At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco yesterday, famed digital analyst Mark Meeker gave her annual “Internet Trends” address that touched on everything from Greek debt to a long-overdue re-casting of Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs putting our digital/mobile needs over self-actualization. Here’s the presentation in full:

In the first partnership of its kind, Walmart and Facebook have teamed up to launch more than 3,500 Facebook store pages through the My Local Walmart application, where users can view special offers, rollbacks and new merchandise based on their location.

This morning we got a note from Tabjuice, the Facebook commerce-and-marketing specialists. They put together this infographic on what brands should consider if planning to take the plunge into social commerce, that $30 billion market opportunity.

For the past year or so, all the buzz was about growing your follower numbers. But today there are doubts about whether that’s such a good investment. Why? Marketers are finding that their swelling Facebook fan communities and Twitter followings are increasingly not “target-specific” and too damn fickle.

To promote season two of Fox’s hit zombie TV show ‘The Walking Dead’, Red Bee Media has created a personalised app that’ll have its users either chomping at the bit for the show’s next airing, or hiding under the stairs, rocking back and forth with fear

We’ve already seen YouTube’s evolution in bringing viewers live broadcasts, now Facebook is getting involved. On Saturday 8 October, the first global, live concert broadcast through Facebook will take place, with millions of fans in over 100 countries expected to tune in for the Michael Jackson tribute concert, taking place in Cardiff, Wales

Not long ago, all the talk in digital marketing circles was the power of “Like.” Build an impressive following of people who declare they like your company, organization or product and, the thinking went, you’d have a cheap and cheerful network of brand advocates, the type who would enthusiastically follow your daily posts and tell their friends about it, too. How very naive that all seems today.

A few weeks ago, print publishers added to the pessimistic chorus of an imminent ad slump when The New York Times reported dismal Q3 numbers. That seems like a distant memory today as a new forecast predicts yet more bullish growth for one brash new sector – social networks.

It’s been said that online commerce is the engine of retail. And what’s the fastest growing segment of online commerce? It appears to be social commerce, and this new study on our online shopping habits from e-commerce specialists at ChannelAdvisor sheds light on why.

Electronics giant Philips is on a mission to help sleepy heads wake up feeling less murderous and more refreshed, with the launch of its new Wake-up Light and supporting Make Me a Morning Person campaign.