Among the list of things I believe I can speak on behalf of everyone at Techi about, it’s that we were probably never going to talk about popular rapper and pop culture curiosity T-Pain. Colour us all the most vibrant hues of wrong. Pouring his poetic mastery of the English language into Twitter’s loving arms, T-Pain has made the world privvy to his newest tattoo: the Facebook Like button. There’s not much to say about this, beyond a well-deserved, wide-eyed ‘wow’ of disbelief. “I think this ones pretty sweet,” claims T-Pain’s tweet, “unless facebook shuts down soon 0_o”. It’s a good bet you’re safe…

After failing miserably and discontinuing their attempt at “going social” last year, Netflix is giving it another run. This time, they’re getting help from a company that has experience in social media. Their integration will be with Facebook. You may have heard of them. Wednesday, Netflix announced what they described as “an extensive Facebook integration” in a shareholders’ letter that accompanied their quarterly earnings report. While integration with Facebook is becoming more and more common, this particular move is striking because they are planning to change much of the way…

When Facebook, Microsoft, and a mysterious website known as Make-My-Baby go to town, everyone wins. Everyone, that is, except for us. The company uses a fairly simple affiliate marketing technique that is not only spammy but also potentially dangerous. It lures people in via Facebook ads… a lot of them. Only AT&T and Match.com contribute more to the $1.86 billion in yearly ad revenue that Facebook receives. Once visitors arrive at the site, they are prompted to install a toolbar plugin to “present an enhanced experience” for their users. At this point, you should run away. Once installed,…

Keep smiling, Mark. In a recent email from SecondMarket, the latest auction of Facebook shares hit $28.26, up 24% from just before the holidays and putting the unofficial valuation north of $70 billion. How high will it go? Any speculation regardless of one’s level of expertise is futile. This is uncharted territory – an Internet firm with no tangible products other than advertising skyrocketing in prominence and taking over the attention of the online world. Here is the body of the email: Subject: Privileged and Confidential – SecondMarket’s Facebook Auction Update To Facebook market…

It’s clear that Facebook is absolutely huge and getting absolutely huger every day. It’s getting so embedded into many of our lives that some couldn’t imagine not having it. Facebook facts are everywhere and it seems that the infographics associated with them are equally prevalent, but this one stuck out as interesting. While it has been published on several different blogs, (which we found out after originally seeing it on Automotive Social Media) it’s quality is strong enough to make us give it one more shot at exposure. Are you obsessed with Facebook? Via: Online Schools…

According to the security gurus Trend Micro, the most dangerous site on the net in 2010 was none other than google.com. Of course, no one would believe this out of hand – Google’s had its problems in the last year, what with user privacy snafus and other ballyhoo, but when you consider Google’s immense popularity, it becomes a different story. Factoring Google’s reputation as the (second-)most visited site on the net (Facebook passed it this past year), it is a prime target for blackhat SEO schemes, leading to all manner of malware and other threats. Naturally, it takes two to tango, and the user…

Venture Capitalists and private investment analysts often throw out lofty numbers when talking about the value of a company, but such entities rarely make substantial investments based upon those claims. When “The Street” makes such a valuation, there is normally real money involved. Such is the case with Facebook as respected investment firm Goldman Sachs and an undisclosed Russian firm have plopped down $500 million against a $50 billion valuation. That kind of money will poise Facebook to bring in more talent, improve infrastructure, and take some risks with their monetization platform….

So, you open your Christmas present and there’s a new iPhone or iPod Touch. You want to do two things immediately – download some apps and tell your friends all about it. Why not do both at the same time? Apparently, that’s what around 1.6 million people did in the 3 days surrounding Christmas this year. Android also saw strong gains with over 900,000 downloads in the same time period and 4.7 million since November 27th. Check out the stats on AllFacebook’s interactive graphic….

On the Internet, size is everything. From May, 2008 to May, 2009, Facebook started knocking off established sites and moving up in the comScore rankings. MySpace, Amazon, eBay, AOL – one by one they fell to the exponential growth that Mark Zuckerberg’s social network was experiencing. When Facebook shot passed Wikipedia 18 months ago, many wondered if they would make it into the distant top tier where the three Internet giants roamed. Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! were still miles ahead of Facebook with more than double the monthly unique visitors. Top Tier, you officially have a new member….

We knew it was only a matter of time. As the online world continues to gravitate towards Facebook as a central hub for many of our Internet activities, integration of business tools was the next step along the road to world domination increased profits for the social networking giant. By teaming up with startups, vendors, and even rivals, Facebook is poised to turn shopping into more of a social experience and become a supplement for companies currently using eCommerce to put their products where the consumers are spending large chunks of their time. That’s their hope as Facebook ramps up their…