Efficiency is a business school idea that suggests a company is running smoothly. It’s absolutely terrific when you’re talking about a coal mining operation or a Supercuts. But when it comes to a company like Yahoo it’s not a positive.... 

Last month, we reported that Facebook was transitioning from application notifications to e-mail notices . Today, the Facebook Developer blog has added further information about this new method and announced that as of March 1, 2010, app notifications... 

Teresa Basich is the Content Marketing Manager at Radian6 , the social media monitoring and engagement platform. She blogs at Writing On Purpose and is @TransitionalTee on Twitter. The Olympics. They’ve been talked about, reported on, blogged about,... 

The Nielsen Company measured online buzz around Olympic athletes and found that skiers Lindsey Vonn (U.S.) and Alexandre Bilodeau (Canada) are the most buzzed-about gold medal athletes for their respective countries. The analytics company compared online... 

Coming to the MashBash party in Austin next month? Every week until the event, we’ll be giving away 2 Sony Bloggie HD Cameras to attendees. Winners will receive their cameras upon arrival in Austin, and you’re invited to capture video clips... 

Individual stats like Facebook passing the 400 million user mark, Twitter hitting 50 million tweets per day, and YouTube viewers watching 1 billion videos per day are impressive on their own, but what if we looked at Internet-related stats collectively?... 

A new patent awarded to Facebook this week could have some big implications for the entire social media industry. The world’s largest social network now own the patent for the news feed. Patent #7,669,123 , first unearthed by All Facebook , credits... 

We recently looked at an example of Twitter collaboration in the music world, but this may be the first case wherein the micro-blogging network was used for mainstream sample clearance. Pitchfork reports on an exchange initiated by Erykah Badu on Twitter,... 

Ever wanted to Facebook friend someone you just met right on the spot? Until today, that wasn’t easy. But now, if you have an iPhone, all it takes is a single shake, courtesy of the Bump iPhone app . For those of you unfamiliar with the app, Bump... 

Google News is testing out a new design, as I reported earlier this month . It includes trending topics on the left and new personalization options. But today someone in the bucket test noticed something different. The sharing options changed. Each story...