Want to Run a Contest or Promotion on Google+? Not So Fast

Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You’ll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news.

Google may have finally invited brands to participate on Google+, but it doesn’t plan to let them run promotions…. read more

How Natural Language Processing Helps Uncover Social Media Sentiment

JRehling is former senior software engineer and NLP expert at Meltwater Group, where he was responsible for adding natural language technology to the company’s news and social media monitoring services. He also blogs about NLP.

Every day, people discuss brands tens of thousands of times across social media sites. Companies want… read more

12 Tips to Make Your Company More Creative

Ronald Brown is a successful startup CEO with an extensive background in technology and consumer marketing. His new book, Anticipate. The Architecture of Small Team Innovation and Product Success is available via iTunes, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo.

Last year, reports said creativity was on the decline in the U.S…. read more

The History of Mashable Awards

A year and a half after founding Mashable from Scotland in 2005, CEO Pete Cashmore still hadn’t met his staff. They had each been working remotely, sight unseen, yet remained linked by common beliefs.

Cashmore finally met the Mashable team at the first annual Mashable Awards event in January 2008, which… read more

6 Tips for Holiday Social Good Campaigns

The Commerce With a Conscience Series is supported by Fedex. FedEx does more than shipping. They offer solutions like transporting heart valves to those in need and helping entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. See how.

The holidays are just around the corner, and for many non-profits, that means big opportunities…. read more

The Latest Google Update is Fantastic News for Freelance Writers

On November 3, 2011 Google published a new article on their blog informing readers that fresh new content is now being seen as highly valuable on their blog or website. This “freshness update” is a new addition to Google’s “Caffeine web indexing system”.

Now blog owners who update their sites… read more

Community Project: Vectortuts+ Paper Toy, Round 1

Vectortuts+ loves Illustration and discovering new talent, so today we are proud to be showcasing Round 1 of the Vectortuts+ Paper Toy Project. If you missed out this time, don’t worry, there’s still time to part of it! Find out how to get involved, at the jump.

Design a Custom… read more

An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

Contrary to what you may read, peppering your form with nice buttons, color and typography and plenty of jQuery plugins will not make it usable. Indeed, in doing so, you would be addressing (in an unstructured way) only one third of what constitutes form usability.

In this article, we’ll provide practical… read more

Getting Ready for Next Year–Now

While the end of the year is likely not in the minds of many, it’s closer than you may think.

So before the ball drops and that tax deadline gets even closer, it’s a good time to think about the many things you can do to prepare for the… read more

Building your web design all-star team

Web design is a multidisciplinary craft. So why do so many of us try and do everything ourselves?

Maybe it’s because we can. Our nature as web designers tells us to build things. We have the capability to handle just about every role in a web design project…. read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.110)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our… read more

Beyond the Realm of Brooke Shaden Photography

Brooke Shaden is a fine art photographer living in the famous city of Los Angeles. Her passion lies in creating new worlds through her photography and her vision extends beyond the realm of the camera, creating images that resemble paintings and speak of an era that is not our own…. read more

Take the Interview Enhances Job Candidate Screening With Video

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Take the Interview

Quick Pitch: Take the Interview is a job interview service that adds a video… read more

Appstorm’s Beginners Guide to Usenet

There are a lot of ways for getting files (music, video, software) from the Internet. Some of you might use a peer-to-peer network, such as BitTorrent, or a dedicated file hosting service, like RapidShare. These services are great, but Peer-to-Peer can be slow, and a dedicated file hosting service can… read more

Emergency Alert System Gets First National Test Wednesday

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will run the first-ever Emergency Alert System (EAS) test for 30 seconds Wednesday at 2 p.m. EST, which will be used to inform Americans in the case of a national emergency.

The test alert will resemble warnings previously issued for weather emergencies in affected areas,… read more

4 Ways YouTube Has Changed Broadway

The Digital Marketing Series is supported by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, MA, that makes a full platform of marketing software, including marketing automation tools.

As Shakespeare wrote, “All the world’s a stage.” Increasingly, that stage has grown to include the digital sphere — that means YouTube.

When… read more

Google Direct Connect Hooks Search and Google+ Pages Together

Google has rolled out a new feature called Direct Connect, which makes it dead simple for users to find and follow brands on Google+ via Google Search.

Whenever a user wants to find a brand on Google+, all they have to do is type “+” in Google Search, followed by the… read more

Google+ Launches Branded Pages

Already using Google+? Follow Mashable for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as social media and technology updates.

