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If you were confused before about the differences between liking a website or story and sharing one, Facebook has confused the issue even more to make it simpler for us all. "Like" it, "share" it - either way you're posting the details on your wall and onto your friends news feeds. If anything, "like" is more prominent than "share" now.

Ever see an odd pixelated square graphic like this one on a web page, print magazine or as someone's social media site avatar? If you haven't yet I guarantee you will now. This type of graphic is called a QR Code and something you'll want to take note of and to creatively use in the future.

The number of Android devices may be growing like a weed, but when it comes to the ecoystem, not all is well.

Congratulations: you have 50,000 Twitter followers! Respect: you have a million 'likes' on Facebook! Kudos: 5,000 professionals on LinkedIn have joined your group! But scratch beneath the surface and ask yourself three big questions: 1. What does this really mean? 2. What is this worth? 3. Who owns the data? I'm not a social media cynic by any stretch of the imagination. I know what it has done for our business, but that's not to say there aren't threats and challenges on the road ahead.

Normally when I go to events or blogger meetups I always tell myself that I'm going to come home and write a post right away so that I don't forget anything that happened. What usually ends up happening is that I get home, bum around on Facebook for a while and tell myself I'll do it 'tomorrow after work' (just like with the Heston Blumenthal sherry tasting I went to last night).

Smashing Magazine\nSmashing Magazine Smashing Network Multivariate Testing in Action: Five Simple Steps to Increase Conversion Rates\nBy Paras ChopraNovember 24th, 2010\nDesign24 CommentsPublishing Policy.Advertisement\nThe attention span on the Web has been decreasing ever since Google had arrived and changed the rules of the game. Now with millions of results available on any topic imaginable, the window to grab a visitor's attention has decreased significantly (in 2002, the BBC reported it is about 9 seconds1). Picture yourself browsing the Web: do you go out of your way to read the text, look at all the graphics, and try to thoroughly understand what the page is about? The answer is most likely to be a straight "no." With bombardment of information from all around, we have become spoiled kids, not paying enough attention to what a Web page wants to tell us.\n\n

With its new Facebook campaign, property website Rightmove is aiming to get people involved in suggesting new features for its website.