Past articles by Mashable from March 2011

11:37 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable 8 Ways Companies Can Contribute to Open Source Communities

Open source software (OSS) is recognized for the cost savings it delivers when compared with proprietary alternatives. As enterprises continue…...

11:09 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable J-Lo Recruits Facebook Fans To Unlock Next Single on iTunes

Jennifer Lopez is making fans work for her next single. To snag the song “I’m Into You” from iTunes before the official releas…...

11:03 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Flickr Changes Sharing Options, Cozies Up to Tumblr

Flickr has just introduced some interesting features for sharing your photos around the web. One of the most significant features is the additio…...

10:26 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Google's Answer to the Facebook "Like" Button: The "+1"

Google is making a big new push into social with a feature called "+1" that is similar in purpose to the Facebook "Like" button, but int…...

10:26 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable 10 Vintage Visions of the Future [VIDEOS]

Did you expect to be living The Jetsons’ lifestyle by now? All flying cars, robot maids and all-in-one slinky jumpsuits? Us too. And part of the…...

09:32 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Why Trends & Crowdsourcing Remain Logo Design's Hot Button Issues

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here. F…...

09:19 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Exciting Job Opportunities in Social Media Marketing, Sales & Development

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable‘s Job Lists section gathers together…...

08:58 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Scaling Instagram: How the Photo Sharing Startup Avoided Catastrophe in Its First Days

The Scaling Startups Series is supported by Brother International. Brother's Inkjet All-in-One printers are loaded with powerful business feat…...

08:38 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable And the Winner of Google's Ultra High-Speed Internet Is "

Kansas City, Kansas, will be the first city to receive Google’s experimental high-speed Internet network. The announcement Wednesday ends…...

08:15 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable YouTube Video of the Day: Twin Children Discuss Important Matter in Utter Gibberish

Although I’m generally of the opinion that children don’t really count as real people, the boys in this video appear to be having a conv…...

07:58 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Launch Any Product Using Social Media

On March 8, I introduced my tenth book. There are few processes that I enjoy more than a product introduction, and this one enabled me to try…...

07:48 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Skittles Faux Interactive Cat Ad Goes Viral [VIDEO]

Skittles is at it again. The candy brand, which long ago stopped talking about product attributes and instead has released one increasingly bizarre…...

07:27 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Roku Makes Its Way Into Retail Stores

The Roku XD player is finally making its way to brick and mortar retailers, with the Internet-connected settop box now on sale at Best Buy, Radi…...

07:15 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Google Settles With FTC Over Buzz Privacy Issues

Google has agreed to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that its social network, Google Buzz, violated the company’s own privacy…...

07:03 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Major League Baseball Gets a Social Media Ambassador

On the eve of Opening Day, Major League Baseball is redefining itself in social media via a guy named Mike. The league today unveiled the MLB Fa…...

06:45 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Billboard Helps Artists Track & Build Buzz With New Analytics Tools

Music industry mainstay Billboard recently announced the launch of Billboard Pro, a paid service for up-and-coming bands and those who work with the…...

06:00 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable The 4 Biggest Stories in Tech, Business & Social Media This Morning

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world…...

05:43 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Google Street View Adds Imagery of the Coliseum & Other Historic Landmarks

Google has added imagery of a number of historic sites in Italy and France to Street View. The integration with Google Maps includes 360-degree…...

05:00 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable How Women Really Feel About Their Facebook Friends [SURVEY]

When it comes to Facebook, we have friends, and we have “friends.” A recent survey found that for many women on Facebook, their true…...

04:55 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable 5 Excellent Small Business Blogs To Learn From

A company blog is a useful tool for small businesses hoping to give others a glimpse into the company while also promoting the company’s…...

04:34 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Google Promises Fewer, Better Ads in Gmail

Google has announced changes to how it displays ads in Gmail, which should increase the quality of the ads, ultimately resulting in fewer ads s…...

05:46 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Will the Music Industry Try to Kill Amazon Cloud Player?

The music industry is reportedly furious with Amazon over Cloud Player, the e-commerce giant’s new music streaming service. The conflict h…...

04:46 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Ev Williams Hints At Life After Twitter

Twitter co-founder Ev Williams broke a long silence about his role at the social media company Tuesday. In a blog post, Williams confirmed that…...

03:55 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Google Launches a Query-Answering Chatbot

Google has quietly launched Google Talk Guru, an instant message chatbot that can deliver search results and answer queries such as sports score…...

03:08 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Rebecca Black's "~Friday' Vanishes, Returns As Most Hated Video on YouTube

UPDATE: As of 4:45 p.m. PDT, “Friday” is back online once again. We’re working to find out why it was pulled in the first plac…...

02:46 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Facebook's Newest Hire To Get Creative With Interactive Marketing

Top Time Warner ad man Mark D’Arcy has just been nabbed by Facebook, where he will be tasked with finding more and better ways for markete…...

02:30 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable FarmVille English Countryside Debuts to Pitchforks & Protests

Last week, Zynga started rolling out access to an extension of its hugely popular game FarmVille, dubbed FarmVille English Countryside, which p…...

02:02 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable New iPad App Makes Mixing Music Intuitive & Fun

Music mixing — at least for the average Joe — is usually filed under the word “hard.” However, a new iPad app, ShapeMix,…...

01:44 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Free Coffee, Hot News: LinkedIn Truck Hits City Streets [PICS]

Extra. Extra. Read all about it: LinkedIn is offering free coffee and hot news. That’s the promise of the LinkedIn Today coffee truck, a t…...

01:30 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Hire Top Talent in Emerging Industries

Here in the Bay Area, hundreds of lesser-known startups have plans for massive hiring growth this year. That’s always a challenge, but ev…...

01:10 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Valpak Rolls Out Augmented Reality Coupons

Valpak, known for its coupon-stuffed blue envelopes, has updated itself for the mobile age with an augmented reality app. The new feature, avail…...

12:21 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable HootSuite Adds Features To Help Prevent Twitter Meltdowns

After a few recent embarrassing tweets that were sent by brands clicking on the wrong account, HootSuite has added some new security features to…...

12:12 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011

Mashable Why the Cloud Is Actually the Safest Place for Your Data

Worried about your data? If you're not, you're kidding yourself. It's become clear over the past few months that the risk of security bre…...

11:51 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Microsoft Says Internet Explorer 9 Is the Most Energy-Efficient Browser

Microsoft has made many claims about IE9′s speed, but now the company is saying the latest version of its browser also bests the competiti…...

11:29 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Final Version of Firefox for Mobile Now Available

If you own an Android or Maemo device, you can now grab the official Firefox 4 for Mobile browser. The official and final version was released T…...

11:01 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable 10 Office Pranks Perfect for April Fools' Day

Ah, April Fools’ Day. That dreaded day of the year that news editors and the gullible public love to hate. While we can’t wait to se…...

10:53 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable YouTube Video of the Day: 25 Years of Pixar

Take a moment away from being super, super important (a.k.a. stapling papers together and scowling) and watch this glorious medley of Pixar animatio…...

10:36 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable New iPhone Game Gives "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out" a Modern Twist

Fans of the classic Nintendo video game Mike Tyson's Punch-Out will undoubtedly see some similarities in Mike Tyson Main Event, a new iOS titl…...

10:23 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Why Vevo Acquiring MySpace Could Be a Very Good Move

It’s buzzing through the grapevine that music video site Vevo is interested in taking MySpace off of News Corp.’s hands, a move that…...

10:12 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Vimeo Crafts an Elegant Video Browsing & Editing Experience for iPhone

Vimeo, the online video site adroit at catering to video professionals and creatives, is out with a free companion iPhone application that doubl…...

09:59 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Stay Safe When Engaging in Political Activism on Facebook

Protests this year in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere have highlighted Facebook’s potential for activism. After all, if the social network w…...

09:52 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Check in to Entertainment & Foursquare Simultaneously on GetGlue

Entertainment checkin and recommendation service GetGlue has revamped its iPhone app and website, adding support for Foursquare and sports check…...

08:55 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Use Amazon Cloud Player With iOS Devices

Want to access Amazon’s new Cloud Player from your iOS device? We’ve found a serviceable, if hackneyed, solution. Amazon launched it…...

07:59 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable 6 New Apps for Uncovering the Best Local Knowledge

At some point after Quora launched in 2009, the Q&A concept has moved from the realm of stodgy forums to burgeoning tech trend. Meanwhile,…...

07:51 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable German Billboard Dispenses Dog Food When You Check In on Foursquare [VIDEO]

The problem with food ads is that you can only see the product, but you can't smell or taste it. Until now, that is. In Germany, a billboard for t…...

07:35 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Design Within Reach Integrates 3D Room Planner Online, In Stores

Modern design retailer Design Within Reach has launched a new online 3D modeling tool that enables shoppers to visually sample furniture and accesso…...

07:09 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Ashley Boo Turns a Facebook Profile Into an Interactive Marketing Campaign

Ashley Boo’s Facebook profile may look like any other page, but it isn’t long until Ashley jumps off the page and starts dancing, sc…...

06:50 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable 6 Common Email Marketing Mistakes Small Businesses Make

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media an…...

06:41 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Kraft Mac & Cheese Ad Based on Consumer's Tweet Runs on Conan [VIDEO]

Kraft and its ad agency spent a few hours yesterday turning three tweets into TV ads. How did it go? The cream of the crop, called "cnt sleep" …...

06:31 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable What the Smartphone Market Will Look Like in 2015 [STUDY]

Market research firm IDC predicts that the smartphone market will grow 49.2% in 2011, due to an increasing number of users who will replace feat…...

05:44 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable iPhone 5, Amazon Cloud Player & NYT Paywall: This Morning's Top Stories

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world…...

05:35 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Acer's Dual-Screen Iconia Tablet Available for Pre-Order in the U.S. and Canada

After a European launch earlier this year, Acer’s Iconia-6120 dual-screen tablet has finally become available in the U.S. and Canada. The…...

05:24 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Top 5 Innovative Digital Marketing Agencies

The Digital Marketing Series is supported by HubSpot, which offers inbound marketing software that helps small and medium sized businesses get f…...

05:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Evernote Modernizes Web App, Adds Facebook Sharing

Note-taking platform Evernote has released a reworked version of Evernote Web that speeds up performance and adds Facebook sharing functionali…...

02:02 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Apple's WWDC Sold Out in a Matter of Hours

Less than 24 hours after the official announcement of this year’s Apple’s WWDC conference, the tickets for the event are sold out, a…...

10:46 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Man Proposes to Girlfriend via iPad 2 Engraving

The newest nerdy engagement making the rounds comes from Jordan C., who decided to surprise his girlfriend, Jessica, by asking her the big quest…...

10:10 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Amazon Cloud Player: First Impressions

Amazon has made its entry into the music streaming world with Amazon Cloud Player. Rather than stream a library of predetermined music (e.g. Pandora,…...

08:52 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Amazon Cloud Player Lets You Play Your Music From Anywhere

Amazon has just entered the streaming music business with the launch of Cloud Player, a music player that lets anyone upload their music to Am…...

07:18 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Startup Gives You Direct Access to Famous Musicians & Professionals

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…...

06:22 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Sprint Kicks Off the War Against AT&T's Acquisition of T-Mobile

Sprint is making it clear that it will do everything it can to prevent AT&T from acquiring T-Mobile USA, setting up a likely showdown betwe…...

05:06 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable 50% of Tweets Consumed Come From Only 0.05% of Twitter Users [STUDY]

A mere 20,000 Twitter users steal almost half of the spotlight on Twitter, which now ropes in a billion tweets every week. That means only 0.05…...

03:20 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Is Apple Delaying the Release of iPhone 5?

Apple could be delaying the release of its unannounced generation iPhone from its typical summer debut to sometime in the fall due to the Verizo…...

02:00 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable SimpleGeo Releases Database for Location-Based App Makers

SimpleGeo is introducing a cloud-based geospatial database Tuesday, called SimpleGeo Storage. It’s an extension of the company’s …...

01:21 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable How Businesses Can Survive a Product Recall Using Social Media

Driven in equal parts by regulation, litigation, and new levels of public awareness, today's companies are working harder than ever to ensure…...

01:11 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable The Cheezburger Network Acquires Know Your Meme

The Cheezburger Network is about to get meatier; the LOL behemoth just announced the acquisition of cataloger of Internet culture, Know Your Mem…...

01:08 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Buffett Declares Social Media Valuations Overpriced [REPORT]

Warren Buffett warned investors that valuations for social media firms are unwarranted, though he declined to name names, according to a report…...

12:49 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable How To Hack the New York Times Paywall " With Your Delete Key

Frustrated by the idea of paying for what was once free, some New York Times readers have devised widely publicized methods for subverting its…...

12:40 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Java Creator Joins Google; Will Android Benefit?

James Gosling, the man who created the programming language, Java, has just joined Google. The hire was quite the win for Google, which is curre…...

12:36 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Linux Foundation Announces Designated Gurus for 2011

Five open source experts have been proclaimed gurus by the Linux Foundation, a title awarded for outstanding contributions to the FOSS community…...

12:14 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable The Future of Online Classifieds: 5 Ways to Beat Craigslist

Let me be clear: I don't think Craigslist is going anywhere any time soon. Craig Newmark's ad-listing service operates in over 700 locales and ge…...

12:10 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011

Mashable Altoids Skewers Your Facebook Friends [VIDEO]

The curiously strong candy brand and ad agency The Evolution Bureau have released a song on Altoids’s Facebook Page, intended as a tongue-in…...

11:49 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable The New York Times Paywall: Yes, It Works

If you haven’t heard, The New York Times erected a paywall around its digital content beginning 2 p.m. ET on Monday. Based on our initia…...

11:14 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Add Facebook Questions To Your Brand Page

Facebook released a new version of Questions late last week and will soon begin to roll the feature out to Facebook Pages as well. The feature c…...

10:46 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable 100+ Upcoming Social Media & Tech Events

Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. In the meantime, here are some…...

10:29 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable 20 Essential Online Resources for Finding New Music

The Content Exploration Series is presented by Mashable Explore, a new way to discover resources and information on your favorite Mashable topic…...

