One of the recurring themes of our site is convergence (makes sense, with a name like Mashable). I could give at least thirty examples of convergence between two or more different mediums or services that have been mentioned in the last couple of day...
Man, they just keep on coming. Apparently, the Swedish copyright law has been abruptly changed, which prompted those gnarly pirates from the PirateBay to move their operation to desert of Sinai in Egypt. Here's a bit of nitty gritty tech info for all...
Scribd sent us an announcement yesterday that it insisted is not an April Fool's joke. The YouTube for documents, as it's been lovingly dubbed, is now letting you send in your physical paper documents so that Scribd can scan them and upload them to y...
OK, it's now officially too overwhelming to keep covering all the jokes that are sprouting up everywhere, so I've decided to make a quick selection of some I find particularly well executed. 5. Destructoid turns to Foxtoid - The folks at Destructoid ...
Yahoo’s CEO and company board have pledged for several weeks now to refuse Microsoft’s semi-hostile bid, first made public in early February. They’ve stated with great conviction that the $44.6 billion cash-and-stock offer undervalues its operations,...
While it could easily be confused with yet another April fool’s joke, StartupWear is actually debuting a fairly amusing set of t-shirts today that most anyone who has worked at a startup can appreciate. The company’s pitch: “We figure there are at le...
Microsoft has unveiled a couple of upcoming Live Search features for Windows Mobile and Blackberry based smartphones. These include mapping contacts, map collections, weather info and voice input. Specifically, mapping contacts means you can see the ...
Many thanks to everyone who came and made our MashMeet LA 2.0 a smashing success! Before we get to the pictures and recap, I wanted to give personal thanks to Andrew Warner of Mixergy for helping me put the event together, Karen Hartline of Community...
Do you prefer Google Maps for your business searches and for charting driving directions? Many of you that participated in a past poll said as much. How about AOL’s MapQuest? Either choice is fine with Garmin. In parallel press releases delivered thi...
YouSendIt was already among the simplest ways to send electronic files to friends and colleagues, and now the company is looking to make sending and receiving options even easier. A new feature being released today is called SiteDrop. Think of it as ...
CBS is planning to expand its online radio stream offerings by installing a new, integrated player within its Last.fm property. This news follows a deal made in late January to allow Last.fm users access to a large catalogue of music from the world’s...
YouMail, the voicemail service that lets you record personalized voicemail greetings for assigned friends (and will also hang up on your exes for you), is rolling out a new feature for its site. The latest option is voice-to-text transcription that w...
With the current political season reaching its peak, there are a number of opinion-related sites that have taken advantage of the debating nature of an election year, even if the debates aren't about political issues. Some sites like rivals4ever are ...
Last week, Connecticut’s Attorney General sent a letter to Craigslist demanding the site cleanup what he described as “widespread public reports of prostitutes using the site,†according to Thomas Claburn at Infoworld. At issue are the “erotic servic...
RecommendationBox is a very closed site for offering private recommendations to select friends, and requesting recommendations from your personal network. I know that there are a lot of sites out there that aim to provide a recommendation tool for va...
Outbrain is now open to the public, allowing any blogger to sign up and add the company’s rating and content recommendation widget to their site. If you frequent CenterNetworks or Digital Inspiration, you’ve probably seen Outbrain’s widget in use - i...
This afternoon, Grant Robertson announced to the world that it was with a mix of sorrow and anticipation that he's leaving the Download Squad, and headed over to join Robert Scoble at Fast Company as the producer for Shel Israel's Global Neighborhood...
STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: Phone.com Company Website: http://www.phone.com 20 word description: Phone.com offers cool new communications services, with a special focus on the infrastructure and budget needs of small businesses and households. CEO...
I thought I was done with personal recommendations site reviews today, but alas, another has revealed itself in my inbox. This one is called PopBandit, and it's taken the questionnaire motif as its own for getting a user started. I don't have any pro...
The Social Gaming Network's latest release was the SGN Game Bar for Facebook platform developers to cross-market their SGN games, and now SGN is taking another cue from Facebook and adding in its own updating feed system. Called the Game Feed, game p...
There's more brain drain going on over at Google, as John Furrier put it earlier this afternoon. We've reported on our fair share of leavings from the search giant, but this one is particularly puzzling, even for an auspicious day like today. Google'...
Since the release of the latest YouTube API set, we've seen a good number of applications and integration scenarios that have come about as a result. I love the vast array in which developers and companies like Flixwagon are utilizing the YouTube API...
Mobile media company Frengo has revealed its OpenSocial mobile Toolkit today, enabling developers to "share" their existing applications from other OpenSocial participating networks for mobile use. In order to support this, Frengo has created an Open...
Pinger already had voicemail "blast" options that allowed you to send a single voice message to a large group of friends, but now Pinger is looking to make that service better integrated on the self-publishing end of business. Typically when we see t...
Nuance Communications, a leading provider of speech solutions (Dragon Naturally Speaking, anyone?), today announced their bid to take on the money gobbling SpinVox in the field of Voicemail-to-Text services. We've covered SpinVox here at Mashable a n...
The people that track this sort of thing are always coming up with stories along these lines. There's always a moron, idiot, el stupido, or some other form of mentally deficient criminal being caught because of his actions on a social network, but ne...
Project Agape, named for the ancient greek word for unconditional love, is the organization behind the Causes application, something that you, if you're a Facebook user, likely were guilted into sticking into your list of installed applications at on...
If you, like me, are an avid reader of Engadget Mobile, you may have noticed that T-Mobile had sent them a nasty notice demanding that they stop using the color magenta in the part of their logo. Because, you know, magenta is taken, and you can't use...
In an ever increasing run of posts in which the title poses seemingly innocuous questions about the liberal blog Huffington Post, today the topic of the actual value for the Huffington Post comes to question. At this point, it's clear that Ariana Huf...
Is the urge to buy stuff so strong that we can't even wait to get home and do it online? Apparently, it is. Amazon has launched TextBuyIt, a service that lets you search for and buy items on Amazon directly from your mobile. The process is quite simp...
