Formerly a Principal Engineer at Amazon, Darren Vengroff is Chief Scientist at RichRelevance where he helps retailers like Overstock and Sears create a more personal shopping experience for consumers. You can read more from Darren on the RichRelevance blog.

Amazon and Facebook are making headlines with the launch of a new application that allows shoppers to receive product recommendations based on Facebook preferences. Once users enables this app, Amazon is

Official Rules

PURCHASE IS NOT NECESSARY TO PARTICIPATE IN OR WIN THE SOCIAL CUBIX FACEBOOK SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONAL OFFER.  MAKING A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

1. Sponsor – The sponsor of the Social Cubix Facebook Sweepstakes (the “Promotion”) is Social Cubix, 15308 Spencerville Ct, Suite 201B, Burtonsville, MD 20866 – USA (“Social Cubix” or “the Sponsor”).  All decisions taken by the Sponsor shall be final and conclusive.

If you want to get your hands on a coveted Facebook hoodie, like the one Mark Zuckerberg was wearing during his interview with Kara Swisher at the D conference, you’re going to have to shell out more than $4,000. That’s because one enterprising employee decided to place his (or her) hoodie up for sale on eBay.

While I’m all for purchasing stylish clothing, dishing out $4,000 for an official Facebook hoodie seems pretty extreme. Then again, there’s no doubt that this hoodie is extremely limited, and it’s doubtful that more of these will be printed anytime soon. Whichever Facebook employee decided to pawn off their hoodie will most definitely have rent taken care of for at least a couple months.

When the f8 conference assembles every year, the world listens with anticipation as many new ideas and developments evolve, to lay new foundations for the ever-changing Facebook platform. This year’s f8 conference, the third annual f8 developer conference, has brought us much knowledge of the platform’s advancement—mainly focusing on how the web is “being socialized”.

The conference is always aimed at developers-yet we have found two announcements which have paramount implications for both businesses and personal users. One of those two important announcements includes the ‘Open Graph Tool’

Believe it or not, there was once upon a time where we had no Google… we still had search engines, but none had the popularity of Google today. Search Engine Optimization consisted of seeing how many keywords we could stuff on the page, and it worked wonders. Then Google came in to existence and it changed everything. Google revolutionized the internet niche to great extent and completely evolved the SEO platform. The reliance of Google on links, anchor text and other optimizing elements gave us a new direction to work toward.

Have you ever had a social media crisis that you could hardly imagine? Did you fall into the trap of waiting too long to address the social media damages to your brand? Maybe you wished that you had a social media communication plan to neutralize the damage to your company and brand. Laying out a plan for social media crisis management is essential, so your brand that you worked so hard to build can be safe. You can address all the issues related to a social media blemish, and persevere with confidence, even improving your image along the way.

Facebook has provided a platform – with outstanding depth – for expression of thoughts and perception. Over the years, it has become a place where your voice is heard and perceptions are acquired, opinions are weighed and goods and services are discussed.  The core part of the platform where you can do all this has been ‘Fan Pages’.

Be it brands, businesses, products, services, goods, reputation, trends, celebrities — Facebook provides a forum for opinions to be nurtured, within its powerful social framework.

Social Cubix have announced the completion of their latest application Apartments.Com. The application focuses on the apartments; in which the users let their apartments shown on the application and also can give it for rent. It nearly took a month for the Social Cubix developers to come out with this application.

Apartments.com is a website that offers a wonderful idea of sharing and showing off the apartments by its users who are interested to put them on rent as well.

Social Cubix have launched their official blog, today. It has been two weeks in working out this thing and the result is outstanding.

The reason to come out with this blog is to let people know of the recent developments and progress going around the company and the Social Media planet.” said Salman Lakhani, the COO at Social Cubix.