Google has finally unveiled brand pages for Google+, allowing businesses and brands to join Google’s social network.

“So far Google+ has focused on connecting people with other people,”… read more

8 Mainstream Celebrities Who Invest in Tech Startups

1. Lady Gaga

Startup Investments: Lady Gaga and fellow celebrity Kanye West invested $7.5 million in Turntable.fm – a… read more

11 Essential Tools for the Tech-Savvy Traveler

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The holiday season is upon us, and that means one thing: traveling. Whether you’re hastily coordinating the logistics to actually… read more

The Evolution of the Microprocessor [SPONSORED]

This post is brought to you by Intel, Sponsors of Tomorrow™ and the world leader in silicon innovation. For more information on sponsored posts, read here.

The first programmable microprocessor — the Intel® 4004 — made its debut in 1971 in a business calculator. Since then, multiple generations of Intel microprocessors… read more

30 Top Facebook Apps for Business

Facebook is a good place to communicate with friends and get new job offers. Freelancers should not miss an employment opportunity on Facebook. The social network app section is a real treasure box with multiple handy applications.

These are some of the best Facebook applications that help freelances boost… read more

Disney and YouTube Sign Video Partnership

Disney and YouTube are set to announce a content partnership worth $10 million to $15 million, The New York Times reports.

Under the terms of the agreement, YouTube will invest millions of dollars on an original video series produced by Disney and distributed exclusively through a new co-branded channel on both… read more

Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suite 2012

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Okay, gang, hold on to your hats! Autodesk has released the new version of the Entertainment Creation Suite 2012 for Maya. This new release not only has killer upgrades to Maya but Autodesk has also made some long overdue improvements to Mudbox and MotionBuilder, as well as… read more

The Future Of CSS: Embracing The Machine

Designers hold CSS close to their hearts. It’s just code, but it is also what makes our carefully crafted designs come to life. Thoughtful CSS is CSS that respects our designs, that is handcrafted with precision. The common conception among Web designers is that a good style sheet is created… read more

Freelance Freedom #232: Paralyzing Freedom

Once a week, we feature a fantastic freelance-themed comic from the talented N.C. Winters. This week we’re looking at how freedom can effect your work! Why not also take a look at our comic archive?

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Mashable Weekend Recap: 26 Stories You May Have Missed

We had a super-fun weekend here at Mashable, putting together a variety of stories that ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Sandwiched between those two extremes were tons of tips for business people, an astonishing Bluetooth speaker system we reviewed, lots of helpful posts and even a survey about… read more

Tips And Tricks: Increase The Realism Of Your Vector Images In Adobe Illustrator

Over the years, Adobe Illustrator has become one of the top applications for creating vector illustrations. There is almost nothing you can’t make in Illustrator. It is a powerful tool for creating vectors for all kind of logos, websites, icons, business cards, print materials, etc. One of the best features… read more

25 new business cards – Best of November 2011

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3 New Time-Saving Technologies

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Each weekend, Mashable selects startups we think are building interesting, unique or niche products.

This week we’ve… read more

How to Retain Your Startup Workforce

Morgan Norman is the Founder and CEO of WorkSimple, putting an end to performance reviews by providing a better way for coworkers and teams to share goals, work together, get and give feedback, and make each other shine. Connect with him and WorkSimple on Facebook and Twitter.


Startups provide a unique… read more

How To Ace Your Technical Interview

Adriana Ganos is a Senior Consultant in the Software Engineering Permanent division at Winter, Wyman. Winter, Wyman is the largest and one of the most recognized staffing organizations in the Northeast. Find out more on the Winter, Wyman blog or follow on Twitter @WinterWyman.

Job candidates have clear expectations about the… read more

4 Essential Facebook Page Apps to Improve Communication With Fans

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

The number of Facebook applications can seem a little overwhelming at times. While Facebook doesn’t share an exact number, an independent website called AppData monitors trends… read more

20 Life-Tracking Tools for Better Health, Wealth and Productivity

Ari Meisel is co-founder at Less Doing, where he works on making every task in life and business more efficient. He used self-tracking to overcome Crohn’s Disease and compete in Ironman France. You can follow him on Twitter @liontex and read his blog at arimeisel.com.

Optimizing your life can help free… read more

Justin Bieber: The Ultimate Story of Social Media Fame [SORRY]

Justin Bieber is mindbogglingly famous. And while it certainly helps to have major labels, TV studios and marketing agencies in support, the germination of that stardom began on the web. As legend has it, the then 14-year-old Canadian poplet was discovered in homespun YouTube videos.

