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Rate Liquid Galaxy: Google Earth in Surround Mode

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By Stan Schroeder Reviews: Google Earth Tags: Google, google earth, Liquid Galaxy Creator of the project and software engineer at Google Jason Holt calls the end result “stunning.” From his blog post: Reviews: Google Earth Tags: Google, google earth, Liquid Galaxy

Rate Are Facebook Users Too Friendly For Their Own Good?Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    9 hours ago

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By Stan Schroeder It’s important to point out that Facebook gives very extensive privacy options for every profile; you can read the details on how to protect your data in our Facebook privacy primer. While there’s nothing wrong with being friendly, even with strangers, Facebook users need to understand...

Rate Twitter Extends Sign-Ups Off-Site As It Seeks New Users

Original at Mashable! external link    14 hours ago

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By Ben Parr Twitter is launching a new API (application programming interface) that will allow anybody to sign up for Twitter from a 3rd party application or website. The new Twitter Sign-Up API has not been released publicly, but it has just found its first implementation with popular online local...

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Rate Facebook Creating Safety Advisory Board

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By Christina Warren As more and more users sign-up to use Facebook and make it a part of their daily lives, the issue of safety, especially when it comes to children, has become more and more important. On that end, Facebook has just announced the formation of the Facebook Safety Advisory Board as part of its com...

Rate Don’t Underestimate the Power of the iPod Touch in the Smartphone War

Original at Mashable! external link    17 hours ago

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By Christina Warren In the social networking and social gaming area, the iPod touch has gained the most ground since June. Take a look at the chart below: In the social networking and social gaming area, the iPod touch has gained the most ground since June. Take a look at the chart below:

Rate Now You Can Turn Your Tweets into Klingon

Original at Mashable! external link    18 hours ago

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By Christina Warren Yes, that language that was created for “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” (and has somehow managed to become something that people actually speak) is now available to all in a Twitter translator. Want to share something with the world that only 5 people can understand? Tweet in Klingon is fo...

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Rate MIT Team Wins DARPA Balloon Challenge

Original at Mashable! external link    22 hours ago

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By Christina Warren The site also had a form where team members could enter in balloon locations or even DARPA coordinates. MIT also encouraged team members to post their personalized invitation links to sites like Facebook and Twitter. Reviews: Facebook, Twitter

Rate HOW TO: Choose a Smartphone for Your Small Business

Original at Mashable! external link    Sun, Dec 6

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By Adam Ostrow Reviews: Android, Facebook, Google, Microsoft Outlook, Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto Tags: android, blackberry, iphone, Palm Pre, windows mobile 4 Ways Social Media is Changing Business 5 Easy Social Media Wins for Your Small Business HOW TO: Use Twitter Hashtags for Business

Rate 10 iPhone Apps to Help You Survive the Holidays

Original at Mashable! external link    Sun, Dec 6

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By Megan Berry 2. GasBag Megan Berry is an evangelist for Mobclix, the industry’s largest mobile ad exchange, working on social media and marketing. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and the Mobclix blog. You can follow her on Twitter as @meganberry, or through the @Mobclix handle.

Rate EtherPad Responds to User Demand: Service Restored

Original at Mashable! external link    Sat, Dec 5

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By Jennifer Van Grove We are working with the Google Wave team to get all EtherPad users a chance to try out the Google Wave preview within the next couple of weeks. We do realize (as does the Google Wave team) that Wave doesn’t yet have all the functionality you rely on, and isn’t yet as mature as EtherPad. We are conf...

Rate Car Flipped By Wrecking Ball, Real or Fake? [Viral Videos]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Sat, Dec 5

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By Jennifer Van Grove A recent video on YouTube, which shows a car hit by a large wrecking ball, is fast approaching viral status on the site. A recent video on YouTube, which shows a car hit by a large wrecking ball, is fast approaching viral status on the site. Tags: car flipped by wrecking ball, viral video

Rate Ron Livingston Sues Wikipedia Detractor for Saying He’s Gay

Original at Mashable! external link    Sat, Dec 5

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By Jennifer Van Grove Reviews: Facebook, Wikipedia Tags: ron livingston, wikipedia Since May, Livingston has continually fallen victim to an anonymous Wikipedia detractor who continually edits the entry to read that the actor is in a gay relationship. Reviews: Facebook, Wikipedia

This Week

 

