The Quick and Dirty Guide to Tumblr for Small Business

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

With the rise of Pinterest and Tumblr’s astounding growth, it seems that 2012 may be the year of the visual platform. Tumblr surpassed 15 billion monthly pageviews… read more

Nettuts+ Quiz #10: Basic CSS3 Techniques

In 2012, we plan to take our quizzes to a whole new level with ones aimed at all languages and catering to all competencies and tastes. This month, we’re covering some basic concepts and techniques in CSS3. The prime focus today is on the easier, more accessible portions of CSS3…. read more

Best of the Week #210

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

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.126

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

HOW TO: Follow London Fashion Week Via iPhone, Social Media and Web

London Fashion Week kicked off Friday — and fortunately for those of us outside the ropes at Somerset House, brands and media are making the week more accessible than ever before.

Forty-six fashion shows will stream the unveiling of their Autumn/Winter 2012 collections live from London this season, up from 32… read more

10 Social Media Tips for Bloggers

Liz Borod Wright, a freelance writer based in New York City, runs the popular travel blog, Travelogged. She is also a social media consultant and an adjunct for social media at Columbia Journalism School’s continuing education program.

When it comes to building an audience and driving traffic, bloggers are turning to… read more

TGIF! How Are You Using Tech This Weekend?

Happy Friday, Mashable community! And for readers in the United States — happy three-day weekend! Huzzah!

For people whose work is based online, many view long weekends as a time to unplug and take time to be with family and friends outside the social space. Others work on personal projects,… read more

Websites displaying MASSIVE fonts #3

Websites displaying MASSIVE fonts #3

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22 Free and Premium HTML Responsive Website Templates and Layouts

22 Free and Premium HTML Responsive Website Templates and Layouts

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What to Do When Your Celebrity Client Flips Out on Social Media

In the wake of another celebrity social media meltdown this week, the question “where is his publicist?” has appeared from commenters in almost every article on the topic.

Let me start by stating this is not a gossip column, nor an attempt to cover content outside of social media. Twitter, as… read more

15 Free HTML5 Templates That Rock

15 Free HTML5 Templates That Rock

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Juror Jailed For Friending Defendant on Facebook [VIDEO]

Word to the wise: If you’re a juror in a trial, don’t friend the defendant on Facebook, or worse, brag about being kicked off the jury committee for said friend request.

Jacob Jock, a 29-year-old man living in Sarasota, Florida, was sentenced to three days in jail on Thursday… read more

Your Bandwidth Will Be Throttled. Here’s Why

The days of all-you-can eat mobile bandwidth are already ending, and landline broadband could soon follow suit. You, my data-hungry friend, my not be ready for it, but your Cookie Monster-like habit of gobbling up data has made this a certainty.

You may rail at the injustice of it all,… read more

Daily Inspiration #1060

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

Photoshop Tutorials – Fantasy art scene

Photoshop Tutorials – Fantasy art scene

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Simple Social Event Planning with Plangr

Online event planning is as old as the Internet itself. Spend a few bucks (or not) and a web app will do most of the heavy lifting, making you the perfect host. People are very much accustomed to receive evites and RSVPing online as the entire process makes lives easier… read more

Hands-on Preview of ‘Sleeping Dogs’ Game Shows Lots of Promise

Video game publisher Square Enix held an exclusive preview of its forthcoming title Sleeping Dogs in San Francisco this week, giving Mashable a hands-on look at one of this summer’s most anticipated open-world games.

Basically, Sleeping Dogs looks awesome.

Here’s the basic premise of the game: Players operate as Asian-American… read more

YouTube Next Cause Helps Non-Profits Tell Their Stories

YouTube has announced a new way to help non-profits better tell their stories on the video platform.

YouTube Next Cause, the latest addition to the Creator program, is a day-long summit in San Francisco April 2 during which the company will offer non-profits training and consulting on YouTube best practices… read more

Pinterest Porn: Are Breasts and Butts Offensive or Art? [POLL]

Sandwiched between Pins of clothes and crafts on Pinterest are pictures of breasts and butts.

