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What do Gamestop, JC Penney, Nordstrom and The Gap have in common. They all went headlong into creating Facebook stores and have since shuttered them for their own reasons. One thing all reasons must have in common is that the stores weren’t working. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the power of f-commerce. It’s also not a condemnation since there are likely equal amounts of stories claiming the opposite.

My husband just told me that the generation gap between him and our teen son, is less than it was between him and his father when he was a teen. I thought he was nuts, but then I saw this report from eMarketer that shows a significant rise in Facebook engagement with folks over 55.

It looks like Google isn’t going to sit idly by while Facebook and Twitter get all the credit for saving the world from tyranny, natural disasters and the common cold. While it sounds less than altruistic, the truth of the matter is that corporate ‘good works’, whether intended or not, creates great buzz and sells products. I say intended or not because this trend for giving companies credit over the people who enact change with passion and courage is a bit overdone. People make change and technology is a