Facebook Gets Redirected From WordPress Sharing

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Man, tricky computer problems are both what makes being a computer guy fun, and also what makes it so frustrating. Today’s issue — well, today’s and yesterday’s issue– was a tricky bug where when I tried to share a post from my WordPress blog to Facebook, it was giving me a 404 File Not Found … Read more

Social Search Fools Gold

These days, it seems that technology pundits and enthusiasts can’t clamor loudly enough for social network signals to be included in search engine ranking results. It isn’t hard to see why. Your friends probably like a lot of the same things that you do. That is why they are your friends. Furthermore, the people you … Read more

Warner Bros. Revolutionizes Movie Rentals

Here is something very interesting. Warner Bros. is trying out offering movie rentals via Facebook. Using Facebook’s own Facebook Credit payment system, the company is offering online movie rentals of The Dark Night. What makes this new business strategy so interesting is that it completely cuts out the middle man companies that Warner Bros. currently … Read more

Facebook User’s Identity Information Stolen Again

If you use the "Recommended" privacy settings on Facebook (also the default privacy settings) then you can expect to see your picture, name, address and more taken and used in ways that you would not approve of.  The latest "proof of concept" is a dating site that scraped the publicly accessible data on user profiles … Read more

Are Facebook Fans Really Worth Anything?

Yesterday, the personal finance blog Finance Gourmet speculated on how overvalued Facebook might be right now, and more specifically, if any of the company valuations being thrown around by financial analysts and private share exchanges are anything more than wild (optimistic) guesses. I had a different thought today as I went through my usual social … Read more

Facebook Ad Revenue Growth Real?

Facebook is not a publicly traded company. Although there are many people speculating that Facebook will go public in the near future. As a privately held company, Facebook is not required to release any financial information to the public. Furthermore, the company does not have to have its finances audited either. That doesn’t keep financial … Read more

Facebook Like Google Killer ?

Is Facebook’s new Like Button really a Google killer. Will the Likes of social networking prove more desirable and powerful than Google’s search engine rankings based upon number of links?

Google Buzz Gmail Fails Against Facebook & Twitter

Google’s recent attempt to crack the social networking market comes courtesy of an ill-conceived service titled Google Buzz. The idea is that that Buzz provides similar status updates, and shared links, and so on, right inside of your Google email account. Of course, it is this very concept that dooms Google Buzz to failure, and … Read more

Are Facebook Games Tests and Surveys The New Spam?

Recently, I joined Facebook.  I’m obviously a late comer to that particular site, and frankly I really don’t care.  There was a time when I would have been very interested, but I wasn’t in college then and, at the time, Facebook required you to be a student to join. Since then, the rules have been … Read more

Social Newtorking for Newbies

Most of my success can be traced to resume building and certification. Stand out on a piece of paper and someone will hire you. Now, I’m running my own business, and no one cares about my resume. Instead I need to network. Online that means social networking. I’ve never been to interested in those kind of sites, but now I’m jumping in.