If you've hopped over to Google.com this Halloween, you might have spotted the world's favorite search engine has a special Halloween logo. Actually, it's not just one logo: clicking on the Google image delivers a series of images related to Hallowee...
Twitter opened up Twitter Lists this week, allowing users to create their own "follow lists" of their favorite Twitter accounts. Todd Zeigler tallied the early stats this morning and found that - yowzers - our own humble @mashable account was the sec...
Twitter can be a very educational place, whereby following the right individual or brand, you can learn from their tweets. In fact, we've already highlighted usability experts, entrepreneurs, authors (fiction and nonfiction), environmentalists, foodi...
The instantaneous and shareable nature of the Internet is one of the things that separates it from other mediums. Viral videos and Internet memes can take hold and spread quickly. Thanks to social networking, the speed in which the latest phenomena c...
Confused about how to use Google Wave, the new Google product that combines messaging, wiki-like features and group collaboration into a single app? You're not alone. To clear up the confusion, we recently published Google Wave: A Complete Guide, a f...
A social media service announcement: YouTube is suffering some downtime today, with the site first becoming unresponsive over two hours ago, and now experiencing limited uptime for many users. We're seeing YouTube embeds on Mashable occasionally fail...
What's next for Twitter? According to Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur, it'll be a hub of hyperlocal news, be used more by devices than humans (eg. cars that Tweet their location) and replace chat applications for many people. Le Meur, answering the ques...
Over the weekend, reports have been piling up saying that iPhone syncing with iTunes doesn't work for some users on Windows 7. The official Apple forums have several threads related to the issue, so it's quite safe to assume the issue is real. Lookin...
The UK's Independent newspaper picks up on a curious study today: people who download music illegally also buy more music legally, according to a poll's results. The study comes as the UK plans a controversial "three strikes and you're out" rule that...
I've been swimming for a couple of summers now, working ardently on my technique and cardio, and I'm still incredibly slow. So slow, in fact, that Michael Phelps could swim 500 m, get out of the water, order a hamburger, and read the morning news bef...
According to mobile analytics company Flurry, there's been a surge of ebook-related applications for the iPhone. Based on their research, which included sampling over 2,500 applications and 40 million consumers accross four mobile platforms, this cat...
It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section. Is your event not on this list? Contact us at ...
UPDATE: you can get started with Twitter Lists by following the Mashable Team Twitter List at Twitter.com/mashable/mashable The just-launched Twitter Lists feature is a new way to organize the people you're following on Twitter, or find new people. I...
As the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies heats up, fans are turning to the web in droves to capture and replay its most exciting moments. Last night's game four in Philadelphia was certainly no exception. The gam...
We had a feeling that the Michael Jackson documentary "This Is It" would do pretty well at the box office, thanks to strong online ticket sales in advance of the film's release. When the final box office numbers were tallied up, "This Is It" grossed ...
iPhones, Android phones, and now Nokia phones (S60 models) all have the ability to run the Google Mobile App and conduct searches by voice. The Nokia news comes by way of a Google blog post on the announcement and means that a whole new audience can ...
Now that Twitter Lists have been rolled out to everyone, and the Lists API is in the wild, the next thing for Twitter users to look out for is Lists support in their favorite desktop, mobile, and web applications. Today, Seesmic Desktop appears to be...
Brandon Mendelson is the co-author of a public domain mash-up, Dracula And Kittens. Follow @BJMendelson on Twitter for updates on this and other projects. Considered to be one of the worst films ever made, Santa Claus Conquers The Martians is availab...
Now that all Twitter users have Twitter Lists, Seesmic has announced support of Lists in their desktop application, and more and more use cases are being suggested, buzz around the feature continues to intensify. Earlier, we published a guide about h...
More and more content is available online for free -- legally -- than ever before. However, as a result, some customers are moving from the cable box to the computer screen, and dropping their premium subscriptions as a result. Last month, a News Cor...
In a not completely surprising twist of events, the This Is It film is proving to be the Michael Jackson comeback the deceased pop star was hoping for with the planned world tour prior to his untimely passing. We've already reported on This Is It dom...
What's cooler than the Rock Band for iPhone application? How about a man-made robot that uses light sensors and robot fingers to master the game's highest level of difficulty without any human influence? Joe Bowers decided that he would rather have a...
You have to credit the phishers and scammers: they are persistent in their attempts to hijack your Twitter account. They scammed many uses back in September and updated their tactics in October. Now they're at it again with similar tactics but a diff...
If you missed the University of Florida football game on Saturday, then you might be unaware of a shocking moment in the game when Brandon Spikes, a linebacker for Florida, blatantly shoves his fingers inside the face mask of Georgia running back, Wa...
Recently, there have been some rumors swirling around about Skype becoming open source (for Linux), originating with a French blog. The news has continued to spread, so Skype representatives have posted an entry on the Skype for Linux blog clarifying...
If businesses, governments, and education institutions don't upgrade to a newer IP address standard relatively soon, we could experience an unnerving scenario: the world running out of Internet addresses. The report, released by the European Commissi...
Back in May, when Google Wave first made its debut on the stage of the Google I/O conference, we chronicled what we believed to be the top 6 game-changing features of Google Wave. While we discussed some big ones such as Wave extensions and its wiki-...
Update: Twitter's also released their own widget, which you can see embedded at the end of this post. - As predicted the Twitter Lists API is causing a fast frenzy amongst Twitter developers anxious to be first to support the new Lists feature. Just ...
Greetings, music fans! It's another Free Music Monday for your listening pleasure. If you've been with us for past episodes, you'll know we're celebrating the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter. We pick 10 tracks, albums or playlists from around the w...
The latest Chrome beta build ushers in a great new feature: bookmark syncing. If you use multiple computers, or even just appreciate a cloud backup of your browser bookmarks, this feature will be a boon. You can grab the new beta build 4.0.223.16 her...