Rate Mac Gift Guide: 10 Buying Ideas for Apple Fans

Original at Mashable! external link    Sat, Dec 5

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By Christina Warren Reviews: Twitter, Twitterrific Tags: apple, Holidays, List, Lists, mac, online shopping, shopping 10 Unique Gifts You Can Make with Help from the Web HOW TO: Use Social Media to Find Deals This Holiday Season Reviews: Twitter, Twitterrific

Rate 10 Amazing Augmented Reality iPhone Apps

Original at Mashable! external link    Sat, Dec 5

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By Amy-Mae Elliott Reviews: Android, Google Maps Tags: Augmented Reality, iphone, iphone app, Lists, mobile app 1. Le Bar Guide 2. WorkSnug 4. DishPointer 5. AugMeasure 6. Virtual Graffiti 7. Theodolite 8. Car Finder 9. Firefighter 360 10. iPew 20 Creative Apps For Your iPhone Reviews: Android, Google Maps

Rate Top 5 Digg Milestones in the Last 5 YearsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Ben Parr 3. Launch of Digg 3.0 5. Digg Ads As of today, Digg is five years old. Think about that: that’s around 1825 days of story submissions, front page wrangling, and explosive growth. Hell, Digg is older than Twitter and YouTube. 3. Launch of Digg 3.0 4. Digg DRM Revolt 5. Digg Ads Reviews: Digg

Rate DONE DEAL: Yahoo and Microsoft Finalize Search Partnership

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Adam Ostrow Reviews: Bing, Yahoo! Tags: bing, microsoft, Yahoo Now, we wait for Bing to become Yahoo’s search engine, a process that likely won’t be finished until late next year, but will have major implications on the search landscape once complete. Reviews: Bing, Yahoo!

Rate Google Android Is Watching You [VIDEO]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Brenna Ehrlich Well, imagine a world in which the makers of Android — Google — kicked up their battle plan a notch, drawing upon the arsenal of dirt that the search engine has cached on its users to blackmail us all into ditching our iPhones in favor of Motorola’s myTouch. College Humor has imagined such a wo...

Rate RUMOR: Friendster to Be Sold for $100+ Million

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Ben Parr Do you remember Friendster? Several years ago, it was one of the hottest startups and social networks around, long before MySpace or Facebook hit the scene. Google even tried to acquire it back in 2003. But while it’s on the decline in the western world, it’s a powerful force in Asia, where it...

Rate LUNCHTIME POLL: What’s Your Favorite Blogging Platform?

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Barb Dybwad Jennifer Van Grove: Posterous: The super simple platform makes it possible for me to maintain fresh content with little to no effort… Ironically, I’ve found that my Posterous posts are seeing impressive page views. Consistency and frequency is the play, and Posterous makes that possib...

Rate 8 Tips for Managing a LinkedIn Group

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Jessica Faye Carter Reviews: LinkedIn, Twitter, news Tags: business, groups, linkedin, List, Lists 4 Ways Social Media is Changing Business HOW TO: Use Twitter Hashtags for Business Reviews: LinkedIn, Twitter, news Tags: business, groups, linkedin, List, Lists

Rate Apple Acquires Streaming Music Service Lala

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Barb Dybwad Reviews: Ilike, MySpace, Spotify, imeem Tags: apple, Google, ilike, imeem, Lala, music, myspace, online music, streaming Reviews: Ilike, MySpace, Spotify, imeem Tags: apple, Google, ilike, imeem, Lala, music, myspace, online music, streaming

Rate MySpace and Facebook Sitting in a Tree?

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Adam Ostrow Reviews: Facebook, Google, MySpace, Twitter, Yahoo!, google friend connect Tags: facebook, facebook connect, Google, myspace, social networking Reviews: Facebook, Google, MySpace, Twitter, Yahoo!, google friend connect

Rate Google Makes an Acquisition to Help Build Google Wave

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Ben Parr Now you can add a fifth acquisition to that list. Google has just acquired AppJet, the creators of the real-time collaboration word processor EtherPad. In AppJet’s announcement, the company revealed that its product and its staff will become part of the Google Wave team.

Rate YouTube Launches Video Targeting: Your Ad on JK Wedding Dance

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Adam Ostrow YouTube says that the features are currently beta and “intended for advertisers who work closely with sales representatives at YouTube,” but I was able to check it out by simply going to google.com/videotargeting and logging in with my Google account. Reviews: Google, YouTube

Rate Awesome Visualization of Social Media Usage Around the Globe [Infographic]

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Adam Ostrow “The massive impact of China: The vast Internet population coupled with hugely socially active set of web users, makes for a massive volume of content creators. However due to the inward looking nature of Chinas internet economy combined with the language mean that this volume of conten...

