Perhaps you heard a week or two ago that Google had launched a new layer for its Earth utility to display Google News stories. Which we thought was pretty nifty. Earlier still, The New York Times had unveiled its own news layer, too. Well, if those t...
Blockbuster has been in the news on and off ever since Netflix got to be the video rental king it is today. It’s typical role now is one of a sort of pin cushion which critics jab - most rightly, some wrongly - when drawing comparisons to the inventi...
A new social network geared toward the action sports crowd has launched today. Called Twinzer, it enters a market already well-stocked with sites ranging from BoardRideTV to Skuff TV to Action Profiles to the Tony Hawk-backed Shred or Die. Some are o...
Sharing of media online, whether the content is produced professionally or for personal purposes, is now a natural way of operating. For a long while you could pass along YouTube embeds, as well as clips from sites like DailyMotion and Vimeo and so f...
Virgin Radio, a property that supplies content to both online and offline audiences in the UK, has been purchased, sans the brand name, from SMG, a Scottish broadcaster, to TIML Golden Square, a subsidiary of Bennett Coleman, to the tune of £53.2 mil...
This one’s been traveling around various ends of the blog world for a couple of days now. While many people in coastal reaches of the US have taken a curious interest with Google’s growing network of roadside photography, dubbed Street View, a small,...
Twitter hasn’t been the shining star to its membership it once was. An increasingly common refrain heard by critics is one which comically portrays pertinent news as when the service is up, rather than down. (If it’s active, hurray. If not, well, wha...
As long as man has walked the Earth he's wanted to know what the weather will be like tomorrow. Well, the 21st century is providing you with tons of tools to help predict the future, hopefully one or two of them will actually get it right! Aviation A...
Last week, Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback laid bare a detailed assessment of the makings, the happenings, and the aftereffects of a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack leveraged against the San Francisco-based Web video company by MediaDefender...
Adobe is jumping head first into web-based software this evening, announcing the launch of several new services at Acrobat.com. The launch essentially moves Adobe's traditional strengths of document creation and management software (Acrobat / Adobe R...
Online video advertising is the place to be. Tremor Media network has just raised another undisclosed round of funding, from the Samwer brothers' European Founders Fund. Mark Pinney, former chief Financial Offercer and Chief Privacy Offer of Tacoda w...
Eventbrite, the self-service ticketing web site, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from The European Founders Fund. While the company is already profitable, they plan to use the additional funds from The Samwer brother's investment firm pri...
If your favorite web service or site has been down over the weekend, or is still down today, chances are that it's due to an explosion in major web host The Planet's H1 data center. Yes, we said explosion. The damage is massive, and 6,000 servers wen...
Today marks the end of my second month in San Francisco, having made the pilgrimage from Scotland in April. The question most regularly asked by those outside the Bay Area's echo chamber: should my startup make the move? The answer is an emphatic "it...
Digg, I love you man, but you're not particularly smart. See, your way of associating an image with a story is sometimes a bit...totally freaking wrong. Take, for instance, the Mashable story that got Dugg this weekend: AdSense for RSS Feeds Set to L...
The thing about Twitter is that it's not the most popular microblogging/web IM/whatever service out there because it's better than others. It's the most popular because it's more...twittery than other services. You can't really put a finger on its ma...
RSS subscriber numbers aren't the most accurate metric of any site's popularity, but they're at least some kind of metric, which gives people the urge to analyze, compare, and boast about them whenever possible. FeedCompare is a simple Alexa-like too...
The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and “New Media†websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more. New Listings Director, Social Media MarketingFanscape is a leading new media marketing agen...
New Web 2.0 services await; all you need to do is grab your free invites over at Mashable Invites! Pogobrowser InvitesPogo is a new 3D web browser. ... Scenelife InvitesTorrent search ... Zenbe InvitesWorld's best email experience: Zenbe includes a c...
Continuing on its quest for market share, Microsoft has signed a deal to have its Live Search offering become the default search engine on all HP consumer PCs, starting next year. The deal includes both the search toolbar in your HP computer’s taskba...
Internet Week New York kicks off tonight at 5:30 pm at Gracie Mansion, the "home" of Mayor Bloomberg, where I will be in attendance live streaming the event. For a full list of events this week check out the Internet Week event schedule. Join Mashabl...
Here's Mashable's latest round-up of upcoming Web 2.0 events, parties, and conferences. June 3, 2008: The newest Mixergy Forum teaches startups how to get funded. It's led by investors who fund early-stage companies and entrepreneurs who have been th...
While real-time quotes have been available since the early days of the Web through online brokerages like E*Trade and Ameritrade, if you didn’t have an account with one of these services, you were mostly out of luck and had to live with delayed (usua...
WineLibrary.tv's Gary Vaynerchuk and Mashable founder Pete Cashmore "GaryVee", otherwise known as wine guru Gary Vaynerchuk, is a friend to everyone. An online friend, at least: leveraging Facebook, Twitter and a popular video blog at WineLibrary.tv,...
“Rick Rolling†probably reached its peek in popularity back on April Fool’s Day, but like any huge viral phenomenon, there are still plenty of people trying to capitalize on it. The latest attempt, RickProof.com, promises to help you “get the upper h...
Zannel, the 2008 Webby Award Winner in the "Mobile Social Networking" category, has raised $10 million in Series B funding from Alloy Ventures and other venture capital firms, according to PE Hub. Zannel is the first "Instant Media Messaging" service...
Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review†series, please see the details here. STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: GraphicLeftovers 20-word Description: GraphicLeftovers provides a haven where g...
Online reputation monitoring tool Trackur has added a new feature called Trackur Trends. It's a progressive next step for the service that lets you see what the world is saying about you, aggregating all the data it collects and presenting it with a ...
What a difference a year makes. I won't get too mushy-faced on this one, but Facebook's platform just celebrated its one-year anniversary. The past 12 months have completely changed the face of online social networking, in large part due to Facebook ...
To kick off Internet Week New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced NYC Seed, an investment fund focused on early stage technology companies in New York City. The fund is a partnership between ITAC, New York City Investment Fund, The New York S...
