January 2012
How to Launch a Social Ambassador Campaign →
Curry Smith is affiliated with NOLAbound, a unique program that immerses 25 professionals in New Orleans business to discuss the city’s entrepreneurial and social media influence. You can apply to be considered for a spot in the program at www.benolabound.com/apply. As long as brands want to i…
December 2011
Facebook Timeline Is Basically Your Digital Resume →
Gerrit Hall is CEO and co-founder of RezScore, a free web application that reads, analyzes and grades resumes instantly to help job seekers write the best resume possible. Connect with Gerrit and RezScore on Facebook and Twitter. For those of you who don’t know (have you been living under a …
How One Author Found Success With Digital Books →
It’s said that print is dead — and not just newspapers or magazines, but maybe short stories too. After 20 years working in print, former Chicago magazine editor Dick Babcock found the perfect platform for his short story: Kindle Singles. Babcock’s short story tops the best sellers list on K…
Apple's First iPhone Was Made in 1983 [PICS] →
The first iPhone was actually dreamed up in 1983. Forget that silly old touchscreen, this iPhone was a landline with full, all-white handset and a built-in screen controlled with a stylus. The phone was designed for Apple by Hartmut Esslinger, an influential designer who helped make the Apple …
Edward Burns Film 'Newlyweds' Puts TriBeCa in... →
Klout CEO Reveals How to Leverage Score for Fame,... →
Klout is a hot-button issue in the social networking world, and it’s a touchy subject for many. The two-year-old company— which provides social media analytics to measure a user’s influence across social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn – is no stranger to cr…
3D Optical Scanning Makes 125-Year-Old Records... →
Dust off your old and beat up records, there might just be a way to get them to sing again. Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Library have managed to coax sound out of 125-year-old recordings using 3D optical scanning technology. Best of all, those records come from Alexander Graham B…
Storify Reveals Its Favorite User-Generated Story... →
Social media curation tool Storify doled out its Story of the Year honor Thursday to Josh Stearns, who is using the service to keep track of journalists arrested during the nationwide Occupy Wall Street protests. Stearns works for Free Press as the journalism and public media campaign director…
Storify Reveals Its Favorite User-Generated Story... →
Social media curation tool Storify doled out its Story of the Year honor Thursday to Josh Stearns, who is using the service to keep track of journalists arrested during the nationwide Occupy Wall Street protests. Stearns works for Free Press as the journalism and public media campaign director…
Shoutz Connects You to the World, One 15-Second... →
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Shoutz Quick Pitch: Shoutz is a free social video network. Genius Idea: Mobil…
Raspberry Pi, a Tiny But Powerful $25 PC, Coming... →
The holidays have been particularly jolly for the gang making Raspberry Pi, the tiny Linux-based PC that’s going to cost just $25. If the reports coming from the site are to be believed, you could be able to buy one as early as next month. Right before the holiday, the creators got a batch of …
Biscotti: The Best Product Packaging Since the... →
A cookie-shaped, easy-to-use, $199 video-conferencing solution is impressive, but wrapping it up in packaging that resembles a mash-up between Apple’s design elegance and Henny Youngman’s penchants for one-liners is an altogether different level of accomplishment. Introduced last month at the …
Why 'Manscaping' Isn't Just for Porn Stars Anymore →
What’s in Store for Social Video in 2012? →
Chris Schreiber is director of marketing at social video advertising company Sharethrough. Before joining Sharethrough, Chris worked in the Global Communications and Public Affairs Department for Google. In 2011, many companies knew they needed to move beyond simply creating and distributing a…
Dump GoDaddy Day Dec. 29 Declared by Reddit User... →
[brightcove video=”1347944471001 ” /] Reddit user SelfProdigy has declared Dec. 29 Dump GoDaddy Day, following the domain registrar’s short-lived public support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Although GoDaddy has announced that it no longer supports SOPA, the site is still facing the b…
Can Apple Become the Next Big Content Creator? →
Nathan Safran heads the research department at Conductor, a leading SEO technology firm. Formerly, Nathan was an analyst for Forrester Research’s consumer product strategy group, where he researched trend studies, consumer attitudes and behaviors toward technology adoption. Nathan blogs at excel…
Religious Americans Just as Tech-Savvy as Others... →
[brightcove video=”1349197669001” /] There may be preconceptions that faithful Americans skew older in age and are traditionally set in their ways, but according to a new study, religious Americans embrace technology just as much as those who are less religious. A new report from the Pew Re…
Dropbox Tests Automatic Camera Uploads →
Beta builds of the Dropbox software for Mac, Windows and Linux has added a nifty new feature to the cloud-storage service: Automatic photo uploads. The new feature tries its hand at one of iCloud’s most appealing new features: Photo Stream. With Photo Stream, Apple makes it easy to access p…
Edward Burns and the Socialization of Indie Cinema →
“Twitter has fundamentally changed the way I make films,” film director, actor, writer and producer Edward Burns told me. At first blush, that might seem like an audacious statement, but in an era when full productions can get funded on Kickstarter and feature-length films are shot on consumer DS…