Rate WARNING: New Facebook Chat Phishing Scam in Progress

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Barb Dybwad Be on the lookout for a current spate of phishing tactics spreading on Facebook via the chat feature. Reviews: Facebook Tags: facebook, facebook chat, facebook phishing, hackers, phishing, scams Be on the lookout for a current spate of phishing tactics spreading on Facebook via the cha...

Rate Google Finance Now Streams News in Real-Time

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Christina Warren News will be streamed both from the main Google Finance page and in the dedicated news area. Google has also been beta testing a Google Finance site that is more accessible in real-time overall. Recent quotes are streamed live as you navigate through the Google Finance site; company stock i...

Rate 5 Best YouTube Sports Moments of 2009Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Jalen Rose Reviews: YouTube Tags: fab five, jalen rose, List, Lists, social media, sports, videos, youtube 5 Athletes Who Would Have Been Social Media Mavens 5 Social Media Athletes to be Thankful For How the NBA is Using Social Media Reviews: YouTube

Rate Gboard: A Keyboard Just for Gmail Users

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Christina Warren Using the Gboard is extremely easy. Just plug it into the USB port on your computer (it works with both Windows and Mac, although we can’t imagine that Linux would have any problem either — we didn’t test it out) and then enable keyboard shortcuts in Gmail or Google Apps if you haven’t done so a...

Rate Google Enters the Word Game With Its Own Dictionary

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Dec 4

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By Stan Schroeder The dictionary, like most Google services, is very simple, and ties into the search engine’s translation service, as it includes word definitions for 28 languages, including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Arabic, Croatian and others. Type in a word...

Rate Bing Is Down (You Can Still Google, Though)

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Ben Parr This isn’t supposed to happen to a large search engine, and this certainly doesn’t happen to Google. We’ll update as we learn more details. This isn’t supposed to happen to a large search engine, and this certainly doesn’t happen to Google. We’ll update as we learn more details.

Rate Twitter Unveils New Mobile Interface

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Jennifer Van Grove If you’re wondering why Twitter was compelled to redo their mobile site after years of silence, look no further their blog post on the subject. Leland Rechis of the User Experience team writes: Take a look at the new mobile version of Twitter below. Reviews: Twitter

Rate Mashable Featured in Entrepreneur Magazine This Month

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Pete Cashmore 7. Bloomberg Interviews Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore About Social Media [VIDEO] Reviews: Mashable, Twitter 2. Mashable’s Ben Parr Gives Facebook Privacy Tips on CNN [VIDEO] 7. Bloomberg Interviews Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore About Social Media [VIDEO] Reviews: Mashable, Twitter

Rate Facebook Looks to Kill Beacon For Good With $9.5 Million Settlement

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Barb Dybwad You can read through the whole class notice, available as a PDF on the site. It includes some very strongly worded language denying any wrongdoing on the part of Facebook: “Facebook does not believe that it did anything wrong. Facebook denies any and all liability for the claims alleged in t...

Rate Twoddler: The Baby Toy That Twitters [VIDEO]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Adam Ostrow Reviews: Twitter Tags: baby toys, toys, twitter Earlier this year we looked at devices that are integrating Twitter in remarkable ways, from enabling your plants to tweet when they need water to automated updates from bakeries when stuff comes fresh out of the oven. Reviews: Twitter

Rate YouTube and Universal’s Vevo Music Service to Add Last.fm

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Barb Dybwad Next week will see the launch of the Vevo premium content music video service from Google and Universal Music Group, slated to bring Universal’s extensive video assets into one new destination. Reviews: Google, Last.fm, YouTube Tags: content, Google, Last.FM, music, music video, premi...

Rate Lite as a Feather: Why Simplicity Is Hot

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Barb Dybwad Reviews: Digg, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube Tags: design, facebook, Facebook Lite, LITE, simplicity, UI, user interface, youtube, youtube lite Would you like the ability to customize your user experience on social networks?

Rate The Tao of Tweeting

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Soren Gordhamer Reviews: Twitter, iStockphoto Tags: List, Lists, trending, twitter More Twitter resources from Mashable: 10 Ways You Can Use Twitter Lists TWEET IDEAS: 13 Things to Do on Twitter Besides Tweet Twitter for Beginners: 5 Steps for Better Tweeting Reviews: Twitter, iStockphoto

Rate Find Your Digital Twin on Facebook

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Jennifer Van Grove Once the matching process is complete, voilà, there’s your digital twin staring back at you. You can then share your match on Facebook or Twitter or grab a URL to share with your friends (here’s my match). Should you be so bold, you can also contact your match on Facebook.

