April 2009
108 posts
Update Facebook Pages (And Everything Else) With... →
Ping.fm has become a standby one-stop notification service for all of your favorite social networks, and with recent HootSuite and Notify.me integration, you can send and receive…
Disney Buys a Stake in Hulu →
NBC, FOX, and ABC content all on one website now.
TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor →
TwitPic’s become an integral component to the Twitter experience. Its service, when combined with real-time tweets, has allowed for ground-breaking photo journalism and instant celebrity…
MTV and Justin Timberlake Try to Top Twitter With... →
MTV’s new show produced by Justin Timberlake, The Phone, is a strange experiment in scripted reality television. The Phone challenges four strangers, in teams of two, to solve a mystery…
The New FriendFeed: Keeping Pace With the... →
FriendFeed’s once optional beta, which we think looks a lot like Twitter, is no longer a choice.
Starting today, all users of the feed aggregation and comment-rich social network…
How Old Media Publishers Plan to Keep You on Their... →
Apture is an interesting service that enables site owners to add their own content-rich link icons to articles and blog posts - these little icons next to links allow users to hover…
World’s Best Job: Tweet, Drink and Get Paid $10K a... →
Imagine moving to the heart of Sonoma County, where every day you’ll come home to more than 450 wineries along the beautiful northern coast of California. Picture living rent free, learning…
Status Plug: Should Facebook Page Admins Sell... →
Regardless of our personal feelings, it’s clear there are a growing number of social ad networks, like Magpie and adCause, that capitalize on status updates. We now know that…
Does Your Favorite Band Rock the Social Web? →
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Put Your Budget on a Diet With Mint Financial... →
Mint, the personal finance site for ultimate visibility into your financial life, is a great tool for information. But, if you want to actually do something about the sorry state of…
Quub: The Status Update Reinvented →
With the rise of the status update has come a smattering of sites that let you update your status everywhere.
Newcomer Quub, which launches in public beta today, is a web-based,…
Twubs: Wikipedia-Style Hubs for Twitter Hashtags →
Hashtags are all the rage. The single # symbol has come to represent a powerful way to track information, participate in conversations, share movements, and spread memes.
We recently…
Seesmic Desktop: An Early Look at the Future of... →
Make no doubt about it: Facebook’s Open Stream API is huge news.
In much the same way that developers made a mad dash to develop for Facebook platform, build Twitter apps, and, to some…
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Worio: Search Results You Never Knew You Needed →
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iMapWeather: Where Social Media Meets... →
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Never Download a PPT or TIFF Again With Gmail’s... →
We applauded when Gmail added a super fast online viewer for PDFs. But today’s news is worthy of an even heartier clap, because now all of us Gmail users can view TIFF and PPT files right…
Meebo IM Comes to Teen Social Network myYearbook →
Meebo, the web-based instant message app with multi-network and client support, has been adopting a new philosophy of late. Instead of making you come to them, they’ve decided to go where you…
Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover →
Twine is the site where social bookmarking meets social networking, and it’s recently been hot on the heels of Delicious in terms of traffic.
Moving full steam ahead, the site has…
Zankyou: Cash In On Your Wedding Gifts →
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WatchThis is hilarious. 36 songs that use the same four chords. :)
Four Chords, 36 Songs is Today’s BIG Thing - JAN 20, 2009
Polar Rose Adds Facial Recognition to Your Flickr... →
Since the debut of the new iPhoto, which comes complete with facial recognition plus integration with Flickr and Facebook, tagging your friends in photos has become a much easier process.…
Twitter Inside the Minds of Twitter Users →
We know plenty about Twitter’s crazy growth rates and mushrooming membership. We know about brands on Twitter, celebrities on Twitter, politicians on Twitter. We know Twitter apps, hashtags, trends,…
Katie Couric and CBS News Get Creative With... →
Hi there, Facebookers! Katie Couric has a video challenge for you. The CBS Evening News anchor is putting the upgraded Facebook Pages to good use.
In a 48 second video clip posted to her…
Twitter: OAuth Expected to Return Later Today →
In the past few days, grumblings from Twitter application developers have been overheard all over Twitter and the blogosphere. The jilted parties noticed that Twitter OAuth, which has…
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WatchHanging out in the Trapster Cardiff office (they’re a client), and there’s a Mr. Fix-It (the kind of guy that’s straight of a naughty movie) here fixing the door. He’s a whistler. A loud whister. So loud that you can hear him in the distant background (though you might have to turn your volume up) on this little video reaction of me listening to his whistling.
Windows Live Takes a Page From FriendFeed and... →
If you were looking for yet another way to aggregate your social activity from the across the Web, then you’re in luck. Windows Live, the MobileMe for PCs, is getting into the…
Mobile Roadie: iPhone App Creator for Bands on a... →
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Trackle It: Offer Instant Notifications to Your... →
Trackle, a personal alerts site similar to notify.me, is flipping their product offering inside out and tweaking it to fit the other half of the Web — content publishers.
Launching…
Shopseen: A Lifestream for Shopaholics →
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Social Media Hub: New York →
This post is part of Mashable’s Social Media Hub Series, which shines the spotlight on local social media communities, companies and personalities. The series is supported by Virgin…
Is Tweetie For Mac Right For You? →
Hot off the heels of a TweetDeck-Seesmic Desktop showdown, the Twittersphere is buzzing about Tweetie’s new desktop application for Mac. The single-column Twitter client, released to…
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Mojiva: Simple Self-Service Tools for Mobile Ads →
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It’s Official: YouTube Gets Hulufied →
Next time you pop on over to YouTube, you might want to check out the site’s new navigation bar. Remember when we said that Google was planning to launch a redesign to Hulufy YouTube?…
We Are Hunted: A Social Formula for Finding Great... →
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CaptionTube: Sophisticated Caption Editing for... →
Last August YouTube enabled users to upload closed caption files for video captions, but today they’re trying to make it even easier for you to reach those viewers who are either hearing…
Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting →
Chances are that whether you’re aware of it or not, you probably belong to at least one Ning social network. Since the platform launched in October 2005, it’s seen explosive growth in the…
Is Social the Future of Online Ads? →
It looks as if the future of supersized ads really is unavoidable. If you’ve been to YouTube’s home page today, then you’ve no doubt noticed the inescapable Volvo ad that looks more…
SugrCard: Business Cards and SuperPoke Collide on... →
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Socializr Lets You View Events From Multiple... →
We’ve covered Socializr a few times before, and frankly we found the online event and invitation site to be “a mess with some innovative features attached.”
So now that Socializr is…
Wm. Marc Salsberry, Photographer to the (Tech)... →
Before Rolling Stone, there were only greasy haired musicians. After Rolling Stone, there were rock stars. Same people, same talent, just a different way of looking at them. I want to do for new…
Will 12seconds Experience a Shaq Effect? →
Even though 12seconds.tv (12seconds.tv reviews) has been iterating like crazy with their new 12ommecials and integration with TweetDeck, the biggest thing that has happened to the micro-vlogging…
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WatchA great slideshow of some of wmmarc’s best photos from 2008. Of course I love it…because I’m in it, but some of these photos are truly amazing.
This is a great piece on his photo-related accomplishments and aspirations.
State Department Gets Hip To Social Media →
Following in the footsteps of our very avant-garde President and his forays into Web broadcasting with the online town hall, Hulu-streamed press conference, and weekly radio address…