Amazon’s Hardware Plans Don’t End With the Kindle [RUMOR]
Amazon is hiring a ton of hardware people, and sources close to the company say that it plans to expand beyond the Kindle e-reader to make new kinds of gadgets to help customers access the content it...
View ArticleTwitter Launching Official Tweet Buttons This Week [EXCLUSIVE]
Twitter is launching an official Tweet Button for sharing articles on websites and counting how many times a URL has been shared, according to documents Mashable has obtained. The Tweet Button could...
View ArticleOffline Access to Cloud Documents Comes to the iPhone and iPad
Cloud storage and collaboration platform Box.net has just updated its iPhone and iPad application with support for offline downloads and background processing in iOS 4.The update, which should be...
View ArticleMashable Hosts #SummerMash in New York City [PHOTOS]
The Mashable team hosted its New York City stop on its 2010 U.S. Summer Tour Monday night. The event brought hundreds from the local community together for networking and prizes at the 92Y Tribeca. The...
View ArticleBoyfriend Bails as Girlfriend Is Nailed By Baseball, Goes Viral [VIDEO]
Here’s one way to lose your girlfriend and become Internet famous at the same time.During a Major League Baseball game between the Houston Astros and the Atlanta Braves, Astros Third Baseman Chris...
View ArticleWhy Games Are the Killer App for Social Networks
Ravi Mehta is vice president of product for Viximo, where he drives the product strategy for Viximo’s social game distribution platform and helps social networks monetize via social games and virtual...
View ArticleCodeSnipp.it: Micro-Sharing and Q&A for Developers
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 ArticleIs Facebook Foursquare’s Enemy? It’s Complicated
At this point, pretty much every tech industry insider knows that Facebook is going to jump into the geolocation game. First rumored to be launching at Facebook’s F8 conference back in April, the exact...
View Article50+ Great Social Media, Web Development, and Interactive Job Openings
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 ArticleXKCD-Inspired Cartoon Maps the World’s Social Networks [PIC]
This cartoon map shows the relative sizes of social networks based on real 2010 user data, and does so in a quirky and amusing way. The quirky and amusing aspect is hardly surprising, because this map...
View ArticleMorning Brief: HPOA Girl a Hoax, EFF Analyzes Google, Samsung Tablet on the Way
This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and...
View ArticleMashable & 92Y Social Good Summit Call for Sponsors
Every September the world’s leaders come together in New York City for high-level discussions at the United Nations. This year, Mashable, 92Y and the UN Foundation have come together to broaden the...
View ArticleAutomatically Organize Your Travel Plans with Gmail and TripIt
Online travel service TripIt has just added a new feature that will automatically import itinerary and travel confirmation plans from a user’s Gmail or Google Apps account to the service’s web and...
View ArticleHOW TO: Pick the Right Social Media Engagement Style
Matthew Latkiewicz works at Zendesk.com, customer support software. He writes for and edits Zengage, Zendesk’s blog about customer engagement. He also writes about wine for McSweeney’s and imagines...
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Run Out of Storage Space in Gmail? [PIC]
It turns out that bottomless bucket of Gmail storage actually does have a bottom. Just ask Mike Monteiro, the most recent person to break Gmail’s usage cap.So much for, “never delete an e-mail again.”...
View ArticleMySpace Launches a Revamped User Homepage [EXCLUSIVE]
MySpace is rolling out a complete redesign of the user homepage (the page users see when they log in), with a focus on content discovery through the stream and more prominent sharing tools.The revamp,...
View Article5 Cross-Platform Mobile Development Tools You Should Try
This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.As mobile OSes — especially iPhone and Android — wax and wane, the pressing...
View ArticleThe Bike Share System of the Future is Powered by Wireless Technology
This Fall, New York City denizens will have the opportunity to test an experimental public bike share system. SoBi, the Social Bicycle System, presents an alternative to traditional public...
View ArticleFacebook Simplifies Photo Browsing
It’s official: Facebook has a new interface for browsing photo albums that features bigger photos and a single page of pictures.In the past, photo albums were organized by pages with 20 photos each....
View ArticleiPhone and iPad Software Update Addresses Security Exploit
Apple has just released iOS 4.0.2 for the iPhone and iOS 3.2.2 for the iPad, officially addressing the security exploit that was uncovered by the userland iOS jailbreak. Aside from the security...
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