10:19 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable YouTube Video of the Day: Musician Mashes Up Vids To Create Gorgeous, New Song

Some people play guitar. Some play the keys. Others, well, they play the YouTube. Today’s YouTube Video of the Day is “My Favorite Color…...

09:40 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable A New Era for Internet Domains: Why .XXX Is Just the Beginning

A new era of Internet use is about to begin, marked by the recent decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) t…...

08:45 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable Kraft To Turn Mac & Cheese Tweets Into TV Ads Within 24 Hours

Your tweet about Kraft’s Macaroni & Cheese could be on TV tonight if the brand picks it up for a new initiative converting tweets int…...

08:39 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable Jack Dorsey Officially Returns to Twitter

Twitter inventor and co-founder Jack Dorsey is officially returning to Twitter as Executive Chairman, CEO Dick Costolo announced, fittingly, via…...

07:56 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable Lady Gaga Donates $1.5 Million in Part to Zynga's Fundraising Campaign for Japan

Lady Gaga is apparently on top of it when it comes to donating money to those affected by the March 11 Thoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan.…...

07:55 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable Marc Jacobs Intern Calls CEO a "Tyrant" in Twitter Meltdown

A Marc Jacobs intern staged a meltdown of sorts on the fashion brand’s official Twitter account Friday evening. The anonymous intern was a…...

07:51 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable 7 Superb Short Films Shot With Cellphones

The Digital Photo and Film Series is supported by Adobe Premiere Elements. To connect with the product team, find creative tutorials, tips a…...

07:41 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable American Express Takes on PayPal With Serve

With its new platform Serve, which was announced Monday, American Express is looking to take on industry giant PayPal in the digital payment and…...

07:31 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable Last Week for Mashable Connect Attendee Applications

Time is running out for you to fill out an attendee application for Mashable Connect 2011, a unique event at Disney World in May that will bri…...

07:00 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable eBay To Acquire GSI Commerce for $2.4 Billion

eBay announced on Monday that it will buy GSI Commerce, an ecommerce and interactive marketing services company, for $2.4 billion. The acquisiti…...

06:59 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable Radiohead Releases Its Own Newspaper

Celebrating the release of King of Limbs in analog style, Radiohead has published its own newspaper, called The Universal Sigh. The newspaper is…...

06:36 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable MTV to Take Viewers Behind the Scenes at Facebook in New Documentary

Facebook — as a culture — remains an undying interest among media folk today, as evidenced by “Diary of Facebook,” an inside…...

06:25 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable Apple To Reveal Future of iOS & Mac OS at WWDC

Apple announced Monday that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will be held June 6 through June 10 at San Francisco's Moscone W…...

05:47 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Avoid and Prevent Facebook Spam

The Facebook Marketing Series is supported by Buddy Media, Power Tools for Facebook. Have something new to tell 500 million people? Learn the be…...

05:37 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable New York Times Offers Substantial Subscription Discount Ahead of Paywall Launch

To ease readers into The New York Times online paywall, which goes live worldwide Monday at 2:00 p.m., the publication is offering a heavily dis…...

05:30 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable Google Working on Wave-to-Pay Mobile System for Android [REPORT]

Google has teamed up with Mastercard and Citigroup to create a near-field communication mobile payment system on Android phones, the Wall Street…...

05:33 am GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable How Gemvara Is Changing the Way Fine Jewelry Is Bought Online

It’s news to no one that ecommerce is on the rise. Not only are more consumers turning to the web to purchase online for the first time, t…...

04:41 am GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable 13 Quirky iPhone Accessories [PICS]

Don’t just settle for standard issue accessories. We invite iPhone owners out there to take a walk on the fun side of the street with some downr…...

02:37 am GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable Snoop Dogg Drops New Album on MySpace

All 21 tracks of Snoop Dogg‘s latest album, Doggumentary, have just been released on the artist’s MySpace page, two days prior to th…...

01:13 am GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011

Mashable Free "~Future of Marketing' Online Broadcast Will Showcase 60 Speakers in 60 Minutes

On March 29, a fast-paced online conference will confront the heated topic of personalized marketing, and you’re invited to listen in. Per…...

11:46 pm GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011

Mashable Why Facebook's New Questions Tool Is Good for Brands & Businesses

Brands and businesses are looking for ways to leverage Facebook’s recently unveiled Questions tool in ways that differ from what they̵…...

09:39 pm GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011

Mashable Richard Simmons + Air New Zealand = Best In-Flight Safety Video Ever

Never have we been so excited about putting our tray tables in the full upright and locked position. In this brand-new spot produced for Air New Zeal…...

08:15 pm GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011

Mashable Widespread Wi-Fi Coming to London Underground by 2012

Nearly half of the London Underground’s 270 stations are being outfitted with Wi-Fi access ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games. London Undergr…...

07:25 pm GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Google AdWords

Google AdWords (those sponsored links that appear alongside search results and web content) can be one of the most cost-effective ways to adver…...

06:34 pm GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011

Mashable Top 5 YouTube Marketing Mistakes Committed by Small Businesses

The path to YouTube marketing success can be littered with potholes that budget- and time-strapped small businesses can’t afford to fall…...

05:59 pm GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Hire a Great Web Designer, With Y Combinator's Garry Tan

If you’re looking to hire a web designer, you probably have dozens of questions swirling around in your head: How do I really know if thi…...

03:49 am GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011

Mashable The Futuristic Fashion of Diana Eng [PICS]

Diana Eng, the former Project Runway contestant whose futuristic, technology-infused fashions we profiled at CES in January, is now building out…...

01:10 am GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011

Mashable Arguing the Case Against the Libya Attack, Xtranormal Style [VIDEO]

Perhaps the most cogent argument yet against the U.S.’s recent airstrikes on Libya comes from a cartoon character. This Xtranormal video, with…...

12:07 am GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011

Mashable How Much Is Rebecca Black Making Off of Friday?

None other than Lady Gaga recently pronounced Rebecca Black a “genius,” but is Black now a millionaire too? That’s been the su…...

12:07 am GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011

Mashable How Much Is Rebecca Black Making From Friday?

None other than Lady Gaga recently pronounced Rebecca Black a “genius,” but is Black now a millionaire too? That’s been the su…...

09:54 pm GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Land a Job at Amazon

Amazon‘s business model hit the ground running in the 1990s by revolutionizing retail and e-commerce. In recent years, the company has bui…...

08:38 pm GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable 51 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

Spring is definitely in the air despite the frigid weather here on the East coast. If you’ve been out enjoying the sun, we seriously can&#…...

08:00 pm GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable Barnes & Noble's Nook Color Adds Flash, Email, App Store [VIDEO]

Barnes & Noble will open up a new chapter in the development of its Nook Color next month with a firmware update that includes Adobe Flash play…...

06:54 pm GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable Sony's Virtual Cherry Blossoms Raise Relief Funds

Combining game-playing and philanthropy, Sony Online Entertainment has created in-game virtual items that players can buy to support those affec…...

06:02 pm GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]

Web culture can be fleeting, but when the Internet grabs hold of something it really, really loves to make fun of, a mere mortal meme can trans…...

11:24 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable Google-Owned Slide Launches Disco, a Group Text App, for iPhone

Here’s something you don’t read every day: From the Googleverse comes a new iPhone app — that’s right, an iPhone app wit…...

11:24 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable Google Dabbles in Group Texting With Disco for iPhone

Here’s something you don’t read every day: From the Googleverse comes a new iPhone app — that’s right, an iPhone app wit…...

10:50 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable "~Captain America: The First Avenger' Trailer Hits YouTube

At Mashable, our abiding love for comic book-based films — both good and bad — is no secret. And we’re definitely looking forw…...

10:03 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable Location App Loopt Looks for Future in Flash Deals

This post is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark as a new part of the Spark of Genius series that focuses on a new and innovative startup each d…...

08:31 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable A Tale of Two Infographics: Before and After Firefox 4

Firefox 4 was released Tuesday, and early reports indicated the latest version of Mozilla’s open-source browser was downloaded more than 5…...

07:40 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable Sendoid Transfers Huge Files in Seconds in the Browser

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…...

05:34 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable Survey Shows We're Too Lazy About Mobile Phone Security

A new survey shows U.S. consumers are shockingly lax about basic security on their mobile phones. Most of us have no qualms about making purchas…...

04:32 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable ABC Tries Mobile-to-Facebook Push to Launch Show

New ABC show Happy Endings may get off to a strong start with a mobile-to-Facebook push the network hopes to use as a template for future campai…...

03:29 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable New York Times Announces Paywall Launch Time, Drops Case Against @FreeNYTimes

The New York Times announced that its widely unpopular paywall will go into effect in the U.S. and worldwide beginning 2 p.m. Monday, March 28.…...

02:05 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Friday Edition

First, I apologize profusely for this. But it had to be done. The cultural zeitgeist required it. This week’s YouTube Roundup Theme is: Fr…...

01:51 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Advanced Social Media Search

Social media search — the ability to tap into thousands of real-time updates — has long been a hot topic. It opens up endless oppor…...

01:21 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable Erase Last Night's Indiscretions From Facebook & Twitter

It’s nearly the weekend, which means that it’s nearly time to make bad decisions, likely with phone in hand. While the tech world can…...

01:09 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable 5 Tips for Creating Your Own Group Buying Deals

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01:02 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable Gaga & Bieber Together At Last: "Songs for Japan" Charity Album Hits iTunes

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12:53 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable Ecommerce Around the World [INFOGRAPHIC]

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12:40 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable Is Sharing More Valuable for Publishers on Facebook or Twitter? [STATS]

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12:34 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable Google Now Supports Cherokee Language

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12:25 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable How Activists in the West Can Help the Middle East Communicate Securely

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12:12 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable Site Highlights Top Content from Friends on Facebook, Twitter & YouTube

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12:01 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011

Mashable 10 Security Gadgets to Keep Your Stuff Safe on the Go

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11:53 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable YouTube Adds Animation Tools for Easier Content Creation

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10:01 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable Not *That* Fun: Rebecca Black Gets Played Just 12 Times on Radio

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09:41 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable How AI Advances Are Making Virtual Service Reps Smarter

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09:21 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable 6 Deliciously Designed iPhone Apps for Better Baking

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08:31 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable Caption This Mashable Comic [CONTEST]

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08:30 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable 8 Ways To Help #Japan After the Earthquake

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07:26 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable In-App Purchases Coming to Android Next Week

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06:45 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable Are People Really Upset About Missing Socks? Nah, It's a GE Campaign

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06:09 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable 7 Tips for Launching a Successful Podcast

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06:09 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable This Morning's Top Stories in Tech, Mobile & Social Media

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05:59 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable Wooden iPad 2 Cover Can Be Smart, Too

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04:50 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

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02:54 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

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10:50 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

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10:32 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable Color CEO on the Future of Social Networking [INTERVIEW]

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08:12 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

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06:34 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable Is "Closing" Honeycomb the Beginning of an Androidocalypse? Hardly.

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04:59 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable Color to Get Major Update, Fix "~Loneliness' Problem

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04:09 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Sign, Seal, Deliver Docs Without A Printer Or Scanner

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02:48 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable BlackBerry PlayBook Will Run Android Apps

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02:04 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable OMG, the Oxford English Dictionary Added New Words! We "~Heart' It! LOL!

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01:37 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable LivingSocial Says It Will Overtake Groupon in January 2012

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01:17 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

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12:44 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable Google Nixes Open Source For Honeycomb [REPORT]

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12:37 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable How the Web Has Changed Our Perception of Copyright Law

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12:15 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011

Mashable Facebook Unveils New Version of Questions Tool

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11:43 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

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11:18 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

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10:42 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable So You Think You Can Dance, Android Edition [VIDEO]

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10:10 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Guinness World Record Set for Largest Online Guitar Lesson

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09:42 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable 11 Pro Tips for Better Business Blogging

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09:11 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable NBC Universal To Reward Users for Checking In to TV Shows

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09:00 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable The Age of Mediocrity: Why Rebecca Black Is Everyone's Fault [OPINION]

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08:43 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Conan Takes on Rebecca Black With "Thursday" [VIDEO]

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08:32 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Join Mashable & Verizon Wireless for an Exclusive Demo Event in NYC [UPDATE]

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08:17 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Major News Publishers Jump on the Daily Deals Bandwagon

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08:08 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable The Latest Cereal Box Prize: Augmented Reality [VIDEO]

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07:18 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable 10 Key Considerations for Your Mobile Web Design Strategy

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07:08 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Boxee iPad App To Enable Streaming from iPad to Your TV or PC

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06:56 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Textbook Renter Chegg Moves Beyond Books

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06:42 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable YouTube Video of the Day: Forget Inception, This Will Destroy Your Mind

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06:30 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Yahoo's Share of Search Ad Market to Drop to Single Digits This Year [REPORT]

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06:20 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Google Doodle Celebrates Harry Houdini's 137th Birthday

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05:55 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Exclusive: Craigslist Talks About Fight Club " Foam Fight Club [VIDEO]

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05:32 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable The Latest Social Media & Web Development Job Openings

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05:22 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Color Launches, Internet Piracy Declines, Google Mag Launches: This Morning's Top Stories

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08:15 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Say Hello to Google's New Online Magazine

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07:18 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Better Than Albums? Music App Builds a Playlist To Fit Your Mood

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05:57 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Official Node.js Job Board Pops Onto the Web

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04:38 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable 7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications

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03:41 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Mobile By The Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]

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03:07 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable 18 Million WordPress Websites Now Available in iPad Format

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01:51 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Twitter's Long History With Malware [INFOGRAPHIC]

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01:33 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Site Lets You Offer A Home for Japanese Quake, Tsunami Victims

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12:58 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Why Xbox Kinect Technology Will Be the Next Frontier for Marketers

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12:51 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011

Mashable Toyota Hops on Real-Time Marketing Trend With Prius Records Event

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11:47 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Sword & Sworcery: The Most Anticipated iPad Game You've Never Heard Of

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11:31 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Just How Helpful Are Music Recommendation Services? [SURVEY]

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11:14 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable YouTube Video of the Day: Tiny Music Fan Wins at Life

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10:57 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Art Exhibit Uses Twitter in Poster Campaign; Are Movies Next?