Rate Mashable Holiday Party NYC 2009: 20 Tickets Left!

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Adam Hirsch Limited tickets are now on sale through Eventbrite or below. Note: the event was exclusively launched to Mashable’s Facebook fans first – follow us on Facebook for early event notifications. Reviews: Facebook, RealPlayer, Twitter

Rate Opinion: 10 Adobe AIR Apps That Simplify Our LivesVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Ben Parr How it simplifies life: All of your social media accounts in one place. How it simplifies life: All of your social media accounts in one place. Reviews: Facebook, Klok, LinkedIn, MySpace, Pandora, Seesmic, TweetDeck, Twitter, adobe AIR, iStockphoto, linux

Rate Ben Stiller Launches Social Media-Driven “Stillerstrong” Campaign [VIDEO]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Brenna Ehrlich Ben Stiller pulled out all the social media stops today when he launched his semi-satirical charity initiative, Stillerstrong, via Facebook, Twitter and a branded Web site. Ben Stiller pulled out all the social media stops today when he launched his semi-satirical charity initiative...

Rate PetVille Debuts on Facebook: Like FarmVille for Cute PetsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Barb Dybwad Just a couple of weeks ago, popular Facebook games maker Zynga trademarked the name PetVille, hinting at the theme for their next wildly popular casual game on the social network and other platforms (Myspace, iPhone, etc.). Today, Games.com reports that PetVille has launched.

Rate The Next Phase of Google’s Internet: Google Public DNS

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Adam Ostrow Reviews: Google Tags: DNS, Google, trending Remember that rumor a while back that Google was going to build its own version of the Internet? It turns out that the idea might not be so far-fetched after all. Reviews: Google Tags: DNS, Google, trending

Rate HOW TO: Choose a News Reader for Keeping Tabs on Your Industry

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Barb Dybwad Reviews: Android, Google, Google Reader, RSSOwl, Safari, Twitter, adobe AIR, iStockphoto Tags: business, news reader, rss, small business 4 Ways Social Media is Changing Business 5 Easy Social Media Wins for Your Small Business HOW TO: Use Twitter Hashtags for Business

Rate Black Screen of Death Actually Caused by Malware

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Dec 3

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By Stan Schroeder “Looking at that, you should now make your risk assessment and decide which source you want to trust. For me, the ultimate source for information you should build your assessment on is neither Twitter nor your brother’s sister in law’s father’s brother (unless he works for Microsoft’s se...

Rate MOG Launches All You Can Eat Music Service [FREE INVITES]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Wed, Dec 2

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By Barb Dybwad 2. Use the retweet button at the upper left of this post to RT it on Twitter. MOG Overview Video 1. Follow the @mogdotcom account on Twitter. 2. Use the retweet button at the upper left of this post to RT it on Twitter. MOG Overview Video Reviews: Mashable, Twitter

Rate Facebook’s Road to 350 Million Users

Original at Mashable! external link    Wed, Dec 2

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By Stan Schroeder Tags: facebook, social networking And despite its humongous size, Facebook is still growing when it comes to traffic. After a short summer slumber, Compete’s stats show solid growth for Facebook in October. Tags: facebook, social networking

Rate Microsoft Launches its own Twitter… in China

Original at Mashable! external link    Wed, Dec 2

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By Stan Schroeder Juku, which is currently in beta, brings several other innovations to the table; it lets users play games and win prizes, something that sounds like science fiction when it comes to the traditionally feature-shy Twitter. However, at this point, Microsoft hasn’t announced any plans to i...

Rate Top 10 Video Sharing Sites Judged by Mashable Readers

Original at Mashable! external link    Tue, Dec 1

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By Barb Dybwad 9. Facebook 1. YouTube Reviews: Facebook, Mashable, Posterous, Vimeo, YouTube, iStockphoto, ustream Tags: blip.tv, facebook, lunchtime poll, openmyvideo, posterous, qik, tubemogul, ustream, veoh, video, video sharing, Vimeo, youtube 9. Facebook 1. YouTube

Rate YouTube + Movies = Marriage Made in Marketing Heaven [STATS]

Original at Mashable! external link    Tue, Dec 1

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By Christina Warren Reviews: Google, YouTube Tags: compete, stats, where the wild things are, youtube As you can see, consumers who were exposed to the ad were much more likely to visit the film’s Web site, search for it on YouTube and even look it up via search engines. Reviews: Google, YouTube

Rate Twitter Creator Offers Sneak Peek of iPhone Payment System

Original at Mashable! external link    Tue, Dec 1

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By Ben Parr We’ve just learned that Jack and his team have launched the Web site for the new project, SquareUp.com. It’s a beta Web site that explains the benefits of the Square iPhone payment system, as well as the ability to log into the SquareUp system…if you have a beta account.

