move this feature.  Thank you to Ki – one of the readers here – for pointing this out to me. Here’s the new way to locate your Fan Box for your Facebook Fan Page: Click “edit page” which is located directly under your picture […]

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Facebook Technology

Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg, Sean Parker Set For Facebook Movie

With Facebook now over 300 million users world-wide, a movie about the social networking site and it’s founders seems like a logical next step!  And we know of at least 3 stars who have been select to play roles in the movie. “Social Network“, the movie about Facebook, has casted a trio of stars to […]

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Facebook Technology

How To: Create Your Own Facebook Username (URL) For Pages & Profiles

Create Your Own Facebook Username ** NOTE:  You must have 25 fans currently in order to create your own custom URL / username for your Facebook Fan Page. On June 12th, Facebook opened up the ability for users to create their own usernames.  As Facebook put in their blog posting: choosing a username is optional […]