So after a much longer flight back from Austin than I ever imagined possible, I'm finally sitting down this morning to put out some of the experiences from the evening. I had a great time, and as a native of Texas, am extremely proud of the impressiv...
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RentMineOnline is a recently launched search and recommendation tool that pairs landlords and lessees by leveraging online social media. One core component of this site is its referral system, which enables users to earn cash when someone moves into ...
A few months ago Yahoo offered a limited peek into its BrowserPlus project. At that time, not much was available. Now we are seeing some activity, and even the developer blog at Yahoo started to talk about the project. Disappointingly, BrowserPlus is...
Join Mashable staffers in Las Vegas for BlogWorldExpo from September 20-21. The whole weekend of events kicks off with an exclusive "Executive & Entrepreneur" conference that starts on September 19th. BlogWorldExpo is the first and only industry-wide...
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Mashable just completed its fourth stop on the U.S. Summer Tour in Austin, Texas and it was great! Over 400 people joined us at Buffalo Billiards, where they played billiards, Guitar Hero, Xbox, and more. Not only that, there was amazing conversation...
tipjoy launched earlier this year with the hopes of creating a better tipping community, and subsequently a better online marketplace for earning money and expressing your support of a particular site you like (somewhat similar to TipIt). While sites...
Web users have been able to glean driving directions from a variety of sources for many years now. And more recently, some services have evolved to become rather smart about it, involving overlays for things such as traffic alerts and even an ability...
Word comes to us today that AOL's Weblogs, Inc isn't the only blogging outfit irking their editorial staff of late. Of course, a lot of the blogosphere has been following with some interest what's going on over there at AOL, as a number of blogs' wri...
Chris Albrecht, one of my favorite editorialists on the world of video (and frequent foil to my opinion pieces on video) has a nice wrap-up piece today on the end of the LonelyGirl15 series. In it, he suggests that the landscape has completely change...
This just in from one of our regular tipsters here at Mashable - thousands of popular blogs are down tonight, from PerezHilton, ValleyWag, Consumerist all the way on down to LouisGray.com. Why? Because they use SiteMeter, a popular free traffic metri...
Back in November, we brought you news of a bill in Congress that would enlist America's higher educational institutions as an enforcement arm of anti-Piracy groups like the MPAA and the RIAA: In the House Education and Labor Committee's comprehensive...
Several of us here at Mashable enjoy working out, mostly to combat "the blogger 15," but we also realize it is easy to get bored with the same exercises. We've put together a list of 15 sites with exercise videos that are bound to liven up your routi...
Mashable is currently in Miami, where two lucky readers and event attendees will have a chance to win tickets to South by Southwest. Later this week, Mashable is headed to Boston and then New York City. During each of these SummerMashes, attendees ha...
The second leg of the U.S. SummerMash Tour continues tonight in Miami, FL for the fifth stop on the tour. We're at the HOT Opium Garden and are ready to party with the local Miami folks with food, open bar, prizes and great conversation. Tonight's a ...
I lept right into social bookmarking early on. At first is was not only a place to store your bookmarks, but to tag them for easier searching. The old browser based bookmarks took time to organize and sort. Tagging was a natural progression to me. As...
OpenSocial is Google's developer platform for social networking applications. It's the backbone behind applications on MySpace, Orkut, Friendster, LinkedIn, Plaxo, hi5, and many more. We've gathered a list of 13 OpenSocial video tutorials and educati...
I'm sorry... will someone please explain human nature to those starry eyed hippies over at Google for me? I'm not sure they read my work over here - or if they read it, they tend to discount it out of hand quite a bit. I just happened to be going thr...
Here's Mashable's latest round-up of upcoming Web 2.0 events, parties, and conferences. Not on this list? Contact us and let's establish a media sponsorship. :) August 5, 2008: Mashable makes it’s first trip to Boston, MA for the sixth stop on the U....
Company Name: Gemini Founded in: 1992 Location: Herzliya Pituach, Israel I had the pleasure of speaking with Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Gemini, an Israeli VC fund founded in 1992 by Ed Mlavsky, that invests in Israeli companies all over the wor...
TeachStreet, the instructional network and search engine that raised $2.25 million in funding from Madrona Venture Group earlier this year, is expanding on its city-by-city roll out with a local launch in Portland, Oregon. Since first emerging on the...
There's a social network for just about anything you can imagine these days, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that there are services centered around quotations and famous words. Increasingly, these sites are offering more ways to collect and share yo...
In a move that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Time Warner is poised to sell off AOL in separate pieces and will reportedly separate its advertising and content platforms with its dial-up business to ...
Mashable is proud to announce our new Monthly San Francisco event series. Join Mashable and San Francisco’s tech elite for an evening of meeting, mingling and conversing about Web’s hottest new services while enjoying light appetizers and drink ticke...
Ten, five, even two years ago, documenting a road trip meant disposable cameras, a fold-out map, postage stamps and planning ahead. Now a road trip means streaming video, GPS, email, and Hotels.com. Even if you’re not rocking an iPhone or BlackBerry,...
Mobile TV just doesn’t seem to die. For years now, I’ve heard from countless companies that they’re going to provide the “real†Mobile TV experience that will totally change the way we enjoy television. All the while, I’ve laughed to myself wondering...
Editor's Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. STARTUP DETAILS: C...
Let's face it: Social media has become one of the hot buzzwords in tech circles. It used to be Web 2.0 and social networking, but now we have moved on to a broader term that encompasses not only social networking, but blogs, podcasts, user-generated ...
Charades is a fun little trivia game that doesn't require any boards, small pieces that children can choke on, or complicated instructions that resemble your new car guide. This game can be played any time and anywhere with just about any group of pe...