Rate Kick Off the Holidays with an Advent Calendar for Techies

Original at Mashable! external link    Tue, Dec 1

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By Christina Warren Do you have any favorite web-based advent calendars? Let us know. Happy December, Web geeks. Tags: 24ways, advent calendar, Christmas, web dev Do you have any favorite web-based advent calendars? Let us know. Happy December, Web geeks. Tags: 24ways, advent calendar, Christmas, web dev

Rate Redux Creates Unique Visualizations of What Your Friends are Sharing

Original at Mashable! external link    Tue, Dec 1

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By Christina Warren We first wrote about Redux back in July. Redux is a Web site that turns status updates and real-time feeds into an entertainment destination. It’s basically a FriendFeed/Twitter/YouTube mashup. In October, the service added support for your Twitter and Facebook feeds, taking the conten...

Past Month

 

Rate 50 Cent Symbolizes the Impending Live Video Explosion

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Nov 20

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By Adam Ostrow Some of the recent numbers being put up by live video events on the Web are giving TV a run for its money. Take for example the New Moon Premiere, which attracted 3 million viewers in total, a U2 concert on YouTube that reached 10 million, and the red carpet event for This Is It, which saw 1.8 milli...

Rate HOW TO: Prepare a Thanksgiving Feast With Help From the Web

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Nov 20

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By Amanda MacArthur And for all of those who couldn’t make it to your (totally tech savvy) Thanksgiving feast, you can just go ahead and tweet a few good TwitPics, or upload a new Flickr set and over-tagged Facebook album showing them all the fun they missed!

Rate #openwebawards: The Full List of Finalists

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Nov 19

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By Pete Cashmore Social Media Ad Campaign Social Media Agency Social Media Gadget Facebook Specific Best Facebook App Best Facebook Fan Page Best Facebook Game Twitter Google Maps Best Social Network iPhone App Facebook YouTube Video of the Year Twitter Specific Best Twitter App

Rate Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Bings the Web [LIVE VIDEO]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Nov 19

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By Ben Parr Here’s the live video (it begins at 6:30 ET) if you are interested: Reviews: Bing Tags: live video, livestream, Victoria's Secret Here’s the live video (it begins at 6:30 ET) if you are interested: Tags: live video, livestream, Victoria's Secret

Rate Who’s Your Favorite Twitter User of 2009? #openwebawards

Original at Mashable! external link    Tue, Nov 10

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By Stan Schroeder Reviews: Brizzly, Digsby, Echofon, Facebook, Firefox, Gmail, MySpace, Power Twitter, Seesmic, TweetDeck, Twitpic, Twitter, tweetie Tags: open web awards, owa, twitter, twitter apps, twitter users Twitter User of the Year Best Twitter App Power Twitter Twitter Karma

Rate The Top 10 Most Watched Web Series, October 2009

Original at Mashable! external link    Tue, Nov 10

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By Jennifer Van Grove The Visible Measures Top 10 Webisodes Chart focuses on digital studio-driven Web series that appear on Internet video-sharing destinations. Each Web series is measured on a True Reach™ basis, which includes viewership of both studio-syndicated video clips and viewer-driven social...

Rate Docs Faceoff: Microsoft Office vs. Google Docs

Original at Mashable! external link    Mon, Nov 9

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By Ben Parr Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome Twitter vs. Facebook Reviews: Chrome, Facebook, Firefox, Google Chrome, Google Docs, Mashable, Mozilla Firefox, Pandora, Posterous, Seesmic Desktop, Tumblr, TweetDeck, Twitter, TypePad, WordPress

October of 2009

 

Rate 4 Emerging Trends of the Real-Time Web

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Oct 29

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By Bernard Moon More social media resources from Mashable: - 10 Most Extraordinary Twitter Updates 4 Ways Social Media is Changing Business 5 Easy Social Media Wins for Your Small Business 6 Incredible Twitter Powered Art Projects 5 Ways Social Media is Changing Our Daily Lives

Rate POLL: Facebook Defeats Twitter in Reader Vote

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Oct 16

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By Barb Dybwad Week 4: Twitter vs. Facebook WINNER: Facebook, 2484 votes (Twitter: 2061 votes, Tie: 588 votes) Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome Twitter vs. Facebook Reviews: Chrome, Facebook, Firefox, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Pandora, Posterous, Tumblr, Twitter

Rate Open Web Awards for Social Media: 30,000+ Nominations and Counting

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Oct 16

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By Pete Cashmore Mashable’s Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition, which aims to find the very best people and apps in social media, is off to a flying start. We’ve received over 30,000 nominations for more than 13,000 unique companies, apps and individuals.

