Crazy Roger Federer Trick Shot a Viral Hit for Gillette [VIDEO]
A video featuring tennis star Roger Federer that plays on our collective fascination with “real or fake” hit the Web earlier this week and has quickly gone viral, accumulating more than 700,000 views...
View ArticleYou Like? Facebook Makes Updates To Its “Like” Button
Facebook is rolling out updates to the design of its popular Like Button, which now looks similar to the newly introduced Tweet Button. The revamp also provides a subtle yet noteworthy change in the...
View ArticleHOW TO: Make Your Mobile Websites Act More Like Native Apps
This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.As smartphone sales continue to soar, more and more developers are focusing...
View ArticleMobile Users Prefer Coupons to Checkins [REPORT]
As mobile users become more acclimated to sharing their whereabouts via mobile devices, findings from JiWire’s Mobile Audience Insights Report prove that they’re also becoming more open to receiving...
View ArticlePeople Magazine iPad App Launch Stalled by Photographer Disputes
Publishers are clamoring to get their magazine titles onto Apple’s iPad, but many may be facing a new challenge: photographers.The Hollywood Reporter reports that Time Inc. has been forced to delay the...
View ArticleViral Videos and Flickr Photos Could Help You Circumvent Censorship
A group of researchers at Georgia Tech may have an answer to the epidemic of government censorship we’ve seen marring communications in many international spheres of late: a system they’re calling...
View ArticleZagat for iPhone Adds Foursquare Checkins and Foodspotting Photos
Restaurant ratings and reviews service Zagat today released a new version of its $9.99 iPhone app, Zagat To Go, complete with Foursquare and Foodspotting integration.Users can now check in to...
View Article5 Useful Facebook Trend and Search Services
As the world’s largest social network, Facebook is a fascinating place to find out what’s hot, what’s news, and discover the latest meme.Despite recent improvements, Facebook’s in-site search doesn’t...
View ArticleVerizon Plans to Bring Live TV Streaming to the iPad
Verizon Communications has announced its plans to bring its FiOS TV service to tablet devices like Apple’s iPad.The company says it expects to launch the app next year, allowing FiOS TV subscribers to...
View ArticleFacebook Application Lets Retailers Import and Sell Etsy Goods
Payvment’s Facebook application is designed to help retailers set up e-commerce shops on the 500-million-member social network. Today, the startup is releasing a new export tool to let Payvment users...
View ArticleGoogle Releases Universal Search for Gmail, Docs and Sites
Ever wanted to search not only your e-mail, but your presentations, spreadsheets and documents? Google is working on an experimental project to do just that.Google Apps Search is a new Gmail Labs...
View ArticleHOW TO/NOT TO: Ask Someone Out Online
Imagine, if you will, a crowded dance floor: Men and women are talking, laughing awkwardly and trying to gyrate their rhythmically challenged hips to that Phoenix song that goes “do let, do let, blah...
View ArticleLocation-Based Text Message Ads Get a Major Boon
Beginning today brands such as The North Face can reach 60% of all U.S. consumers with opt-in, location-based marketing SMS messages.The extensive distribution possibilities are thanks to a strategic...
View ArticleFacebook Launches Its Location Features [LIVE]
Facebook Places is almost here, and we’re about to find out just what geolocation concoction Facebook has been cooking up for the last few months.We’re here live at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo...
View ArticleWill You Use Facebook Places? [POLL]
It’s official: Facebook has jumped into the geolocation game with Facebook Places. The question is: will Facebook’s hundreds of millions of users embrace it?Facebook Places is a checkin service that’s...
View ArticlePrivacy Group Voices Concerns About Facebook Places
Earlier this evening, Facebook formally announced its geolocation component, Facebook Places, and it has already sparked concerns from a major privacy advocate.The ACLU of Northern California has...
View ArticleYouTube Launches Charts to Rank Top Web Videos
YouTube has just announced it will be featuring its top videos in a new section called YouTube Charts.This page will keep you updated on which videos are trending right now, which are all-time...
View ArticleA Field Guide to Using Facebook Places
Facebook has just announced Places, the long-awaited feature that brings location-based functionality to the most popular social network in the world.Whether you’re a developer with a great app idea, a...
View ArticleGoogle Updates Gmail for iPad With Stacked Cards
Shortly after Yahoo launched its HTML5-based version of Yahoo Mail for iPad, Google has refreshed its version of Gmail for Apple’s popular tablet.The update boils down to one feature, albeit an...
View ArticleFacebook Places Arrives on the iPhone
Version 3.2 of the Facebook iPhone app has arrived in the app store, and while it comes with several new features and bug fixes, it’s the arrival of Facebook Places that make this update one to...
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