Every so often, a Pinterest Pin shows scantily clad or even naked men and women — sometimes in pornographic positions. Some users view the images on the 2-year-old social scrapbooking site as art, while others are… read more

35 Expert HTML5 Tutorials Using Functional Methods

35 Expert HTML5 Tutorials Using Functional Methods

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Groupon Announces $30-Per-Year VIP Program

Groupon emailed a select group of the company’s “best customers” this week an exclusive invitation for Groupon VIP access.

The testing period will last three months. After its release the Groupon VIP program will cost $30 per year. VIP in the daily deals world guarantees early access to deals, first… read more

Mass Effect 3 Is Launching Into Space … Literally

Ground Control to Commander Shepard! BioWare is turning up the buzz on its highly anticipated action/sci-fi adventure game Mass Effect 3 by launching it into space before its ever-closer release date.

Yes. Space.

According to an article by USA Today, BioWare’s parent company Electronic Arts will send copies of the game… read more

MTV Music Meter 2.0 Leads Music Lovers to Fresh Acts

After more than a year in development and over 1 million downloads, MTV‘s answer to music discovery has emerged from beta.

MTV Music Meter 2.0 launched Wednesday with support for not only the web browser but also iOS and Android platforms.

The Music Meter is designed as an entry… read more

Pinwheel Pins Your Notes to the World Map

Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake unveiled her latest project on Friday, a startup called Pinwheel that lets users pin their notes to the world map.

“The notes can be public or private, shared with an individual, a group or everyone,” Fake explained on her blog. “They can be organized… read more

20 Great Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

20 Great Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

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Web App Analyzes Tweets in Real Time for a Record of Historic Events

If you’ve tweeted a lot about the Occupy movement, the Syrian Protests or the Egyptian Revolution, Twitris may have considered what you said and recorded it.

Dr. Amit P. Sheth, director of the Kno.e.sis Center in Dayton, Ohio, developed the idea for Twitter research when he was monitoring what was happening… read more

DAWN: Weekly Photography Challenge

Earlier today we posted 24 Beautiful Dawn Images – with the hope of giving you a little inspiration to set those alarm clocks a little earlier this week and to get out at – or before – sunrise to take some dawn images of your own.

So let’s make ‘Dawn’ the… read more

LLC vs. S Corp: Which Is Right for Your Startup?

Choosing the right business structure can be a daunting task for the small business owner or entrepreneur. You may have heard that the traditional C Corporation is overkill for most small businesses, and results in higher overall tax payments through something known as double taxation. But if the C Corporation… read more

Hands on With Messages for OS X Mountain Lion

Apple may have killed off iChat with Thursday’s announcement of OS X Mountain Lion, but the company replaced it with something even better: Messages.

Currently available in beta for OS X Lion users, Messages takes the best parts of iChat and adds in support for iMessage, the instant-messaging service Apple introduced… read more

Gnip Authorized to Sell Access to Historical Tweets [VIDEO]

Twitter is about the here-and-now, but data aggregator Gnip thinks users might be interested in the past, too.

Gnip announced on Tuesday it will be the first company to offer a 30-day history of tweets. Want to see who searched for a particular topic two weeks ago? Or, what… read more

Yelp Set to Go Public March 2 in $100 Million IPO [REPORT]

Yelp‘s $100 million IPO is set for March 2, according to a report.

Dow Jones is reporting the company plans to sell 7.15 million shares to the public at $12 to $14 each. That means the company’s market cap could hit $838.6 million in the high end, which is lower than… read more

20 Colleges Where Internet Memes Are All the Rage

1. Boston University

Facebook Page: BU Memes

Number of Likes on Page: 6,678

Click here to view this gallery.

