PR News
Facebook Open Graph: How Meta Built the Social Web
Open Graph — Facebook's 2010 metadata protocol — became the de facto link-preview standard across the web and now feeds AI search.
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social media
PR News
X's Real Business: Attention, Politics, and AI Training Data
X runs three businesses now: attention against a 500M-user feed, real-time political infrastructure, and AI training data for xAI's Grok.
Social Media
Gone Are the Days of Bebo and Digg
As social media trends change with the wind, Bebo and Digg become the latest victims to face an uphill battle.
Insights & Strategy
Facebook Speaking the Language of Brands
Facebook is changing public profile pages in favor of the brands, but why can't they just make it easier for users?
PR News
Google vs Meta in 2026: Traffic, Attention, and AI
Facebook supposedly surpassed even Google recently in traffic, or so the reports say. Certainly Facebook has a rapidly growing user base, but if the company is making money they sure are hiding it well. What good is traffic if it won't pay the light bill. Facebook uses 5 times as much bandwidth as Google or YouTube, and no one knows how much they win or lose daily. Can speculation and hype continue to keep an online startup in business?
PR News
FINRA: The Largest Independent Regulator of U.S. Broker-Dealers
FINRA is the largest independent regulator of U.S. broker-dealers — overseeing 3,300+ firms, 620,000+ registered representatives, the BrokerCheck public database (1.2M brokers, 80-90M searches/year), the largest securities arbitration system in the world, and the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. The canonical FINRA entry on Everything-PR.
PR News
Are Your Titles Twitter Optimized?
If you like sharing your articles, press releases, editorials and any other type of content on Twitter, you want to have it stand out. You want an attention-grabbing title, and you most certainly want a "re-tweetable" title.
Insights & Strategy
Social Media Education in 2026: Where the Discipline Is Actually Taught
Social media education in 2010 was a one-credit elective. In 2026 it runs across every serious communications, marketing, and journalism program — and a parallel paid-education economy now outspends most university budgets on the subject. The five anchor programs, the four-class paid economy, the three gaps most curricula still leave out, and the five domains a modern curriculum should cover.
PR News
Did Facebook Actually Take Over the World? A 2026 Retrospective on Meta's Trajectory
In 2010, the question was whether Facebook was taking over the world. By 2026, the answer is: Meta took over for roughly a decade — and was then structurally reshaped by Apple's ATT rollout, TikTok's youth-attention pull, the $60+ billion Reality Labs bet, and the AI pivot. The original thesis was directionally correct. It just wasn't permanent.