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10:48 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Starbucks Card Mobile Is a Hit: 3 Million People Pay Via Phone App

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10:36 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Yahoo Launches Own Version of Google Instant Search

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10:29 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Gilt Groupe Acquires Decorati To Expand Home Business

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10:19 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Mac OS X Maverick Leaving Apple

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10:12 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Faster, Sleeker & More Stable: Hands-on With Firefox 4 [REVIEW]

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09:36 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable How One Group of Startups and Investors Traded the Elevator Pitch for the Ski Lift

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08:49 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable 5 Challenges for Human Resources in a Digital World

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08:10 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Why Custom Menswear Brand J. Hilburn Waited 3 Years To Add Ecommerce

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07:51 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Starbucks Boosts Wi-Fi Network With ESPN, Marvel Comics & The Economist

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07:50 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Trick Out Your Phone With Band-Designed Cases

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07:35 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Aflac Holding Online Casting Call To Replace Gilbert Gottfried

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07:21 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Keep Prying Eyes Off Your Sensitive Online Tax Documents

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07:03 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Chrome 11 Beta Brings Voice-to-Text Capabilities

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06:36 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Sony Ericsson Taps Kristen Schaal for Edgy Web Skits [VIDEOS]

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06:30 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Apple Removes "Gay Cure" iPhone App From the App Store

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06:12 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011

Mashable Firefox 4, Chrome 11 Beta & NYT Paywall: This Morning's Top Stories

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03:52 am GMT - Mon, March 21, 2011

Mashable 16 Rad Retro Gaming Accessories for Your Home or Office [PICS]

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02:41 am GMT - Mon, March 21, 2011

Mashable The Pros and Cons Of Tumblr For Small Business

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01:23 am GMT - Mon, March 21, 2011

Mashable Wired Fashion: 10 Items of Connected Clothing for Gadget Lovers

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12:21 am GMT - Mon, March 21, 2011

Mashable Why AT&T Bought T-Mobile

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11:43 pm GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011

Mashable Is the AT&TT-Mobile Deal Good for Consumers? [POLL]

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10:59 pm GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011

Mashable AT&T Buys T-Mobile for $39 Billion

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10:33 pm GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011

Mashable New Website Crowdsources Japan Radiation Data

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09:02 pm GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011

Mashable World's Cutest Baby Alternates Between Terror & Delight [VIRAL VIDEO]

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07:33 pm GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011

Mashable 4 Innovative Ways to Use Web Video for Small Business

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07:14 pm GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011

Mashable Facebook Acquires Snaptu to Bring Social Networking to Feature Phones

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02:54 am GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011

Mashable 5 Online Communities to Help With Your Career

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01:41 am GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011

Mashable Security Flaw Found in Tumblr, Company Says It's Now Fixed

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12:16 am GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011

Mashable Top 100 Socially Networked Cities in the U.S.

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10:56 pm GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable Interview: Guy Kawasaki Talks With Mashable at SXSW [VIDEO]

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09:53 pm GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable Review: Phosphor Reveal Watch Rotates Tiny Crystals to Tell Time [VIDEO & PICS]

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08:06 pm GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable 46 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

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06:37 pm GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]

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10:40 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable New .XXX Domain Approved for Porn Sites

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09:29 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable Facebook Photos Help to Incriminate Bigamist

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08:29 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable Dane Cook Talks to Mashable & Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg [VIDEO]

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07:20 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable Make Any Content on the Web Embeddable With Embedly

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05:45 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable Flash 10.2 Arrives on Android, Brings Flash to Tablets

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04:40 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable Cosmo & Self Magazines Arrive on the iPad

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03:25 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable All the Web's TV & Movies in One Sweet Spot: Moki.tv

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02:27 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable Kevin Rose Resigns from Digg [CONFIRMED]

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02:11 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable Facebook Status Update Helps Stop Burglary in Progress [VIDEO]

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01:33 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Create a Blockbuster Mobile App

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01:13 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable Rainn Wilson Talks to Mashable [VIDEO]

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12:37 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable Mashable SXSWi 2011 Recap [VIDEOS & PICS]

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12:24 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable Angry Birds HD Adds Ads, Angers Fans

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12:03 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011

Mashable The Secret to Pandora's Unrivaled Internet Radio Success

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11:56 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011

Mashable Thanks to Mashable's Socially Savvy Supporters

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11:39 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011

Mashable Xobni for Gmail Is Here [INVITES]

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11:21 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011

Mashable National Parks Project Exiles Musicians for a Cause

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10:28 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011

Mashable AP Stylebook Finally Changes "e-mail" to "email"

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10:07 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011

Mashable Fresh Rumors: iPhone 5 To Have Metal Back, NFC?

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09:47 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011

Mashable Behind the Scenes Footage From Final Harry Potter Film Hits Web [VIDEO]

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08:14 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable Watch Facebook Interview Actor Romany Malco at the Mashable House [LIVE]

Mashable teamed up with Facebook for live interviews during SXSW Interactive. Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg and Mashable‘s editors will be cond…...

08:14 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable Ask Mashable's Adam Ostrow & Christina Warren Questions on Facebook Live

Mashable teamed up with Facebook for live interviews during SXSW Interactive. Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg and Mashable‘s editors will be cond…...

07:50 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable 6 Ways Small Businesses Can Band Together for Better Results

There's a classic children's book, Swimmy, where a school of little fish team up and swim as one big fish to avoid being eaten. I often rea…...

07:38 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable How Facebook Users Reacted to the Japan Earthquake & Tsunami [ANIMATED GRAPHIC]

The 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck the coast of Japan Friday was the most powerful in Japan’s history. The earthquake launched a de…...

06:49 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable AT&T, Verizon Offer Free Calls & Texts to Japan From U.S. [UPDATED]

To help people affected by the devastating earthquake in Japan, AT&T on Monday has made wireless calls from the United States and Puerto Ri…...

06:49 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable AT&T, Sprint & Verizon Offer Free Calls & Texts to Japan From U.S. [UPDATED]

To help people affected by the devastating earthquake in Japan, AT&T on Monday has made wireless calls from the United States and Puerto Ri…...

06:36 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable Kayak Launches Hotel-Booking Option in Beta With Help From Travelocity

One of Kayak’s biggest faults in its travel-search offering is that customers can’t book flights or hotels directly on the site. Ins…...

06:06 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable 8 Powerful & Inexpensive Desktop Design Apps

The Cross-Platform Apps Series is supported by VMware Fusion, the best way to run Windows on your Mac. Click here to learn more about VMware Fus…...

05:33 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable TVGuide.com Adds Sports Checkins

TVGuide.com is adding to its menu a daily rundown of every game playing on TV, along with the ability to tell Facebook friends what game you int…...

04:58 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Optimize Your E-mail Marketing for Social Media Results

Marketers plan to increase spending on e-mail and social media marketing more than any other tactics in 2011, according to a recent survey. As…...

04:41 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable Mashable Weekend Recap: 35 Stories You May Have Missed

A time of stark contrasts and drama unfolded this weekend, as the tragic earthquake, tsunami and nuclear threats devastated Japan. Meanwhile, t…...

04:05 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable Apple's Phil Schiller: White iPhone Is Coming This Spring

The fabled white version of the iPhone 4 will be available “this spring,” confirms Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice presiden…...

01:58 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable iPad 2 Sold Out, 70% Went to New Buyers [REPORT]

The iPad 2 is sold out, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster and his team, which surveyed Apple retail stores over the weekend. Muns…...

08:12 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable 38 Startups Launch During 3-Day Road Trip to SXSW

Last year, six fledgling startups were unleashed on the world after a three-day road trip to Austin on a WiFi and power-equipped bus during the…...

07:23 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable Measuring Social Media: Who Has Access to the Firehose?

At SXSW 2011, I moderated a panel titled “Measuring Social Media – Let’s Get Serious,” with the goal of having a frank d…...

06:53 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable GroupMe Founders Talk Updates, Strategy & the Competition

Group-texting app GroupMe is undoubtedly one of the most buzzed-about apps here at SXSW Interactive. Which is why Mashable took a couple of minutes…...

05:51 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable League of Extraordinary Hackers Build Robots for Good

Hidden away in the Speakeasy on Congress in Austin, Texas, 14 teams of hackers are building robots out of LEGO Mindstorm kits. They’ll bat…...

05:51 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable League of Extraordinary Hackers Builds Robots for Good

Hidden away in the Speakeasy on Congress in Austin, Texas, 14 teams of hackers are building robots out of LEGO Mindstorm kits. They’ll bat…...

05:23 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable Japan Earthquake & Tsunami: 7 Simple Ways to Help

While the devastating Japan earthquake and tsunami have passed, the recovery and mourning have just begun. The disaster could become the most e…...

04:44 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable Mike Tyson Gets in the Ring With Mashable [VIDEO]

Boxing legend (and more recently the breakout star of “The Hangover”) Mike Tyson made an appearance at South by Southwest in Austin,…...

02:21 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable 4 Ways to Set Up a Storefront on Facebook

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media an…...

01:56 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable iPad 2 Graphics Much Faster Than iPad 1, Motorola Xoom

The examination of Apple’s iPad 2 continues, and now benchmarks of its graphics performance compare it favorably with both its predeces…...

12:30 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable 42 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

What a week and what a weekend! SXSW is officially in full bloom and Mashable’s enjoying another successful year with our very own Mashabl…...

12:08 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable Watch Facebook Interview Rainn Wilson at the Mashable House [LIVE]

Mashable teamed up with Facebook for live interviews during SXSW Interactive. Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg is conducting live interviews today and t…...

12:08 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011

Mashable Watch Facebook Interview Kevin Rose at the Mashable House [LIVE]

Mashable teamed up with Facebook for live interviews during SXSW Interactive. Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg is conducting live interviews today and t…...

11:21 pm GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable New App Goes Beyond Group Texting With Social Integration [VIDEO]

The group texting war in raging here at SXSW, and another app has just entered the fray: Grouped{in}, a service that includes not only group textin…...

10:46 pm GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable How Do Social Networkers Celebrate St. Patrick's Day? [INFOGRAPHIC]

While you’re making plans for St. Patrick’s Day (this Thursday, March 17), take a look at this infographic that shows you what other…...

09:46 pm GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable Your Online Guide to an Easier Tax Season

In the year 2011, we can do laundry from our smartphones and file tax returns electronically. Yes, even the IRS is on Twitter! Technology has m…...

09:25 pm GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable SXSWi Is About More Than Tech, Check out the Music [VIDEOS]

Yes, SXSW Interactive is replete with apps, tech and social media shenanigans, but there are also tons of awesome bands here at present. Check out the…...

08:19 pm GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable Apple & Microsoft Take Different Approaches to Japan Relief

If you were trying to solicit donations for earthquake victims in Japan, what approach would you take? Take a look at how technology rivals Micr…...

06:27 pm GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable The South By Southwest Panels, Illustrated [PICS]

Sometimes the best way to stand out at a digitally focused event like South by Southwest is to do something analog. That was some of the thinkin…...

10:50 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable Verizon iPhones Fell Back an Hour Instead of Springing Ahead

If you need to wake up at any specific time tomorrow, beware: It appears that some Verizon iPhones fell back an hour at midnight tonight instead…...

05:39 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable Engadget's Editor in Chief Resigns as AOL Shakeup Continues

Joshua Topolsky, editor in chief of Engadget, has just announced that he is leaving the popular AOL-owned technology news site. Topolsky has bee…...

05:04 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable It's Not TV, It's Social TV [VIDEO]

Interactive television experts gathered on Saturday at SXSWi in Austin, Texas to discuss the future of social TV. Panelists, which ranged from the l…...

04:32 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable How Foursquare & AmEx Are Putting a Fresh Twist on Loyalty Marketing

In the summer of 2010, Foursquare’s Head of Business Development Tristan Walker and American Express’s Vice President of Global Mark…...

03:45 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable Top 7 Ways to Save Time on Twitter

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03:28 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable SXSW Crowd Earns $10K for Charity by Playing a Game [PICS]

In an unusual keynote speech at South by Southwest Interactive, SCVNGR founder Seth Priebatsch captivated the crowd with examples on how game me…...

03:13 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable Facebook Hosts Its First Ever Hacker Cup [PHOTOS]

Facebook‘s Hacker Cup is the Olympics of hacking. Twenty-five finalists from 10 countries were flown into Palo Alto to compete. These few…...

02:29 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable Travel Tech: 10 Must-Pack Gadgets for Geeks on the Go

While so many “must-have” travel gadgets from days of yore have been ousted by apps, there is still a lot to be said for some seriously ha…...

01:54 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable Platform for Concertgoers Launches Android App in Time for SXSW

Music fans, you have T-minus four days to finalize your schedule for SXSW Music. Luckily, concertgoing platform SuperGlued is out with a brand n…...

01:36 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable Help Japan: Facebook Click Helps Dogs Rescue Trapped Quake Victims

As you read this, victims of the tragic earthquake in Japan are waiting to be rescued under piles of rubble. Here’s a way for you to help…...

12:34 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011

Mashable Meet Seth Priebatsch: Princeton Dropout, Serial Entrepreneur and SXSW Keynoter

Saturday, SCVNGR founder Seth Priebatsch will take the stage at South by Southwest Interactive. Priebatsch has grandiose plans to woo the crowd…...

11:32 pm GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]

If you’re wondering why the Japanese earthquake didn’t hit this week’s top Twitter trends chart, it’s because the major…...

10:56 pm GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Conan and Pee-wee Appearing on Facebook Live From SXSW Today

Facebook Live set up shop at SXSW in Austin, bringing you lots of video content that includes interviews with celebrities and major influencers.…...

10:17 pm GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Follow Mashable at SXSWi Via Social Media

Whether you’re fully embedded in Austin’s SXSWi action or living vicariously through tweets from afar, you can easily follow all of…...

09:18 pm GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Facebook Adds Ability to Easily Tag Others In Comments

Facebook has expanded its @ Mentions feature, now letting you tag friends, pages, events or groups within comments, turning their names into cli…...

