Every year, IT, web and media companies around the web crack April Fools' jokes, but since we're in a global economic recession, it seems that everyone feels the need to make their users smile, at least for one day. There's simply too many jokes out ...
As expected, RIM has launched its mobile application store, dubbed BlackBerry App World, at the CTIA Wireless show. As we know from before, the App World is quite similar to Apple's App Store as far as pricing and revenue share goes. Applications wil...
Has someone thrown fake spiders on your bed yet? It's April Fools Day, and you probably have already been the target of someone's trickery. If you have been the victim of a whoopee cushion or fallen for someone's elaborate story about leaving to live...
Zoho has announced a major new version of its Zoho Chat, which brings multi-protocol support and thus becomes a competitor to Meebo and other web-based instant messengers which support several IM protocols. Zoho Chat 2.0 brings support for Yahoo!, Go...
Social identity and content ownership is a hot topic that bloggers and twitterers alike discuss with passion. Whether you want to own your online identity, content, or contacts, or you just have social network fatigue, chi.mp aims to be your online s...
Are you seeking a new job? Mashable’s job boards are currently open for business! We at Mashable firmly believe that one of the lucky recipients of a new job can be you. This week and every week, Mashable will be featuring its coveted job board listi...
April Fool’s Day pranks are in full effect around the Web, and so far, most of them have been pretty easy to defuse. But SlideShare – the service that lets you share presentations online – is catching some heat for a prank that a lot of users fell fo...
Last month at the Mobile World Congress, Yahoo announced that they were developing a new, feature-rich mobile version of Yahoo to replace the current interface. Today, the company released its redesigned and upgraded mobile version, as well as the Ya...
Mashable and Regator are proud to announce the first ever Mashable event in Atlanta! We have a special evening planned and we look forward to meeting the Atlanta social media community. Mashable team members in attendance will include Adam Ostrow (Ed...
Obsessive on-the-go note takers already using Evernote on their iPhone should check their application updates, because version 2.0 of the app was released today and includes some fantastic improvements. Now, on top of the fresher user interface, the ...
The Social Media Cartoon is an occasional Mashable feature created in partnership with Hubspot. Ever got a Twitter follow notification from a Twitter user with a spammy name like "Satellite TV for PC"? Did you notice they're following thousands of pe...
Hot on the heels of the dust-up surrounding Last.fm's decision to charge International users and kill off third party mobile apps, Pandora's announcing a welcome and positive change that Last.fm's had for a few months - song lyrics. According to thei...
Steve Coulson is a partner at The Advance Guard, a new media company that creates radical marketing programs using disruptive technologies, community platforms and social media. So – you’ve set up a Facebook public profile for yourself, your brand or...
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...
UPDATE - This application has been replaced by a new version. Please see the post "Mashable's Official iPhone App". Mashable is proud to launch the official Mashable iPhone App . It's a simple concept: you get Mashable headlines and Tweets right ther...
The folks at Twitter are experimenting (on a small set of users) with a new search box that will be added to the sidebar and display search results directly on the homepage. They call it the "discovery engine," although it seems like a redesign and a...
This post was co-authored by Gradon Tripp and Matthew Knell, co-organizers of Social Media for Social Change, host of The SM4SC NYC fundraiser to benefit City Harvest. We've all seen how social media is good for business. It helps build a brand, driv...
With more and more social sites popping up on the Web, your preferred username is becoming directly entangled with your social identify. The reality is that it's becoming a priority to claim your username everywhere. So how do you know if your userna...
Social search engine OneRiot is getting into the trendy business of Twitter search, but with a slight twist. Instead of listing real-time tweets across Twitter for specific queries, OneRiot chooses to focus on the pages being dispersed through the mi...
When we first reviewed Glue, the browser plugin that connects people looking at similar Web content, I wrote that “even moreso than many other services, to be really useful, Glue is going to need to have a big-time user base.†That’s because in order...
Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. With over 200 million active users, Facebook has become a personal, product and corporat...
If you think Digg is great for finding interesting and popular stories on all subject matters across the Web, and you're already using any of these 50 tools and resources to get more out of the site, then you're definitely going to enjoy the brand ne...
One of the main reasons to use Gmail over competitive webmail products or a client like Outlook is because of its lightning fast search capabilities. Today, those capabilities are getting a bit of an upgrade, in the form of auto-complete when searchi...
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Co...
For the past month, we've provided an exclusive feature on Mashable: social media comments. If you Tweet about this post, or talk about it on a wide range of social services, from Digg to FriendFeed and beyond, we'll find those comments and add them ...
Muhammad Saleem is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. You can follow him on Twitter When I first heard about the impending launch of the DiggBar, I was annoyed more than anything else. The Digg ...
Thanks to this week’s advertisers and partners for enabling us to bring you the latest social media news and resources. We're particularly inspired by those brands that are engaging with our readers as part of our Twitter Brand Sponsors program: Mash...
It may seem funny, or it may seem like a serious privacy problem, but either way you look at it the incidents regarding Google's Street View are still piling up. As it turns out, people simply don't like the idea of anyone photographing their home, e...
Stephen Colbert is a great fan of Twitter. Ok, not really. In fact, judging by the latest video interview with Twitter's co-founder Biz Stone, he seems to think it's all a bunch of hot air; or at least he makes it sound that way with a barrage of jok...
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 Let's get this out of the way first: I used to have a BlackBerry, I loved it, and have noth...
