I have never played Farmville on Facebook – I don’t have the time and frankly the uber geek in me says it is just a lesser Harvest Moon. But then again: Farmville has about 80 million active users and 31 million daily users; a kid just racked up 4-digit debt on Facebook to play the [...]

Both Google and Facebook revealed today, to the shock and titillation of many online observers, that they are now offering their own url shortening services. Goo.gl and Fb.me respectively will be used for Google products and on Facebook to shorten links. Fb.me is already being seeing on Twitter. Bit.ly has responded by unveiling their Pro [...]

They all knew that there was no competing with facebook under the current circumstances. So now all the social networking sites have teamed up together (imagine those meetings!) and have created OpenSocial, a set of common APIs for developing social applications. According to Google: The OpenSocial standards are designed to evolve through contribution from the [...]

Today, as I stated in a previous post, I attended facebookcampToronto2 and I want to spend the next week or so discussing some of the aspects of facebook that should be of interest to new ventures, and to existing brands that want to expand and grow on facebook. But before all that, here are my [...]