So far the media seems focused on the shiny ball that Facebook is waving in front of their face; the control it is giving users over who sees what information the user posts on their profile. But that’s not the story. The real story is what...

E-mail marketing was around before social networking and has lost its buzz but not its effectiveness.  According a Strongmail survey, business executives are looking increase their spend on email marketing and social networking the most, probably...

If you have logged into Facebook in the last day or so, you’ve received the new privacy prompts.  EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, has examined these new settings and concluded that while some of the privacy settings are positive (particularly...

According to Larry Bodine, there are now 1,359,590 lawyers with profiles on LinkedIn!   Okay, I’m a geeky data guy and this number seems awfully high to me.  He sources “Apollo Business Development” which appears to be a market research company he...

Here is a story about Rebecca Swift, the woman suing Facebook and Zynga for providing the platform for deceptive ads.   She is suing because she signed up for a “free trial” of green tea and ended up being charged $165 for the tea instead.  She was...