The New York Times has an extensive story about Facebook Connect and its imminent expansion to new services: Digg, Hulu, Discovery, CBS and several others. However, looking back at the initial announcement of Facebook Connect, there's really nothing ...
Tonight is the final night to thank your favorite websites by putting forth your vote in the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services. This voting round closes at midnight PST, November 30th (4 hours from now...
Brightstorm makes me feel old. The recently launched website to help teens with schoolwork is introducing SAT prep courses via online video, and is offering 1,000 free courses to Mashable readers (details below). Back in my day, preparing for the SAT...
The Huffington Post has raised 25 million dollars in funding from Oak Investment Partners, claims AllThingsD. According to AllThingsD, this puts the valuation for The Huffington Post at 100 million dollars. It's a big valuation, and the 25 million do...
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A historic Presidential election, an economic crisis, and even Hannah Montana were unable to capture the #1 spot in Yahoo’s yearly rankings of popular search terms. Instead, for the 7th time in 8 years, that title goes to Britney Spears. In the annou...
Here’s Mashable’s latest round-up of upcoming Web 2.0 events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section. Not on this list? Contact us and let’s establish a media partnership. :) December 3, 2008, ...
The Web has been huge for unsigned musicians. Many artists have leveraged social networking tools and music discovery services to find record deals, while others have built large online fan bases. Looking to capitalize on this trend, MSN has added a ...
While I do own several Apple products, I’ve often joked about the cult-like nature of some of the company's fanatical enthusiasts. The Simpsons captured this sentiment remarkably well in a parody of Apple aired last night on FOX. Complete with “The M...
iPhone this, iPod Touch that, BlackBerry and Google Android apps galore, but where is the Windows Mobile love? Well, it is certainly not to be forgotten as the Samsung i770, HTC Touch Pro and Samsung Omnia are all being sold in stores this December, ...
It seems like every day we see a new use for Twitter, some of which can be rather mundane, others of which are actually smart business ideas. Domain registrar NameCheap is executing one of the latter, running a holiday trivia contest where their foll...
Chris Snyder is an online journalist specializing in new media. He writes about the tech biz for Wired.com's Epicenter blog. It’s a long road to a victory in the browser wars. Just ask Firefox. The open source browser which launched in 2004 just crac...
Pownce, the microblogging service often compared to Twitter, has been acquired by Six Apart. According to the company blog, the service will be shutdown on December 15th, while the main Pownce team – Leah Culver and Mike Malone – will join Six Apart....
MySpace is not known for good design. Its garish profiles make designers nauseous. And yet, there are signs of hope: we've tracked down 50 MySpace music layouts that are quite remarkable. Stylish. Stunningly well-conceived. Beautiful, even. Could it ...
This post is part of Mashable's Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials. Company Name Dailymile 20-Word Description Dailymile is a social training site for runners, triathle...
Are you getting the most out of your Adobe AIR installation? Are you one of those people that installed it for one specific application and never explored what else was out there? Well, it's time to get more out of AIR, and here are 10 apps that will...
During a breaking news event, we typically sit glued to a Twitter search. And yet that method of tracking news in real time is fairly embryonic: it's the first step towards all the world's data becoming real time, and available via constantly updated...
...if you trust Robert Scoble, that is. He (damn him, we're jealous) had a chance to try the device out before even the gadget blogs, and he claims (gasp!) that the Facebook experience on it is much better than on the iPhone. His main points? N97 has...
Twitter competitor Pownce is no more. We followed the story yesterday: it was acquired by Six Apart, but not to develop the service further: simply to acquire the talented people that worked on Pownce. I'd like to quickly revisit the story because I'...
MySpace, Flock and Vidoop have developed OpenID for Flock. I'll skip the talk about standards which you don't care about, cut to the chase and tell you what it does. Now, when you browse with Flock and open a web site that has OpenID support, Flock w...
iCal, Apple's calendar application, is probably one of the few Mac-only apps known to non-Mac users, as nearly all calendar/to-do applications can sync with it. If you wanted to sync your Google Calendar with iCal, you kinda sorta could, but now the ...
Ravit Lichtenberg is the founder and chief strategist at Ustrategy.com—a boutique consultancy with a mission to help startups succeed. She authors a blog at ravitlichtenberg.com. With the economic downturn grinding the startup wheels to a near-halt h...
Pet food company Purina has launched “Critter Carols,†a site allowing you to create an animated holiday greeting card using images of your own cats or dogs. The animals will then meow or bark to the tune of holiday classics like “Deck the Halls†or ...
Although Google already enjoys a lead in search on mobile devices comparable to its dominance on the Web, the unique characteristics of mobile – small screens/keyboards, GPS, and cameras, just to name a few – leave open an opportunity for startups to...
Last year we featured over 100 web applications to organize every aspect of your life, from your belongings to your social calendar, and more. Since then, many have been significantly improved and lots of new apps have been released. From basic to do...
This post is part of Mashable's Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials. Company Name Send 20-Word Description Send is a free, easy-to-use email encryption service. CEO's Pi...
Paying for college is expensive. GradeFund, a startup founded by a couple of brothers from Harvard and Princeton, has an interesting new approach to covering at least some of the costs: rewarding students monetarily for making good grades. GradeFund ...
Digg has sent a cease and desist to the company behind USocial.net, the website pictured above. Should we be surprised? The site is publicly advertising its service that lets you buy votes in mass quantity on Digg, Stumbleupon, and Propeller. The soc...
Matt Singley is a business process advisor that focuses on social media and UGC sociology. He authors a blog, Singley's Blog Thoughts, about new (and sometimes old) technologies that can help organizations get ahead. Each morning you get an obscenely...
Crazy Christmas light displays aren’t exactly a new thing. Out here in my part of Texas, there are two “Christmas-land†light displays that are about two or three miles of non-stop light displays. The new thing a couple years ago for the techno-savvy...