In 2011, Bieber, Inc. certainly hasn’t… read more

Branding Your Photography Business – Part 1: Logos

As a former PR person, the importance of branding was always a topic I was harping on with clients – from individual authors to multi-million dollar corporations and non-profit agencies. How a business presents itself can be the difference between success and failure. Photographers are no exception to this rule…. read more

6 Best Practices For Small Business YouTube Marketing

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Mention YouTube and most people will picture cats playing piano. But among a certain type of small businessperson, the name conjures another image: Dollar signs.

Such entrepreneurs can… read more

Mashable Media Summit Highlights [PICS]

Media Summit 2011

The Mashable Media Summit on Nov. 4 at the Times Center in New York City attracted… read more

5 Places to Get Work Done When You’re Traveling

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

If you’re lucky, maybe you’re the kind of person for whom work is an international adventure, taking you to far-off places you’ve been dying to explore. Or,… read more

Occupy Wall Street Ads Hit TV This Weekend

Occupy Wall Street could be occupying your television this weekend.

Supporters chipped in more than $6,000 to a crowdfunding campaign that will put a video of protesters explaining their objectives in the commercial lineup of cable television channels.

“It’s sort of an occupied version of advertising,” crowdfunding site Loudsauce’s co-founder Colin… read more

Best of the Week #195

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Graham Hill: Less Stuff, More Happiness, Video

View engaging conference lectures, interesting how to discussions, and high quality freelance advice via video here on FreelanceSwitch.

This week we look at Less Stuff, More Happiness by Graham Hill. In this video he makes the case for taking up less space, and showcases compact living spaces, while demonstrating cost… read more

From Blogs To Billboards: 5 Ways To Use Your Logo

Creating your logo design is simply the first step towards branding your business but how many businesses are actually using their logo to full effect?  Sure, most will add it to their business stationery and maybe some of their marketing materials, but all too often this is as far… read more

25 Clever Custom Business Card Designs for Graphic Designers

25 Clever Custom Business Card Designs for Graphic Designers

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Retail Startup Unites Tumblr, Content and Emerging Design

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Of a Kind

Quick Pitch: Retail startup sells limited-edition clothing and accessories exclusively on Tumblr.

Genius Idea: Of… read more

How Algorithms and Editors Can Work Together to Burst the “Filter Bubble”

The algorithms that surface content for us on Facebook and Google are miracles of modern programming. But Eli Pariser, author and chairman of the board at MoveOn.org, has concerns.

In March, Pariser gave a popular TED talk about “filter bubbles” — the idea that when search and social networks only serve… read more

Zediva Forced to Permanently Discontinue Service

Video-streaming startup company Zediva can no longer stream videos or provide any services at all.

After violating copyright laws, Zediva was slammed with a permanent injunction on Friday, prohibiting the company from continuing its service.

The Motion Picture Association of America sued Zediva’s parent company, WTV Systems, and founder and CEO Venkatesh… read more

8 Simple Tips for Your YouTube Ad Campaign

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Even if you’re a small business, don’t neglect YouTube. More than ever, brand fans and loyalists are seeking out businesses on YouTube as supplemental outlets to a… read more

Apple Gives Its Key Execs $400 Million in Bonuses

Apple has awarded seven of its key executives with massive stock grants worth approximately $400 million in total.

Six Apple SVPs have been awarded 150,000 shares of Apple for their services, according to recent SEC filings. This includes Scott Forstall (SVP, iOS), Robert Mansfield (SVP, Hardware Engineering), Peter Oppenheimer (CFO), Phil… read more

What Facebook’s New Features Mean for Journalists

Most of the changes that Facebook announced at its f8 conference have gone into effect (even thought we’re still waiting for Timeline). Most of Facebook’s new tools also are media friendly and create opportunities for journalists to evolve their personal brands and beats.

At Friday’s Mashable Media Summit, Facebook’s journalist… read more

Please, Help Me Love Groupon

People love Groupon. When something is worth $18 billion dollars, what other conclusion can I reach? I’ve tried it though, and I have never been particularly enthused over the deal site.

Yes, I am a member and I’m letting Groupon push me updates wherever and whenever it finds them. There… read more

5 Essential Tips for Managing Your Users’ Social Profile Data

Vidya Shivkumar is director of products at Janrain and has built and shipped consumer, B2B and B2C products and services for over a decade.

