At this point, it seems unlikely that Mark Zuckerberg will be supporting “The Social Network” by checking in to see the film at a theater on his new Facebook Places service any time soon. There are reports that he and his cohorts at Facebook are upset and that they “saw the movie a while ago, [...]

Last week Facebook released its Questions feature to an estimated 3 to 5 million users. In the conversation that ensued, I’ve seen Questions referred to as everything from “a game changer” to a weak, watered-down version of Quora. No matter what your forecast, it’s giving individuals an unprecedented opportunity to engage with 500 million strangers, [...]

Editor’s note: This is John Reinan’s weekly marketing column for MinnPost.com. To view the original, go to http://bit.ly/azMH7e. Newsmakers have always tried to manipulate the media for the best possible coverage. But today, the game is more than ever stacked against the news outlets – and against news consumers hoping for more than self-serving sound [...]

In April, Facebook launched of a set of “social plug-ins” that let anyone put tools Facebook’s comment box and “Like” button on websites outside of Facebook. Just three weeks after these social plug-in tools were launched, more than 100,000 sites had installed the tools. It was huge news in the worlds of technology and marketing. [...]

  The Internet is now eating its own. News portals like AOL, Yahoo! and MSN, which helped devastate newspapers, magazines and local TV over the past decade, are themselves being damaged by social networks, notably Facebook. Facebook, the latest Web sensation, is becoming the preferred news source of tens of millions of Internet users. Facebookers [...]

Pathetic.  Weak.  Idiotic.  Illegitimate. Those are only some of the words “experts” and other commenters used to describe our recently completed intern search. With our newest hire packing his bags for the move to Minneapolis, we thought we’d offer our perspective on some of the issues raised during our Summer Intern Search, as well as some [...]

Let the voting begin. It’s time to select the next Fast Horse intern, and we’re asking you to be part of the hiring committee. Our intern search was a bit out of the ordinary, so we didn’t know what would happen when we launched a call for applications last month. We asked candidates to submit [...]

A pair of recent studies attempt to shine some light into the vast user base of one of the Web’s social networking giants, Twitter. The New York Times has a brief report on a Twitter study that shows: 87 percent of Americans 12 years old and up know what Twitter is 25 percent of Twitter [...]

We’re looking for an intern to join Fast Horse for the summer and possibly beyond. This time, we’re going to try something a little different as we begin the search. As usual, we’ll give preference to candidates who are fans of the Fast Horse Experience on Facebook. But this time around, we’re leaving the hiring [...]

Editor’s note: This is John Reinan’s weekly marketing column for MinnPost.com. To see the original, go to http://bit.ly/d5Waic. The word cloud you see above shows us how far we still have to go in understanding social media and how to use it. It comes from Rob Key, founder and CEO of Converseon, a New York social [...]