Three Teens Murdered After Appearing on Facebook “Kill List”
Three teenagers have been killed in the past 10 days in a southwestern Colombian town, with their names appearing on a “kill list” of 69 names posted on Facebook.The Colombian police are investigating...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Plans to Release CIA Paper Later Today
WikiLeaks has announced via Twitter that it will be releasing a leaked CIA paper sometime later today.The website rose to prominence after releasing over 70,000 U.S. Afghanistan war reports. Since then...
View ArticleMorning Brief: Gmail Voice Calling, Google Finance Mobile, Windows 7 Live Gaming
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 ArticleAmazon: Kindle 3 is the Fastest-Selling Kindle Ever
The new, sleeker Kindle may be a relatively minor upgrade compared to its predecessor, but it’s making an impact where it counts the most: sales.According to Amazon, the new Kindle has been selling...
View Article5 Lightweight CMS Alternatives for Small Businesses
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.Even in 2010, managing and...
View ArticleViral Blog Pays Tribute to YouTube’s Least Viral Videos
Forget viral vids, here’s the new hot: Videos that no one has ever watched. That’s the premise of this genius single-serving Tumblr blog, 0 Views: The Best of the Bottom of the Barrel.Blurry clips of...
View ArticleStephen Colbert Takes on Google CEO’s “Change Your Name” Comments [VIDEO]
Are you a “young person,” fresh outta college and looking for a job? Great! Now all you have to do to score your dream gig is perform a full digital cleanse, and assume a new identity while you’re at...
View ArticleGoogle Brings Voice Calling to Gmail
Google is bringing Gmail and Google Voice together with the launch of phone call integration within Google Chat and Gmail.We’re here at Google’s San Francisco offices for a small press conference where...
View ArticleFacebook Trademark Lawsuit Aims to Limit Use of “Book” by Others
Facebook has filed suit against Teachbook.com, an online community for teachers. The lawsuit accuses Teachbook of “misappropriating the distinctive BOOK portion of Facebook’s trademark.”The lawsuit...
View ArticleUstream Ups the Emphasis on Content in Redesign [PICS]
Live video platform Ustream has just pushed out a site-wide redesign, featuring a new color scheme and cleaner look that the company hopes will make discovering and broadcasting content easier for...
View ArticleGoogle Voice Telephone Booths Coming to an Airport or College Near You
In order to promote its new, cutting-edge calling technology, Google is going retro with dozens of phone booths set to sweep the nation’s airports and colleges.At a press event at Google’s offices in...
View ArticleGoogle: “Nothing Has Changed” with Google Voice iPhone App
Could we be seeing an official Google Voice iPhone app in the near future?The question was raised during today’s Google Voice/Gmail press conference. Last year, controversy erupted when Apple rejected...
View ArticleNew Digg Is Live: What It Means For Digg and For You
After a month of testing the new alpha version to invite-only users, Digg’s redesigned site is live for everyone. The new interface and functionality of the social news network focuses on the...
View ArticleFacebook Chat to Drop IE6 Support
If you are still using Internet Explorer 6.0, Facebook has a new incentive for you to move onward and upward: Facebook Chat.On its blog today, Facebook announced that its chat feature will no longer...
View ArticleA Brief History of Digg
Just a few months shy of its sixth birthday, social news site Digg has launched its highly anticipated overhaul/redesign.What started as an experiment in the fall of 2004 is now a major online presence...
View ArticleApple Holding Special Event on September 1
On Wednesday, September 1, Apple will be holding an invitation-only event in San Francisco. The event, which should center around the company’s music-related offerings like iTunes and the iPod touch,...
View ArticleChange the Way You Store and Stream Media Files with Put.io
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 ArticleFacebook Privacy: 6 Years of Controversy [INFOGRAPHIC]
Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City. Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Follow...
View ArticleStop Being Rude and Put Away Your Phone, the Digi-World Can Wait
Remember the good ol’ days, circa mid-naughts, when most people’s phones just alerted them of incoming calls and the occasional text message?After a two-second peek, you knew that you were not in...
View ArticleAnnouncing Mashlanta 2.0: Mashable Returns to Atlanta
Ask and you shall receive. Mashable is excited to announce Mashlanta 2.0 in partnership with Regator. After an amazing event last year, we’ve gone bigger (200 to 300 more tickets), longer (an extra...
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