NASA Plans to Visit the Sun
If you’ve seen Danny Boyle’s movie Sunshine, you may be a little disappointed: NASA’s mission to visit the Earth’s Sun won’t include sending people up there. But it will be sending a spacecraft into...
View ArticleGoogle Wave to Rise Again on Its Own
Google Wave was once one of Google’s hottest projects, promising a new way of communication that might even replace email. Alas, it was not to be, and Google shut it down soon after public launch due...
View ArticleMorning Brief: Ubuntu 10.10 Beta, Plex Partners with LG, Verizon Prepaid Plans
This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and...
View ArticleiOS Bigger than Linux and Android Combined [STATS]
According to the latest numbers from Net Applications, iOS is the third most popular platform on the Internet, surpassing Linux and Android combined.In August 2010, Android had a 0.20% market share,...
View ArticleA Beginner’s Guide to Facebook Insights
Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social...
View ArticleMashable Giveaway: Win A SANYO Dual HD Camera
We’ve partnered with SANYO to give away 20 newly released SANYO Dual HD PD2 cameras. From today until next Friday, we’ll be giving two readers a camera each day, with six winners on the final day.So...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Most Watched Web Series, July 2010
Each month, our partner Visible Measures compiles a list of the top 10 most popular web video series, and we share those results with you and provide analysis. Visible Measures tracks views, comments...
View ArticleTwitter Surpasses 145 Million Registered Users
Buried in last night’s update on skyrocketing mobile usage, Twitter CEO Evan Williams revealed that the company now has more than 145 million registered users.The last time Twitter went on the record...
View ArticleDetermine Restaurant Wait Times Before You Leave the House [APPS]
If you’re anything like me (too impatient to boil water), you hate waiting to be seated at restaurants — those blinking, vibrating beeper things really are instruments of the devil, no? Well, The...
View ArticleiTunes Ping’s Latest Problem: Spam
iTunes Ping is apparently full of spam, yet another hiccup in Apple’s road to establishing a legitimate social network.As Sophos notes on its blog, a barrage of spam links are hitting the music-themed...
View ArticleSocial Media Grammar: The “Checkin” Conundrum
Alanna Francis is a SEO Specialist and Grammar Enthusiast at the website design company Blue Fountain Media, where she specializes in e-commerce marketing. She writes for the company’s web design and...
View ArticleiTunes Ping: The Missing Thing
Apple this week launched Ping, a new social network that runs within the iTunes software.Ping takes the “activity stream” format popularized by Twitter and Facebook and applies it to the music your...
View ArticleExplore Space with NASA HD for iPad
NASA has just released an iPad version of its official NASA app for iPhone.NASA HD is a free app that lets users view thousands of NASA images, information about current NASA images and videos, as well...
View ArticleHOW TO: Score the Best Fashion Deals on the Social Web
Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to...
View ArticleThanks 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 sponsors are as social media savvy as our readers!Advertise with us...
View ArticleOur Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Secrets Edition
Happy Labor Day weekend, folks! I’m guessing that many of you are heading home this fine Friday to dine and drink with friends and merry relations. Well, you know what happens when you get scads of...
View ArticleNVIDIA Updates Mobile Lineup with GeForce 400M Series GPUs
Today, NVIDIA announced the GeForce 400M Series, a major addition to its lineup of mobile graphics processing units (GPUs).The 400M series features seven new processors, including the GTX 470M and GTX...
View ArticleFacebook Search Now Displaying Top “Liked” Stories from Across the Web
In today’s world of real-time status updates, search is evolving to account for the social nature of the web. Facebook is pushing forward in this direction with on-site search functionality that now...
View ArticleA World Without E-mail: One Man’s Vision of a Social Workplace
Luis Suarez has a dream, and it’s one that many of us with our overloaded inboxes could well buy in to — a world without e-mail.In fact, it could be argued that Suarez is living the dream. In less...
View ArticleBetter Manage Your Small Business’s Social Media Presence [APPS]
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup...
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