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In late October, Facebook launched a redesign to its homepage, unveiling 2 different views for users to discover content. The default view is called the News Feed, in which Facebook goes all Amazon on you and displays stories and updates from friends that it thinks you’ll like, of course based off of past site activity. The other view is called the Live Feed, which is essentially the Mini/News Feed you’ve grown accustomed to, but with some clear FriendFeed influence.

It’s getting close to the end of the year and every retailer is gearing up for the post-Thanksgiving madness of Black Friday. This month’s PLAYED looks at how retailers are using gaming hardware and software deals to draw in and retain customers, both online and off.

Hello and welcome to the all-new Denuology.

The site’s still in Beta (as are we, perpetually), but hopefully this iteration makes it easier for all of us (you included) to share thoughts, insights, updates and general musings on the ever-changing cultural landscape. Plus, we love keyboard cat and Borderlands and think they look cool in the new design.

“I’ll get it to go.”

You grab your coffee and head on to your destination, a brief pit-stop to refuel. Don’t forget the sleeve.

You may drink your coffee in one shot, or sip it over the next hour. But after providing its brief service, your cup is going in the garbage, heading off to join almost 60 billion other cups that find their way to landfills each year.

Is this really necessary?

Isn’t there a better way to do this, without the waste, but with the convenience?

Social media marketing is such a broad term, yet most marketers are so quick to stereotype it with an association to Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks of the like. Broadly speaking, I tend to look at social media marketing as the closest thing we’ll get to the modernization of the oldest (and still the most successful) form of advertising, that is, word of mouth. For example, Yelp relies on real people to share unsolicited recommendations on almost everything under the sun. Therefore, the age-old act of somebody recommending a restaurant to a friend is a primitive microcosm of Yelp’s service, or should I say, Yelp’s service is simply the modern day (technology-powered) macrocosm of that same act.