Online behavior tracking has been successfully employed for nearly a decade, but its tools do not uniquely identify users, and rightfully so. Tracking was only designed to… read more

Online Fraud: Are Baby Boomers or Millennials More Scared? [STUDY]

New research shows the majority of both Baby Boomers and Millennials are concerned about becoming the victims of online fraud. The study, released exclusively to Mashable, finds 77% of Baby Boomers (ages 55 and older) and 62% of Millennials (ages 18 to 24) are concerned about their information’s misuse online.

The… read more

Daily Inspiration #971

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users.
If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

The Evolving Role of Social Media in News Organizations [LIVE BLOG]

Media Summit 2011

The Mashable Media Summit on Nov. 4 at the Times Center in New York City attracted… read more

Why User Experience Must Always Account for the Human Condition

For the first 10 minutes or so, Mashable Media Summit attendees were probably wondering why Tor Myhren, president of Grey New York, was talking about losing his virginity. Well, it all started with the telephone…

It’s 1986. One night in Denver, 14-year-old Tor dials into Teen Line, a telephone chat room… read more

The Importance of Timing in Blogging,E-mail Marketing and Social Media

The Importance of Timing in Blogging,E-mail Marketing and Social Media

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Introducing the Mashable Publisher Platform

At today’s Mashable Media Summit, we announced the Mashable Publisher Platform, a new editorially curated syndication experience that brings content from select publishers to our site.

Starting next week, you’ll begin seeing articles from AppAdvice, Causecast, ClickZ, GeekSugar, International Journalists’ Network, paidContent, Pocketnow, PSFK and UX Magazine appearing on Mashable.

For readers,… read more

Hey Yahoo, Do a Barrel Roll: How Google Wins With Whimsical Tricks

You have to hand it to Google. With one fun little trick that a single engineer probably came up with in his mandated 20% spare time — getting the screen to “do a barrel roll” — the company got enough free media to make a chief marketing officer weep.

It’s… read more

The Future of Social TV at the Mashable Media Summit [LIVE BLOG]

Media Summit 2011

The Mashable Media Summit on Nov. 4 at the Times Center in New York City attracted… read more

Steve Jobs Said Sports Illustrated’s Tablet Demo Was “Really Stupid” — But Didn’t Mean It

Several months before Apple unveiled the iPad in January 2010, editors from Time, Inc., including some from Sports Illustrated, met with Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs to get a preview of the soon-to-be-released tablet. The venerable sports magazine was already planning a tablet version and had even cooked… read more

From Startup to IPO: Groupon’s Major Milestones

Groupon Offers One Local Deal Per Day, Nov. 2008

The social buying website Groupon provides one remarkable deal every… read more

TVGuide.com Watchlist Predicts Fall TV Shows’ Success

Nine of the top 10 new fall TV shows on TVGuide.com‘s Watchlist were picked up for a second season, illustrating the platform’s success in predicting hits, said Christy Tanner, EVP and general manager of TVGuide.com.

Tanner, who spoke at Mashable‘s Media Summit Friday, provided a list of the shows, which include,… read more

Is Groupon Really Worth $18 Billion?

Within its first minutes as a public company, Groupon shares soared to about $28 — 40% more than the opening price.

Right now, the daily deals group-buying site’s market value is almost $18 billion.

It’s not unusual for a company’s share price to pop immediately after it goes public — especially… read more

ScrollMotion Shows Off Impressive New Enterprise Sales Tool for Tablets

ScrollMotion’s story is well-known to Mashable readers. The small New York City-based company creates technology that powers digital editions for some of the world’s largest publishers — everything from children’s books to magazines to textbooks. The company has pushed thousands of interactive media apps to various app stores… read more

7 Ways to Know if a Development Project Is Worth Your Time

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years, CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers.

Remember the old 80/20 rule? The same applies to software development inquiries, as in 20% of sales inquiries result in… read more

DIY: Producing Your Photography Book

Bike-tography: Combining Bicycling with Photography

Back in July, I wrote a review of Publish Your Photography Book by Darius Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson.

I finished that review by saying, “If you’d rather shun the commercial publishing route and travel the do-it-yourself road, be prepared for quite the learning experience. Because… read more

Creativity vs. strategy: what do people really want?