07:41 pm GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Actually Get Something Done At SXSW

Despite the unending stream of party invites, panels, and events, major events like SXSW are ruled by the people who actually come to work. The…...

12:30 pm GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Run a Website or Blog? You Can Help Japan With One Code Snippet

If you run your own site — and we know lots of you do — you can use your pageviews and influence to help Japanese people struggling…...

12:02 pm GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable The iPad 2 Takes Over SXSW [VIDEO]

One of the biggest events the first day of SXSW 2011 wasn’t even an official part of the schedule. That’s right, we’re talking…...

11:09 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Twitter to Devs: Don't Make Twitter Clients" Or Else

Pure play Twitter clients — apps like Echofon, Twidroyd and UberTwitter — got a sharp slap on the wrist today from Twitter platform…...

09:53 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable HANDS ON: iPad 2 Takes Tablet Computing to the Next Level [VIDEO]

How much can technology change in a year? Take a close look at the iPad 2, and you have your answer. It’s thinner, faster, and it costs the sam…...

09:12 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Memolane Creates an Automatic Scrapbook of Your Social Media Activity

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…...

08:37 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable The "~Godzilla' Incident: Did Twitter Users Gang Up on CNN Earthquake Anchor?

To hear Twitter users tell it, last night on CNN was one of the most disreputable in the network’s history. “You might prefer stream…...

07:59 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable First Impressions From An iPad 2 Owner: Should You Wait? [PICS]

After months of rumors, nine days of greedy anticipation, and two-and-a-half hours in line (something I haven’t done since the Indiana Jon…...

06:51 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable U.S. Government Wins Access to Twitter Accounts of WikiLeaks Supporters

A federal judge today granted the U.S. government access to the Twitter accounts of three of WikiLeaks’s strongest supporters. Earlier thi…...

05:17 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Google Stops Shipping CR-48 Chrome OS Notebooks

Google has stopped shipping the CR-48 notebook, the first pilot Chrome OS device, and is preparing for the next phase of its release. Google VP…...

04:15 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable 28 Cases For Your New iPad 2 [PICS]

Getting in line for an iPad 2? Looking for a cool case to cosset it in chic? We’ve got you covered. The slideshow below features a wide selectio…...

04:03 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Marissa Mayer: Google Will Connect the Digital & Physical Worlds Through Mobile

Google’s recently appointed head of mobile and geolocation Marissa Mayer took the stage Friday afternoon at South by Southwest to discuss…...

03:20 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Want to Understand JavaScript's Quirks? Spend Time in the JavaScript Garden

Now here’s a tool we’d like to see applied to more languages. A handful of developers have just launched a site devoted to explainin…...

03:09 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Request a Pedicab Ride With Your Smartphone at SXSW

Uber, the San Francisco-based startup putting a digital twist on car service, is bringing the Uber flare to Austin, Texas, by piloting a pedicab…...

02:58 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The SXSW Edition

If Brooklyn and San Francisco are a little empty this week, it’s because all of the tech folks and bands are in Austin, Texas, for SXSW.…...

02:44 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Super 8 Movie Trailer Hits Web via Twitter

Paramount released Friday via Twitter the first full-length trailer for the hotly anticipated Super 8. Tweeted from the @Super8Movie Twitter ac…...

02:30 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Pitching 101 [COMIC]

Let’s face it. Your real-time, geo-location app for finding the nearest and highest rated drive-thru cat groomers (Pampurrr2Go, working title) d…...

02:15 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Dealery Flips Daily Deal Standard by Selling at National Level

Since the meteoric rise of Groupon, local daily deals sites have launched for just about every niche, including ones tailored toward moms and g…...

02:07 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Instagram's News Feed Gets a Facelift Just in Time for SXSW

Among the apps to watch at SXSW, photo-sharing services are definitely situated firmly in the category of “hot.” Which is why itR…...

01:55 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Thanks to Mashable's Socially Savvy Supporters

Thanks to this week's advertisers and partners for enabling us to bring you the latest social media news and resources. Mashable’s spons…...

01:43 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Hacktivism: Startup Mentality for the Non-Profit Sector

A young hacker is holed up alone in his apartment. His face is lit by a laptop screen, monitor split between a live video stream and a text edi…...

01:35 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable iPhone 5: Clearest Picture Yet? [PICS]

We already have a pretty good idea of the iPhone 5′s appearance, but now here’s an engineering diagram that, if real, gives us th…...

01:22 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Hipstamatic Giving Away SXSW HipstaPaks

One of the best photo apps for the iPhone — Hipstamatic — is getting into the SXSW spirit. From March 11-20, Hipstamatic will give a…...

01:13 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable CBS, SCVNGR Launch Spy Game at SXSW

If you have some downtime during this week’s South by Southwest festival, you might consider playing spy. A promotion from CBS for the new…...

12:58 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Follow the Japan Earthquake Online

Social media and the web have become the go-to for real-time information when disasters strike. It’s no surprise that the news of Friday&…...

12:45 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Google Earth Offers 3D Preview of Royal Wedding Route

If the official Royal Wedding site isn’t doing enough to quell your aching, vicarious desire to envision Prince William and Kate MiddletonR…...

12:32 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable AOL Enters the App Business With Social Music App Play

AOL may be losing up to about 900 people during layoffs announced Wednesday, but it is gaining its first exclusively mobile product on Friday.…...

12:22 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Get a Personalized SXSW Show Schedule via App From Rhapsody & The Echo Nest

More than 2,200 bands are performing at SXSW — which is why The Echo Nest and Rhapsody hooked up to create Festival Explorer Austin Editio…...

12:15 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011

Mashable Yahoo May Have Just Sold Delicious for $5 Million [REPORT]

Yahoo has sold Delicious for the underwhelming sum of $5 million, according to a report. Citing “a solid report from a reliable and proven…...

11:53 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Mobile Faceoff: AT&T vs. Sprint vs. Verizon

The SXSW Faceoff Series is supported by Pepsi MAX. Come check out the Pepsi MAX Lot at 3rd Street and San Jacinto Boulevard! Follow @PepsiMAX on…...

11:42 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Motorola Xoom Tablet Sales "Underwhelming"

Amid all the hype about the iPad 2, one of its chief rivals, the Motorola Xoom, is not selling well. Analyst Peter Misek of Jefferies & Com…...

11:14 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Add Social Sharing Buttons to Your Website

If you run a blog or website of any kind, chances are you’re always trying to encourage more people to talk about and share your pages an…...

10:40 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Store Report: iPad 2 Ships in 2 to 3 Weeks; Stores Prepare for 5 p.m. Sale

If you’re thinking you’d order an iPad 2 online today and then receive it in three to five days as it was originally listed on Apple…...

10:25 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable New Version of Path Adds Facebook Sharing & Photo Lenses

Path, the self-proclaimed “private network,” is releasing Friday version 1.5 of its iPhone application. The update adds sharing with…...

10:17 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Woman Sells First Spot in iPad 2 Line For $900 [VIDEO]

College student Amanda Foote has turned the die-hard techie tradition of waiting hours, sometimes days, to be the first to purchase a new Apple…...

10:02 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Watch: YouTube Footage of Japan Quake [VIDEOS]

An 8.9-magnitude earthquake followed by a 10-foot tsunami hit the coast of Japan at 2:46 p.m. Tokyo time Friday. It was the most powerful record…...

09:41 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable 5 Tips for Better Advertising in Mobile Apps

Advertising has traditionally been regarded as an interruption of the actual experience that people are trying to have — be it watching a…...

09:31 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Web Developers Will Now Be Able To Tap Into the Power of Rdio

If you’re a developer interested in integrating music with a social bent into your web apps, start your engines: Super-social music subscr…...

09:00 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Ad Agency Site Analyzes the "Hell" of SXSW

South by Southwest may be heaven or hell, depending on your point of view, but now with a new site, you can see how close you are to either. Dig…...

08:43 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Mozilla Showcases The Power of HTML5 With 360 Degree Videos

Mozilla recently released the release candidate version of Firefox 4, meaning that the next stable major version of the popular browser is just…...

08:23 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Follow Music Discovery Site on Foursquare to Get SXSW Info & Free Music

If you’re heading to Austin, Texas, for Hipster Spring Break (SXSW Music, as opposed to Geek Spring Break, SXSW Interactive), and are feel…...

07:50 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable 8 Simple Ways to Improve Your YouTube Channel

You don’t have to be a YouTube “personality” to create a fantastic, customized YouTube channel. Everyone can take advantage of the o…...

07:30 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable The 3 Biggest Stories in Social Media & Tech This Morning

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07:21 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Google Responds to the Japan Earthquake With an Online Crisis Center

Google has reacted to the devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan on Friday with a tool that helps you find a person or provide info…...

11:59 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Offering an API? Create Your Own Console With Apigee's Free API Tool

Recently, API products company Apigee rolled out Apigee To-Go, a free tool for building an API console, classing it up with a slick UI, and embe…...

10:30 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Which Social Sites Are Best for Which Marketing Outcomes? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Is Flickr good for SEO? Can Tumblr drive traffic? If these questions are part of your day-to-day work, hold onto your hats; here’s an info…...

08:50 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Washington Post Explores the Future of Journalism Via Tumblr

Thursday, the Washington Post launched @innovations, a Tumblr blog meant to showcase the news organization’s digital features and discuss…...

07:21 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Apple Changes In-App Purchase Policy to Protect Parents' Credit Cards

Apple has changed its policy for in-app purchases to prevent users, especially children, from accidentally purchasing virtual goods. Previously,…...

06:11 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable The New AOL Way: Fewer Employees, Fewer Freelancers, More Arianna

Just days after AOL completed its acquisition of The Huffington Post, the Internet company announced layoffs of hundreds of employees in an effo…...

04:57 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Charlie Sheen Death Hoax Spreads Malware Through Facebook

If you’ve been clicking on links and videos about Charlie Sheen‘s alleged death, you’ve been had by the latest social media ma…...

03:40 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable YouTube To Expand Staff by 30%

YouTube expects to have its biggest hiring year in 2011, with plans to grow its staff by 30%. The Google-owned video site has dozens of open po…...

03:34 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Firefox 4: What You Need To Know

After no fewer than 10 beta releases, Firefox 4 finally entered the “release candidate” stage Wednesday. Assuming that no fatal bug…...

03:00 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Picplz Introduces Collections, the Photo Equivalent of Playlists

Picplz founder and CEO Dalton Caldwell refers to the now-defunct Imeem, his first entrepreneurial go-round, as “fundamentally a playlist c…...

02:37 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable L'Oreal Teams Up With Buddy Media To Help Local Salons Market on Facebook

L’Oreal announced a new program Thursday that will enable the more than 4,000 salons carrying its professional line of products to begin…...

01:55 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable How to Get a Refund for ABC's "Oscar All Access" Service

Did you spring for that $4.99 “Oscar All Access” online service I recommended on Oscar night? If you’re like me, you were d…...

01:27 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Google Now Lets You Block Unwanted Search Results

Google has released a new feature in its attempt to clean up search results: the ability to block the websites you don’t want to see. Goog…...

01:16 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Instagram Steps Up Dealmaking, Partners With Top CBS Show

The popular photo-sharing app Instagram, less than six months out from its launch, just cut its largest media partnership deal yet: A contest th…...

12:35 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable How The New York Times Is Incorporating Social & Algorithmic Recommendations

The New York Times released Thursday a finished version of the Recommendations platform it quietly introduced in beta in late January. Availab…...

12:18 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011

Mashable Why Curation Is Important to the Future of Journalism

Over the past few weeks, many worries about the death of journalism have, well, died. Despite shrinking newsrooms and overworked reporters, jou…...

11:41 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Chrome Extension Blocks Celebrities From Your Browser

Don’t you wish you could just dismiss some celebrities to another dimension? Now you can with Silence of the Celebs, an extension for the…...

11:22 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable At SXSW? Send Your Best Photos & Videos to Mashable & CNN iReport

With South by Southwest Interactive kicking off Friday and many of you converging on Austin, Texas, to take part, we’d like for you to hel…...

11:04 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Apple to Open Pop-Up Shop at SXSW [REPORT]

Apple is set to open a temporary store in the Scarbrough building on Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, Texas, according to two separate repo…...

10:56 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Saab Asks Consumers To Make Its Banner Ads

Think you can improve upon the notoriously low response rate to banner ads? Then Saab has a challenge for you. The automaker Thursday launched …...

10:46 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable iPad 2 vs. Competitors: Battle of the Tablet Specs [INFOGRAPHIC]

Tablet buyers are in crunch time right now, poring over specs and trying to decide if it’s worth it to go for Apple’s iPad 2. Or…...

10:27 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable LinkedIn Launching Social News Product for Professionals

LinkedIn has launched LinkedIn Today, a new social news product for business professionals designed. At a press event Thursday at its headquarte…...

10:12 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable The Future of Social Search

The Future of Search Series is supported by SES New York Conference & Expo, the search and social marketing conference helping brands, agen…...

10:03 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Katespade.com Redesign Puts Content on Par With Commerce

Apparel and accessories brand Kate Spade has launched a new version of its flagship website that underscores just how important content has be…...

09:44 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Stealth Startup Connect.me's Beta Invites Go Viral, Cause Scam Scare

In preparation for SXSW, the creators of stealth startup service Connect.me created a simple beta invite site on Tuesday evening. One of them as…...

09:34 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Zuckerberg's Wealth More Than Tripled in 2010

Mark Zuckerberg is the 52nd wealthiest person in the world, but he’s not the only billionaire at Facebook. Six of the social network’…...

09:10 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable 5 Social Apps That Will Make SXSW More Intimate

Rick Wittenbraker is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Stage One Capital, an early stage and seed investment fund focused on investments in In…...

08:45 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable YouTube Video of the Day: Mister Rogers Visits the Crayon Factory [NOSTALGIA]

For today’s YouTube video, we’re going to take a little trip into the past — to the crayon factory located in Mister Rogers’…...

08:15 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable SCVNGR Pilots New Hybrid Mobile App for Local Merchant Deals With Game Mechanics

Location-based mobile game startup SCVNGR is releasing Thursday a second mobile application for iPhone and Android called LevelUp. This release…...

