Anyone can post a review of a restaurant or product online, and the anonymity of the web makes for ample opportunity for those reviews to be less than truthful, whether to surreptitiously promote the subject of the review, or to maliciously attack it.

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Why settle for being a Dunkin’ Donuts customer, when you can be President of Dunkin’ Nation?

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What do you get when you combine geolocation-based applications, like Facebook Places and foursquare, with services that offer special deals, like Groupon and LivingSocial? If you’re Jason Fertel, you get the opportunity to create an application called DealBurner.

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Facebook dominated the 80 percent of companies with 100 or more employees tusing social media in their marketing campaigns this year, as the social network was part of 93 percent of those campaigns.

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It seems like we can never say enough about how addictive Facebook is. We’ve got a list of ten questions that can help you identify whether you’ve got an addiction to social media — it’s based on an infographic from Column Five Media, which asks “Do you need a social media detox?”
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College Humor created an animated roast of Facebook with voiceovers by Penn Jillette, Gilbert Gottfried and Lisa Lampanelli.
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How many check-in applications do we really need? Not that many, if any! But at least Gowalla takes the next logical step: starting today, iPhone users can check-in across platforms through this single app, and they can also see where their friends are at, even if they aren’t using Gowalla.
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Seems the technology revolving door has turned again. Yesterday we told you how former Gmail creator and Facebook CTO Paul Buchheit was leaving Facebook in order to become a partner at YCombinator, the Silicon Valley startup funding firm.
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When Facebook announced their deals services last week many argued that this would be the end of Foursquare. Rather than postulating whether or not foursquare or Facebook Places would win, we thought we’d open it up to a reader poll. Vote in our poll and we’ll be posting the results in a follow-up post later this week.
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So Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley thinks that Facebook Places is “pretty boring”? That’s the line he took in an interview with the UK’s Daily Telegraph.
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