When the iPad was announced, some media partnerships were announced with it, but it wasn't hard to guess that, in the period before the device actually comes to the market, we'll see many more. We already know that Condé Nast is working on an iPad ve...
The latest study from Pew Internet analyzes the news Americans are consuming and various different ways they find news. Based on a sample of 2,259 adults, the study reveals that three fourths of the people (75%) who find news online get it either for...
Peter Gabriel-backed UK music streaming service we7 just launched an iPhone app that lets Premium+ users listen to music on their iPhones, ad-free. We7 gives several options to users: free service is ad-supported, and works worldwide, Premium option ...
Many economists (and the President) believe that small businesses will be what reignite job growth in the U.S. Today, Intuit is out with a new way to track that theory -- a monthly small business employment index that leverages payroll data from tens...
Yes, most of us want Windows Phone 7 to be very different from Windows Mobile. And Microsoft promised that it will, indeed, be different -- closer to the latest generation of Zunes than to a Windows Mobile 6.x phone. But it comes with a price: Chance...
What was once just a Seattle event -- first started by Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Media and Bre Pettis formerly of Etsy.com in 2006 -- Ignite has grown to become an ongoing series of International geek gatherings where the brightest minds get five min...
Last month, we spoke with pop rock band OK Go about the controversy that arose when EMI put the kibosh on embedding the video for their latest single, "This Too Shall Pass." Today, a second video for the song will premiere on their website -- this ti...
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Today, video-sharing site Movieclips.com is opening itself up to the world and also offering developers access to its API. Back in December, we covered the launch of Movieclips.com -- which is kind of like Hulu, but for movie clips. The site -- which...
Remember how Google Chrome's market share grew last month, but Firefox and Internet Explorer's shares slipped downward ever-so-slightly? That trend continued in February, according to web analytics company Net Applications. This time, however, Chrome...
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: Sony PlayStation Network has been restored. --- It may be some time until Sony PlayStation 3 owners can resume their usual online activities, according to a new blog post from Sony revealing it could take 24 hours to fix the glitch, which hit...
An analyst has been speculating that manufacturing bottlenecks may reduce the number of iPads available at launch -- or delay it entirely, according to AllThingsD. More than a month ago, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad to the world, with an ambiguous "l...
A viral video of a 3-year-old crying fan caught the eye of pop star Justin Bieber (and/or Jimmy Kimmel producers), who paid the girl's entire family a visit this past Friday. He also tweeted about the meet and greet and posted a photo to showcase the...
Avatar -- the biggest movie ever -- is also the most buzzed-about film online. It accounts for more than one quarter of all Oscar buzz, according to new data released by The Nielsen Company. Data encompasses online conversations related to the 82nd A...
Professors who wish to engage students during large lectures face an uphill battle. Not only is it a logistical impossibility for 200+ students to actively participate in a 90 minute lecture, but the downward sloping cone-shape of a lecture hall indu...
Google has just acquired Picnik, a popular web-based image editing software. The sale was announced on the Picnik blog and the Google Photos blog. Picnik, which first started in 2005, has become a popular online alternative to image-editing software ...
Greetings and salutations, music fans! Please join us for Free Music Monday this week, wherein we offer you 10 free downloadable MP3s or full albums for your eclectic listening pleasure. If you haven't hung out with us before, we're giving away free ...
Twitter has just announced that it has opened up its full data feed of all public tweets -- a.k.a. the "Firehose" -- to seven new startups, and is looking to partner with more to give them access to the data. Currently, only a few partners have acces...
Mark Suster is a Partner at GRP Partners, a Venture Capital firm in Los Angeles. He blogs at Both Sides of the Table and can be found on Twitter at @msuster. I'm often asked by entrepreneurs and business owners whether it is worth blogging, and if so...
Another wave of Twitter phishing has erupted this afternoon, with a spat of direct messages that read “somebody wrote something about you in this blog here†with a link to an ominous short URL. That short URL asks users to log in to Twitter, but one ...
Sometimes, when television shows go into reruns, we resort to watching truly horrible '90s teen shows to fill the void. And sometimes, when doing so we discover gems, such as this clip from Felicity, in which some random guest star (a.k.a. Amy Smart ...
The nominees for the second annual Streamy Awards were revealed in a live webcast today. The Streamys are awarded to web TV series by the International Academy of Web Television — they're similar to the Oscars, Emmys or Grammys. Nominees were selecte...
BuzzAware is a new GoogleBuzz-focused app directory that is focused on keeping all Buzz related add-ons, apps and plugins in one place. Google Buzz launched a few weeks ago, and even without a completed API, somef developers are still building their ...
Google, the world's largest search engine and the owner of the world's largest online advertising platform, has been granted a major U.S. patent for "determining and/or using location information in an ad system." In other words, Google now owns a ke...
It's time once again to pit two contestants against each other in an all-out battle for the hearts and minds of Mashable readers. In this week's Web Faceoff, we wanted to get a sense of which online console gaming service Mashable readers prefer: Mic...
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...
The sharing service ShareThis is familiar to lots of Internet users -- thanks to its popular plugin and sharing buttons. Now the service is introducing ShareThis Stream, which adds a real-time and social element to what is being shared by your friend...
I know what you may be thinking: Twitter location API already supports places; that's why they call it the location API, right? Well, yes and no. Currently, it supports latitude and longitude, which tells the world where, exactly, you were located wh...
There's a new beta version of Chrome available (version 4.1.249.1021), bringing two very nifty features to Google's browser. First is automatic translation of webpages in language different from your preferred language setting in Chrome. The browser ...