It was super hard for me to find a job straight out of college—the places where I wanted to work weren’t hiring and many of the other jobs didn’t seem right for me. After months of searching and waiting by the phone, I decided to take the plunge. I had… read more

Using Multivariate Testing to Increase Website Conversion

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These days, it’s not about how much traffic you can drive to your website but how many visitors you actually turn into customers. Effective website testing, namely through multivariate testing, can help increase site performance and conversions.

With multivariate testing, you experiment with a variety of… read more

Google Could Be Planning to Completely Disrupt the TV Business [REPORT]

Google, enormously successful in online advertising, might be casting an envious eye toward the $150 billion-per-year pay television market. Such a venture has the potential to turn today’s business of television advertising and distribution upside down.

The company’s already announced plans to build a fiber-optic high-speed Internet service in Kansas City,… read more

Enough Incredible Photography Links To Make Your Eyes Water

The world of photography has produced some great work this week, and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy finding the best tutorials, photography and interesting blogs.  Truly great images have been produced by some awesome photographers, and all the links listed here will take you to see them.  We really… read more

SideTour Brings New Experiences To You, No World Travel Necessary

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: SideTour

Quick Pitch: SideTour lets you experience the world with like-minded people.

Genius Idea: Provides a place to… read more

32 Cool Business Card Designs

32 Cool Business Card Designs

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3 Ways Digital Innovation Can Make Luxury Brands Exclusive Again

Duke Greenhill is the founder and CEO of Greenhill+Partners, a premiere New York-based creative marketing agency specializing in luxury brands and engaging the emerging affluent. You can reach them at TheFutureOfBranding.com.

Luxury brand marketing must preserve exclusivity — on that we can agree. But successful luxury brand marketing today must also… read more

Groupon’s IPO: What You Need To Know

Groupon is expected to finally set a price for its IPO late Thursday, the last in a series of hurdles in its path to go public that have included questions about the viability of its business model and SEC questioning over accounting practices.

Sources have told Reuters and The Wall… read more

Essential Keywording Tips and Strategies for Photographers

Keywording is a tool to assign or tag meaningful words to your photos so people searching may find them. I often think of stock photography when I hear the word “tag” or “keyword” because it’s an important step in that industry — allowing photo buyers to find appropriate images. Although… read more

LinkedIn by the Numbers: 131 Million Members, 1 Million Groups, 400% Mobile Growth

LinkedIn‘s growth metrics are up: The professional social network now has 131 million members and more than a million groups, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner told listeners on an earnings call.

Weiner says more than 15 million people joined the business social network in the third quarter of 2011. That’s a boost… read more

Klout: Talk-Up a Startup, Get Some Equity

Klout is partnering with a startup called Wahooly to offer high-ranking members the ability to become investors in startups in return for helping publicize the young companies.

In about two weeks, Klout will approach users with a score of 45 or more to check out Wahooly. In January, those users who… read more

6 Ways to Make the Web Easier to Read

Sometimes it seems that writing is more important today than it’s ever been in history. From Facebook status updates to txt messages, we’re all writing and reading almost more than we’re talking and listening. And while the internet has hastened print media’s troubles, many of us still read tons of… read more

LinkedIn Beats Targets, but Stock Price Falls

LinkedIn‘s third-quarter revenues rose 126% to $139.5 million, but the company posted a net loss of 2 cents per share. Investors were unimpressed, sending the company’s stock price down 7% in after-hours trading.

LinkedIn CFO Steve Sordello said in a statement the company was happy with the revenue growth: “LinkedIn plans… read more

Top 25 Most-Shared Stories in October

News surrounding the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs — and subsequent tributes — inspired you to share our stories with your family, friends and co-workers last month.

Our infographics also attracted heavy attention, including the “Facebook by the Numbers” gem that, among other eye-catching stats, reveals that the top four… read more

Video Inspiration #42 – Reader Submitted Works

Video Inspiration is a weekly(ish) post where we either feature a specific artist or show a sort of “best of” list of videos we’ve discovered during the week. Everything here may not be brand new, but we felt it worth sharing with the community. If you have good finds that… read more

Amazon Introduces Kindle Lending Library

Amazon has introduced a new lending library for Kindle owners that lets them borrow one ebook a month for free, if they have an Amazon Prime membership.

Amazon is offering more than 5,000 titles, including New York Times bestsellers, that Prime members can borrow. The offer, however, requires you own a… read more

Email Templates

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Free Email Templates or Premium Email Templates, are a necessity when starting a new email campaign. Every time I begin work on a new email template, I always have a quick look at ThemeForest… read more

The Only Thing This High-Tech Baby Monitor Doesn’t Do Is Change Diapers

The Tech Innovators Series is supported by Lenovo. Lenovo does not just manufacture technology. They make Do machines — super-powered creation engines designed to help the people who do, do more, do better, do in brand new ways.

