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Twitter Celebrates the World Cup with Special Design
To mark the beginning of the World Cup soccer/football tournament that kicks off in two days, Twitter has added a new, special design to its list of backgrounds.To enable it, log into Twitter, go to...
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“Tourist Lane” Stunt Delights and Confuses New York City [VIDEO]
Yesterday, we revealed at the Mashable Media Summit that Improv Everywhere, along with “Self-Appointed City Planner” Jeff Greenspan, were behind that awesome “Tourist Lane” stunt here in New York...
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HOW (NOT) TO: Annoy People on Twitter
There’s no denying that Twitter’s usefulness is growing — from journalists looking for leads to actors putting on productions of Romeo & Juliet, everyone seems to be getting wise to the...
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HOW TO: Follow the 2010 World Cup on Twitter
The 2010 World Cup is going to be a very interesting one as far as social media goes — it’s the first to be played out in the Twitter era and the first to fully embrace the social media universe.This...
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Google Pac-Man Logo Leads to Agonizing Customer Support Call [AUDIO]
Google probably thought it was doing the world a favor when it released its Pac-Man logo that doubled as a playable version of the game. But alas, web users are not as sophisticated as Google...
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Twitter Is So 10 Minutes Ago
Twitter is a mix of fail whale “over capacity” messages and significantly delayed timelines this morning, with the microblogging service experiencing a host of technical issues that are frustrating...
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How Political Campaigns Are Using Social Media for Real Results
The Real Results series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people...
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Are We Too Complacent About Cloud Computing? [VIDEO]
Let’s have a little midweek reality check: Almost all of us have almost no control over our own computing.And for most of us, that fact causes very little mental or emotional distress.Sure, we might...
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Mashable’s Weekly Social Media Event Guide
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events...
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Bing Adds Facebook Updates and Links to Search Results
Facebook search will go live later today at bing.com/social and will include the full Facebook firehose complete with non-Pages content.Microsoft’s search engine will combine both Facebook and Twitter...
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20 Resources for Displaying Twitter Updates
This series is supported by Ben & Jerry’s Joe, Ben & Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here.Displaying your Twitter feed on your website is a...
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Facebook Expands Its Reach with Address Book Import
Facebook now allows users to bulk import their e-mail address books so that they can invite non-Facebook friends to join in Facebook games and apps, including people who may not even have a Facebook...
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“FarmVille” + “Oregon Trail” = “FrontierVille”
Game maker Zynga just launched a new game called FrontierVille. Think FarmVille meets Oregon Trail and you’ll get the idea.The game is already playable on Facebook today, and it adds some features...
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Setting the Record Straight on Google, AdMob, and Apple’s TOS
The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.The tensions between Apple and Google are...
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Bravo Testing Foursquare Badge Rewards with Sephora
Foursquare Co-Founder Dennis Crowley spoke about experimenting with badge rewards yesterday at the Mashable Media Summit, and today we learned that Bravo TV is one of the first big brands to test the...
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BP and Twitter to @BPGlobalPR: Tell Them You’re Joking
Correction: We quoted the NYT as saying the @BPGlobalPR account had more than 150,000 followers. “Leroy Stick” contacted us and says that this is incorrect. The account never had that many followers,...
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Microsoft Office Challenges Google Docs with New Web Apps
In a move that seems like a challenge to Google’s suite of web-based office tools, Microsoft is opening some of its Office programs — including PowerPoint, Word and Excel — to the web.Office Web Apps...
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Announcing the Mashable 92Y Social Good Summit [UN Week NYC]
We are very proud to announce Mashable’s next New York City conference, Mashable & 92Y Social Good Summit in Partnership with the United Nations Foundation. At the start of UN Week on Monday,...
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Edward Norton Talks With Mashable About His New Project [VIDEO]
Actor Edward Norton took the stage yesterday at Mashable Media Summit to introduce Crowdrise, a new platform that leverages social media to raise money and awareness for service projects.Mashable...
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Mashable Media Summit 2010 Recap and Complete Videos
A big thank you to everyone who came or watched the Livestream for the first ever Mashable Media Summit 2010 in partnership with CNN. It was truly an amazing conference to put together and to be a...
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