Facebook has been testing various revenue streams since 2008 but they have accelerated the frequency of the tests since going public earlier this year. Now, the “personal” part of Facebook, profiles of individuals, are being propelled onto the list of potential dollars for the social networking giant. Users can now “Promote” their individual profile posts. This is a feature that has been available for a while on Facebook pages but posts on Facebook profiles, the ones held by individuals, have not had this option. Now, they do. Promoting a post moves it up higher into friends’ news feeds and places…

Remember when the social media war wasn’t just between Facebook and Twitter, with Google nipping at both their heels with weird and mostly ineffectual efforts? Us neither. But apparently a long time ago there was this thing called ‘MySpace’ that a couple of people used. It was ugly, and never worked particularly well, and allowed people to do awful things like have music play when you visit their profile. MySpace found some success among musicians looking to throw together a simple fan site to upload music to, but socially they couldn’t compete with Facebook. Now they’re fighting back. MySpace…