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Facebook usernames arrive this Saturday, June 13th

June 10th, 2009  |  by Jordan  |  published in News, Social Media

Mark your calendars for this Saturday, because there’s about to be a new wave of username squatting.  On June 13th, Facebook will roll out a feature which allows users to associate a username with their accounts.
Log into your Facebook account and you’ll most likely see this notification:

What exactly does this mean? The Facebook blog explains [...]

Shockingly, consumers care more about peanut butter than spinach

March 18th, 2009  |  by Jordan  |  published in Consumer Trends, News, Web Analytics

OK, so it’s not really shocking at all.
Despite the comparably greater amount of press activity surrounding the spinach E. coli poisioning in 2006 (see bottom row of chart for news reference volume), America was much more bent out of shape over the peanut butter outbreak a few months later.  We weren’t any less upset over [...]

For the keyboard-shortcut-command-obsessed: Google search with shortcuts

March 16th, 2009  |  by Jordan  |  published in News, Search Engines, Tools

If you take pride in the number of times a day you avoid reaching for the mouse on account of your superhuman shortcut skills, get excited: now there are keyboard shortcut commands for Google search!
Scroll all the way to the bottom of a search results page and you’ll see a link labeled “Try Google Experimental.”  [...]

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