I just learned that Wolfram Alpha , the "computational knowledge engine," can do an analysis of your Facebook account data. Run a "facebook report" in the main box, and it will get you started. It needs permission to see into Facebook and you need to set up a Wolfram Alpha account (free). MORE >>

For his part, Robert Scoble says that Google’s rollout of brand pages is flawed in a number of crucial ways, despite the fact that the company has been working on this feature for some time, and has an obvious model for how pages should work in Facebook. Can Facebook offer that? Facebook Google Google Plus social networks MORE >>

Trying to bring a stagnant social media channel back from the dead requires more than just posting to it again and hoping that your connections didn’t notice your absence. You have to regain the trust of your connections, and an open and honest statement will make a good start. Can that channel be saved? Address your absence. MORE >>

First and most important is the social graph, a database of connections known as the ‘Plex’. Each of these connections, like a business card, comes with a list of connection points. These connection points can be outgoing – ‘this is how I will speak to you’, or incoming – ‘this is how I will listen to you’. MORE >>

More likely than not, you have your own example of “now what?” Despite catchphrases like “Facebook for the enterprise”, the much discussed consumerization of IT does not mean emulation of consumer experiences within the firewall. In essence, it’s about people connections, just like any of its 2.0 Enterprise 2.0: Although 2.0 MORE >>