Traveling on business? Avoid looking like a tourist by pulling up mobile information on events, places and Facebook friends near you.

Looking to do more business on Facebook? Check out this list of 30+ business-related applications that will streamline your marketing plan.

Looking to stay on top of the ever-changing social media platform called Facebook? Check out the group Facebook Marketing Solutions.

Looking for some examples of how companies are utilizing social media? Check out Peter Kim's List of Social Marketing Examples:

Facebook and widgets – they go together like peanut butter and jelly… or, don’t they? Are widgets dead?

Stay on top of your online networking by setting up an account at Ping.fm. Update up to 30 different social networking sites simultaneously including facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and del.icio.us. You can post via your mobile phone, PC or Mac.

If you’ve ever thought about sending a real gift to a virtual friend, this site is for you. You’ll need to know the email address or facebook profile of the person you’re seeking to bestow gifts upon, and this site does the rest.

Still unsure how to utilize Facebook for your brand? Maybe it’s time you investigate the Facebook Marketing Toolbox.

Know someone applying to college? AcceptEdge is a Facebook app and website for students and families to find out what may be the best fit.

Even your gaming has gone social! Xbox LIVE members can now access their social networks right from their Xbox 360.

Create and share your social calendar with friends and perhaps you’ll see them at your next party!

Jill told you a Joke on YoVille; Bill found a black sheep in Farmville and needs you to adopt him. Facebook notifications from applications like these will cease beginning on March 1st.

We've used Target’s Valentine's Day app on Facebook to send our Hotsheet'rs some love. Send a poem, song or dance to someone you care for and Target will donate money to charity.

You can control which friends show up on your Facebook profile under “Friends” by clicking on the edit or “pencil” in the upper right hand corner of this section.

This Firefox browser add-on makes it possible to download your friend's photo albums on Facebook with a click of your mouse.

This slick toolbar allows visitors to your website easy access to your social marketing presence on a variety of different websites. Integrate chat, Twitter, Facebook, email and more.

Is advertising on Facebook is the right move for every company? Maybe not. This blog post will help you determine just how much of your target audience you may be able to reach.

If you’d like to hide “tagged” photos of yourself from your Facebook friends, click on the link below and change “Photos Tagged of You” to “Customize” and select “Only You.” Then only you, and the friend who tagged you, will be able to see them.

What is your Facebook Fan page worth?

Unsure how to protect yourself from over-exposure on Facebook? Use this free app to select the privacy level you’re comfortable with and it will adjust your Facebook settings, accordingly.

Track your social media metrics in one place. Twitter and Facebook are free, track additional services such as bit.ly for $2.49/year

Turn your Facebook status update into a word cloud or add a "dislike button" to your comment.

The Midwest Dairy Association wants to butter you up. Upload your photo, select a personality, grab a state fair post card and presto! Your butter hippie or bouffant beauty effigy is ready to share with your Facebook friends.

Add Flickr, YouTube and Twitter tabs to your Facebook profile and give your contacts one place to catch up with your social persona.

Altimeter released a free report that reveals 8 must-follow tips for successful Facebook page marketing based on heuristic evaluation and testing of 30 top brands.

Looking to increase brand awareness by running a contest on Facebook? This blog post helps decipher the newest Facebook regulations.

Follow these eight simple steps to locate, track and reward your brand advocates.

Use this app to take charge of your Facebook news feed and never miss a post from people you care about the most.

Welcome to the first Facebook experiment that uses Facebook interactions such as "liking" and wall writing to keep a real plant alive.

This specialized search engine allows you to search for any topic and review real-time results from Facebook and Twitter.

Piggyback is a free virtual chaperone service that allows parents to monitor their children's Facebook social and gaming activities in real time.

Learn three important tips for maximizing online user engagement through the use of "Like" and "Share" buttons.

Catalog your collection of movies, books and more to share, swap or sell to select friends via Facebook or Twitter.

Have you been naughy or nice this year? Let Honda analyze your latest Facebook posts and find out.

Create a digital newspaper made up of the stories, photos and videos your friends think are important enough to post to their Facebook pages. This service is really slick.

Create a custom tab for your Facebook profile to collect your fans' mobile numbers, select your target audience and send them relevant deals they can't refuse.

This service allows you and your friends the ability to pull shared event photos (like weddings or parties) from Picasa, Flickr and Facebook into one shared album.

Boasting clients such as Heinz, Colgate and American Express, this service allows businesses to measure fan actions on their brand pages, reward loyalty and manage social CRM.

TV Shows are cashing in on the social gaming phenomenon. Check out History Channel's "Pawn Stars" on Facebook.

Download this white paper for a step-by-step guide to a successful product launch on Facebook.

This year, March Madness isn't just about basketball...Allstate Insurance wants you to use their Facebook app to rank and organize your friends based on regions and seeds, then match them to the actual NCAA Championship Bracket.

