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Facebook just announced that Promoted Posts are now being tested with Facebook users who live in the United States. It has been made available to people who currently use Facebook and who have fewer than 5,000 friends and subscribers. I've been seeing this story all over the internet today, but it actually goes back a bit farther. In May of
Soon, Facebook will have a new feature. The Facebook Gift Store will allow users to spend real world money to send an “in real life” gift to an online friend that they have connected with on Facebook. Does anyone else find this as bizarre as I do? I understand that the primary purpose of the Facebook Gift Store is to
Those of you who have had quite enough of the incessant politically motivated posts that your friends insist on cluttering up Facebook with, day after day, may want to check out Social Fixer. It is the new name for the browser extension that was once called “Better Facebook”, and that was created by Matt Kruse. I can immediately see how
Yesterday Rovio rolled out the new Angry Birds Seasons levels, titled "Back to School", but many people missed the fact that they quietly released a new set of levels for Angry Birds Facebook, called "Green Day". Yes, in case you're wondering, the new levels are named after the popular alternative band. There was no announcement of the release, so we're
Social photo service Instagram just had a big week, although not as big as the week of the billion dollar buyout, but it's all relative. This week the mobile app company released a slew of updates, including ones to their Android and iOS apps, as well as to their web site. There were bug fixes and new features for everyone,
Remember a while back when Facebook let you customize the URL that connected to your Facebook page? Many of us went ahead and did that so we would have some choice about what it would be. Mine is www.facebook.com/jen.thorpe. I know that I'm not the one and only Jen Thorpe in this world, and for some reason, I felt the
Have you ever gone on Facebook, and noticed an ad at the side of the page that had a photo of one of your friends in it? How often have you seen a Facebook ad that pointed out that one of your friends “likes” a particular product or company? These types of advertisements are called “Sponsored Stories”, and Facebook has