Recently Facebook posted on their blog that will no long send notifications from Facebook apps to users.  My response?  ”FINALLY!  Thank you very much Facebook!”.  I’m sure you are all in agreement with me on …

Facebook Pages are a great tool for branding, promoting, interacting, and other various aspects of social media there is no question about that.  However, with all that good, there are some real problems with Facebook …

Yesterday, a Facebook engineer made a blog post under Facebook’s engineering notes outlining the ways some Facebook engineers decreased the load time of Facebook effectively making it 2x faster.  In past I have discussed why …

Are you the type of person who has a large number of friends on Facebook that you chat with regularly, but do not want to keep the site open within your browser constantly? Well, Facebook …

Recent speculation around the internet has suggested that Facebook, one of the largest social networks with a user base of more than three hundred and fifty million people, is preparing to launch a new email service entitled “Project Titan”. Facebook is already known to many as being…

Facebook is a very large and complex content driven website. Like many other large websites, resource management is key to Facebook. Not only does it keep down CPU load and memory usage on their vast …

Facebook is looking to expand their social ad formats and that means Microsoft may be losing out.  Back in 2007 when Microsoft invested a hefty $240 million to take a small part of Facebook to …

Facebook Connect integration on websites as a login method is becoming more and more popular everyday. With a large user base ranging in the millions, Facebook offers a great median for websites who want to …

Ping.fm is a service I have been using for quite some time now.  The idea of the service is simple – update your status message on every social network you are a part of.  No …

Over the past 2-3 years, I have learned a lot about the Internet and how the industry works as a whole.  When I first started BestTechie back in 2003, I had no idea what I …

Yesterday, at 11:59PM Facebook opened up custom URLs for pages with less than 1,000 fans which is most fan pages, by the way.  This allowed users to claim a URL for their fan page (e.g. …

The Facebook Vanity URL Goldrush of 2009 has left many Facebook users without their dream URL or variations thereof.  Whether you just weren’t quick enough to grab your username or perhaps you have the same …

MySpace employees have begun to feel the hurt of the floundering social network.  The company has now announced that over 700 of it’s 1,800 total employees have been or will be laid off – 30% …

It appears Facebook is attempting to cover its bases when it comes to a particular user owning a username on the social networking site.  I discovered this after playing around with usernames on the site …

Just as expected the Facebook vanity URL gold rush took place early Saturday morning (12:01 AM EST) over 200,000 vanity URL’s were registered in 3 minutes.  The vanity URL’s are permanent – you cannot change …