For some types of queries, the best results often come from online forums. What's the best place to eat in San Francisco? What type of RAM should I buy? Where do I find a flux capacitor? Recognizing this, Google has added a new feature to its search ...
Perhaps Google has taken cue from the very active Bing team, because they've rolled several search-related improvements in the matter of hours, and all that in the midst of the official launch of Google Wave. This latest improvement is a small one, b...
It's October (on the East Coast at least!), which means it's time for the Donors Choose Social Media Challenge, wherein web and social media folks get together and raise money for kids in need of educational equipment in the classroom. This year Mash...
AdMob, a company that specializes in mobile advertising, has released another monthly report, showing the state of mobile operating systems, as seen through the lense of the AdMob network. According to the report , the market share of iPhone OS, Andr...
It's that time of the year again when Forbes publishes their annual list of the 400 richest Americans, and the rest of us look at the billions they own, dream away for a minute or two, and then get back to reality, remembering we've forgotten to pay ...
Earlier this week, a poll created using a third-party app on Facebook asked “Should Obama be killed?†The episode quickly garnered national attention, and the Secret Service was called in to identify who created it and determine if there was a credib...
Blog software company Six Apart has a number of different products and services. In 2003, the company launched TypePad as a hosted-blogging platform for users and companies that wanted an easy way to blog or add blogging components to their existing ...
Google continues to work to address the threat posed by the real-time search capabilities of services like Twitter and Facebook. In May, they launched “Search Options†to allow users to refine search results by content type and time (within the past ...
The issue of “Twitter jacking†someone’s identity has been a hot topic this year. Perhaps the most visible incident was St Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa taking Twitter to court over someone else using his identity on the microblogging service...
David Spark (@dspark) is the founder of Spark Media Solutions, specialists in building industry voice through storytelling and social media. He blogs at Spark Minute and is a regular on Cranky Geeks and ABC Radio. For many, creating a podcast is some...
The Smarter Cities series is supported by IBM. Read more about building a smarter planet on the IBM A Smarter Planet Blog. Social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and even email, instant messaging, and SMS have become the defacto way we c...
Unless you're lucky enough to have your own private jet, the whole process of air travel can be pretty frustrating even under the best of circumstances. Navigating the airport, going through security checks, dealing with luggage requirements, and hop...
The business social network LinkedIn is not just a way to connect with your business contacts. For a lot of recruiters, salespeople, and other professionals, it's a great business database for finding potential leads and new employees. Organizing the...
A little over a month ago, Twitter announced that it would be attaching locations to tweets in an effort to become a stronger geolocation tool. The company said that it would attach a latitude and a longitude to a user's tweets, if they opted into th...
When Facebook attacks, it's not pretty. We were just remarking on how new ways of spreading malware were plaguing social media, and now the second Facebook-related scam in the past week appears to be spreading. Have a look at the picture below, and i...
Google Wave has arrived. The real-time communication platform has been one of the hottest and most anticipated products in the tech and social media space for months. Soon around 100,000 people will be messaging each other in one of Google's most amb...
A few weeks ago, popular iPhone app developer Smule launched its I am T-Pain iPhone app. This wonderful little piece of technology gave you the ability to sing along to T-Pain tracks utilizing Auto-Tune. The result is a ton of fun. So it's been a lit...
Still hunting for a Google Wave invite? You're not alone -- and in fact, there's a whole community springing up just to meet your needs. Google Wave Invites is a free "marketplace" for distributing Wave invites, much like have sprung up in the past f...
If you've been a long-time user of Twitter, you've probably seen the #BlameDrewsCancer hashtag. It's part of a campaign by Drew Olanoff, who was diagnosed with cancer on May 20th of this year. Instead of wallowing about the news, he started his campa...
There's a whole lot of translation action going on this week, with both Google and Facebook already announcing a translation product for webmasters earlier. Now Google has another translation announcement, this time bringing multi-language support ri...
Much like the Energizer Bunny, seemingly nothing can stop ex-lawyer Jack Thompson -- not even disbarment. According to the Escapist, Thompson has set his sights on a new target for litigation: Facebook. The former crusader against violent video games...
Most sci-fi fans remember the movie Minority Report, and the scene where Tom Cruise manipulates data on a large, vertical, virtual screen using only his hands and fingers. Although I prefer to do my computer work sitting down, it was the stuff geek d...
OK, we know the iPhone, as wonderful as it is, can be a troublesome device. It can freeze, and the apps can get all weird, and then you can't play Zynga Poker or whatever it is you like to do with it. But going into an Apple Store, asking for the pho...
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...
Most Gmail users are familiar with Google Labs, a nifty set of experimental features which aren't quite ready to be rolled out to all users, but are good enough for a select subset of users who like to try out new things. According to Cnet's Natali D...
Time flies fast, and new browsers replace old ones. Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and, of course, even Internet Explorer have been upgraded and updated countless times in the last couple of years. All of this makes it easy to forget what browser is ...
Today, Friday, October 2, 2009, is LIVESTRONG Day 2009. The event is a part of the LIVESTRONG Action campaign designed to bring together people from all over the world to celebrate survivorship, commit to fighting cancer, spread the word, and work to...
Update: Rio de Janeiro has won the IOC vote and will be hosting the 2016 Olympic Games. They beat out Chicago, Tokyo, and Madrid. - The web is abuzz with news regarding the IOC's announcement for the location of 2016 Olympic Games. Rio de Janeiro and...
If you're an Apple iMac owner, you're probably familiar with the Mighty Mouse, Apple's buttonless device launched in 2005. The iconic white mouse with the squeeze sensors and the tiny clickable track ball may have been a unique direction in mouse tec...
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. As social media continues to become more mainstream, the chances that your...