08:02 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable iPad 2, Facebook & Foursquare: This Morning's Top Stories

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world…...

07:28 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable iPad 2 Arrives Tomorrow at 5 p.m. Local Time, 1 a.m. PT in Online Store

Apple has officially confirmed the exact time of the iPad 2 release: It’s coming Friday, March 11, at 5 p.m. local time in retail stores,…...

07:11 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Angry Birds Turn Rich, Get $42 Million in Funding

Rovio, the company behind the popular multi-platform game Angry Birds, has raised an impressive $42 million in a funding round from Accel Partne…...

06:55 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Promote Your Startup for Free at SXSW

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Never are these words more true than at the annual South by Southwest Interactive festival in…...

06:18 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Online Fashion Retailer Bluefly Tries On Social Gaming

Online designer fashion retailer Bluefly has partnered with social rewards startup Badgeville to add social gaming into its website experience.…...

06:09 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Starbucks Offering Rewards For Foursquare Checkins Today

Starbucks is celebrating its 40th anniversary today by randomly awarding $40 gift cards to customers who check in using Foursquare. The promotio…...

04:32 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Formspring Takes a Stand Against Bullies "" With Help From MIT

Formspring, a popular and highly social Q&A app, gets a bad rap for bullying. Because users can ask questions anonymously, some of those us…...

04:00 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Facebook's New Anti-Bullying Tools Create a "Culture of Respect"

At Thursday’s White House Conference for Bullying Prevention in Washington, D.C., Facebook is announcing a new suite of tools to protect u…...

03:23 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Intel and Lenovo Launch Netbook for Kids

Lenovo has teamed up with Intel to launch a netbook called Classmate+ aimed at youngsters, primarily in developing countries. The Classmate+ is…...

10:41 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Why Everyone Is Talking About Node

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09:39 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Apple Offers Video Guided Tours of iPad 2

With iPad 2 fever running high, Apple keeps the temperature rising with these 14 just-released “Guided Tour” videos showing off t…...

09:06 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Bands Can Tap Into the Power of Their Online Fanclub With New App Creator

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08:01 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Twitter Updates iPhone App, Calms User Revolt?

Twitter ran into a user revolt when it released version 3.3 of its iPhone app last week, and Wednesday it released an update that could convince…...

07:25 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable StumbleUpon Double-Dippers Reap Major Rewards

Discovery and recommendation engine StumbleUpon announced it has closed a $17 million Series B financing round. The round includes investments f…...

06:39 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Firefox 4 Moves Out of Beta, New Downloads Available Now

Firefox 4 has moved out of its beta period and is now in the “release candidate” stage. The last beta version, Firefox 4 Beta 10, wa…...

06:22 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Flipboard To Release New Version Thursday: Here's What's New [PICS]

Flipboard is slated to launch version 1.2 of its popular social newsreading app for the iPad Thursday, just one day before the iPad 2 arrives in…...

05:51 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Dept. of State & 18 Other Governments Apply for Code for America

Code for America, the non-profit organization that creates government-changing apps for communities around the U.S., has received applications f…...

04:32 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Bandcamp Offering More Than One Day of Free Streaming Music From SXSW Artists

Going to SXSW Music (a.k.a. Hipster Spring Break) this year? Well, music-sharing platform Bandcamp has you covered with aggregated songs from 47…...

03:43 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable 5 Ways To Integrate Technology Into Your Child's Education

Most of us didn't have today's technology options when we were in school, so while parents realize technology has become an integral part o…...

03:24 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Jake Gyllenhaal Movie Uses Mobile Tagging in Marketing Campaign

As you might expect for a movie called Source Code, there's a big digital component to the film's marketing campaign. In a first for Summit…...

02:42 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable 13 Potential Breakout Apps To Watch at SXSW 2011

There are few conferences as notorious for launching startups from obscurity to relative mainstream as SXSW. Foodspotting, Foursquare, and Twitt…...

02:22 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable YouTube Video of the Day: Lost Canister of Film Returned to Owners Via Web

Back in January, we introduced you to Todd Bieber, who found a canister of film in Brooklyn's Prospect Park and made a YouTube video to find its o…...

01:59 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Microsoft Kinect Sales Top 10 Million, Set New Guinness World Record

Microsoft has sold more than 10 million Kinect systems for the Xbox 360 to retailers, the company announced Wednesday. Kinect, a controller-fre…...

01:32 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable How Google & Bing Keep Spam Out of Search

The Future of Search Series is supported by SES New York Conference & Expo, the search and social marketing conference helping brands, agen…...

01:13 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable iOS 4.3 Now Available for Download

Apple has officially released iOS 4.3 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users. The release comes just two days before the iPad 2 goes on sale. W…...

01:03 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Turn Your Phone Into an Interactive "Hello My Name Is" Badge

Two-year-old startup Contxts is ready to prove it has graduated from a fledging SMS-focused contact exchange upstart to a mature competitor in the m…...

12:38 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Get a Job in Social Media, Marketing or Web Development Today

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable‘s Job Lists section gathers together…...

12:11 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011

Mashable Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore Earns World Economic Forum's Leadership Award

The World Economic Forum Wednesday named its Young Global Leader honorees of 2011, and we’re excited to share that Mashable CEO and founde…...

11:57 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable 5 Useful iPhone Apps for Analyzing Your Website's Success On the Go

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media an…...

11:44 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable Smart Labels Make Gmail Even Better

Google introduced Wednesday a new Gmail Labs feature to help users better organize and classify their e-mail: Smart Labels. The new Smart Label…...

11:33 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable VeriFone Demands Recall of Square Credit Card Readers

Electronic payment processor VeriFone — also makers of the mobile payment system PAYWare Mobile — is accusing mobile payments compet…...

11:24 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable VMWare View Lets iPad Users Access Corporate Desktops

Virtualization giant VMWare released VMWare View for iPad on Wednesday, in an effort to help enterprise users gain access to their workstations…...

11:15 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable Chrysler's Twitter Account Accidentally Drops the F-Bomb [UPDATED]

Someone with access to the official Chrysler Twitter account, @ChryslerAutos, dropped an F-bomb on its more than 7,500 followers earlier today. ̶…...

11:05 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable President Obama Fights Bullying on Facebook

U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle popped up on Facebook to deliver a message about cyber-bullying. The video, exclusive to Fac…...

11:00 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable Watch Bonnaroo Live on Your iPhone, iPad or Android

Vevo revealed last month the Bonnaroo lineup for 2011, and today, the music video site is announcing that it will be streaming select live and o…...

10:38 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable How Accurate Is Your Smartphone's GPS? [MAP]

With your location increasingly being utilized in mobile apps, an important question is just how accurate is your phone's GPS? According to d…...

10:31 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable Meet Mark Zuckerberg: The Action Figure [PICS]

Aside from poking, Mark Zuckerberg isn't known for much physical activity, but that hasn't stopped a company from creating an action figure…...

10:11 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable Group-Texting Wars Continue: GroupMe Adds Even More Features

Group-texting app GroupMe may have just updated its mobile offerings, but it seems as though the service has a few tricks up its sleeve, deliver…...

10:06 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable Demand Media Goes Social With Customer Forums for Facebook Pages

Demand Media announced Wednesday that an updated version of Pluck, the social media platform it has owned since 2008, will allow brands to embed…...

10:00 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable Plugin Prevents Your Passive Aggressive E-mails From Going Out

An upgraded and more full-baked version of ToneCheck, the Outlook plugin from Lymbix that checks the emotional tone of content in e-mail, is ava…...

09:44 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Turn Your Foursquare Data Into an Infographic

We came across a nifty little tool this week that creates an infographic from your Foursquare data. Built by Stormpixel Studios at a Foursquare Hack D…...

09:35 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable 80+ Can't Miss Things To See & Do at SXSW 2011

This week kicks off the 25th anniversary of SXSW, the massive festival celebrating film, music and emerging technology held each year in Austin…...

06:57 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable Google Chrome Gets Updates: New Interfaces, Faster Browsing

Tuesday, Google announced a few changes to Chrome, its engineered-for-speed web browser. The super-fast beta version that was announced a few we…...

05:43 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable Hands-on With iOS 4.3 [PHOTOS]

With iOS 4.3 set to arrive by the end of the week (perhaps in the next few hours), we know that many of you are going to be turning to iTunes to…...

03:19 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable HBO's Kenny Powers Takes to Facebook for K-Swiss's March Madness Promo

Kenny Powers, the foul-mouthed antihero from HBO's Eastbound and Down, will shill for K-Swiss again, this time for a Facebook-centered March M…...

02:54 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable YouTube Video of the Day: Adorable Animal Holding an Umbrella

Because the people need their bread and circuses — and no circus is complete without adorable creatures doing tricks — we have chosen th…...

02:28 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable Here's What Google, Salesforce & Sequoia Are Investing In

Inbound marketing software company HubSpot announced Tuesday that it has received a $32 million round of Series D funding from Google Ventures,…...

02:21 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable 4 Polyvore Stylists To Be Featured on Times Square Billboard [PICS]

Online styling community Polyvore announced Tuesday the four winners of its Spring Break Style contest with American Eagle Outfitters. Each of t…...

02:02 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable SXSW Geek Games: Compete To Gain VIP Status & Win Big Prizes

We all know that geeks are now in vogue and should receive VIP treatment. That’s why participants in Mashable‘s Geek Games will get…...

01:43 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable News Corp Backs Digital Music Alternative

Like a gorilla through the mist, a new music service has entered the jungle in a big way: Beyond Oblivion, which is partially owned by Rupert Murdoc…...

01:00 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable Why QR Codes Will Go Mainstream [OPINION]

Observing QR code adoption by mainstream America is sometimes like watching Charlie Brown set up to kick a football: The moment always seems so promi…...

12:29 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable Getting Tired of Charlie Sheen? Eradicate Him From Your Browser

Ah, how fickle fame can be when you’re rendered an Internet meme that draws its strength from insanity. Yup, the web is starting to grow w…...

12:10 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable Foursquare 3.0 Has Arrived: Here's What's New

Foursquare, the location-based mobile game startup that pioneered the checkin, will introduce version 3.0 Tuesday evening. The new release turns…...

12:08 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011

Mashable Facebook Insights Gets Real-Time Analytics

Facebook has released extensive updates Tuesday to its Insights tool, which provides publishers who use Facebook plugins with analytics on how c…...

11:59 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Mashable Teams Up With Facebook Live for SXSW

Facebook Live is taking its show on the road to SXSW in Austin, Texas, where the company will host its first Facebook Live interview sessions in…...

11:35 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable 5 Smart Social PR Campaigns to Learn From

The Social PR Series is supported by “Social Media. So What,” the free online conference from Vocus that'll re-shape and re-shine …...

11:09 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Google Instant Previews Comes to iOS and Android

Google Instant Previews is now available on mobile phones running Android 2.2+ or iOS 4.x. The feature, which is supported across 38 different…...

11:01 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Pioneer Music Discovery Site Relaunching Full of Free MP3s

Before RCRD LBL and The Hype Machine, if you were in the market for free, legal music on the web, Epitonic was the place to go. Until it shut…...

10:13 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Instaprint Turns Instagram Photos Into Physical Prints [VIDEO]

New York-based interactive agency Breakfast (of auto-Foursquaring “Conan blimp” and Precious-the-tweeting-bike fame) released Monday…...

10:03 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Kraft Looks to Reward Twitter Users Who Tweet About Mac & Cheese

Kraft Foods is resurrecting a childhood game and adding a modern social media element " Twitter " to get people talking about macaroni and c…...

09:49 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Support International Women's Day Using Social Media

International Women’s Day is a big deal. And this year it is celebrating its 100th birthday. International Women’s Day (IWD) takes p…...

09:23 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable 5 Innovative Mobile Marketing Campaigns

The Digital Marketing Series is supported by HubSpot, which offers inbound marketing software that helps small and medium sized businesses get f…...

09:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Spotify Reaches 1 Million Paying Subscribers

Europe-based music subscription service Spotify has reached a milestone today, announcing that it now has 1 million paying subscribers — a…...

08:41 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable 5 Free Tools For Creating a Screencast

Showing people what a product does is a better way to catch their attention than telling them about it. Car salesmen encourage test drives, ice…...

08:23 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Microsoft Will Pay Nokia More Than $1 Billion In Smartphone Deal [REPORT]

Microsoft will pay Nokia more than $1 billion for the promotion and development of Windows Phone 7-based smartphones, Bloomberg reports. If true…...

07:39 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Smartphone Wars, iOS 4.3 & Facebook Movie Rentals: This Morning's Top Stories

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world…...

07:23 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable 5 Essential Business Collaboration Apps for iPad

The iPad for Business Series is supported by LogMeIn Ignition, the #1 third-party Productivity app for iPad and iPhones in 2010. Get one-touch a…...

07:03 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Warner Bros. Starts Movie Rental Service on Facebook

Warner Bros. has started delivering movies through Facebook, enabling U.S. users to rent titles for $3. Now, besides “liking” and c…...

05:09 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Group-Texting War Heats Up: Fast Society Launches New Android App, Updates iPhone App

SXSW is drawing near, and word around the proverbial water cooler is that group-texting apps are slated to be the next big thing at geek spring brea…...

05:09 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Group-Texting War Heats Up: Fast Society Comes to Android & Updates iPhone App

SXSW is drawing near, and word around the proverbial water cooler is that group-texting apps are slated to be the next big thing at geek spring brea…...

03:07 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Android Overtakes BlackBerry As the Top U.S. Smartphone Platform [REPORT]

The trend was obvious for quite some time, and now it finally happened: Android is the most popular smartphone platform among U.S. subscribers.…...

12:44 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Adobe Releases Flash-to-HTML5 Converter, Codenamed Wallaby

Adobe has released a new, experimental Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool codenamed Wallaby. Wallaby is an AIR app that lets devs and designers quic…...

11:23 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Find & Start Impromptu Parties at SXSW With Hurricane Party

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…...

10:07 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Bizzy Introduces the Checkout to Mobile Apps

Bizzy, a web and mobile service for personalized local business recommendations, is updating its iPhone and Android apps to introduce a new R…...