Like campus gossip,… read more

Congress May Auction Airwaves to Expand Wireless Internet [UPDATED]

If Congress passes a proposed payroll tax extension plan, it will have an unexpected effect on the world of mobile broadband. To partially fund the tax cuts, the government will auction off public airwaves, now being used for television broadcasts, to expand wireless Internet access nationwide.

UPDATE: As of 12:25 p.m…. read more

Beyond Burberry: How London Fashion Week Is Ramping Up Digital

Burberry might be the hot ticket when it comes to pioneering digital initiatives during London Fashion Week, but that doesn’t mean a wealth of other British brands aren’t giving it a go as well.

Participating fashion and media brands are once again focusing on reaching mass consumer audiences throughout the week…. read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #140

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#140 and make sure to comeback… read more

Will You Be Jumping on the Pinterest Craze?

Headlines from the Internet last week about Pinterest: “How Pinterest is Changing Website Design Forever” Mashable.com. “How Pinterest is Secretly Profiting From Your Links”
Venturebeat.com. “Holy SMOKE! Pinterest is the Fastest Growing Site Ever” Businessinsider.com. “Pinterest Hits 10 Million U.S. Monthly Uniques Faster Than Any Standalone Site Ever”… read more

Sites of the Week #192

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as AIGA 50 DC and Kult House. Also we’re featuring the nice service called Colllor, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will… read more

70 Best Photo Manipulation Tutorials of All Time

Creating photo manipulations using Photoshop isn’t as easy as you see here. But it’s a passion for many designers out here including me. One should have lots of patience and creativity to turn a simple photo into an amazing visual art. Sky is the limit when you open image in… read more

Designing the Web: Photoshop Tutorials for Designing a Website

For those of us in the business of designing the web, one area of resources that always prove invaluable to have in our design arsenals is tutorials. Learning how other web designers have crafted their designs, and which tools they always rely on can always help to guide us as… read more

The Designer’s Candy Store [Infographic]

For graphic designers, the general goal is to create something that people notice in a good way. These designers aspire that their work is recognized as “good,” “great” or even “spectacular”. But in order to create work that is worthy of those accolades, there are a lot of… read more

Beautiful Houses: Casa Marítimo

The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful… read more

NFL Player Promoters Will Help NFL Dominate Social Media

A select group of college students could get digitally cozier with their favorite NFL players.

United Way is looking for social media interns to promote the philanthropy efforts of the 32 NFL teams and each team’s United Way spokesperson to help the the organizations dominate social media.

The NFL has been… read more

Top 12 Oddest ‘Missed Connections’ Listings on Craigslist

1. “minotaur, halloween, downtown – m4w – 22 (santa cruz)”

“You were a tall blonde girl wearing a creepy… read more

FoundersCard Gives Entrepreneurs VIP Treatment

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: FoundersCard

Quick Pitch: FoundersCard is a membership community providing networking and exclusive benefits for entrepreneurs and innovators.

Genius… read more

Jeditable: Edit In Place Plugin For jQuery

Jeditable: Edit In Place Plugin For jQuery

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The U.S. Army Uses Pinterest? Sir, Yes Sir!

Pinterest, the social image-sharing site that has exploded in popularity over the past few months, has found itself with a strange bedfellow: the U.S. Army.

The Army’s Pinterest boards include topics such as “Goodwill,” “Humanitarian Relief,” and “HOOAH!.” Each board is designed to show some aspect of Army life and the… read more

Typosquatting Sites ‘Wikapedia’ and ‘Twtter’ Have Been Shut Down [VIDEO]

Two fake websites posing as Wikipedia and Twitter have been kicked off the Internet and fined £100,000 ($156,000) each.

The companies behind typosquatting websites capitalize on typos — they register domain names that are similar to highly trafficked website names, and are usually missing a letter or have common… read more

5 Paradoxes Shaping the Future of Mobile Commerce

Igor Faletski is the CEO of Mobify, a web platform that optimizes ecommerce and publishing sites for mobile and powers more than 20,000 sites.

