The following article from Mashable (via @meanwritehook – thank you for sharing!) interested me, since it not only shows a company using Foursquare to increase sales, but also shares the results – which is the bit we all want to know about.

Just as it was during the recent uprisings in Tunisia, the role of social media in the recent upheaval in Egypt has been the subject of much debate since the unrest began on Thursday.

The Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2010 report is full of interesting insights if you are blogging and want to promote your blog – or your website, for that matter – to a wider audience.

Yesterday, @teridoubtfire stumbled across a charity Twitter account, clearly run by an agency (the people that worked at the agency were the only ones retweeting it), that was busily tweeting celebrities, one after the other, with messages that looked like this:

Yesterday’s Chart of the Day was this insight into how Twitter users in the US spend their time on it, taken from a ‘big study’ by The Pew Research Center ‘focused entirely on Twitter’.

If you’re a Facebook user – which, if you’re reading this, in all likelihood you are! – then you probably noticed lots of you friends changing their profile picture to a cartoon character over the weekend and wondered what it was all about.

Will Facebook ever displace Google as a search engine? Probably not. But, it could quickly erode Google’s dominance as the way people find information.