Last year we did a post on Web development tools. A lot has changed in the past year, and there are tons of new tools available to developers. Options include drag-and-drop application builders, code repositories, project management and testing apps,...

Don’t think cloud computing is a wonderful thing? Wait until everyone and their mother has a netbook in hand. Yeah, you know, those small Wi-Fi-happy machines sporting 8-13” screens, flash-based storage drives, Intel Atom central processors, etcetera...

I don’t know whether to think recent calculations for mobile video consumption (or lack thereof) via the four top wireless carriers in America are just a little bit Halloween spooky, a big point of concern, or perhaps a good omen. It’s come to be a c...

Some people make goals for themselves to reach every day. Like an hour-long bike ride, or a walk or jog around the neighborhood each morning, noon, or night. Others like to work themselves up toward bigger things. Like climbing Everest. Or rowing acr...

I’ve said it twice before already, but I’ll reiterate: This is the YouTube election. Yes, Twitter has played some part. Reputable bloggers on all sides of the fence, too. But YouTube has been the glue that’s bound this big beautiful mess of a social ...

Families have collectively jumped on the Web with gusto. Online tools have given them the ability to do everything from track the family schedule to keep in touch with distant relatives, monitor their children's browsing, and more. Many of these serv...

It was this past Thursday, in our review of another review service, when I figured that Google should seriously consider generating automated translations for YouTube clips to build on its relatively young captions capability. Well, today it began to...

Do you ever have the urge to explore new sites on the Web? Maybe you give the social search-discovery engine StumbleUpon a few minutes of your time every day, looking for interesting places to visit. Sort of like driving cross-country and seeing the ...

We’re in the final 72 hours of the presidential campaign in the US, which many in the press and the blog space regard as one of the most contentious and captivating of any in recent history. Yes, now is when fevers climb; voters arrange their car poo...

You know those sweepstakes that go on in malls and on oceanside boardwalks? Organizers might ask you to offer up $50 for a single ticket with a chance to win a car when the final lottery drawing is made. Purchance is kind of same idea. Only, you’re a...

In a time of stock market crisis, bailouts and a weak dollar, LinkedIn still raises $22.7 million in funding. How? It's a relevant site with a number of useful resources for professionals and businesses. Meanwhile, the launch of the site's applicatio...

Qoof, a company specializing in video-enhanced commerce for retailers on the Web, à la HSN or QVC, is expanding on its toolset this week to include what it regards as an “all-in-one” platform showcasing products in detail surpassing that made possibl...

Salesforce.com is adding a major new component to its platform: allowing developers to run their external facing websites and applications on top of the company’s infrastructure. The new offering, called Force.com Sites, is aimed primarily at existin...

If you can't beat them, join them. This is the gist of MTV and MySpace's new online video monetization strategy: instead of yelling, complaining, and removing user uploaded copyrighted videos, they'll simply put up ads on them. They'll do this using ...

Hulu, News Corp and NBC's "YouTube killer", just turned one year old. And while YouTube is far from dead, Hulu's 142 million video views in September might qualify as a paper cut. Other "killers" heralded by the technology press...rarely leave a mark...

We know that the looming recession doesn't mean that all funding will immediately stop, but amidst the waves of layoffs and cautionary e-mails sent by VCs it's nice to see widget maker RockYou getting an additional 17 million dollars, which brings th...

Here’s Mashable’s latest round-up of upcoming Web 2.0 events, parties, and conferences. Not on this list? Contact us and let’s establish a media partnership. :) November 3-4, 2008, New York City: Learn about web design at the Future of Web Design con...

VoxOx is a new service launched by San Diego based startup TelCentris. It's a Skype competitor that does more than just VoIP, unifying voice, video, instant messaging, texting, e-mail, fax and social media communication inside one desktop application...

Dr. Mark Drapeau is an Associate Research Fellow directing the Social Software for Security (S3) project at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy of the National Defense University in Washington, DC. The day after the presidential el...

When someone asks you “how was it?” in relation to a new restaurant, do you typically go on for a few minutes about everything from the wait staff to the décor, or are you more likely to offer a “it was pretty good, I’d go there again!”? If you’re mo...

Andrew Warner is an Internet entrepreneur and the founder of Mixergy.com. I've interviewed Robert Scoble several times about how to become Internet famous because I'm dying to get some fame. I know it's not the kind of thing I'm supposed to admit, bu...

Photo sharing site Flickr has announced that they’ve now had 3 billion photos uploaded to their servers. It was almost exactly a year ago that the site saw its 2 billionth photo uploaded, meaning that Flickr has grown just over 50% in 2008. While tha...

Touchnote launched in the United Kingdom today with the goal of making the Internet just a little more personal. It allows you to send real mail to the people in your life in the form of custom cards that you create from your digital art. For those o...

Company Widgadget 20-Word Description Widgadget is the community portal for widget creation and distribution. It wishes to popularize widgets for users, bloggers and brands. CEO's Pitch Widgadget is designed to help users, bloggers, brands and agenci...

The presidential election cycle is drawing to a close, but are you truly prepared to cast your vote? We've gathered up a wide selection of sites to help you review the issues that matter to you. From presidential sites and social networks to electora...

Yahoo has announced that it will be shutting down Yahoo Live, the company’s attempt to cash in on the live broadcasting trend popularized by startups like UStream and Justin.tv. According to the Yahoo Live blog, “… we constantly evaluate our early-st...

Not many Web sites allow you to create your own pages, but many do allow you to create segments of HTML. What if you wanted to allow this on your own site? Do you write your own editor? Well, with the capabilities offered by these six embedded HTML e...

One of the topics I've touched on recently that's garnered the most interest has been the prospect of a Chief Technology Officer sitting in the cabinet of the President of the United States. It's something that's been promised as a certainty to us sh...

Is there anything Twitter can't do? Apparently, you can even use it to guesstimate the result of US presidential elections in certain states. This little chart below, although not graphically beautiful, is the result of some algorithms put together b...

Let me start off by noticing that Twitter has nearly completely solved its frequent downtime issues. I haven't heard anyone complain about downtime in weeks, and I haven't noticed any problems with the site myself. So, now that they finally have that...