Friday is here! This week’s top five reads include the juicy details Facebook released when they went public, The Most Annoying Tweet Imaginable, a list of 2012’s top social media blogs, some PPC advice and a microwave… blowing stuff up. Check it out!

Ever since Vocus moved into a new headquarters that puts Silicon Valley to shame, coming into the office has been a remarkable experience. Ever since Vocus moved into a new headquarters that puts Silicon Valley to shame, coming into the office has been a remarkable experience. Whether you head straight for your desk or take the time to grab an immaculately-foamed cappuccino in the savannah-themed Rick’s Coffee House - where half a Jeep protrudes from the wall - the simple routine of arriving at work every day has become a wonderful thing in itself. Take this video tour and see for yourself.

When you’ve won the inter-departmental Vocus pumpkin carving competition for two years running, the stakes are high when October 31st rolls around again. After a high-tension brainstorming session, the Marketing team emerged with a Grim Reaper theme, a big plan, and a frightening shopping list of items including ’4’ steel backing plate’, ‘sheet of foam core’, ‘black and light gray spray paint’, ‘metal chain’, ‘flickering lights’, ‘gravestone’ and ‘carrots’. Here’s how it went…

We launched Vocus Marketing Software this morning! It’s a new, all-in-one Vocus software suite for business owners and marketers and it has a very powerful twist. It features a built-in ‘engine’ that lets anyone – and this is literally within minutes – start attracting customers on Google, generating buzz, engaging customers on Twitter, getting in the media, creating high-end custom Facebook pages and more, with no expertise necessary. Excited? We are: here’s more.

We launched our new HARO Publicity Alerts today! We made HARO even better. Without spoiling the free-to-use HARO model that our 100,000 subscribers and 10,000 active journalist users know and love (three emails a day, featuring hundreds of journalist queries) we’ve added some power options that really take things to the next level. Including (drum roll)…