Baby monitors are more tech-savvy than ever. Did you know you could… read more

Angie’s List Plans to Raise as Much as $114.3 Million in IPO

Angie’s List, an online marketplace for local services, plans to raise as much as $114.3 million in its initial public offering sometime this month.

The 16-year-old company filed its intentions to offer 8.8 million shares for $11 to $13 each with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday. According to … read more

Amazon Opens Early Black Friday Storefront

Everybody loves getting a good deal. So by extension, everybody must also love Black Friday, the wonderful day after Thanksgiving when you can shake off your Turkey-coma, get away from the family and shop your brains out on heavy discounts.

Amazon has offered a way to start buying even sooner, with… read more

Idealist.org, Gateway to Community

Idealist.org, founded in 1995 by the nonprofit organization Action Without Borders, is an online community promoting the connection of people, organizations, opportunities, and resources to build a better world through community engagement. Now with over 6,000 job listings, 13,000+ volunteer opportunities, and over 320,000 registered users, there has never been… read more

4 Questions to Ask Startups Before Pitching

It’s exciting to work with startups. Usually, their business is just on the verge of launching, often without the hangups, hierarchies, or bureaucracy that tend to exist within larger, more established companies.

But pitching to startups presents challenges as well. Since these companies are new, their direction, scale, and status… read more

A Day in the Life of Freelance Designers

Ever wonder what freelance designers do all day? Do they sleep in, design in their pajamas and drink tons of coffee? How do they juggle design, social networking, admin duties, lunch, families, the gym and so on? As designers and developers, most of us have often wondered how others spend… read more

Will 3D Televisions Actually Hurt the TV Business?

It’s strange to think fancy new advances in TV technology may actually end up hurting the television business in general. That conclusion is not so far-fetched for Retrevo.com and its latest study, which shows interest in 3D television technology continuing to wane.

Retrevo, a consumer electronics and shopping site, surveyed more… read more

Fitted Fashion Uses 3D Scanners to Create Custom-Fit Jeans

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Fitted Fashion

Quick Pitch: 3D scanners and pattern-making software are used to create perfect-fitting jeans and other… read more

7 Easy Steps for Creating Buzzworthy Content

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

We’ve heard for years now that “content is king” in the world of Internet marketing — yet so few marketers seem to understand how to create useful… read more

Protecting Your Online Reputation: 4 Things You Need to Know [INFOGRAPHIC]

You don’t have to be running for president to care about your online reputation. Almost everything you do online is easy to track, especially when you’re using social media sites. This infographic shows you how to manage your “e-reputation,” perhaps saving you some embarrassment, or even your career.

Gathered by… read more

RIM Hits Seven-Year Low: Is BlackBerry Maker Ripe For Takeover?

Research In Motion‘s shares hit a seven-year low Wednesday after a report highlighted the decline of the company’s flagship BlackBerry smartphone.

According to a report by Canalys, RIM’s share of the U.S. market was 9% in the third quarter compared with 24% a year earlier, marking a 58% decline.

RIM’s stock price… read more

Daily Inspiration #969

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users.
If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

PayPal Takes Payments Offline With “PayPal Wallet”

Google isn’t the only unorthodox player moving into the offline payments space. PayPal, like the search giant and Visa, is planning to launch a “Wallet” product that aims to replace traditional credit cards at registers.

“If someone had told me ten years ago that PayPal would be doing offline… read more

ESPN Tebow Article Spawns Fill-in-the-Blank Meme and #OccupyTebow

ESPN writer Bill Williamson wrote an innocent article Sunday about NFL quarterback Tim Tebow of the Denver Broncos, which has sparked an entirely unexpected viral backlash in its comments.

Tebow’s inconsistency as a passer has led to much derision from NFL fans, and was the topic of Williamson’s article. The story… read more

Finding success as a Freelance Web Designer

Finding success as a Freelance Web Designer

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Mr. Clean to Grow a ‘Stache for Movember

Mr. Clean is poised to get a Facebook-driven facelift this month to celebrate Movember.

The 54-year-old icon will grow a mustache for the Movember initiative, which supports funding for prostate cancer. Mr. Clean’s ‘stache will grow in accordance with the number of Likes he gets, as measured by a “Stache-O-Meter” on… read more