Top 5 Enterprises Using Social Media
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View ArticleWrite a Post for Clean Water [Blog Action Day 2010]
On October 15, thousands of bloggers across more than 100 countries will participate in Blog Action Day to debate, brainstorm and raise awareness around clean water. Bloggers will take a single day and...
View ArticleHipmunk Snags $1M from Kutcher, Mullenweg and More
We’ve just confirmed with our friends at Hipmunk that the startup has raised a $1 million angel round from the likes of Ashton Kutcher, FriendFeed creator Paul Buchheit, WordPress (and Automattic)...
View ArticleMicrosoft Premiers Pink Mouse to Support Breast Cancer Awareness
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. During the month, many organizations, websites and brands are adopting the color pink to show their support by spreading awareness and raising funds...
View ArticleAOL Joins the Daily Deal Movement with Groupon-Like Site
AOL has just launched Wow.com, a Groupon clone offering daily deals to local shoppers.Daily deal site Groupon garnered a $1 billion valuation earlier this year after securing a $135 million round of...
View ArticleHow the Internet Is Changing the Fashion Industry in 2010
The Fashion Tech Series is supported by Nordstrom Conversation. To share your thoughts on apps and social media in the fashion industry, join the Conversation at Nordstrom.The fashion industry...
View ArticleApplication Lets You Game Your Day [INVITES]
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 ArticleA Simple Tripod Kicks iPhone Photography Up a Notch
High Dynamic Range photography and HD video has made the iPhone 4 more than just another camera phone, but for many the lack of a tripod mount has kept it from becoming a primary image capture device....
View ArticleZynga Acquires Studio Started by “Age of Empires” Developers
FarmVille maker Zynga has acquired Bonfire Studios, a company founded by developers of the acclaimed Age of Empires PC strategy games and Halo Wars for Xbox 360.The company developed Age of Empires and...
View Article5 YouTube Projects That Are Making a Difference
Yes, we said YouTube, as in, the same platform that Conan O’Brien accused of being responsible for the United States’ economic woes (“We’re all watching monkeys in propeller hats flush themselves down...
View ArticleInstapaper Tests Out Subscriptions Service
Instapaper, a simple tool for saving webpages to read later, is beta testing a new subscription service. Subscriptions are priced at $1 per month (billed in three-month intervals) and will offer a way...
View ArticleFord + Hulu + “The Amazing Race” = Social Media Success?
Ford is launching a social media campaign and web-based reality show with Hulu and the creators of The Amazing Race in an effort to promote the 2012 Ford Focus. But will the web embrace an interactive...
View ArticleGoogle Goggles Lands on the iPhone
Google Goggles, the tech giant’s mobile app for searching just by taking a picture, is finally making its debut on the iPhone.Google Goggles launched as an Android app in Google Labs in December of...
View ArticleWith Less than 50% Market Share, IE Is Now Losing the Browser Wars
According to data from StatCounter, Internet Explorer has dipped below the 50%-mark in its global share of the Internet browser market.StatCounter shows IE at 51.34% of the market in August 2010; by...
View ArticleNetflix for iPhone Now Plays Movies on Your TV
Want Netflix streaming on your living room TV? You’ll have to drop $100 or more on an Apple TV, Roku Box, Blu-ray player, video game console, HDTV or Google TV device that supports it — unless you...
View ArticleFoursquare’s 11-Hour Downtime: What Went Wrong
Foursquare was down for a grand total of 11 hours yesterday, all because of a pesky database shard.In a detailed post-mortem, a Foursquare engineer details the “embarrassing and disappointing” issues...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg’s College Website Up for Auction
FaceMash.com, the Facebook prototype Mark Zuckerberg built in his Harvard dorm room one October night in 2003, is now up for auction on Flippa — or at least the URL is.The domain once housed a Harvard...
View ArticleTumblr Gets an Overhaul, Queues Get Drag-and-Drop
Tumblr fans, your benevolent overlords have just bestowed upon you a gift the likes of which you can never hope to repay.In a nutshell, Tumblr queues are no longer the headache-inducing deathtraps they...
View ArticleFoursquare Is Down… Yes, Again
Once again, Foursquare is down for the count.Not two hours after posting a detailed blog entry about why its service failed for the majority of the day yesterday and what the company is doing to...
View ArticleIs Digg About to Unbury the Bury Button?
If a recent poll from Digg founder Kevin Rose is any indication, Digg is considering bringing back the Bury button.Earlier today, Rose tweeted a poll asking his follows if Digg should bring back the...
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