In the spirit of #followfriday I wanted to include some twitter users that I enjoy following. I suggest you follow them as well as they can provide great insight and entertaining tweets! @thederekjohnson – College dropout CEO of @Tatango & @Derek_Media. @skanwar – Partne ... Read more

More than one in five of all online ads are served on social networks. MySpace still leads the pack with 9.2% of all online ads, and Facebook is a close second with 8.2%. The 3.7% of online ads served on social networks is split among such sites as Tagged.com, MocoSpace.com, Hi5.com, Bebo ... Re ... Read more

Frank Reed presents two examples in Twitter, Local Business and Results: Naked Pizza, where an exclusive-to-Twitter promotion brought in 15% of the day’s business, and Berry Chill, a yogurt store, whose use of "Sweet Tweet" promos on Twitter to give away yogurt has not diminished daily s ... Read more

The valuations of large social networks like MySpace (NWS), Facebook, and Twitters is that a visitor to a social network as the same value as a visitor to Yahoo! (YHOO), AOL, or Ask.com (IACI). Facebook is worth $10 billion because its number of members is close to the number of people who come to Y ... Read more

Some Kevin Wassong guy at Minyanville pens a piece here titled "I Tweet and I Don't Know Why". I consider myself an early adopter of technology. I had all the first Apple computers—and still have them. I also was online in the early ‘90s through Prodigy, and I had Pointcast for those ... Read more

Like so many others, I've jumped on the Twitter bandwagon this past week. It's just too popular to ignore if you're trying to have any kind of presence on the 'Net. If popularity isn't enough of a reason for you to start Twittering, have a look at these other ... Read the full post ... Read more

Independent Street offers yet another example of the creative applications people are finding for social media: 400 customers each night. A wait of sometimes two hours. For a taco? Yes, this is the frenzy that accompanies Korean taco trucks in the Los Angeles area. And the reason ... Read ... Read more

Robert Scoble, pioneer blogger, internet gadfly, and serious thinker about how technology impacts society, is visiting China.  His latest post is here .  Although lots of people have written about the intersection of low-cost Chinese manufacturing and internet-enabled supply chains, Scob ... Read more