09:44 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Our Favorite Music App Today: Like.fm, a Shareable iTunes in the Cloud

Some say there’s a music startup bubble; we say, “Bring it.” Few apps are more welcome in our browsers and on our desktops tha…...

07:36 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Opera Opens Mobile App Store That Works With (Almost) All OSes

Monday, Opera opened a brand new mobile app store that works across most major mobile platforms — and quite a few lesser platforms, as wel…...

06:28 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Buying an iPad 2: What You Need to Know

The iPad 2 hits U.S. stores on Friday March 11, 2011. On Friday March 11, 2011, Apple’s iPad 2 will become available for purchase online…...

04:14 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Charlie Sheen Looks for Intern in First Ad Plug on Twitter

Charlie Sheen has lost his day job, but he’s winning over sponsors " one of them, at least " on Twitter. Earlier today, Sheen tweete…...

03:46 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable YouTube Takes Another Step Toward Legitimacy With New Acquisition

In a move that’s been grinding through the rumor mill since December, YouTube has acquired web video production company Next New Networks.…...

03:36 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Rdio for Mac Feels Like iTunes in the Cloud

Subscription music service Rdio released a brand new native app for Mac OS X on Monday. The app brings the full Rdio experience — includin…...

03:21 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Al Jazeera Launches Twitter Dashboard To Track Uprisings in Egypt, Yemen, Libya & Bahrain

Qatar-based news outlet Al Jazeera has launched a Twitter dashboard to illustrate tweets about uprisings and revolutions around the world. The d…...

02:44 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable YouTube Video of the Day: Cyndi Lauper Sings to Stranded Airline Passengers

Anyone else flying to SXSW this week? Anyone secretly wishing that their flight will be delayed so that Cyndi Lauper can swoop in and save the day w…...

02:32 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable How Fashion Retailers Are Redefining E-Commerce With Social Media

Once simply a counterpart to brick-and-mortar retail, e-commerce has quickly become an independent force in fashion — one that shows no s…...

02:25 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable LivingSocial Offering Local, Short-Term Deals

LivingSocial is getting deeper into the local ad market today with Instant Deals, a mobile feature that lets consumers find deals within a half-…...

02:17 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable Kik Enters Group Messaging Race With New Feature

Instant messaging app Kik announced Monday that it will add group messaging and photo-sharing features to its iPhone and Android apps, joining t…...

01:42 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable 100+ Upcoming Social Media & Tech Events

Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Here are some tips on how to ne…...

12:35 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable 10 Terrific Tilt-Shift iPhone Photos

Tilt-shift has been around in analog photography for years, but a crop of iPhone apps that simulate the effect has led to some great iPhotograph…...

12:06 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011

Mashable A Look at Mashable Connect 2011

We’ve noticed a lot of excitement around Mashable Connect 2011, our invite-only event at Walt Disney World in Florida this May. After…...

11:48 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Grindr, the popular location-based app gay guys use to find other gay males, is out with an Android version Monday. The release could help the L…...

10:45 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable Book Will Write the History of Egypt's Revolution in Tweets

Twitter’s role in the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is disputed. But nobody disputes that the microblogging platform hel…...

10:30 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable Google Acquires BeatThatQuote for $61.5 Million

Google has broken new ground in the personal finance realm with the purchase of UK price comparison website BeatThatQuote for $61.5 million (3…...

10:21 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable 8 Essential Developer Apps for Multiple Platforms

The Cross-Platform Apps Series is supported by VMware Workstation, the most reliable, secure way to run multiple operating systems at the same t…...

09:48 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable Jennifer Aniston Smart Water Ad Lampoons Viral Memes [VIDEO]

Smart Water sends up the whole idea of viral videos, with nods to memes such as Double Rainbow, animated dancing babies and lip-syncing kids, in a…...

09:17 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable Skype To Start Running Ads This Week

In an attempt to create a new revenue stream, Skype this week will roll out ads from the likes of Groupon, Universal Pictures and Visa. New adve…...

08:58 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable 4 Simple Programs for Managing Employee Goals

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media a…...

08:29 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable Mark Zuckerberg's Puppy Gets a Facebook Page [PICS]

The millions of people who saw The Social Network might not believe it, but Mark Zuckerberg has a softer side, an aspect underscored by his late…...

08:19 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable Western Digital To Acquire Hitachi for $4.3 Billion

Storage giant Western Digital has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Hitachi in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $4.3…...

07:58 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable New Video-Sharing App From Justin.tv Now Available

We’ve been hearing for weeks about Socialcam, a new video-sharing app from Justin.tv, and today it becomes available on the iPhone and Android…...

07:47 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable Angry Birds, Twitter's Worth & Android Malware: This Morning's Top Stories

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world…...

07:10 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable TweetDeck Announces New iOS App With Flexible Columns

TweetDeck has announced a major new version of its iOS app, due to be released in the “next couple of weeks.” The new version has be…...

07:07 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable How Poop & Social Media Can Raise Awareness for Charity

On March 13 you — our dear reader — will have a chance to poop on your friends. For charity. As strange as it may sound, “Worl…...

06:04 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable Mashable Weekend Recap: 19 Stories You May Have Missed

It was a weekend of Twitter and Android malware and worm removal, but squirming in between it all was Charlie Sheen, trying his hand at live vid…...

03:11 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable Private Trading Raises Twitter Valuation to $7.7 Billion

The latest auction of Twitter shares on Sharespost valued the company at $7.7 billion, which is almost twice as high as Twitter’s valuatio…...

04:41 am GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable Desktop Farming: 10 Gadgets for Growing a Cubicle Garden

A bit of foliage can make all the difference to a workplace, bringing a little bit of nature indoors in all its green and air-purifying glory. If you…...

03:36 am GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable 9 Web Apps for Gathering Customer Feedback

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media an…...

02:45 am GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable Weekend Hilarity: A Horse Named Arrrrr [VIRAL VIDEO]

In a video that’s destined to become viral, watch how this fortunately named horse makes all the other scalawag horses walk the plank. What&#…...

02:45 am GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable Weekend Hilarity: A Horse Named Arrrrr [VIDEO]

Watch how this fortunately named horse makes all the other scalawag horses walk the plank. What’s the horse’s name? Why, it’s Arr…...

02:03 am GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable Google Unleashes Kill Switch for Android Malware

Remember those 21 malware-infested applications Google removed from its Android Market last week? Google now says there were actually 58 malicio…...

01:06 am GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011

Mashable 44 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

What a week! The good folks at Mashable have been working hard to cover the TED talks, the launch of Apple‘s new iPad 2, and the rest of t…...

11:30 pm GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011

Mashable Twitter iPhone App's Quick Bar Met With Disdain, Twitter Reacts [POLL]

Twitter placed a new “Quick Bar” on its iPhone app last Thursday, and as usual, when anything changes in the online world, thereR…...

11:30 pm GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011

Mashable Twitter iPhone App's Quick Bar Mocked [POLL]

Twitter placed a new “Quick Bar” on its iPhone app last Thursday, and as usual, when anything changes in the online world, thereR…...

09:57 pm GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011

Mashable 10 Great Desktop Gadgets to Quench Your Thirst

There are three distinct advantages to making your own drinks from the comfort of your desk. First, it’s cheaper than buying out all the time. S…...

08:29 pm GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011

Mashable SXSW For Startups: Top 10 Questions Answered

As part of this year’s SXSWi, Mashable presents the Mashable SXSWi House, featuring private events, open houses, meet-and-greet opportunit…...

04:33 am GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011

Mashable Tweet Viewer Worm Crawling Around Twitter [WARNING]

Be careful what you click on when you’re using Twitter, because there is a “Tweet Viewer” worm afoot. Under the guise of revea…...

03:26 am GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011

Mashable Angry Birds Game Coming to Facebook

Rovio CEO Mikael Hed says the immensely popular Angry Birds game is coming to Facebook next month with “completely new aspects to it that…...

02:40 am GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011

Mashable Charlie Sheen's Recorded Ustream Video Now Available [UPDATED]

Update 2: Charlie Sheen’s live show on Ustream has concluded, and now you can watch the video recording here. See the embed below. Twitter…...

02:26 am GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011

Mashable Angry Birds Game Coming to Facebook

Rovio CEO Mikael Hed says the immensely popular Angry Birds game is coming to Facebook next month with “completely new aspects to it that…...

01:38 am GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011

Mashable HANDS ON: Foldable Bluetooth Keyboard Made For iPhone, iPad [VIDEO]

Here’s a foldable portable keyboard from Verbatim that’s specifically designed for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. How well does it work,…...

12:09 am GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011

Mashable Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]

Charlie Sheen just keeps #Winning. After a frantic media blitz, launching a Twitter account and breaking a Guinness record for his speedy rise…...

10:13 pm GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable Dog: Man's Best Facebook Friend, Too? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Okay dog-loving Facebook users, have we got an infographic for you. You did realize that people are setting up Facebook and Twitter accounts for…...

08:24 pm GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable 6 Successful SXSW Startup Launch Stories

As part of this year’s SXSWi, Mashable presents the Mashable SXSWi House, featuring private events, open houses, meet-and-greet opportunit…...

11:44 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable Roger Ebert's Inspiring Digital Transformation

With the help of his wife, two colleagues and the Alex-equipped MacBook that he uses to generate his computerized voice, famed film critic Roger…...

10:28 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable What the Egyptian Revolution Taught Al Jazeera About Digital

Much has been made of the role that social media played in the Egyptian revolution, including the way international news network Al Jazeera used…...

09:31 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable Projeqt Is an Online Storytelling Engine for Creatives [INVITES]

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07:47 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable Who's Really Scanning All Those QR Codes? [INFOGRAPHIC]

QR codes are everywhere these days — in fine art exhibits, some cities’ building permits, wrapping paper and every imaginable kind o…...

06:22 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable Hashable Sends Top 20 Users to SXSW

Instead of launching a new feature or setting up a booth at SXSW, New York-based startup Hashable has recruited 20 of its top users across the U…...

05:18 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable Conan Sends Up the iPad 2 [VIDEO]

Conan O’Brien discussed the new iPad 2 on Thursday night’s Conan. His take? Apple might be getting just a little bit cocky. The clip man…...

04:30 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable Microsoft Begs Users To Stop Using IE 6

Like the rest of us, Microsoft is ready to move beyond Internet Explorer 6. The software giant has launched a new website, The Internet Explor…...

03:54 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable 8 Essential Web Typography Resources

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03:32 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Start #WINNING at Twitter [COMIC]

Having trouble gaining Twitter clout? Are you “engaging with users” and “building a community,” only to find your follower cou…...

03:11 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable CBS Interactive Acquires Clicker.com & Names New President [INTERVIEW]

Clicker, the site that bills itself as the TV guide for Internet content, has been acquired by CBS Interactive. Clicker’s co-founder and C…...

03:00 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable Is This a Robot or Human? [VIDEO]

Behold, the most real-looking robot ever created. It looks so human, you might think it’s some guy imitating a robot. Take a look at this vid…...

02:51 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable Meet Google's Evil Twin, Google Sloppy [VIDEO]

What if your search engine yawned when you typed in a query? What if it screwed up the spelling of the words you entered, so that your search fo…...

02:39 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable Flaming Lips Plan To Release New Songs Via Gummi Skulls [INTERVIEW]

Do you like the Flaming Lips? Do you like the Flaming Lips enough to consume an entire gummi skull in order to listen to two new tracks? If so, carr…...

02:32 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable FashionStake Relaunches as the Next-Generation Online Boutique

Few startups have reinvented themselves as frequently — and as drastically — as FashionStake, which rolled out its third iteration…...

02:24 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable What Demand Media Plans To Do With New Acquisition CoveritLive

Demand Media is infamous for the search-optimized content that appears on its sites, including eHow.com, Trails.com and Livestrong.com. But thes…...

01:52 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable 4 Hot Social Gaming Trends to Watch

More than 18,000 interactive gaming industry pros came to San Francisco for the Game Developers' Conference this week, an annual event that d…...

01:36 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable $424 Million NASA Satellite Launch Fails [VIDEO]

NASA’s Glory satellite ended up at the bottom of the southern Pacific Ocean early Friday morning, the victim of a failed launch that almost g…...

01:20 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Vanity Edition

We are all the main players in our own, personal films — tortured Dorian Grays rendered oh-so blue in the presence of our fading youth, s…...

12:23 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011

Mashable How Semantic Search Is Redefining Traditional & Social Media

The Future of Search Series is supported by SES New York Conference & Expo, the search and social marketing conference helping brands, agen…...

11:44 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Announcing the Mashable Geek Games Host: Romany Malco

Romany Malco, known for his roles in ABC’s No Ordinary Family and the 2005 hit comedy The 40-Year-Old Virgin, is coming to the Mashable S…...

11:22 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Why the Search Marketing Industry Must Adapt or Perish

Type a query into Google and, nine times out of ten, you'll find a result that does not seem right. It's not a bug or a website getting a…...

11:10 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Thanks to Mashable's Socially Savvy Supporters

Thanks to this week's advertisers and partners for enabling us to bring you the latest social media news and resources. Mashable’s spons…...

11:10 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Watch TED's 10 Advertising Contest Finalists [VIDEOS]

The organizers of TED threw down the gauntlet in December to the ad industry to create ads that people would like so much that they’d like…...

10:23 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Announcing Mashable & Gowalla's SXSW 2011 Partnership

Like Mashable, Gowalla is about connecting with others, discovering new things and finding inspiration to explore. That’s why we’re…...

10:03 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Leaked Windows 8 Screenshots Show Improved Taskbar [PICS]

Tantalizing clues about the upcoming Windows 8 are accumulating. The latest addition is the screenshot above, which was leaked Friday. You ca…...

09:41 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Untapped Opportunity: Exploring the Arab Video Game Market

As the games industry in the Middle East has grown and evolved over the past decade, video game development and game localization aimed at the…...

08:54 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable AOL Bolsters Local News Investment With Acquisition of Outside.in [CONFIRMED]

Update (11:19 a.m, 3/4/2011): Patch’s VP of Communications has confirmed the acquisition. “More details in the coming weeks, but we&…...