Study Shows Pinterest Will Compete with Top 10... →
On Pinterest? Follow Mashable to check out our favorite infographics, tips and tricks, web memes and technology! [brightcove video=”1342910470001 ” /] Pinterest, a social networking site with an “online pinboard” interface, has made great strides this year. According to Experian Hitwise, th…
Pinterest: A Beginner's Guide to the Hot New... →
You’ve probably heard a lot about Pinterest over the last few months. Not only has the company received $27 million in venture funds, but the site’s popularity has exploded from 1.2 million users in August to over 4 million today. SEE ALSO: Study Shows Pinterest Will Compete with Top 10 Soc…
iPhone of the Future May Be Powered by Hydrogen... →
Sometime in the future, Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPad and MacBook might work longer than ever on a smaller and lighter battery pack. How is this possible? By using hydrogen fuel cells, which convert oxygen and hydrogen into water, heat and electricity. The US Patent & Trademark Office…
View Your Life in a Parallel Universe With the... →
The Quantum Parallelograph is more than just an art design. It’s a tool that allows you to get a glimpse of your lives in different parallel universes. You simply tune the search intensity and the device will use online sources to print out a short statement about your alternate realities. …
How Do Co-Founders Meet? 17 Startups Tell All →
Jobs and Woz. Larry and Sergey. Jack, Biz and Evan. Mark and Eduardo. Many of today’s most notable and successful tech companies were born not out of one, but two (and sometimes three) noggins. Entrepreneurship can be a long, lonely and hard road, so it help to have a co-founder — he serves …
Free Wi-Fi with that coffee? Why cafes are... →
The story of Jesus is the ultimate political drama →
The great ebook price swindle →
Louis CK Earns $1 Million in 12 Days With $5 Video →
Comedian Louis CK has proved a point: People are willing to pay a reasonable amount of money for DRM-free content from a performer they love, even though it would be trivial for them to pirate the same content for free. Twelve days ago, Louis CK decided to skip the distribution, DRM, ads and …
Holiday Drunk: A Drink For Every Relative →
You Know Your Klout Score. What's Your Kred Score? →
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Kred Quick Pitch: Kred assigns influence scores to Twitter users. Genius Idea…
Why Real-World Socializing Is the Next Big Thing... →
René Pinnell is the CEO of Foreca.st, a free mobile app that lets friends share where they are going and what they are doing. Foreca.st is the latest app from Hurricane Party. Often, there is an ironic disconnect between your online and offline social networks. In other words, we’re “frie…
Vending Machine Dispenses Jell-O, But Only if... →
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. Kraft is employing a unique vehicle to publicize the first Jell-O dessert made just for adults: A vending machine that doles out the treats, but only to those of a certain age. The company s…
6 Crazy Tech Predictions for 2012 →
We live in a world of absolutes: Here’s what happened. Even when we look to the future, our predictions are couched in the world’s sometimes difficult realities. It can, to be honest, take all the fun out of guess work. So, once a year I allow myself to go beyond the likely, beyond th…
27% of Photos and Videos Now Captured on... →
More than a quarter of photos and videos shot by individuals in the U.S. are now being captured by smartphones, according to an online survey of 3,300 Internet users ages 13 and up. Sales data suggest smartphones are replacing consumers’ need for low-end point-and-shoot cameras and camcorders. …
Heartbreak Jeweler Helps Divorcees Turn Their... →
Controversial UWS Nursing Home Names... →
4 Big Trends for the Future of Sustainable Tech →
The Commerce With a Conscience Series is supported by Fedex. FedEx does more than shipping. They offer solutions like transporting heart valves to those in need and helping entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. See how. Saving the planet and cutting down on emissions is a good thing, but wh…
Lytro: The Biggest Thing to Happen to Photography... →
The Designer Tech Series is supported by the exquisitely crafted, new 2013 Lincoln MKS with Lincoln Drive Control. Now it gets interesting.
Stephen Baldwin to Brother Alec: When Are You... →
[brightcove video=”1338398492001 ” /] Alec Baldwin, your brother Stephen wants to know when you’re coming back to Twitter. That was apparently the message Actor Stephen Baldwin texted to big brother Alec after his in-flight Words with Friends-fueled meltdown, which led to the actor walking …
Survival of frankincense threatened – USATODAY.com →
IBM Says We'll Have Mind-Reading Computers Within... →
Keyboards and mice may seem like clunky artifacts of the past within the next five years, pushed aside in favor of the ultimate user interface: the human mind. That’s according to IBM, which just published its “5 in 5” forecast: a prediction about five innovations that will fundamentally chang…
Kim Jong-il: Parody of A James Bond Villain →
Kim Jong-il, the rotund North Korean strongman who led the communist country with an iron fist, bouffant, pot belly, risers in his boots, tinted 70’s disco glasses and a minimalist khaki jumpsuit has died. Perhaps one of the most bizarre dictators to emerge from the cold war, Kim’s “ill” style was a Hollywood caricature of itself. We chart out the idiosyncratic nature of...
Celebrity Chef Marcus Samuelsson Eyeing Historic... →