URL shorteners are all the rage lately, probably because they're relatively easy to create, but also because they offer endless possibilities for geek fun. You can like them or hate them, but here we bring you a couple that'll make you chuckle. By th...
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CNET reports that the state of Minnesota has asked Internet service providers to block access to all gambling sites. The letter sent to the ISPs states that a federal law "requires upon notice by a law enforcement agency that you do not allow your sy...
Every Friday, Twitter users recommend friends and favorite accounts to follow on the service in a game called #FollowFriday. In March, the creator of #FollowFriday explained how the phenomenon began in the Mashable article #FollowFriday: The Anatomy ...
Samir Balwani is an emerging technology strategist at Morpheus Media, a firm specializing in Social Marketing, SEM, and SEO. You can follow him on Twitter @samirbalwani and get his newsletter. Too many marketers these days confuse what social media i...
Quicken Online, from Intuit, is a Mint competitor that offers a free way to manage your bank accounts and bills. In an attempt to make money management on-the-run easier, Intuit today released an iPhone companion to the online experience called Quick...
As we've mentioned on Mashable before, online collaboration tools are a great way to get work done as a group. But it's not all work and no play, there are also some fun and creative tools that let groups get together and create art...or just doodles...
Soren Gordhamer is the author of Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected. You can follow him on Twitter. With Oprah showcasing Twitter recently to her millions of soccer moms, and other traditional media taking notice, I...
It's Friday and you've probably already started celebrating the end of the work week and the start of the weekend. If you're anything like us, though, figuring out what to do with all that free time can be a laborious process (ie. checking the paper,...
It's official: the iPhone is becoming the battle ground for the slickest Twitter applications around. Not too long along, we saw Tweetstack saunter into the ring and bring your TweetDeck columns to your phone. Now iPhone and desktop veteran, Twitterr...
Social media really has come of age. Not only are we doing our part to educate readers on how to track Swine Flu online and how to make sense of swine flu on Twitter, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Department of...
How much is your Twitter username worth? $300? $400? $1000? With only a limited number of Twitter names available and many of the good ones already taken, it was perhaps inevitable that a market would spring up for Twitter username sales. That was th...
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...
Visible Measures, the online video tracking platform, has just published their list of the most watched viral videos of all time. The numbers are in and they're astounding, so astounding that Visible Measures terms these 18 hits the 100 Million Views...
Just a few weeks ago the NHL coordinated a nationwide Tweetup to ring in the start of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Now Bravo and their hit cable network show, The Real Housewives of New York, are hoping to create the same buzz and social support with th...
Sometimes it's simply overwhelming how many gorgeous photos there are on Flickr - sifting through them to find a picture to use on your blog or to just admire can be a chore. Luckily for us however, Flickr has an API, meaning that some creative devel...
Remember the days when we could count iPhone apps for Twitter on one hand? Well, those days are long gone, and if you're having trouble keeping up with all the new additions, you're not alone. Which apps are the real deal, worth the price, over-hyped...
News was transformed on the web by the rise of a simple innovation: Real Simple Syndication, or RSS. RSS feeds are a popular way to consume blogs, news, and information in general. By subscribing to RSS feeds in a program like Google Reader, you can ...
Social media played an integral part in shaping the news this week. A potential pandemic put social media in the spotlight, Facebook came under attack by phishers, and Time Magazine dealt with 4chan hackers. We served up some social media resources, ...
Ever wanted to do everything you do on Facebook...on your desktop? Thanks to the new Facebook API for status updates, there are apps springing up to do just that. Today, Twitter desktop app maker Seesmic Desktop launched this exact integration: it's ...
Aside from the Twitter.com website, the desktop app TweetDeck is the undisputed king of Twitter apps, with 14.51% of users posting this way according to TwitStat. That compares to 24.54% on Twitter itself. The only posting method to come even close t...
When you first rise out of bed, turn on that computer, and open your browser, what's the first thing you see? For many of us, it's a customized start page. The start page business has become a space filled with innovative startups and widgets that ma...
Twitter has a wealth of data - it's a global thought-stream on every topic imaginable. But how do we convert that raw data into insights, trends and actionable information? How can we find the signal in all that noise? Fortunately, there are several ...
Facebook's Terms of Service is rarely the hero of our story: changes to the document in February created controversy as Facebook appeared to claim ownership of user content even after a user left the site. That same week, Facebook polled users and fo...
Google co-founder Larry Page delivered the Spring 2009 commencement address at the University of Michigan yesterday, the same university at which he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering. Page used the opportunity to humbly te...
Apple's strict iPhone application approval policies caused several outbursts of rage from developers whose applications get rejected; this time it's Nine Inch Nails' application, and Trent Reznor is doing the raging part. The reason for the rejection...
According to the New York Times, Amazon plans to introduce a new version of its e-book reader Kindle as early as this week. The new Kindle will have a bigger screen and it will be aimed at reading magazines and newspapers; NYT already calls it a poss...
It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section. Not on this list? Contact us and let’s establi...
The Arizona Republic reports that Arizona health care officials are working on an asthma alert system that would send messages via various social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter or MySpace, as well as SMS messages, when particulate pollution in a...
They say that the Internet is forever, meaning that anything you publish on the Web will probably be indefinitely findable. Usually, this is viewed as a cautionary tale – don’t publish anything that you don’t want people finding in the future. But fo...