07:52 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Customizable Mascots Promote 2012 Olympics

With just 511 days to go until the games start, the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is trying to get the word out via social media. To…...

07:44 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Microsoft To Release Windows for Tablets in 2012 [REPORT]

Microsoft will release a tablet-oriented version of Windows no sooner than 2012, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the matter. De…...

06:20 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable The 4 Biggest Stories in Tech, Gadgets & Social Media This Morning

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world…...

06:03 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable After Seeing the iPad 2, Samsung Reconsiders Galaxy Tab Pricing

In a refreshingly honest statement, Samsung’s mobile division VP Lee Don-Joo admitted that the iPad 2 made some parts of Samsung’s 1…...

02:14 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Apple Trying To Negotiate Unlimited iTunes Music Downloads [REPORT]

Apple is trying to make a deal with record companies that would allow it to offer unlimited downloads for iTunes music purchases, reports Bloomb…...

09:25 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Do You Need a Credit Report for Your Online Life?

This post is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark as a new part of the Spark of Genius series that focuses on a new and innovative startup each d…...

08:49 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Old Spice Guy's Video Antics Are More Athletic Than You Think [VIDEO]

Here’s a video that will surprise you. You know how Old Spice Guy goes on that elaborate “scent vacation,” intoning his trademark &…...

07:56 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Is the Personalization of the Web Making Us Dumber?

As a Mashable reader, you're probably well-aware that Facebook's News Feed and Google's search results adjust based on your behavior and…...

07:06 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable iPad Trade-in Economy Explodes, Portends Huge iPad 2 Sales

If the burgeoning trade-in activity for the original iPad is any indication, sales of the iPad 2 could exceed even the most brazen predictions.…...

06:32 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable O'Reilly Reveals Preview for Its First Book on Node.js

Up and Running With Node, an as-yet-unpublished tome on Node.js, is available as an online preview for all interested parties — especially…...

06:15 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Google Fixes Problem With Missing 150,000 Gmail Accounts

The problem with those 150,000 missing Gmail accounts “should be resolved,” according to Google. Last Sunday morning, about 0.08% o…...

03:52 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Riding in the Google Car That Drives Itself [VIDEO]

The self-driving car that Google revealed to the world last October made an appearance at TED on Thursday, with Sebastian Thrun, one of the deve…...

03:46 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Facebook Now Valued at $65 Billion [REPORT]

Facebook has jumped in value from $50 billion to $65 billion, based on a new investment stake. A report on CNBC states that General Atlantic is…...

03:25 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Restaurant Ratings Made on Google Maps for Android Now Shared on Twitter

Restaurant ratings and reviews you make on Google Maps for Android will now be broadcast on Twitter. The feature, announced Thursday on the comp…...

03:07 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Bing Launches Daily Deals Aggregator

As daily deal sites, apps and newsletters proliferate (in fact, The New York Times revealed its high-end version Wednesday), the need for a tool to ag…...

02:42 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Twitter for iPhone and iPad Get New Features

Twitter updated its official iPhone and iPad apps Thursday, offering improved and enhanced photo options, auto-link shortening and the ability t…...

02:14 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable Get Location-Triggered Task Reminders on Your Phone

Forget to pick up paper towels on your Costco trip? Neer’s location-triggered reminders could help save the day next time around. That fea…...

01:38 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable YouTube Video of the Day: Jimmy Fallon Spoofs Charlie Sheen

Because you haven’t had enough Sheen this week — the YouTube Video of the Day is a clip from last night’s Late Night With Jimmy Fa…...

01:24 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable 5 Fresh Digital Media Trends to Watch

The Modern Media Agency Series is supported by IDG. The line is fading between social media and traditional media. IDG's Matt Yorke talks abou…...

12:33 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011

Mashable 4 Facebook E-Commerce Tips for Brands

With more than 600 million active users on Facebook, the world's largest social network is no longer just about “liking” brands w…...

11:45 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable MTV Music Meter Comes to iPhone & iPad

MTV’s music discovery tool, the Music Meter, makes the jump today to the Apple platform with apps for the iPhone and iPad. The Music Meter…...

11:44 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable What Apple Hopes You Didn't Notice About iPad 2

It was a magical performance from a consummate performer, on that we can all agree. Speaking for a little more than an hour, in a voice that has…...

11:08 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Street Artist Launches Global Participatory Art Project

A global participatory art project is now underway, following the revelation of the TED Prize winner's "wish to change the world," which w…...

10:56 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable American Cancer Society Benefits From Bieber Fever [VIDEO]

The American Cancer Society has embraced a winning formula for disseminating its message via social media: tying in with celebrity birthdays. Since…...

10:45 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Android Wins in the U.S. Smartphone Wars [REPORT]

Android has eclipsed iPhone and RIM devices as the number one smartphone OS in the United States, according to a new report from Nielsen. Andro…...

10:19 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable What Should Mashable Ask Foursquare's Dennis Crowley at SXSWi?

I will be interviewing Dennis Crowley, Foursquare’s CEO and co-founder, on the big stage at SXSW Interactive. The featured Q&A will…...

10:07 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable iPhone App for Talking to Strangers Seeks to Be a Hit at SXSW

Yobongo, an iPhone application that seeks to serendipitously connect like-minded strangers in mobile chartrooms, will be available to users in S…...

10:00 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Old Navy Picks Game Developer Contest Winner

Old Navy has chosen a winner in a contest looking for the game developer who best integrates the brand into a social game or community: Breakout…...

09:53 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Understanding the Social Media ROI Cycle

Not long ago, I wrote about how to calculate the ROI of your social media campaign, which generated a lot of interest from the social media com…...

09:14 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Your #TechLife Digital Photo Collages on CNN iReport & Mashable [PICS]

We asked you last week to get creative with your digital photo tools and send us a collage showing the role technology plays in your life. We te…...

09:03 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Inside One Man's Kickstarter Quest to Build True Artificial Life

Virtual worlds have long been populated by creatures that interact, reproduce, compete, evolve and die. But by and large, they do so because the…...

08:45 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Demand Media Acquires Live Blogging Tool CoveritLive

Fresh off its January IPO, content creation company Demand Media announced Thursday that it has acquired live blogging tool CoveritLive. Many ne…...

08:19 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable iPad 2, Bradley Manning & Charlie Sheen: This Morning's Top Stories

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world…...

08:10 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable AT&T Confirms Hotspot Support for iPhone 4

At its iPad 2 event Wednesday, Apple announced the new version of its iOS mobile platform, iOS 4.3, which brings hotspot support to iPhone 4. No…...

07:18 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Get a New Job in Social Media, Design or Development

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable‘s Job Lists section gathers together…...

07:06 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable You Can Now Get Opera Browser in Mac App Store "" If You're Over 17

Following the inclusion of Opera Mini in the iOS App Store, Opera web browser this week became the first non-native browser available in Apple&#…...

05:13 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Charlie Sheen Sets New Guinness World Record for Twitter

Charlie Sheen may or may not be “winning,” in life, but he has won a rare honor: the “Fastest Time to Reach 1 Million Follower…...

03:28 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Google Pimps Up Personal Profiles

Google has redesigned Google Profiles, the profile pages that all Gmail users can set up with pictures and information about them. If you set y…...

03:28 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Google Pimps Out Personal Profiles

Google has redesigned Google Profiles, the profile pages that all Gmail users can set up with pictures and information about them. If you set y…...

09:04 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Startup Gives Twitter a Private Messaging Option

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Micr…...

08:43 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Giant Graphic Commemorates SXSW's 25th Birthday [INFOGRAPHIC]

The venerable South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival turns 25 this year. The conference has grown considerably from its humble roots as a 700-at…...

08:09 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable iPad 2 Keynote Streaming Video Now Available

Today will be remembered as the day the iPad 2 first showed its pretty face. Now the recorded video stream is available, letting you see for you…...

07:44 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable iPad 2 Rumors: Which Were True & Which Will Wait for the iPad 3

Since the launch of the original iPad, we’ve been keeping you apprised of rumors surrounding the iPad 2. Now that the iPad 2 has been unve…...

07:10 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Facebook Watch: App Lets You Check In [VIDEO]

Remember the inPulse Smart Watch we showed you a few months ago? Now, inPulse lead designer Eric Migicovsky has created an app that lets you use th…...

05:39 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable How We'll Beat Traffic and Find Parking Spots in the Future

Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr. is confident that the auto industry is on its way to eliminating CO2 emissions. He's less…...

05:05 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable iPad 2 Rollout Leads to Massive Deflation in Secondary Market

If you’re planning to trade in your old iPad for a shiny new iPad 2, you aren’t alone. In the hours after the iPad 2 announcement, t…...

04:29 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Simple Telephony App TellFi Gives Small Businesses More Options

We’ve been playing with TellFi, a freshly launched startup from Y Combinator that makes SMB-style telephony a breeze — even for remo…...

03:40 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable YouTube Video of the Day: The Strokes, "Under Cover of Darkness"

We have been waiting five years for the next Strokes album, and we still have about two weeks to go until it drops. Until then, sate yourself with o…...

03:28 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Why Credit Cards Are Not the Future of Online Payment

The concept of credit has been around for centuries. Starting in the early 1800s, local merchants allowed trusted customers to make purchases w…...

03:05 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Morgan Spurlock Sells Out At TED

Data-storage firm EMC got quite the bang for $7,100: The title sponsorship of Morgan Spurlock’s talk at TED today. Spurlock sought a spons…...

02:51 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Bill Gates Talks About Knowledge Revolution at TED [LIVE BLOG]

Bill Gates has led ambitious philanthropic efforts in global health, development and education through his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.…...

02:45 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable How Does the iPad 2 Compare to the Tablet Competition? [INFOGRAPHIC]

At Wednesday’s iPad 2 event, Apple took some time to revel in the success of the original iPad. The company moved nearly 15 million iPad…...

02:21 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Palace Launches Official Website for Royal Wedding

St. James’s Palace launched Wednesday an official hub for the forthcoming wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. As anticipation…...

02:10 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable What's New in iOS 4.3

While much of the focus at Apple’s iPad 2 event might have centered around the sexy new hardware, Apple showcased some of the new features…...

02:08 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable What 90,000 Hours of Home Video Can Teach Us About Ourselves

"Imagine if you could record your life " so you can go back and find memorable moments and relive them." So began the talk at TED from De…...

01:22 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable iPad 2 From All Angles [PICS]

Apple’s iPad 2 made its big debut Wednesday, and immediately following the event in San Francisco, Apple released a variety of product sho…...

12:41 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable Apple's iPad 2 Cover Attaches With Magnets, Wakes iPad When Opened [VIDEO]

Apple‘s created the iPad 2 Smart Cover, offering protection using magnets that easily attach to special metal spots on the company’s ne…...

12:03 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011

Mashable PepsiCo CEO, Filmmaker & Ford Executive at TED [LIVE BLOG]

PepsiCo has launched some innovative social media initiatives under CEO Indra Nooyi’s watch, including Pepsi Refresh, an ambitious program…...

11:43 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Want Next-Gen Support for Your Node Apps? Joyent Launches No.de

Joyent, which literally sponsors Node.js by, among other things, employing Node creator Ryan Dahl, has just launched No.de, a new hub for the co…...

11:35 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable iPad 2: The Hardware

Apple introduced the iPad 2 today, and as CEO Steve Jobs appeared on stage, he said this new model is not a tweaked or marginally improved pi…...

11:27 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Apple: 100 Million iPhones Sold

Apple announced, at its event in San Francisco Wednesday, that it has sold its 100 millionth iPhone. When the iPhone first launched in June 2007…...

11:26 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable iPad 2 Is Coming to Verizon

Mere weeks after the iPhone 4 came to Verizon, the iPad is arriving as well — or the iPad 2 is, at least, Steve Jobs announced at a press …...

11:14 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Apple Sold Nearly 15 Million iPads in 2010

Apple sold nearly 15 million iPads last year, generating $9.5 billion in revenue in the nine months after its launch, Steve Jobs announced on st…...

11:06 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Apple's iPad 2 Launch: What You Need To Know [VIDEO]

Greetings from rainy San Francisco, where Apple’s long-anticipated launch of the iPad 2 is about to get underway at the Yerba Buena Center Fo…...

10:45 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Random House Embraces Agency E-Book Model & iBooks

Fans of Apple’s iBooks app now have more content to choose from, thanks to the infusion of Random House titles to the iOS digital storefro…...

10:30 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Posterous Brings Group Feature to iPhone & Android

Posterous is launching new iPhone and Android apps Wednesday that fully integrate its new group feature, which turns e-mail lists into groups. Curren…...

10:18 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Mashable Geek Games: Get Your Geek On for a Good Cause

The countdown is on for the Mashable Geek Games on Sunday, March 13, and Monday, March 14, at the Mashable SXSWi House in Austin, Texas. At the…...

09:16 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Creative Constraint: Why Tighter Boundaries Propel Greater Results

Where do great ideas come from? Many of us imagine creativity comes from an environment of boundless possibility — no rules or restrictio…...

09:03 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable New York Times Launching Groupon-Like Daily Deals Service

The online division of The New York Times is in the process of launching TimesLimited, a Groupon-like daily deals service offered through e-ma…...

08:57 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Stealth Startup Turns Al Gore's Book Into Interactive iPad App

Stealth startup Push Pop Press gave the TED audience a sneak peek at its app Tuesday, with co-founder and former Apple designer Mike Matas showi…...

08:17 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable LivingSocial Offers 2-for-1 Deal on Movie Tickets

LivingSocial, which garnered significant social media buzz with its two-for-one gift certificate offer with Amazon in January, is offering anoth…...

08:13 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable iFart Sniffs Out Buyers, Asks for $1 Million on eBay

iFart, the company behind the popular iPhone application that simulates the sound of farts, is up for sale for $1 million. Is it a novelty app a…...

08:11 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Apple Store Is Down, Ahead of iPad 2 Launch

It’s coming. The iPad 2, as you’re probably aware, will be announced at a special event today at 10 a.m. PT, and the Apple Store has…...

