StumbleUpon is a pretty unique site as far as social browsing sites go; no site with a similar concept (i.e. one click 'random' surfing through sites recommended by the community) has reached anywhere near its level of popularity. However, unlike - f...
ZocDoc, the service for finding doctors and making appointments online, is announcing two new high profile investors this morning: Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, and Marc Benioff, Founder and CEO of Salesforce.com. The investments follow news las...
Oddcast is taking its talking avatars to the next logical place: virtual worlds. The company is launching a new product called AvatarSpace, a Web application that enables custom avatars to talk to one another through voice or text. However, as oppose...
As the first website to offer free, full-track streaming music from all four major record labels, Imeem has quietly been able to grow into one of the most trafficked social networking sites, with nearly 28 million (self-reported) visitors per month. ...
Microsoft is working to "innovate" its search business model in one clearly visible way: perks. Perks, perks, and more perks. This time it’s about SearchPerks. It was in late May when Microsoft first gave users financial incentive to browse the comme...
After attracting nearly 20 million active users, what does the application formerly known as FunWall on Facebook do for an encore? Add professional content from the likes of CBS, NBC, and Warner Bros, according to The Wall Street Journal. The applica...
This is part of an ongoing series about government 2.0 written by Dr. Mark Drapeau. To view previous posts in the series click here. Recently I had the chance to attend an event called “Government 2.0 and Beyond… Harnessing Collective Intelligence,†...
Company Name Lushpad 20-word Description Lushpad is an online buy-and-sell marketplace for contemporary and mid-century modern furniture and secondary market fine art. CEO's Pitch Lushpad is a unique online home for lovers of mid-century Modern furni...
This is a guest post written by Jennifer Leggio, who writes about enterprise trends around social media, including security, privacy and reputation issues, for ZDNet. You’re a thought leader in your industry. You want to convene other thought leaders...
As I mentioned late last night, a lot of us who do this technology punditry for a living are searching for answers on what exactly this mess on Wall Street and inside the beltway means for us in the tech sector. All Americans are in the same boat, ha...
New York-based network Familybuilder has been growing quite handily over the past year and a half since it first launched as a Facebook application. As of late June this year, it had grown to encompass users on MySpace, Bebo, Hi5 and Orkut, and had r...
After having done two FriendFeed lists - the top 10 Web applications for FriendFeed and 7 essential GreaseMonkey scripts for FriendFeed - we thought we'd do one more to round out the collection. Here are 7 popular desktop applications for FriendFeed ...
Blog search engine Technorati recently tried to re-invent itself as a memetracker of sorts, changing its homepage to reflect the most popular blog posts at a given point in time. Today, Google Blog Search – long just a blog-focused version of the com...
MobaTalk is an experiment from Michael Baily that he calls "Video Twitter." Here's the alpha testing page where you can see all of the video tweets being recorded right now. The cool thing is that you don't even have to sign up or join his service an...
The buzz has more or less died down, at least in the pages of Gawker, MediaShift, TechDirt and Romenesko. But our very own Alana Taylor did a feature for PBS blog MediaShift, a commentary really, on the lack of New Media savvy amongst the students an...
EveryTrail is an iPhone app that lets you record your journey with geotagged photos that are automatically added to a slideshow at their website. These trips can be hikes, runs, bike rides, walks or whatever you want. The app's interface is simple an...
I've made no big secret of the fact that I've been eagerly awaiting the coming of the PlasticLogic reader, the device shown at DEMOfall 08 that's due out early next year. Since we talked about the device a couple weeks ago on Mashable Conversations, ...
I'm not a big fan of reaching for conclusions and unjustified criticism when it comes to tech journalism, because I see it way too often. But although I have no solid data to confirm it, I can't help the feeling that Steve Ballmer's announcement of a...
hi5, a social network that already enjoys much of its success abroad, is continuing its international expansion, launching in 10 new languages today. Similar to Facebook, hi5 has been asking its users to translate the site into localized versions aro...
Watch out, twhirl. There's a new sheriff in town. Utterli (formerly Utterz) has just released an Adobe Air application that delivers their audio, video and text micro-blogging messages to your desktop. The app is small, but don't be fooled because it...
YouTube has been experimenting with various ways to make its voluminous business a very profitable one. It’s been months since the company first introduced graphical and text-based advertisements within the bottom third of video screens. And several ...
The 2008 general election is almost upon us, but there is still time in most parts of the country to get yourself registered to vote. Luckily there are more and more online resources that can assist you with filling out your forms, provide you with l...
Mark Davis is an NYC-based tech VC that blogs on technology and the venture world at Get Venture. I recently wrote a post about the ways in which ad networks can differentiate themselves. One of the three key considerations is type of inventory. With...
I don’t know how accurate it is to say Senator Barack Obama is a Mac to Senator John McCain’s PC, but those convinced of this premise will either delight in or scorn the fact that the Obama for America campaign has presented a free iPhone and iPod to...
Dipity 2.0, which began private beta testing a few weeks ago, goes live today with their social timeline service. Their goal is to provide more hooks into social networking sites such as Flickr, YouTube and Twitter so you and your friends can keep up...
myYearbook has been steadily climbing the charts as a social network for the younger set for the last couple of years. We've talked about the company on Mashable a few times as it has grown, gotten funding and reached other milestones. The latest in ...
Of all the companies and social platforms that showcased at Web 2.0 Expo NY, LiveWorld was definitely one of my favorites. Why? Because they were the only service that could explain that they understand how social media functioned and actually prove ...
Mashable Monthly was another huge success! It was great seeing everyone at ROE Lounge for an evening of making new friends and seeing old ones. We kept the drinks flowing and had yummy vegan cupcakes (yep--I said VEGAN) to celebrate Pete Cashmore hea...
Company Clivir 20-Word description Clivir is a free tutorial-based learning community where you can be both the teacher and the student. 100 word description Come hither to Clivir. Clivir features tutorial style lessons that can be created by combini...
Today the Startonomics workshop is underway, and Mashable friend and occasional contributor Muhammad Saleem is presenting a session on social media and word of mouth marketing for startups: Digg, Delicious, Twitter. Word of mouth has never been sexie...