Remember when it took 23 clicks to find movie showtimes on your mobile phone? While that may seem like an eon ago, in reality it’s just been… read more

So Long iChat, Hello Messages

If you saw our post earlier, then you know that Apple dropped a bomb on us with a sneak preview of the upcoming Mountain Lion update to OS X. James touched briefly on the handful of new features that Apple announced, all of which are exciting and intend to bring… read more

Stimulate Your Lintellect With the Ultimate Jeremy Lin Nerd-Fest [CHARTS]

Is it possible to quantify the astonishing, inspiring, almost mystical phenomenon known as Linsanity? Mashable contacted some number-crunching social media experts, and the answer is yes.

But first a primer for the somehow still-uninitiated: Jeremy Lin is the New York Knicks point guard who has come to dominate both the NBA… read more

88 Links That Are Like Crack for Photographers

Back from a brief hiatus, the Toad has been busy hopping around the internet looking for the best tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This weeks list contains some of the very best images, tips and tricks from some of the most talented artists.  We really… read more

Lawmakers to Homeland Security: Social Media Monitoring Threatens Free Speech

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s monitoring of social media services could be a threat to civil liberties and online free speech, several lawmakers said during a hearing Thursday.

According to a report by a civil liberties group called the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, DHS paid more than $11… read more

Bobo – A New FREE Business and Portfolio HTML Template

Bobo – A New FREE Business and Portfolio HTML Template

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How Twitter Is Changing the Craft of Comedy

At the “How to be Funny in 140 Characters or Less” panel Wednesday, I watched the full life cycle of a humorous trending topic on Twitter — from its creation, to peak, then death — all within less than an hour.

The event was part of Social Media Week NYC,… read more

24 Creative Duotone Photographs

When you’re looking to create a certain mood or feeling in your imagery, many photographers turn to monotone or duotone. And while most go with subdued tones to evoke similar feeling to black and white photographs, duotone can also be used in a way to spruce up the feeling too…. read more

Why Apple’s Mountain Lion Didn’t Roar

I’ve been trying to remember another time when Apple made such a major announcement with so little fanfare. OS X Mountain Lion is this year’s major Mac desktop and laptop operating system update — and it didn’t merit as much as a press conference.

Instead, the Cupertino technology behemoth held… read more

Stop Writing Project Proposals

After several grueling days I had finally finished the proposal. I sent it off and waited for a response. Nothing. After a few weeks, I discovered that they were “just looking”. Despite the urgency and aggressive timeline for the RFP (Request For Proposal) plus the fact that we had done… read more

Facebook Adds 12 New Media Apps

Facebook launched its latest wave of media apps built with Open Graph Thursday, including a Mashable app.

The media apps — joining veterans such as The Guardian‘s social news app and Washington Post Social Reader — are a platform for users to discover and share content.

Facebook writes in a blog… read more

Great Free Fonts for Web and Graphic Designers

Great Free Fonts for Web and Graphic Designers

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This Robot-Human Handshake is Out of This World [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

It’s one small handshake for man, one giant handshake for robot-kind — and one entertaining video for robot aficionados and geeks alike.

Robonaut 2, the dexterous humanoid robot NASA designed to help humans work and… read more

17 Beautiful Free Floral Pattern Sets

Are you looking for some cool and appealing pattern collections? If yes, then look no further, this article is just for you! Here we are showcasing some free to use Floral pattern collections that will help you making your art works look even more appealing and tempting.

You can utilize these… read more

How to Upload Files with Ease Using DragonFly: New on Premium

File uploads are generally a tricky area in web development. In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, we will learn how to use Dragonfly, a powerful Ruby gem that makes it easy and efficient to add any kind of upload functionality to a Rails project. Become a Premium member to read this… read more

Mitt Romney’s Google Problem: ‘SpreadingRomney’

Like Rick Santorum before him, Mitt Romney’s got a Google problem. The second result when searching for the presidential hopeful is “SpreadingRomney.com,” a satirical site that lampoons Romney for leaving his dog atop his station wagon during a long family drive.

