'World's Smallest Cellphone Charger' Provides Emergency Backup + MORE

A cellphone charger claiming to be the “world’s smallest” aims to save users in a pinch when their battery is dying.
Comparable to a quarter in size, the Fuel Micro Charger is designed to provide 20 to 30 minutes of extra talk time, or up to a few hours more while on standby.
Massachusetts-based creators Devotec Industries says it’s “perfect for when you have had an unexpected delay, or haven’t been able to fully charge your phone, and need to make a few calls, send a work email or use your GPS and maps function to find your way home…

On most Mondays, we post “This week on Twitter” to alert you to key things happening in the coming week. Whether it’s a live chat with the cast of your favorite TV show, a Q&A with a political candidate or a pro sports team Tweepstakes, keep current about can’t-miss moments on Twitter in the week ahead…

Facebook today provided updates regarding its transition from Credits to local currency pricing. The company offered new documentation for game developers and announced that migration will occur in Q3 this year.
Facebook decided to phase out Credits in favor of a user’s local currency — dollars, pounds or yen, for example — in June 2012…

This June, social app professionals from across the nation will converge in San Francisco for Inside Social Apps, the largest conference dedicated to exploring the future of app distribution and monetization on social and mobile platforms.
If your company wants an opportunity to network with and recruit from the brightest developers, marketers, designers, and managers, then join us for the co-located Inside Social Apps Tech Job Fair, held onsite at the ISA event on June 6, 2013…

According to new documentation, Facebook has tweaked the way advertisers define and track actions that might be relevant to their campaigns through the Ads API.
Tracking specs, as Facebook calls them, allow you to track what actions are taken by people interacting with your ad. Unlike previous iterations, tracking specs will only track; they will not optimize for that action nor does it charge based on that action…

Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch that a new bug has temporarily reset Like counts and comment threads on sites sporting its Like buttons and Comments plugin. Luckily, all the counts and comments should be restored soon as Facebook is finalizing a fix. Everything should go back to normal, though the problem may frighten some regarding how much the Internet relies on a centralized service…

Yelp announced today the launch of a new revenue estimation tool for local businesses. With this tool, any shop owner can determine just how much of their business coming from Yelp compares to the national averages based on a Boston Consulting Group Study released last week. Available for free, Yelp says all businesses will be able to access the tool beginning today…

Marketing app Fanzy has raised $550,000 in new seed funding to help brands and companies better market themselves on Facebook.
Basically, Fanzy makes it possible for brands to dish out gifts to Facebook fans that spam their friends and followers with messages about those brands. (Fanzy describes this as “Fanzy members generating buzz for your brand…

Facebook recently (quietly) changed its Page Guidelines around Cover Images. Previously, you could not have any price or purchase information, contact information, references to Facebook features, or calls to action. Now, you can.
The main rule that remains in place for Cover Images is that you cannot exceed 20% text…

Facebook has created “tracking specs,” a new way for advertisers to define and track any action that might be important to their campaigns through the Ads API.
According to documentation on Facebook’s developer site:
“Tracking specs allow you to track what actions are taken by users interacting with your ad…

Federal regulators need to ensure that the protections in the Fair Credit Reporting Act apply online, particularly on social networks, said consumer groups in a letter sent earlier today to Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council.
“The regulatory structure has not kept pace with social media developments, the increasing use of sophisticated and largely non‐transparent ‘social intelligence’ techniques, and the impact of these techniques on consumer decision-making,” wrote Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, and Edmund Mierzwinski, director of the consumer program at the U…

Facebook has begun passing keyword data to websites that receive referral traffic from search queries that originate on the social network, allowing sites to more accurately track where visitors are coming from.
With the launch of Graph Search, Facebook more deeply incorporated Bing so that queries that can’t be answered by Facebook’s internal search, will direct users to a page of results powered by Bing…

Whenever someone asks me what social media conference they should attend, I turn to my personal list of my can’t miss events.
Clearly I recommend our events first, but sometimes the timing or the type of event someone needs is different. And there are a ton of great conferences out there for marketers throughout the year…

Twitter is hosting a “platform event” early next month and, as usual, space is limited – and attendance is restricted.
So for those of you who click first and read event details later (like me), please note that before you click “submit” on that form, you’ll want to read the important restriction – unless you want to look foolish (again, like me)…