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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Lee Odden (@leeodden) is CEO of digital marketing agency TopRank Online Marketing and writes about search, social media & online PR at Online Marketing Blog. The increasing demand for fresh, live web content as well as the expectation of consumers to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
San Francisco is hip to Twitter, and not just when it comes to its tech savvy users. Starting today, the City of San of Francisco will support all 311 services via Twitter, with the help of Twitter CRM tool CoTweet. Now citizens can send direct messa...
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...
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...
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...
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...
