We recently interviewedBuddy Media, an incredibly successful SaaS platform for brand’s Facebook Pages, claiming 8 out of the 10 top global advertisers as clients. Today,Buddy Media announcedits latest research compiled by analyzing all Facebook Wall posts, “Likes” and comments from the Buddy Media Platform by more than 200 of their clients during the two week period between January 30, 2011 – February 12, 2011. The results were then analyzed and the resulting strategies are essential tips for brands to create effective Facebook Wall posts....

If you own a Mac computer, chances are you’ve seen the Services menu around the operating system. Often if you check to see what’s in there, it’s empty. Apple has actually included a tool withinOS Xitself that can help you write your own services and doesn’t require you to know any programming or scripting languages.Automatoris a fairly powerful and useful application that most users will never even open. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to use it....

Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. I get a ton of emails every day, and not all of them are relevant to me. So when I check my inbox after every few hours, I need to quickly delete or archive emails that are not needed. Thankfully, Gmail’s swipe gestures on its mobile apps let me go through emails in no time....

“Don’t feed the trolls.” That has been the prevailing wisdom among more sensible Internet denizens for decades now. But a LiveJournal user who guys by Shlomi Fish issuggesting that we use techniquesfromcognitive behavioral therapyto combat trolls on the web after he picked up a copy of the self-help book “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy.” Fish suggests that we refrain from criticizing, ignoring, banning and rebuking the troll — that is, by the way, the entirety of the troll management toolbox as we know it....

How to declare, interact, and scope variables in JavaScript Declaring variables Nowadays JavaScript has three different keywords to declare a variable —var,letand,const. Each has its own properties and particularities. Let’s start by making a simple comparison table of the three keywords and then dive into the details. Don’t worry if right now you’re not entirely sure what we mean by scope, hoisting, or any of the other attributes. We’re going to cover them in detail next....