In an interview with Business Standard, John Kremer, the vice president of Yahoo Mail, has left some interesting clues to where Yahoo might be heading in the future. One of their aims is interactivity. "Yahoo is ready with a new social-networking ser...
Are you wondering why you're seeing all of the recent moves by the big guys like AOL, Google, and special interest groups to highlight the alleged 'invasive' privacy infringements of web advertisers? There's an FTC online advertising workshop going o...
This might be a bit hard to grasp if you're not an online advertising guru, so bear with me. eXelate is a company founded in 2006. which just received $4 million in first-round financing from Carmel Ventures. That was the easy part. Understanding wha...
Remember when Fake Steve Jobs (later reiterated by Forbes) said that two New York based hedge funds (hedgetards, as he called them), have invested an additional $500 million in Facebook? Well, Inside Facebook now reports he was - for the most part - ...
Everyone wishes they knew the future, and with prediction markets popping up everywhere, it is now far easier to get a good idea of where something is going - although we still don't recommend betting on the basis of this information. We've gathered ...
Oh, how the PC users have longed for this day. With one of Apple's marketing points being that Mac is practically virus free, many have held the view that this stems largely from Macs (and OS X) being less prominent on the market than Windows-based P...
Wednesday afternoon I had the pleasure of speaking with Sharam Shirazi, the brand new CEO of FotoFlexer, as well as Neil Warren, the lead developer for the company. I was unfamiliar with the product except by name recognition only. In preparation for...
They say that asking the right questions was more important than giving answers. If so, WikiAnswers must have some good ones in their 1 million question archive. The millionth question in this user-generated wing of Answers.com was in the Science and...
After nearly a year of development, NYC based Fusebox has announced the private beta of an Adobe Flex based presentation platform entitled Empressr. Participation in the private beta is scheduled to last for the next month, prior to an early 2008 rel...
Remember Digg's top user list? The one that got removed by Digg admins, and then kept reappearing in unofficial form (and exists to this day in some places)? Well, StumbleUpon never had an official user top list, but now it has an unofficial one: Stu...
Qloud, which owns the popular Facebook application My Music, has officially launched. As covered previously, My Music is a social music app for Facebook that allows you to import your iTunes library and share your listening habits with friends. Much ...
Look, trolls. We're all seasoned World of Warcraft / EVE online players here. Plus, we read Fark and Digg. This means that your feeble attempts at trolling would pass as polite, heartwarming and insightful commentary on the message boards we frequent...
Early this year, rumors surfaced that Google was planning to launch its own personal computer, loaded with Google applications and absent of a Microsoft Windows operating system. Those rumors proved false, as Google had no real interest into getting ...
The Phoenix Suns is the latest sports team to launch a social network to attract fans online. PlanetOrange.net is the team's new site, which was created in conjunction with KickApps, featuring iStreamPlanet for this white label solution. Based on Mic...
NBC, which was one of the many larger corporations to launch several niche sites in the past 18 months, is planning to shut down DotComedy, the standalone destination site. Its content won't be lost forever, though. NBC will incorporate it into its m...
OSoYou, the UK-based women's shopping network that launched a couple of months ago, has added a few social networking features, which the team mentioned it would be adding. There are no Groups, Lists, and private messaging functions, which expand on ...
According to yesterday's poll, it's overwhelmingly obvious that there is a *slight* hatred out there for MySpace. Not included yesterday's poll were two of the big wigs, Yahoo and Microsoft. Yahoo recently closed down Yahoo! 360 and no one really not...
Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that MySpace will join Google's OpenSocial, which launches today. The move would make a lot of sense considering MySpace and Google's $900 million advertising pact, and may be announced by the end of the day. It wou...
All the big news poured out of Tumblr this morning. In addition to the new features to the Tumblr content management system, there were also a fair amount of corporate announcements put forth today. An impressive group of people now surround the folk...
NewsGator was quick to take advantage of the new developer's platform OpenSocial to create an application for Google's new partners in the social networking space. Named "Didja Hear!?" this app will let you share and discuss multimedia images and vid...
TripIt, the service that helps you plan travel itineraries, has added a few new features that will help save time and further simplify the trip-planning process. Building on some of TripIt's existing features for finding local activities, these can n...
Mojonote, the online calendar and planning tool, has rolled out a pretty big update, which is more important in concept than in function. The service is now 100% free. For a tool such as Mojonote, which started out with premium plan options, making t...
Gaia, the popular anime virtual world, has added a pretty fun feature that lets you bring online videos into your Gaia world. The new tool is called Gaia VJ, and it lets you collect web videos to create your own channel of streaming content. This act...
Frame Media is a web-based application that will let you schedule RSS feed delivery for your digital picture frame. It's service is proposed as a way to create dynamic and interesting content for your digital picture frame, but this works for desktop...
Mixaloo, the site that lets you create and sell mix tapes, has graciously offered Mashable Readers 1,000 invites. Just enter through here and use ‘mashable’ in the Mashable Code field, along with your information. Since our last review, Mixaloo has a...
Sclipo, the social learning network, has just added a new tool that lets you record lessons with your webcam. With so many social learning and how-to video networks out there, the ability to record lessons from your webcam may seem like a no-brainer....
The New York Times today tipped us on their answer to TechMeme, although it isn't exactly a truly one-to-one translation of the technology blogosphere monitoring tool. The tech section of the NY Times online website has new content for it's middle co...
We received a tip from a Spanish-speaking Mash reader that did some digging (pun intended) that indicates Digg may be interested in acquiring Meneame, a popular Spanish-language social news site. The report is based on some message board postings (in...
The official news is out on the MySpace and Google deal, first rumored earlier today. The big news: the two companies have actually been working together on OpenSocial all along, which launches officially tonight. From the jointly issued news release...
The Fu*k Index. I know you're wondering what it is. So I'll tell you. It's a Facebook application launched by former SNL writer E. Jean (she currently writes the Ask E. Jean advice column in Elle magazine). E. Jean is now working on a book, all about...
