(hubze) I thought we were waiting on Facebook to put out some new brand pages (fan pages desperately need to be integrated with Timeline for the sake of continuity). However Twitter has shot-up out of the blue and beat Facebook to the punch with some ultra-mod brand pages to die for-- seriously, you might die before you can pay for one of these. But before we get into financials, let's just take a look! The ...

(hubze) Learning another language is difficult, but that doesn't mean it is impossible. You can thank the forefathers like Myspace and Email that brought a certain informality to communication (not toe mention mobile fever). All languages change over time and having grown-up with the technology that made way for radiant little phrases like GTFO and LMAO, I can't help but take an interest. Everything is prac ...

(hubze) There is a new social network on the block, driving more traffic than YouTube, and grabbing the user-ship of huge names that are way too cool for Facebook...and i'll bet you never even heard of it. Pinterest is a social pin board where users amass their interests ("pinning") into a streamline mosaic of photographs and blurbs. There is a Pinterest devoted to the weird, the geeky, and the world. Pinte ...

(hubze) A little while ago I posted about Homeland Security watching activity on social media. Twitter and Facebook are by nature hotspots for opinions ranging from the radical to the mundane. You can decide where the following tweets fall in the spectrum. Two young Brits were detained and deported for tweeting. Apparently the two were flagged by Homeland Security before they even arrived in the States. A w ...

(hubze) On Facebook the amount of friends a person has is trivial. However on Twitter it is no secret that the main point is to have a lot of followers. Each individual follower is an endorsement: "yes, I think what you have to say is valuable." But how do you increase your followers? Today is the day to think outside of your personal following. Think about all the followers your followers have! A key area ...

(hubze) We have a visual: a new enemy has risen out of the ashes of SOPA/PIPA  and it is super ugly--  ACTA is a global anti-piracy bill that will neuter the internet once and for all. As you may have heard, SOPA/PIPA are controversial anti-piracy bills that were crushed by the combined backlash of voters and Internet Gods: Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, Twitter and many others. Respected figures  across the ...

(hubze) So Facebook has informed users that they will be moving all profiles into the new Timeline format, whether they "like" it or not. The gracious opt-in period was just enough time for users to start to think, maybe, Timeline is just a phase, maybe, all is not lost. Nevertheless, Tuesday's announcement that Timeline is Mandatory, has me wondering how exactly Facebook is going to make anyone do anything ...

(hubze) For a hot-second my friends (a quirky breed of Facebook purists) considered themselves too good for Timeline. I was even taunted about my monumental cover photo of a dozen doughnuts  from Doughnut Kingdom that hovers above my profile picture like a halo of sweet glazed rainbow sprinkled, goodness gracious-- I digress... So this isn't really a big deal for those of you who have rolled with the change ...

Hey Hubzers, Facebook is well on it's way to 1 billion users, all of whom are taking to the social network in their own special way. Would you believe it if I told you there is a Facebook night club in the  Amazon Rainforest? Or what if I told you about a Facebook Fan Page dedicated to a Siamese man's love for his corpse bride? This week has been overshadowed by the SOPA/PIPA controversy, but the world of s ...

Hey Hubzers, I understand why some Facebook users would want to keep their friend list small but there is a new argument for letting it grow. I don't encourage adding strangers from Singapore or smiling singles from Tel Aviv but a new self-promoting study from Facebook's Data Team suggests that your Facebook connections make you smarter, or more particularly your distant connections. You may have noticed yo ...