Facebook marketers: Offerpop’s new tools boosting engagement 84% and loyalty 195%

What kinds of posts do well with your Facebook audience? What topics are most viral for your customers? And how can you find clones of your best fans?

Pinfluencer adds Zappos to client list, powers 250 million Pinterest impressions, and doubles revenue per pin

According to Pinfluencer, the average campaign on its platform boosts brand website page visits per pin by 400 percent, doubles the pageviews per pin, and boosts revenue per pin by 50 percent, from $0.14 to $0.21.

Law firm for Edison, Wright brothers, and Alexander Graham Bell now suing Facebook over like buttons

"I wouldn't have filed the case if we didn't feel very confident in our position," Melsheimer told me this morning as he was stepping off an airplane in Dallas. "This was a case that I liked, our firm liked, and I think we have a reasonable chance of winning."

Dalton Caldwell on App.net: Six months later, more people are starting to ‘get it’

Half a year ago, serial entrepreneur had a crazy idea: build a social network that people actually paid for. Now with App.net three times bigger than his goal, he looks back -- and ahead -- at what the service is, and will become.

Bob on Twitter, Bo on Facebook, and BJ on Pinterest are all one guy. CrowdTwist helps you sell to him

"There are new channels popping up every week, and consumers are spending time with brands in new places ... engaging with brands like the Miami Dolphins across eight to 10 channels, which makes them look like eight to 10 people."

Wow: Twitter mentioned in 50% of Super Bowl ads, Facebook 8%, & Google+ 0%

Twitter destroyed Facebook and Google+ during the Super Bowl in social media mentions.

Survey: Facebook is the most stress-inducing social media site (and, paradoxically, the most positive)

Facebook causes Americans more stress than any other social network. But it's also the network with the most positive effect on our moods.

Apple, Google fall off list of America’s 20 most trusted companies

The most trusted companies in America include HP, Amazon, IBM, eBay, and Microsoft. But Apple and Google, the two companies at the forefront of the mobile revolution, didn't make the cut.

Enterprise marketing tech firm Unified acquires Y Combinator alumus PageLever

"The core reason for the deal is that we have a killer Facebook advertising solution, and they have a killer Facebook analytics solution," Unified VP of corporate communications Dave Donohue said.

The Pope urges Catholics to flock to Twitter

Today, Pope Benedict XVI asked Catholics to spread the word on Twitter and other social networking sites like Instagram and Tumblr to convert atheists to the faith, 140 characters at a time.

#Cutting: One artist reacts to the Internet’s self-harming problem

"When I first saw a thinspiration blog, all I wanted to do was get it shut down. Then I saw how much my friends were getting from it. This wasn’t my battle; it was theirs."

PromoJam lets marketers build social media campaigns — no HTML required (exclusive)

Launching today, a new technology from a startup called PromoJam lets marketers create promotions in a matter of minutes and share them on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter -- no HTML expertise required.

Killing it in enterprise via the Dropbox strategy, Offerpop adds new ‘big data’ product

Offerpop is taking a page from Dropbox. Or Salesforce.com. Or, if you want to go old-school, the personal computer itself.

Why, why, why did you have to call it ‘Graph Search,’ Facebook?

And here I thought Google was supposed to be the geeky company.

Facebook’s new Graph Search and Google: This means war

Facebook's new Graph Search is the first service that has the potential to eat Google's lunch.

Small business of America: Double down on Facebook now to be part of the new graph search

Facebook announced its new graph search today. And everything in local marketing is going to change, again.