This is the time of year for introspection, and planning for the year ahead. It is also a time for predictions. SMCpros has put together their predictions for social media, technology, and the web in 2011: Adam: Facebook will offer features to compete further with LinkedIn, Foursquare, and Twitter. They already have 500 million users,

I know that there are only a few shopping days left until Christmas, but luckily, we came up with 10 gifts that most geeks would love, and can be gotten fairly quickly. Virgin Mobile Hotspot – $150 This is one of the coolest devices I have seen in a while, and I instantly coveted it.

This weekend, I had the pleasure of participating in WordCampMSP, a day long event based around WordPress and its use. I presented twice, both times on analytics. One was a beginner presentation, one was advanced. Below are the presentations and a few main points from each. Hits: A look into Web Analytics Hits: A look

SMCpros is proud to announce the release of the new WordPress plugin for Foursquare’s new tip/todo adding feature. Mitchell Hislop, an employee of SMCpros, has been working with the Foursquare team for a few months now to ensure it will work with their future growth plans. This plugin allows you and your web team to

Here is your roundup of all the top stories for the last week. Now, I have to get that buzzing out of my ears: Facebook: The first Facebook story is actually from today. Reuters announced that it looks like Facebook did $800MM last year in revenue, and had profits in the tens of millions of

HTML5 is the new proposed standard for how websites are made. While it is not official yet, many browsers and companies are already supporting it. HTML5 brings several new features to the table, and will make browsing the internet faster, easier, and more like working with a desktop program.

Over the last two weeks, both Twitter and Facebook held their developer conferences, Chirp and f8. Both of these events had announcements that turned the social world on its head. Chirp Chirp, Twitter’s developer conference, brought several things to light. It first shed more light on the announcement that came the day before, about Twitter’s

I have had several chats with people recently about blogging, and want to share some thoughts on it. There are several groups of people who should be blogging:

It is no secret that I have something similar to a love affair with the open source content management system WordPress. I have stickers all over my laptop and notebooks, and even on a lamp in the office. People often ask me why I love it so much, or why they should use it themselves.

Yesterday, Google made another move in the direction of owning the Internet with their announcement about Buzz, their new social platform built into GMail. This platform leverages your existing social graph that you have built up while using GMail. Much the same as it remembers the contact information of people you email often with, it