It's Hammertime, the iPhone app. Yes, you too can keep up with MC Hammer wherever you are, 24/7, on your iPhone. Seemingly part of a new line of celeb-apps, the Hammertime app was build by Loveland, Colorado-based InfoMedia, creators of the extraordi...
YouTube's ability to embed links and annotations within videos is leading new forms of interactivity. Take, for instance, a new 30-level "Spot the Difference" game based on the Oscars (start playing by watching the video above). By highlighting areas...
Microsoft's Songsmith software, which "generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice" has become infamous for the creation of painful versions of classic tracks like Roxanne. Now there emerges a more creative use of the tool: turning stoc...
Twestival, the world's largest Twitter charity event - and a cause that Mashable is proud to have partnered on - has signed up another big name this weekend. LiveEarth, host of the largest global entertainment event in history (2007's Concerts for a ...
Facebook finally has a plan on how to monetize its vast user base: according to the Telegraph, they will allow market research companies to poll Facebook users on various details of their personal life. Yes, that means your sexual orientation, your i...
It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming technology and social media events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section. Not on this list? Contact us and let’s ...
We've all pretty much become accustomed to the notion that Google is this invincible internet giant which will always be there for us, but it's not always true. A good example was this weekend's fiasco, when (due to human error) Google's search engin...
Google’s mission is famously to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.†Apparently, that mission really does include the entire world, as the company is set to roll out an update to Google Earth that will inc...
The Social Music series is supported by Blive Share Beta, hosts of the Groove Armada mini album. Finding great new music can be the most rewarding experience, but sometimes the effort that goes into music discovery often thwarts even the most determi...
Information overload. It's a problem that most of us struggle with on a daily basis. We each have our own systems for processing email, keeping our address books up to date, and managing our calendars. If your system is anything like mine, however, i...
Online genealogy tools are a great resource for families looking to piece together their ancestries. One such web service has added a simple way to make more sense of your lineage, by tracing the roots of your surname. The new surname map feature, fr...
The song "867-5309/Jenny," from the Tommy Tutone 2 album, is an 80's classic that most of us still love, and continue to blast and sign-a-long with from our cars, stereos, iPods, and karaoke bars. Sing it with me: 8 - 6 - 7- 5 - 3 - 0 - 9, 8 - 6 - 7 ...
The iPhone and iPod Touch are capable of a number of things, including helping you keep track of your money. From figuring out loan payments, to calculating tips and finding an ATM within your network so you won't pay fees, there seem to be countless...
Affixa is, at its core, an e-mail management application. It acknowledges the fact that people are switching from desktop e-mail clients to webmail, and therefore it focuses on bringing better support for Gmail and Yahoo Mail to your desktop. It does...
While the names of some new followers I get on Twitter or Friendfeed immediately ring a bell, with others, I have no idea who the person might be. Typically, I can make a “re-follow decision†within a few seconds by checking out their profile and cli...
Forget paper? That may be a little drastic (and presumptuous), but the Gmail blog has an incredibly tongue-in-cheek post that details how paper, even in our modern times, has been the scrap pad of choice for quickly jotting down tasks. Google seems t...
Muhammad Saleem is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. You can follow him on Twitter If you've been using the Web to procrastinate or otherwise waste time since the pre-YouTube days, you're proba...
Mark D. Drapeau, Ph.D., is a Washington, D.C.-based biological scientist, government consultant, and frequent writer on social media and society. Perhaps overshadowed by Super Bowl chatter, the past weekend was also noteworthy for a thoughtful Wall S...
According to the New York Times, four Google executives are facing criminal charges - which might result in jail time - because of an offensive video posted on Google Video in 2006. The video in question depicts four youths teasing a kid with Down sy...
Version 4.0 of Skype (download here) has arrived, with a host of new features including full-screen video calling and a revamped instant messaging system. While a few new bells and whistles sound nice, what I’m most interested in about the new Skype ...
Elliott Kosmicki is the founder of GoodPlum.com - a productivity and personal development blog for home business owners. You can also follow Elliott on Twitter. You know you can be better. We all can. It's the reason productivity and personal develop...
See? We can all get along if we try. Google Korea and Yahoo Korea have agreed to merge several of their key services, thinking they could both benefit from the partnership. Under the agreement, video clips from the Korean version of YouTube will show...
Travel sites are a dime a dozen, but they do little to help parents find family-friendly vacations. If you've got a family, and you're looking for a resource on tips and destinations that are kid-appropriate, then turn to Trekaroo. Trekaroo is a trav...
Google wasn’t kidding when they indicated that they were going to re-focus on their key products. Gmail is getting yet another useful upgrade today – the introduction of a “Move to†option that lets you apply a label to a thread and archive it in one...
Don't have an iPhone? Dissatisfied with Yahoo Games? Love Amazon? Okay so that might leave just a handful of you, but starting today you can download your favorite games from Amazon's new game download store. The new offering, not-so-uniquely labeled...
Another cool new feature from Google today: the ability to create a Google News slideshow that you can embed on your own website. The company has launched the NewsShow wizard that lets you pick a search expression (“social media†in the example below...
Perhaps in an effort to boost traffic and become relevant again, Technorati is opening up a new service, previously in beta, that lets you create content for them in exchange for exposure. Technorati's fresh Tag Pages and Blurbs creates a Wikipedia-l...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or prefer to claim all ignorance of pop culture happenings, you’ve probably heard about the Christian Bale rant by now. The star of The Dark Knight and American Psycho was captured on tape verbally assaulting a...
Tomorrow Facebook will celebrate its fifth birthday. The grown-up site has come a long way since its college-only days, and what better way for Facebook to share the love then to give its 150+ million members free gifts? Now don't get too excited - t...
No matter how good a service is it can always use a few tweaks, and Flickr is no different. The 15 add-ons we've gathered below for Firefox will help with everything from navigation to uploading, accessing Flickr in countries that block the service, ...
