A new P2P payment application for Facebook has been launched that allows you to send or receive money up to a value of €50. Buxter, developed by ClickandBuy, has a wide range of possible uses, from paying a friend your share of the previous evening’s restaurant bill, to giving someone ...

I recently wrote about an interesting article that is being featured in the March 2010 edition of Harvard Business Review that studied Facebook Fan pages. Research for the article, “How Effective is Facebook Marketing?”, was conducted by Utpal Dholakia, associate professor of management at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of ...

Offerpal Media has launched "Offerpal Tasks," a new way you can earn virtual currency to use in online games and social networks. You can earn virtual currency through Offerpal Tasks by completing easy online tasks through Amazon Mechanical Turk. I took a look at some of the tasks and they ...

Across the Internet, in news, blogs, tweets and other social media, millions of people are talking about major brands. This “buzz” can be produced by product launches, ad campaigns, PR events, earnings reports, a single consumer‘s product experience, and many other triggers, even scandals and rumors. The volume and character ...

Social Connections has released MashedIn.com, an application that allows you to identify mutual connections across multiple social networks. MashedIn provides a widget that you can add to a web site or blog where your users can authenticate with either Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn to reveal common connections to the widget ...

Porsche had the highest community rating in the Community Index with a score of 5,448, followed by BMW at 3,681 and Audi at 3,612 MH Group Communications and Forum Strategies & Communications have released a new study called "Luxury Auto Brands and their Presence in Social Media" that is a comprehensive ...

Thanks to @oprah (Oprah) and @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher), Twitter is now the 49th most popular site according to Alexa. In the past 3 months, Twitter's traffic is up a whopping 334.6 percent. But, with the increased popularity, comes the spammers. Unfortunately, though, it just goes with the territory. Whenever you mix ...

Cranberry, a company led by led by Internet visionary David McInnis (formerly of PRWeb), has launched PeoplePond, an Internet service that provides search engine optimized (SEO) profiles and online identity verification services for individuals. It was officially launched to the general public during the annual South by Southwest conference and ...

A new comScore report out today shows that mobile social networking is responsible for the growth of the mobile internet in Europe. One third of European mobile social networking users access social media sites exclusively. In November 2008, 34 percent of mobile phone owners in Western Europe who visited social networking ...

As a blog partner for the 2008 Open Web Awards, I'm pleased to announce the winners. Mainstream & Large Scale Social Networks Winner: Netlog Runner-up: Platinum Lounge Embeddable Widgets Winner: Qoof Runner-up: Sprout Blog Plugins Winner: ShareThis Runner-up: AddThis Social News Winner: Help a Reporter Out Runner-up: Hubdub Social Networking Applications Winner: Aritition Runner-up: Digsby Social Bookmarking Winner: Diigo Runner-up: ShareThis Search & Social Search Winner: Scour Runner-up: Artiklz Sports & Fitness Winner: Gyminee Runner-up: ...