Why the Best Online Marketing May Be Headed Offline
Hamilton Chan is CEO of Paperlinks and Paperspring. Through its iPhone app and QR web platform, the just-launched Paperlinks platform makes context-sensitive marketing plug-and-play for small, medium...
View ArticleCan a Crowdsourced Apartment Design Save the Planet?
What do you get when you take one 420-square-foot New York apartment, one green living advocate, $70,000 in prizes and a crowdsourced audience of forward-thinking designers? Hopefully an apartment...
View ArticleWill Windows Phone 7 Fly or Flop? [POLL]
The hashtag #windowsphone is a promoted trend today on Twitter, but the top tweet with that hashtag isn’t likely to be the kind of publicity Microsoft was looking for.“Kind of sad that MS had to...
View ArticleGoogle Search Ads to Get More Visual
Google Product Listing Ads are now being rolled out to all of Google’s advertisers in the United States. The format, which has been in testing with select advertisers for the past year, makes AdWords...
View ArticleJolibook, the Netbook for Web Fiends, Is Coming This Month
The makers of Jolicloud, the web-based, netbook-friendly OS, have just sent us an intriguing email about a new piece of hardware waiting in the wings.The Jolibook is set to arrive sometime in November....
View ArticleTwitter Demos Ping Integration [VIDEO]
Earlier today, Twitter announced integration with Ping — Apple’s social network for music inside iTunes. This integration brings iTunes song previews to Twitter.com.Twitter has just released a video...
View ArticleFacebook vs. Google and the Battle for Identity on the Web [OP-ED]
The Social Analyst is a column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.Facebook and Google are waging a bitter battle...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Kin One and Two Are Coming Back to Verizon
Microsoft’s Kin was one of the biggest failures in the mobile industry this year, having been pulled after only three months on the market. Seeing both Kin One and Kin Two come back to Verizon’s...
View ArticleNvidia CEO: Upcoming Android Tablets to Bring Better Graphics and Multitasking
We know that a number of Android tablets are coming in the next couple of months. But will these devices be able to compete with Apple’s iPad, which is currently dominating the market? According to...
View Article5 Lessons Madison Avenue Can Learn From Startups
Pedro Sorrentino is the first international student to attend Boulder Digital Works, a graduate school based in Boulder, Colorado that exists to build the next generation of digital professionals....
View Article#IAmSpartacus: Thousands Tweet in Support of Convicted Airport Joker
The South Yorkshire man who was recently convicted for joking about bombing an airport on Twitter is now just one of many who have done the exact same thing.Paul Chambers’s original tweet, “Robin Hood...
View ArticleThe 3 Biggest Stories in Social Media, Tech and Mobile 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 ArticleHOW TO: Activate Your Brand’s Super Influencers
Ben Straley is the Co-Founder and CEO of Meteor Solutions, whose leading technology and services platform increases campaign engagement, reach and revenue through social sharing.As a marketer, you’ve...
View ArticleWould You Pay $200,000 for an Original Apple Computer?
One of the 200 original Apple-1 computers, hand-built by Steve Wozniak and sold by Steve Jobs from his garage in 1976, is going up for auction at Christie’s in London on November 23.Originally sold for...
View ArticleGwyneth Paltrow Covers Cee-Lo’s “F**K You” on “Glee”… Stop It, Hollywood [VIDEO]
Cee-Lo’s “F**ck You” started off as the unofficial song of the summer, and now it’s become the choice karaoke hit for decidedly tame Hollywood stars. Yup, first William Shatner covered the catchy jam,...
View ArticleiPhotography: 10 Pro Tips for Snapping Perfect iPhone Photos
We’ve brought you iPhotography galleries, resource websites, and now we’re expanding our scope to gather some top tips from our favorite iPhone photographers themselves.Besides hands-on experience, we...
View ArticleOracle Teams Up With Apple on Java Project for OS X
Not all the news about Oracle and Java is bad today. Oracle and Apple are cozying up to work on OpenJDK, a FOSS implementation of the Java programming language, for Mac OS X.This news comes hot on the...
View ArticleiTunes 10.1 Update Now Live
iTunes 10.1 has just become available for download.iTunes 10.1 allows owners of Airplay-supported devices, including the iPad, iPhone and Apple TV, to instantly and wirelessly stream videos from...
View ArticleEssential Web Design Advice From a Wireframing Master [INTERVIEW]
The Web Design Best Practices Series is supported by The Bazaar, a marketplace to buy and sell creative objects. It empowers creative talents with the tools to promote and sell their artworks globally....
View ArticlePaul Buchheit, Creator of Gmail, Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator
Update: We’ve just learned that Buchheit will be leaving Facebook to work at Y Combinator; today is Buccheit’s last day at the social network.Paul Buchheit, the man behind Gmail, FriendFeed and the...
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