Top 5 Location-Based Services [Mashable Awards]
As part of the ongoing Mashable Awards, we’re taking a closer look at each of the nomination categories. This is “Best Location-Based Service.” Be sure to nominate your favorites and join us for the...
View ArticleKobo Store Gets Digital Magazine and Newspaper Subscriptions
Global e-reading service Kobo has just announced that it is now offering subscriptions to digital magazine and newspaper consumers using the Kobo e-reader or the Kobo apps for iPhone or iPad.Kobo is...
View ArticleTop 10 Most Watched Web Series, September 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 ArticleGoogle Releases Search for Database of 50 Million Places
Google Places is coming into its own with the just-introduced Place Search functionality that finally adds local search to Google’s growing database of places — more than 50 million locations, to be...
View ArticleCrowd-Sourced Johnny Cash Music Video Is a Work of Digital Art
If you’re a Johnny Cash fan and you have some time to spare today, we highly suggest heading over to The Johnny Cash Project’s website to take part in the making of a truly innovative, crowd sourced...
View ArticleHOW TO: Make Your WordPress Blog More Like Tumblr
The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.Tumblr is becoming an increasingly popular platform for blogging...
View ArticleMashable Is Hiring, and Other Social Media and Web Development Jobs
If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired....
View ArticleFlickr Suggests People You May Know
Photo-sharing site Flickr has just added a new feature that lets you find Flickr users you might know.The new feature is similar (OK, exactly the same) to Facebook’s “People you may know” friend...
View ArticleHow the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” Nailed Social Media
“Jon [Stewart] wants to harness the public’s frustration. I want to bombard the public’s frustration with gamma rays until it turns on its master with a lust for blood.”So sayeth Stephen Colbert in...
View ArticleFacebook Lobbied to Kill Social Networking Privacy Act
Between April and June of this year, Facebook reportedly spent more than $6,600 lobbying California state officials to kill the Social Networking Privacy Act.The bill in question aimed to impose civil...
View Article“Peter Rabbit” for iPad Delivers Interactive Twist to Classic Tale [VIDEO]
Thanks to rapid developments in consumer technology — namely, large-format touchscreen devices like the iPad, and soon, Android, BlackBerry 6 and Windows 7-based tablets — the definition of the e-book...
View ArticleHOW TO: Share Your Vacation With Online Pals –Without Annoying Them
After months and months of your cubicle walls contracting in on you like some kind of demonic fun house, it’s finally time for that most coveted of reprieves: a vacation!Sun! Drinking! Ill-advised...
View ArticleCreate a Group Texting Party For the Length of a Show
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 ArticleYahoo Launches Zombie Game Just in Time for Halloween
Yahoo’s latest endeavor is as seasonally appropriate as it is educational. The tech company has just rolled out a cool zombie-themed game that teaches the principles of economics.Called Shambling...
View ArticleFirefox 4 Delayed Until Early 2011
The next major version of Firefox, originally slated for late 2010, has been delayed until early 2011.The change was announced by Firefox director Mike Beltzner. “Completing this work (on Firefox 4) is...
View ArticleThe World’s Fastest Supercomputer Now Belongs to China
Unveiled today at the Annual Meeting of National High Performance Computing (HPC China 2010) in Beijing, Tianhe-1A is the world’s fastest supercomputer with a performance record of 2.507 petaflops, as...
View Article“The Commuter”: A Short Film Shot Entirely With the Nokia N8
The Commuter is a nifty little action-packed film, directed by the McHenry brothers, and starring Dev Patel, Pamela Anderson, Charles Dance and Ed Westwick. Its distinguishing feature, however, is the...
View Article12 Video Tutorials for Improving Product Photos
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.If your company sells...
View ArticleThe 3 Top Stories in Tech, Business and 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. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest...
View ArticleWhen Are Facebook Users Most Active? [STUDY]
We know that users are spending increasing amounts of time online on social networks like Facebook, but when exactly are users the most active? Social media management company Vitrue just released a...
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