Rate POLL: Last.fm Squeeks By Pandora in Reader Vote

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Oct 9

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By Ben Parr Reviews: Chrome, Firefox, Google Chrome, Last.fm, Mozilla Firefox, Pandora, Posterous, Tumblr Tags: Last.FM, pandora, web faceoff Week 1: Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome Week 2: Week 3: Reviews: Chrome, Firefox, Google Chrome, Last.fm, Mozilla Firefox, Pandora, Posterous, Tumblr

September of 2009

 

Rate Opinion: The Top 10 Most Watched Web TV ShowsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Wed, Sep 9

By Jennifer Van Grove Reviews: Crackle, MySpace, YouTube, iStockphoto, video Tags: Lists, monthly top webisodes, online tv, tv, Web TV, webisode video{ 1 2 3 4 Play 5 Married on MySpace Play 6 Play 7 Play 8 Play 9 Play 10 EffinFunny, Atom Originals Play Reviews: Crackle, MySpace, YouTube, iStockphoto, video

Rate 5 Rules for Better Web Writing

Original at Mashable! external link    Tue, Sep 8

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By Josh Catone Reviews: Facebook, Mashable, MySpace, Twitter, iStockphoto Tags: Lists, social media, web, writing HOW TO: Use Twitter Hashtags for Business Reviews: Facebook, Mashable, MySpace, Twitter, iStockphoto Tags: Lists, social media, web, writing

Rate Opinion: Back to School: 10 Terrific Web Apps for Teachers

Original at Mashable! external link    Mon, Sep 7

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By Josh Catone Reviews: Google, SchoolRack, Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto Tags: back to school, education, Lists, school, teachers, web apps 4. Edmodo 5. Shmoop 8. Bookgoo 9. DOC Cop 10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media Reviews: Google, SchoolRack, Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto

July of 2009

 

Rate Opinion: HOW TO: Use the Web for Socially Responsible Shopping

Original at Mashable! external link    Sun, Jul 26

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By Josh Catone Reviews: Get Satisfaction, Google Maps, Wikipedia, iStockphoto Tags: citizens market, climatecounts, corporate critic, crocodyl, do the right thing, ethical consumerism, ethiscore, good guide, knowmore, shopping, sourcemap

Rate Sharing on Facebook Now More Popular than Sharing by Email

Original at Mashable! external link    Mon, Jul 20

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By Adam Ostrow According to AddToAny, Facebook now dominates sharing, with 24 percent of shares from the widget consisting of users posting items to the social network. That handily beats out email (11.1 percent) and Twitter (10.8 percent), making the world’s most popular social network also the most p...

Rate Opinion: moof: A Free iTunes for the Web?Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Sun, Jul 19

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By Ben Parr On-demand, for free: Any song, anytime? How does moof accomplish this feat? The answer’s actually somewhat disappointing: YouTube. Moof gets the music you request by connecting to YouTube and taking music videos from the world’s most popular online video website. The bottom-left of th...

Rate Verizon FiOS TV Integrates Facebook and TwitterVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Wed, Jul 15

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By Adam Ostrow In addition to this functionality, Verizon FiOS customers will be able access what are essentially big screen, simplified versions of Twitter and Facebook. For example, with Twitter, you can search and view currently hot topics, and with Facebook, you can view friend’s photos. There ar...

Rate Opinion: Twitter Everywhere: Seesmic Launches Web App, Plans Mobile Version

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Jul 10

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By Jennifer Van Grove Today, Seesmic is making things even more interesting. We’ve known for awhile that they’ve been working on an iPhone app, but now they’re also introducing a brand new Twitter product — Seesmic for the web. In a full rebranding effort, Twitter (not video) has become the core of Seesmic’s bus...

