As a social media agency, we advise companies on how to conduct their presence within Facebook, particularly for fan pages.  In this exercise, we must figure out why a fan would want to become a fan in the first place, why they would stay a...

Back in July, I predicted that Facebook would eventually kill Twitter. The argument I was making was that Facebook was taking steps to make itself capable of doing everything Twitter does, plus much, much more. When you add in the fact that their user base...

It has been a long time coming, and now that Facebook has taken the clear gold medal among social networks, it is high time that the rest of the Internet bows down and recognizes this fact. All hail Facebook, our time sapping and all-friend encompassing...

By now you're probably aware of the great Facebook vanity username (or vanity URL) gold rush that takes place this Saturday (pssst: It's actually late Friday. Don't miss it by 24 hours) . If not, this screenshot explains it in a nutshell: But what does it...

To clarify, I'm not referring to the search functionality but instead to driving site traffic. So, is Facebook the new Google? According to Herd, Facebook has only a third of Google's traffic in the US....

It's no secret that an increasing number of companies are jumping on the social media bandwagon. Brands ranging from New York Times to American Eagle have Facebook fan pages. A recent study released by independent interactive agency Rosetta revealed that 59 of the top 100...

Unless you managed to somehow be asleep at the wheel of life yesterday, you probably caught the massive uproar over the change in Facebook's Terms of Service agreement all over the Interwebs. No one seems to fully understand what exactly the agreement means, which...

Facebook finally released the new site re-design to the masses. The re-design has actually been accessible for over a month by logging into Facebook at www.new.facebook.com. Now, the new design is accessible to everyone. Log-in to Facebook in the normal manner, and a small bar...

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