07:52 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable How Brands Are Using Instagram to Reach New Audiences

From Instagram to PicPlz, Pose to Path, photo-sharing apps have become something of a phenomenon among smartphone wielders over the last few mon…...

07:37 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Google Headquarters Welcomes Giant Honeycomb [VIDEO]

Google’s Mountain View headquarters were abuzz Tuesday with a new addition: a giant honeycomb. The fiberglass statue, an homage to the Android…...

07:16 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable iPad 2, Twitter Scam, Mahalo Layoffs: This Morning's Top Stories

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world…...

07:06 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable 11.6 Hours Scam Spreading on Twitter [WARNING]

A new Twitter scam is making the rounds, spreading through accounts of unsuspecting users who have been duped into clicking on a link that claim…...

10:06 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Augmented Reality Online Shopping: Not the Right Fit (Yet)

Modern women dream of the day when they can buy a super cute dress or practical pair of pants online that will fit perfectly on arrival. That da…...

08:15 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable The Next Big Idea in Tech: Do-It-Yourself Focus Groups?

In a class of 53 startups presenting at DEMO’s Spring 2011 conference in Palm Springs, GutCheck stood tallest. The do-it-yourself qualitat…...

07:59 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Google Pulls 21 Apps In Android Malware Scare

Google has just pulled 21 popular free apps from the Android Market. According to the company, the apps are malware aimed at getting root access…...

04:21 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Virtual Ping Pong Tournament Pits Media Giants Against Each Other for Charity

Beer and ping pong and Xbox Kinect — you don’t need a heck of a lot more to make for an epic Saturday. But those factors all combined to…...

04:19 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Find Out How Well Your Friends Know You With FiveFactsAboutMe

We know you were all itching for another self-referential app to hit the Internets. Well, scratch no more, for 15-year-old Jamie Maddocks hath…...

04:01 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable New Adobe Ads Strike Conciliatory Tone With Apple

Adobe has buried the hatchet with Apple over Flash and is touting its support of the iPad in a series of new ads. The branding campaign, Adobe&#…...

03:58 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Introducing Mashable's Growing Advertising Team

Yesterday, Ad Age wrote about the new direction of our advertising strategy and the addition of Ken Detlet to the Mashable team. We’re thr…...

03:50 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Charlie Sheen Joins Twitter; What Will He Tweet?

Haven’t had your fill of Charlie Sheen’s rants? Now you can get them via 140-character messages, because the actor’s Twitter h…...

03:13 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable How MTV Is Marrying Digital Design & Social Good

The building for frog design in New York’s Greenwich Village sits in an innocuous patch of offices just by the Holland Tunnel. Inside and…...

02:53 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Google Acquires Reverse Engineering Company Zynamics

Google has just acquired a small German software company called Zynamics. The company, which was founded in 2004, focuses on reverse engineering…...

02:14 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable 10 Ways to Turn Your Local Business Into a Global Success

Today’s Internet represents a momentous age in the history of global commerce. Never before have so many people met in one, international…...

02:01 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Bank of America Online Banking Is Down On Bill Day [UPDATED]

Bank of America customers are unable to log in to their online bank accounts Tuesday. The site has been slow since Monday, and sometime today ma…...

01:36 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable YouTube Video of the Day: The King's Speech Gets Remixed

Best Picture loser The Social Network may have spawned its share of parodies, but has it, pray tell, inspired a truly epic remix? That’s an ar…...

01:32 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Can a Startup "Field Guide to the Web" Compete With YouTube & eHow?

The web is a big, constantly changing place that " for many " requires instructions. Startup Grovo launched a site in October that offers th…...

01:17 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Loopt Brings Real-Time Rewards Alerts to SXSW

The location-based service Loopt is introducing a new feature that will alert users of nearby deals or rewards, and it’s launching at SXSW…...

12:55 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable 6 Top Tips For Managing a Coworking Space

We recently brought you some best practices for working with others in coworking spaces. But there’s another side to the coworking coin. I…...

12:31 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable Coca-Cola To Help Maroon 5 Crowdsource a New Song

Coca-Cola will help Maroon 5 crowdsource material in a program that gives the band 24 hours to come up with a new song. The session, set for Mar…...

12:11 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011

Mashable MTV & Rhapsody Offering Consumers 60 Days of Free Music

Starting Tuesday, music lovers can sign up for 60 days of free access to music subscription service Rhapsody, thanks to a promotion with MTV. Us…...

11:57 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable 6 Mobile Games That Beat Playing on a Console

The Social Gaming Development Series is supported by Level 3 Communications, an international provider of fiber-based communications services. L…...

11:45 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Facebook Acquires Group Messaging Startup Beluga

Facebook has snapped up yet another tech startup. Tuesday’s acquisition is Beluga, a startup that allows users to send instant group messa…...

11:36 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Travel Startup Hipmunk Adds Hotels to Popular Flight Search

Y Combinator-backed startup Hipmunk has added an oft-requested feature to its service: hotel search. Now, in addition to searching for affordabl…...

11:33 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Boxee Gets Additional Funding in Its Bid for Living Room Domination

Connected TV startup Boxee announced Tuesday that it has a closed a $16.5 million round of funding. The round was led by Pitango and Softbank, a…...

11:17 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable WikiLeaks Is Up for a Nobel Peace Prize

WikiLeaks is among the 241 Nobel Peace Prize nominees this year. The nominees come from 53 organizations and are greater in number than in any p…...

11:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Startup Helps Mitigate E-mail Thread Overload

Micromobs, a consumer-focused startup attempting to solve group communication challenges, is upgrading its product offering Tuesday. Users can n…...

10:36 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Facebook Will Continue To Share User Addresses & Numbers

Facebook will continue a plan to share users’ home addresses and cellphone numbers with third-party developers despite criticism from priv…...

10:16 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Examiner.com Implements New Facebook Comments Plugin

Comments that you make on an Examiner.com story will also show up in your Facebook News Feed, thanks to a deal between the two companies. Examin…...

10:14 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Facebook Releases Robust Updates to Its Comments Plugin

Facebook released its updated Comments plugin today, which includes a robust set of new features. The social networking site also announced a se…...

10:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Foodspotting Comes to Android

Foodspotting, the popular mobile app for foodies, has finally come to Android. The app is available now on the Android Market for your food-find…...

10:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Emergency Hotline Service, Sexting App & More Find Funding via Twilio Fund

On Tuesday, seed fund and startup accelerator 500 Startups is announcing a batch of seven SMS and voice-focused applications selected to its Twi…...

08:45 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Evernote for iPhone Gets a Facelift

The team at Evernote released Tuesday a brand new version of Evernote for iPhone and iPod touch. Evernote 4 [iTunes link] is available in the Ap…...

08:27 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Rolls-Royce Unveils Phantom 102EX, World's Most Luxurious Electric Car

Looking for a luxury electric car, with utter disregard for the price? Rolls-Royce has got something for you: the Phantom 102EX, an electric ver…...

09:52 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable One in Three Mobile Phone Owners Is a Regular Mobile Gamer [STUDY]

A new survey from casual gaming company PopCap shows that an incredibly high percentage of adults in the UK and U.S. is into mobile gaming. This…...

06:33 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Just How Many Verizon iPhones Have Been Sold?

Based on interviews with Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, some analysts are estimating that Apple has already moved 1 million Verizon iPhone…...

05:32 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Futuristic Kiosk Spits Out Cash for Recycled Electronics

Imagine stopping by your neighborhood retailer, offloading an old cell phone or laptop via an in-store kiosk and picking up cash for your device…...

04:18 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable YouTube Mocks Charlie Sheen's Public Meltdown [VIDEOS]

The YouTube community has responded to Charlie Sheen’s very public meltdown the way it always responds to celebs in trouble: by piling on.…...

04:02 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Website Uses Dictator Game for (Mostly) Charity

There aren’t a ton of websites out there based on complicated thought games that are based on experimental economics. Part of that may hav…...

03:14 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable The Oscars & Social Media by the Numbers

The yearly Oscar telecast is no longer strictly a broadcast-only affair. The main show might still be relegated to television sets, but much of…...

03:05 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable U.S. Army Launches App for Soldier Blogs

The latest addition to the U.S. Army’s arsenal of recruitment tools is an iPhone app that launched Monday. The free app gives access to mo…...

02:14 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable AT&T Rolls Out Location-Based Ad Messages

AT&T launched a new service Monday that shoots you special offers over your mobile phone when you’re near a participating store or br…...

01:15 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable 100+ Upcoming Social Media & Tech Events

Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Would you like to have your con…...

01:05 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Sony Music Wants YOU: To Help Create Michael Jackson's New Video

If you’re a die-hard Michael Jackson fan just itching to exercise your artistic license, you’re in luck. Sony Music, along with Jack…...

12:47 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011

Mashable Online Sales To Increase 13% in Europe This Year [STATS]

Online sales in western Europe are expected to increase more than 13% to 92 billion in 2011, after growing 18% to 81 billion in 2010. Acco…...

11:40 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable Forrester: E-Commerce To Reach Nearly $300 Billion in U.S. by 2015 [STATS]

After a healthy 12.6% increase to $176.2 billion in 2010, U.S. online retail sales are expected to reach $278.9 billion in 2015. Online shopping…...

11:09 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable 9 Apps To Make You Super Productive on Windows, Mac & Linux

The Cross-Platform Apps Series is supported by VMware Fusion, the best way to run Windows on your Mac. Click Here to learn more about VMware Fus…...

10:06 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable YouTube Video of the Day: PS22 Chorus Performs at the Oscars

During last night’s 83rd Annual Academy Awards, the Internets were leaking all over the place, as viral favorites the PS22 Chorus performed &#…...

09:57 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable Zynga's FrontierVille To Hype Premiere of Johnny Depp's New Film

Rango, the Johnny Depp-voiced chameleon whose self-titled movie is set to hit theaters this weekend, will have a cameo in Zynga’s Frontier…...

09:46 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable Hearst's Manilla Joins Race To Replace Paper Mail [INVITES]

Manilla, a “startup” fully owned by the Hearst Corporation, is launching a beta version of its free digital household account manage…...

09:16 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Implement a Social Good Campaign on Facebook

The Facebook Marketing Series is supported by Buddy Media, Power Tools for Facebook. Have something new to tell 500 million people? Learn the be…...

08:48 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" Premieres Exclusively on Vevo [VIDEO]

Lady Gaga fans, prepare to have the misty veil of mundanity ripped off of your Monday: The video for Gaga’s latest hit single, “Born Thi…...

08:33 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable Google CEO: Mobile Growing Faster Than "All Our Predictions" [VIDEO]

Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google’s internal predictions, with YouTube seeing 200 million mobile playbacks a day, CEO Eric Schmi…...

08:18 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable 3 Podcast Success Stories from Creative Small Businesses

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media an…...

07:56 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable 3G Kindle Coming to AT&T Retail Stores

Amazon’s e-reader, the Kindle, will soon be available in AT&T’s retail stores, the company has announced. The price for the 6-…...

07:42 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable HOW TO: Use Your iPad as a Digital Frame for Facebook Photos [VIDEO]

Startup Pixable launched Monday an iPad version of Photofeed, its web app for organizing and sorting Facebook photos. The app allows users to see all…...

06:50 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable The 4 Biggest Stories in Social Media, Business & Media This Morning

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world…...

06:34 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable Is This the iPad 2? [PIC]

How do you imagine the iPad 2′s visuals? Our idea of how the device will look certainly doesn’t look too different from this image,…...

06:06 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable Startup Lets Users Anonymously Share Credit Card Debt With Potential Lenders

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…...

05:30 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable Mashable Weekend Recap: 23 Stories You May Have Missed

It was the weekend of the Oscars, and the buildup was intense with infographics and a variety of stories. We didn’t even let it bother us…...

03:41 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable Is Apple Testing Gesture-Based Lock Screen for the iPhone?

Apple is testing a new type of lock screen on the iPhone, similar to the gesture-based lock screen on Android phones, 9to5Mac reports. The scre…...

11:02 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable The Social Network Wins 3, Loses 5 Oscars

It was a great night for The King’s Speech and Inception at the 83rd Academy Awards on Sunday — and a somewhat more disappointing o…...

10:00 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable Swipely Swaps Public Purchase-Sharing for Private Savings

“We don’t think people want to share their purchases. Period,” says Angus Davis, founder and CEO of Providence, Rhode Island-b…...

09:01 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable Google Glitch Disables 150,000 Gmail Accounts

Google, we have a problem. About 150,000 Gmail account holders woke up to a nightmare this morning, with all their e-mail, attachments and Googl…...

06:22 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable Oscars 2011 Vote: Best Motion Picture of the Year [POLL]

We’ve taken two buzz readings, watched all 10 movies nominated for Best Picture, and wrung our hands over which movie will win the highest…...

05:17 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable Oscars 2011 Predictions: Another Perspective [INFOGRAPHIC]

Who will take home the hardware tonight at the Oscars 2011 awards ceremony? Here’s another perspective, leveraging the power of social med…...

04:08 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable Is Apple's Design Guru Quitting?

Is Jonathan Ive, Apple‘s senior vice president of industrial design, packing his bags and moving back to the UK? Worse, did Apple tell…...

03:15 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable The Oscars and the Death of the Water Cooler

If advertisers have their way, a lot of the Oscar buzz this year will have nothing to do with the best picture nominees. As with the Super Bowl,…...

02:29 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable Facebook's Growing Role in Social Journalism

A Facebook-only news organization? It was only a matter of time. The Rockville Central, a community news site in the Washington D.C. area, will…...

02:00 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable 5 Apps for Enjoying the Oscars

Tonight is Oscar night and that means that Twitter and Facebook streams will soon be filled with quips about who is wearing what, the jokes that…...

01:28 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable How to Watch Oscars 2011 Online

Tonight’s the big night when the Oscars 2011 awards ceremony broadcasts on ABC starting at 8 p.m. Eastern time. But that’s just the…...

12:20 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011

Mashable 6 Slick Ways to Customize Your Kicks Online [PICS]

You’re not still wearing off-the-peg sneakers, are you? Tut, tut, how very 2009. With a wealth of affordable personalization options onlin…...

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