Year 2009

 

Rate Opinion: Dunkin’ Run Automates Your Coffee Breaks on the Web and iPhone

Original at Mashable! external link    Mon, Jun 22

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By Jennifer Van Grove More from Mashable on Brands and Social Media - Presenting: 10 of the Smartest Big Brands in Social Media Why Big Brands Struggle With Social Media More from Mashable on Brands and Social Media Why Big Brands Struggle With Social Media Reviews: Facebook

Rate Opinion: HootSuite 2.0: Get More Twitter Tabs, Columns and Stats [100 FREE Invites]

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, May 28

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By Jennifer Van Grove 1. Follow @hootsuite on Twitter Twitter to Facebook: 5 Ways to Post to Both 1. Follow @hootsuite on Twitter More Twitter Resources from Mashable 29 Twitter Apps for the iPhone Compared Twitter to Facebook: 5 Ways to Post to Both Reviews: Mashable, Twitter

Rate Google Web Elements: Add YouTube News and Google Comments to Your Blog

Original at Mashable! external link    Wed, May 27

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By Josh Catone While many of the widgets offered on the Web Elements page are old news, having them all in one place is helpful. Who knew, for example, that you could add a Google News widget from the AJAX Search API page on Google Code? Web Elements gathers together 8 Google widgets on a single page - Calenda...

Rate Podcast: Wolfram Alpha Approaches 100 Million Queries

Original at Mashable! external link    Sat, May 23

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By Ben Parr Social media: Does social networking data have a place in Wolfram? Does social media have a role in Wolfram Alpha? In Dr. Wolfram’s mind, social media has several big roles to play. One of the biggest is using community feedback and tools to help improve the computational engine:

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Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, May 15

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By Ben Parr Reviews: Facebook, Shopseen, Twitter Tags: online shopping, shopping, social media, social shopping Best for: Delivering physical gifts without an address via social media Best for: Using social media to understand and shop fashion

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Original at Mashable! external link    Wed, May 13

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By Ben Parr Entrepreneurs can take advantage of the Azure Services platform for their website hosting and storage needs. Microsoft recently announced the “new CloudApp()” contest - use the Azure Services Platform for hosting your .NET or PHP app, and you could be the lucky winner of a USD 5000* (plea...

Rate Opinion: Twitterrific 2.0 Makes Twitter Terrific on the iPhone

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, May 7

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By Pete Cashmore Twitterrific 2.0, the new version of the popular Twitter App for the iPhone, is now live in the iPhone App Store. We covered the release last week before it became officially available, posting a video (below) and outlining the key features: Reviews: TweetDeck, Twitter, Twitterrific

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Original at Mashable! external link    Mon, May 4

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By Woody Lewis Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube Tags: journalism, legacy media, List, new media, newspaper industry, old media, publishing, social media 3. Newspapers on YouTube Finding Your Social Media Purple Cow Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube

Rate How To: Mashable's Weekly Social Media & Marketing Event Guide

Original at Mashable! external link    Mon, May 4

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May 11-14, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario: Attend the Advanced Learning Institute's “8th Forum on Social Media for Government: How To Engage Your Employees And Citizens By Using The Latest Web 2.0 Technologies To Drive Communication Results” to learn how to ...

Rate Opinion: The New Social Engagement: A Visit to Zappos

Original at Mashable! external link    Sun, Apr 26

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By Soren Gordhamer Reviews: Facebook, Twitter Tags: brand, business, social media, Tony Hsieh, Zappos More social media brand resources from Mashable: Why Big Brands Struggle With Social Media Reviews: Facebook, Twitter Tags: brand, business, social media, Tony Hsieh, Zappos

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Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Apr 24

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By Pete Cashmore The remaining $50K went to Charity:Water, a New York-based initiative that brings clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. It’s a cause that’s very familiar to those in the social media space: in September 2008, Mashable, our Twitter followers and Twitter users Paul...

Rate Sneak Peek: PostRank’s New Topic-Based Discovery Engine for Web Content

Original at Mashable! external link    Tue, Apr 7

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By Ben Parr The PostRank Discovery engine is an attempt at helping solve the nagging problem of what Web content a person should subscribe to or read. It does this by aggregating content by topic area, like a directory, but ranking them by using its PostRank algorithm and using its online community.

Rate Opinion: Yahoo’s New Artist Pages Aggregate Online Music From Across the Web

Original at Mashable! external link    Mon, Apr 6

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By Ben Parr The Web has transformed and spread around music content - people can find music at Last.fm, iTunes, and YouTube, among dozens of other services. MySpace has become the epicenter of the music scene and the preferred platform for artist web pages, but it doesn’t bring together all of the plat...

