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Bing Opens Up. Is It Good? It's Too Early To Tell.

Bing, Microsoft's latest effort to beat Google at what it does best - search - is now live for everyone. It's bearing the ubiquitous "beta" tag, and contrary to what many expected from Microsoft, the search is decent. But it's also strangely familiar...

MTV Movie Awards: Live and Illegal

I'm inadvertently watching the MTV Movie Awards...but not on TV. Rather, I just stumbled upon many of the live streamed versions, in which TV viewers set up a camera in front of their TV screens and stream live to a worldwide web audience. The qualit...

HOW TO: Read, Explore, and Build Simple Travel Guides

For most people, travel is about learning and discovery. The discovery of new places, of new food, and of new experiences drives people to traverse distant lands. This is why help finding these experiences is a huge business that ranges from book gui...

Facebook: Slow and Unresponsive, Again?

We've heard numerous reports that Facebook has been running very slow, and at times has become completely unresponsive, over the last couple of days. Additionally, it's been that way for most of us at Mashable, too; and judging by the conversations o...

CBS Eyes Live Video Edge with Ustream

Three of the four major networks, FOX (owned by News Corp), NBC, and ABC (owned by Disney), are joint partners in one of the fastest rising online video services around: Hulu. The odd man out of this partnership is CBS. Yet while it's been excluded f...

Mashable's Weekly Social Media Conference Guide

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. Not on this list? Contact us and let’s establi...

Google to Cut the E-Book Middleman

Do you use Google Book Search? It's a great resource if you need to search older titles, which aren't protected by copyright, or preview new ones. However, if you actually want to buy newer books, you must jump from Book Search to another online reta...

Announcing the Summer of Social Good Charity Drive

Mashable is proud to announce the first ever Summer of Social Good! Running from June 1st till August 28th 2009, the Summer of Social Good is the first large scale online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online through the power of Social ...

Twitter Marketing: Free Downloads for Your Tweets

With “trending topics” now a part of the Twitter interface, marketers and publishers (and unfortunately spammers) alike are quickly realizing that getting something to go viral on the microblogging service can be a huge win for your brand. Now, an in...

7 Technologies Shaping the Future of Social Media

Mike Laurie works as a Digital Planner at UK Integrated Agency JPMH where he helps brands get the most from digital media. You can follow Mike on Twitter. In 2019, when you look back at the social media landscape ten years earlier, you might laugh at...

Tweeting Bar Tweets Every Beer Pour

We've already documented 7 extraordinary Twitter uses in the home, so we know that everything from plants to washing machines to ovens are all a-Twitter these days. In the same vein 360i, a digital agency in New York, has jimmy rigged their office be...

Xbox Live to Add Facebook and Twitter Integration

Last week, we opined that portable identity services like Facebook Connect would be a perfect fit for the next generation of online games (specifically, the new Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online). Today, at the E3 conference, Microsoft announced that both ...

YouTube Stars to Endorse Carl's Jr. Burgers

Never one to shy away from a risky ad campaign, the always provocative burger maker Carl's Jr. is taking their latest campaign for the new Portobello Mushroom Six-Dollar Burger to the web with a little help from some YouTube celebs. Carls Jr. is bank...

Happn.in Finds What's Hot in Your City on Twitter

Following trending topics on Twitter (which you can do from the Twitter home page when you're logged in, or from the search page) is a great way to find out what people are talking about around the world. Often, when a topic is trending on Twitter, i...

YouTube Brands: 5 Outstanding Leaders in YouTube Marketing

Catherine-Gail Reinhard is creative director at Videasa, an agency that focuses on creating video infotainment for the web and emerging media platforms. You can follow her on Twitter. As YouTube has grown into the preeminent video sharing service onl...

Twitter Your Way to Getting Robbed

Going out of town? Most of us who tweet have been known to share that little tidbit of news with our followers, especially if that out of town journey is to a conference or event where we're likely to meet other Twitterers. Well, you might want to re...

E3 Live Stream by Justin.tv Draws 1.6 Million Viewers

Justin.tv seems to be a bit of an open book lately when it comes to their stats. Last week, for example, they shared somewhat dubious numbers which suggested that their users upload more video than those on YouTube. Today, however, they are touting s...

LetsEat.at Helps Local Restaurants Build Targeted Websites

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...

China Blocks Twitter (And Almost Everything Else)

It seems that as of today, the Chinese authorities have blocked internet access to Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Live.com, Hotmail.com and several other sites. Wordpress, YouTube, Blogger are also blocked. According to early reports on Twitter and on blogs ...

Twitter is Not Your Average Social Network

A study conducted by Harvard Business Review reveals that most Twitter users don't actually use the service much, or even at all. In fact, 10% of active users are responsible for over 90% of all Tweets. According to the research, conducted on a rando...

One of Google Chrome's First Extensions: AdSweep

AdBlock Plus, an add-on that prevents advertisements from being loaded on web pages, is one of the most popular add-ons for Firefox. The non-profit Mozilla Foundation (whose corporate arm, Mozilla Corporation, does profit mainly from advertising) has...

SeaWorld’s Whale of a Social Media Campaign

Recently, we’ve covered a variety of social media campaigns that utilize Facebook Pages as their primary marketing vehicle (see: Vitamin Water, Target, US Weekly). However, Buddy Media continues to push what they call app-vertisements – essentially a...

YouTube XL Released; It's YouTube Made for the TV

Although YouTube remains king of online video, competitors like Hulu and Boxee have brought quality video not only to the Web, but to the living room as well. What YouTube is releasing today is a very bold move to make their service a part of this ex...

10 Must-Haves for Your Social Media Policy

Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com. A few weeks ago, I wrote that your organization should have a social medi...

ESPN ScoreCenter: Real-Time Sports Scores on iPhone

ESPN ScoreCenter - it's like SportsCenter for your iPhone. Or at least that's what ESPN wants to us think with their new free app available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Portuguese languages. The ScoreCenter app sticks to what ESP...

Places Directory is Google's Version of Yelp for Mobile

Finding gas stations, restaurants, clubs, and other locations while-on-the-go is a service that is high in demand. There are also a lot of options for discovering this information as well: Yelp Mobile, GOOG 411, MapsBuddy for the iPhone, and Urbanspo...

TwitDoc: Drag and Drop File Sharing for Twitter

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...

What Would You Ask Wolfram Alpha’s Founder?

Wolfram Alpha, which launched to the world via live video last month, plans to take to Justin.tv once again, this time to have founder Stephen Wolfram answer questions from users of the self-dubbed computational knowledge engine. So what's been going...