You've started a Facebook page for your company. Not sure what to do with it? Check out 10 tips for posting on your brand's Facebook page.

Are your Facebook updates a risk to your professional persona? This free tool analyzes your posts, flags risky material and alerts you to security and privacy concerns.

As of 2011 there are 500,000,000 (1 in every 13 people) users active on Facebook and half of these log in daily. Check out this fascinating infograph for more stats on the way Facebook is transforming our lives.

Get the insider's scoop. Stay on top of the many sweeps, contest and offers on Facebook.

Learn how some of the top brands set themselves apart on Facebook and continue to attract and appeal to more fans.

Perhaps one of the coolest things we've seen in awhile, Intel's application pulls out aspects of your Facebook profile and displays them in a museum like setting.

If you’re too busy to spend the afternoon on your company’s Facebook page, subscribe to this free service. You’ll be notified by email any time someone posts or comments on your wall.

This service may bring out the headhunter in everyone. Match up your colleagues on LinkedIn and Facebook with available positions (currently tech related) and you could be rewarded with serious cash. Just make sure to share.

Your Facebook EdgeRank is the mathematical equation that helps determine whether your page's posts show in a Fan's Top News feed. Use this free tool to help determine what your estimated number is.

Zero in on Facebook open conversations by keyword without logging into Facebook.

Use this informative infographic to plan the best time for your social media updates based on opportunities for the most exposure.

Is your Facebook business page up to snuff? Use this free tool to measure your page effectiveness.

Think you have what it takes to be president? This new Facebook app aims to allow anyone to run for office, simply fill out the form and pay the $99 filing fee.

Learn what works when it comes to Facebook advertising. This list compiles 18 tips on color, image selection, copy and more.

Download an archive of all of the information you've shared on Facebook. Click on your "Account" menu Click on "Account Settings" Click on "Download your Information"

If you're concerned you're missing out on some of the link gold that's passing through your Twitter and Facebook streams while you're not around, this site captures and analyzes all of the urls your contacts share, and filters them for you based upon your known interests.

This new social media analytics tool adds measurement context to your Facebook business page. Find out how you stack compared to three of your competitors' Facebook pages. Learn from competitors’ pages by looking at what type of posts have returned the most responses.

This Facebook app provides unique gift ideas from friends and top curators that you can utilize as an idea source when important birthdays and anniversaries make themselves known on Facebook.

A newly released study suggests that Facebook posts made by auto-posting apps such as HootSuite and TweetDeck receive an average of 70% fewer likes and clicks.

Utilize this browser plug-in (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) to ensure your Facebook profile isn't likejacked . An unfortunate occurrence that happens when users are tricked into clicking hidden like buttons for products and services, which spread virally in friends' newsfeeds.

Grab this email signature app and start sharing, promoting and supporting you Facebook page with every message you send out. Your last Facebook update is always displayed.

Stay on top of social media in 10 minutes a day. Register for this eBook to learn what sites you should monitor, how long to spend and which tools will help you consolidate the information.

Get into the Halloween spirit with this intensely creepy Facebook experience that might just have you thinking twice about your privacy settings.

Do your customers have an easy way to reach you via your Facebook page? Utilize this tool to quickly add and customize your own contact form.

EdgeRank Checker has complied the results of an extensive Facebook study. Learn how many clicks a Facebook post receives for each "Like" Vs. each "Comment" and more.

You spend a lot of time thinking about your company's Facebook page. Here's what people are really looking at.

Facebook has released a new timeline feature; learn how to hide the older, embarrassing posts you'd rather not share with current friends.

Show off your creative side and stand out from the Facebook crowd. Use this free tool to design your own banner for the new timeline layout. Upload and edit a background image and enhance it with text, drawing, or additional images.

This socially intelligent Facebook app allows users to dive into the vast amount of anonymous information people share. Use it as a polling tool to compare audience segments, brands, political leanings and more.

Interested in finding out how many friends you've lost on Facebook? Follow these step-by-step instructions to find out who has unfriended you.

"People talking about this," "Engaged users" and "External referrers." Follow these three key metrics to measure the success of your Facebook campaigns.

Podium offers a great, easy-to-use tool for running contest campaigns. The contest can easily be integrated into Facebook and offers valuable analytics for tracking all event activity.

Crowdbooster helps you achieve an effective presence on Twitter and Facebook. It shows you analytics that aren't based on abstract scores but numbers that are connected to your business and your social media strategies: impressions, total reach, engagement, and more.

Shift your Facebook marketing plans into high gear with these four services that make your brand engagement more effective on a daily basis.

Most likely, your readers have dozens of blogs in their RSS feed. They follow hundreds of people on Twitter and have “liked” quite a few brands on Facebook. With all this noise, your message is bound to be lost. Here are 5 tips that will grab their attention.