The Pirate Bay Appeal Begins Tuesday
The four men behind The Pirate Bay will go to court Tuesday to appeal their sentence of one year in jail and $905,000 each in fines. Eight trial days will occur before October 15.It’s been a rough ride...
View ArticleCBS Turns Another Twitter Account into a TV Show
First, CBS turned a Twitter account about the caustic and profane things one man’s dad said into a TV show. Now, hot off the premiere of $#*! My Dad Says, the network has made a script deal with the...
View ArticleVevo Plans to Challenge MTV on TV, Too
Vevo, the popular website that streams music videos from major labels, would like to transcend the world wide web and launch its own TV channel, according to a New York Post interview with CEO Rio...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg to Become Comic Book Hero, Villain?
Can’t get enough of Mark Zuckerberg? Well, if the upcoming movie The Social Network doesn’t sate your desire for the Facebook founder, he’s slated to star in his own comic book come December.Bluewater...
View ArticleMashable Readers Using Hulu, Torrents to Watch TV Shows
According to a poll we conducted last week, Mashable readers are using a wide variety of ways to get access to top-shelf television programming, including Hulu, Netflix and even (gasp!) regular old...
View ArticleLED Signs Turn Twitter Streams into News Tickers
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...
View ArticleGawker Founder: The Future of Online Media Is Video
At Monday’s IAB Mixx conference in New York, Gawker Media Founder Nick Denton took the stage with AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka to discuss the future of the blogging network — and that future is all about...
View ArticleUK Med School Students Get a New Prescription: iPhones
The University of Leeds announced it will be issuing iPhones to all fourth- and fifth-year medical students. The always-connected nature of smartphones coupled with the burgeoning app marketplace has...
View ArticleBookmark Syncing Add-on Xmarks Is No More
Xmarks, a browser add-on that lets you synchronize your bookmarks, passwords and other data over several computers, is shutting down.According to a lengthy blog post on the official Xmarks blog, today...
View ArticleAOL to Acquire Video Service 5min [REPORT]
AOL has acquired online video service 5min Media, reports All Things Digital citing sources close to the situation.The deal is not officially confirmed, but the same sources claim that AOL has paid...
View ArticleTop 3 Stories in Social Media and Tech This Morning
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 ArticleSocial Network Content Creation Has Plateaued [STUDY]
With 500 million people using Facebook and Twitter seeing more than two billion tweets per month, one would assume that social media usage is skyrocketing. New research from Forrester suggests that...
View ArticleLinkedIn Upgrades Company Profiles
Back in April 2010, business-oriented social network LinkedIn gave users the ability to follow companies in addition to following users.Initially, company profiles were just a way to receive an...
View ArticleKindle Comes to the Web
Amazon has announced another expansion of its Kindle platform with the Kindle for the Web beta, which allows book samples and snippets to be read directly from a browser.The new version is embeddable...
View ArticleTwitter Shelves @EarlyBird Deals
At today’s IAB Mixx conference in Manhattan, Twitter COO Dick Costolo announced that Twitter would be retiring its Early Bird advertising product, at least for now.Early Bird allowed select advertisers...
View ArticleStart a Digital Book Club on Your BlackBerry [APPS]
Who says that reading is for antisocial people? Yesterday, Borders’s global e-reading service Kobo took the stage at BlackBerry DEVCON to demo its new social reading application for the BlackBerry...
View ArticleTwitter COO: New Ad Format for Gaining Followers Launching “Very Shortly”
At today’s IAB Mixx conference in Manhattan, Twitter COO Dick Costolo discussed Twitter’s latest advertising product, dubbed Promoted Accounts.Promoted Accounts, which will be launched “very shortly,”...
View ArticleLast Minute Tickets Available for Mashlanta 2.0
This week, we’re coming to Atlanta to host Mashlanta 2.0 in partnership with Regator and you’re invited! After an amazing event last year, we’ve gone bigger. With tickets going so quickly, we have...
View Article11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused
This series is brought to you by the Intel AppUp℠ Developer Program, which provides developers with everything they need to create and then sell their applications to millions of Intel Atom™...
View Article“The Social Network”: Mashable’s Complete Movie Review
On the surface, The Social Network is the story of Facebook — a website created in a Harvard dorm room in 2004 that has redefined how we connect and communicate in the 21st century. At its core, the...
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