Twitter, Foursquare and Qik Used in Geeky Marriage Proposal
Since the advent of social media, men in love have been inventing creative ways to pop the question to the woman of their dreams. On Saturday, Digg’s Matt Van Horn followed in the footsteps of the...
View ArticleHow Freelancers Might Use Social Media in the Future
This 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 and...
View ArticleScore a Random E-mail Penpal with This New Service
Do you love getting e-mail? Do you love getting e-mail from random people? Are you an inherently lonely fellow/female? Well, there’s a service out there for everyone, and your service of choice is...
View ArticleMonopoly Gets an Unofficial Social Media Edition
Over the years, Monopoly, the classic Hasbro board game, has been re-imagined in a plethora of different ways — there’s even a UCLAOLOPY edition for Bruins fans — and also exists in Google Maps form....
View ArticleMashable Hosts #SummerMash in Washington, D.C. [PHOTOS]
We hosted the third stop on our U.S. Summer Tour in Washington, D.C., Wednesday night. The event brought hundreds from the local community together for networking and prizes at the USA Today...
View ArticleGoogle Makes it Easier for Big Companies to Switch to Chrome
Google’s Chrome browser is steadily increasing in popularity among consumers, and now it looks like Google is making a more concentrated effort to lure enterprise and corporate users too.As The Chrome...
View ArticleThis Guy REALLY Wants Jimmy Fallon to Follow Him on Twitter [VIDEO]
Let’s face it: No matter how many times you Twitter at ol’ Justin Bieber, imploring him wildly to follow you, it ain’t gonna happen. Celebrities, much like your ex, don’t really respond to desperate...
View ArticleDemystifying Google and Verizon’s Proposed Policy for the Open Internet
Google and Verizon have released a joint public policy proposal for the open Internet outlining how broadband providers can control how their users receive content. The proposal, which was announced...
View ArticleAT&T and Sony Ericsson Rolling Out New Android Smartphone
Sony Ericsson and AT&T are working together on a new Android “superphone,” one that promises to be all things to all people — including heavy communicators, social media junkies and audio/video...
View ArticleHOW TO: Avoid a Social Media Disaster
Clay McDaniel is the principal and co-founder of social media marketing agency Spring Creek Group. Find him via @springcreekgrp on Twitter.If there’s one thing that keeps social media marketers up at...
View ArticleGowalla Opens Up Checkin API
Today, Gowalla is making its checkin API available to all developers; this move will definitely lead to more and better third party applications and might help the startup challenge its top competitor...
View ArticleWatch #SummerMash Interviews From New York City [LIVE]
The Mashable team is hosting its sold out U.S. Summer Tour event in New York City tonight. In case you can’t make it, you can still participate in the event via our live video and chat stream. We’ll be...
View ArticleNetflix Could Stream Big Feature Films From Epix
Netflix could pay up to one billion dollars for the rights to stream recently-released feature films from Lionsgate, MGM and Paramount in a deal with cable movie channel upstart Epix. The Los Angeles...
View ArticleMTV Selects First-Ever Twitter Jockey
In a live show entitled Follow Me: The search for the First MTV TJ, MTV crowned its first-ever Twitter Jockey (TJ). Last night’s finale was the culmination of the cable network’s several month long...
View ArticleFacebook Cleans Up Birthday Wall Posting
You’ve got a few reasons to dread and/or loathe birthdays. But at least now you can cross that hot mess of a Facebook news feed off your list of things to worry about on your or your friends’...
View ArticleTwitter Preparing for Promoted Tweets in Third-Party Apps
Twitter is preparing itself and its developers for the rollout of its ad platforms, Promoted Tweets and Promoted Trends, within third-party applications, starting with desktop apps.The company has made...
View ArticleMashable Readers Choose the Mouse Over the Touchscreen
When you’re reading your email, surfing the web or updating your Facebook account, do you prefer the familiarity and accuracy of the mouse or the novelty and possibilities of a touchscreen?That was the...
View Article5 Small Biz Web Design Trends to Watch
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.The importance of having...
View ArticleCubicle Spy: At Work with David Berkowitz of 360i [PICS]
As part of the new “Cubicle Spy” series here at Mashable, we’re taking a look inside the neatest, quirkiest, and most gadget-laden offices of people who work with social media.For our maiden voyage, we...
View Article5 Funny Social Media Web Comics [PICS]
Satire comes in many forms, but one of our favorites here at Mashable is the cartoon.The world of social media is a ripe target for web comics, with some talented artists turning their sights on our...
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