Rate Opinion: A Guide to Better Web-Working From Your iPhone

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Apr 3

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By Elliott Kosmicki Blog & server maintenance iPhone, or whatever phone 70+ Free iPhone Apps for Social Media Mavens Reviews: Evernote, Facebook, Google Reader, Safari, Skype, Toodledo, Tweetie, Tweetsville, Twitter, Twitterfon, WordPress, iTunes

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Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Apr 2

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By Adam Ostrow When we first reviewed Glue, the browser plugin that connects people looking at similar Web content, I wrote that “even moreso than many other services, to be really useful, Glue is going to need to have a big-time user base.” Reviews: Facebook, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Twitter

Rate Opinion: Zoho Chat 2.0 Brings Multi-Protocol Support

Original at Mashable! external link    Wed, Apr 1

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By Stan Schroeder Zoho Chat 2.0 brings support for Yahoo!, Google, MSN, AIM, ICQ, and Jabber-based IM networks, but it’s just one in the long list of improvements in the new version. Other important features include integration accross the entire Zoho office suite, which means you can chat from any Zoho app...

Rate Opinion: Top 10 Social Networks for Entrepreneurs

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Mar 12

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By Dan Schawbel 6.  Perfect Business If you want to meet thousands of serious entrepreneurs, experts and investors from a variety of industries, then Perfect Business might be the perfect social network for you.  The type of people you’ll find are potential business partners, potential clients and adv...

Rate Opinion: Mint vs. Rudder: Two Online Finance Managers Compared

Original at Mashable! external link    Wed, Dec 3

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By Wendy Boswell Wendy Boswell stays on top of Web search and social media trends at About.com. You can catch up with her via Twitter. Pros: Cons: Pros: Cons: Wendy Boswell stays on top of Web search and social media trends at About.com. You can catch up with her via Twitter. Pros: • Free! Cons: Pros:

Rate Opinion: HOW TO: Send Top Secret, Highly Classified Email Over the Web

Original at Mashable! external link    Tue, Dec 2

By Adam Ostrow Hushmail Offers Feds a Peek at Users’ Data Postful Sends Snail Mail from Email Wanna Send Emails Into The Future? Now You Can. Wallop Invites Wamily Invites Yappd is a Visual Twitter Clone Fav.or.it: 200 Invites for Mashable Readers Send Send is a free, easy-to-use email encryption service.

Rate YouTube is King of Video Sharing … And Your Votes (OWAs)

Original at Mashable! external link    Wed, Nov 26

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By Adam Ostrow Qik - streams live video from a supported mobile phone. Qik - streams live video from a supported mobile phone. Vimeo - a user-generated social video site that offers videos in high definition. YouTube - The Google-owned video sharing giant.

Rate Google Isn’t Your Favorite Search Engine? Hmm (OWAs)

Original at Mashable! external link    Tue, Nov 25

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By Adam Ostrow Google – The world’s #1 search engine by market share. Just added SearchWiki features. Google – The world’s #1 search engine by market share. Just added SearchWiki features. Scour – Mixes search results from the top three search engines -Yahoo, Google, and Live - and lets you make money doing...

Rate Opinion: OneRiot: Search What’s Hot

Original at Mashable! external link    Wed, Nov 12

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By Paul Glazowski The company describes its purpose in the market quite well, saying, “Traditional search engines treat the Web like a library, often returning results from highly-referenced, dependable resources such as Wikipedia. While these results are undoubtedly authoritative, they do not nec...

Rate Opinion: What’s Your Favorite Places and Events Site?

Original at Mashable! external link    Mon, Nov 10

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By Adam Ostrow “PartnerUp brings small business and social networking together to create a community where entrepreneurs find the people, resources and information to grow their businesses.” Gold Sponsors “PartnerUp brings small business and social networking together to create a community whe...

Rate Yoowalk the Virtual Web in 3D (The Startup Review)

Original at Mashable! external link    Wed, Aug 6

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By Kristen Nicole CEO’s 100 word description: We are entering in an era of Web 3.0. Web 2.0 rested on social networking, user-generated content, and communication platforms. Our revolutionary service adds 3D to all this, which lets users interact live on the web, congregate with friends, walk around the web...

Year 2007

 

Rate Opinion: Searchles TV, Picasa Web Albums, Google Finance Video, MyYahoo, Tamago, Skyblog, Criteo, Mandy Moore, Planix, Instacomment, Zoopy, Tapatap

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Mar 8

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By Pete Cashmore Google Finance Video - Google Finance added video to its homepage today. You gotta hand it to them: Google is wise to the importance of video. Planix - Planix, a Web 2.0 software budgeting service we reviewed while it was in private beta, is now live. See our full Planix review.

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