SpreadingRomney seeks to redefine “Romney” into a verb meaning “to… read more

CSS3 ordered list styles

CSS3 ordered list styles

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Daily Inspiration #1059

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

Pixable Brings the Hashtag to Facebook Photos

Photo-sorting app Pixable is bringing the Twitter-style hashtag to Facebook photos.

The startup’s core service sorts images from your Facebook and Twitter feeds into piles such as “Top of the Day,” “New on Twitter” and “New Profile Pics.” Now you can tag the photos in these categories with hashtags… read more

Klout + Gamification = Extra Perks for Influencers?

Badgeville, a gamification platform used by Samsung, eBay and Dell, among others, is integrating data from Klout to help brands identify, reward and promote its most influential brand advocates.

Formed in 2010, Badgeville provides a plug-and-play solution for brands who want to increase engagement and reward loyalty via badges, tokens and… read more

25+ Examples of Subtle Textures and Patterns in Web Design

25+ Examples of Subtle Textures and Patterns in Web Design

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Video Inspiration #56

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

Apple OS X Mountain Lion: Top 15 New Features

1. Deeper Integration With iCloud

Today, Apple’s iCloud technology syncs media (music, photos) and some data among iPhones, iPads,… read more

RIP iChat, 2002-2012

Dear iChat,

This isn’t really a eulogy. It isn’t goodbye. You’ve simply gone to a better place: iMessage for Mountain Lion.

I know you’ll be happy there, watching on proudly as the kids (on iPhones) jabber back and forth in the translucent bubbles you passed down to them. The spirit… read more

Why AOL Ventures Is Targeting Early Stage Startups [VIDEO]

AOL Venture, the venture capital arm of AOL, is one part early-stage investment firm and one part incubator of new and unique AOL products. The focus on seed and series A rounds is unusual among corporate investors, and founding partner Mike Brown, Jr. says it is because… read more

Kate Upton Teaches ‘Finger Mechanics’ in Latest 2K Sports Ad [VIDEO]

Supermodel Kate Upton lends her good looks and apparent video game expertise to the latest spot for the popular 2K series of sports games.

In the ad for MLB 2K12 — titled “Finger Mechanics with Kate Upton” — the curvaceous blonde is shown teaching a group of four major league… read more

Tickets on Sale Now for Mashable’s Biggest Conference of the Year

Mashable’s largest conference, Mashable Connect, returns to Orlando, FL this year from May 3 – 5. Our annual destination conference brings our community together for three days to connect offline in an intimate setting at the Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney World®. Registration is now open.

Held in a unique… read more

Talk Tech at a Mashable Meetup

The Mashable Tech Talk meetup is less than a week away!

Mashable community members have organized more than 150 Mashable Tech Talk events for Feb. 22.

At these Meetups, the conversation will be centered on new and innovative technology and how those technologies will change the industry as we know it…. read more

The Best WordPress Starter Themes & Frameworks

The Best WordPress Starter Themes & Frameworks

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4 Characteristics of a Winning Social Enterprise Strategy

Bill Kalma is VP of technical services at Model Metrics, an enterprise cloud computing services company. He focuses on the effective scoping, management and delivery of CRM projects from a technical perspective.

What is the social enterprise? Traditionally, the term has referred to an organization’s social mission of philanthropy, charity or… read more

Scientific American Publisher Launches $49 Online Textbook

The publisher of Scientific American and Nature is stepping into a new genre with its first digital textbook, the company announced on Thursday.

Principles of Biology, already in use at three California State universities, is a web-based introductory text. At $49, it costs about three times less than its typical paper… read more

A Freelance Lesson From Jeremy Lin of the NY Knicks

Like many of you, I learned about Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks just a few days ago, after his 38-point game against the L.A. Lakers.

Lin’s recent popularity has garnered him 200,000 Twitter followers and over 377,000 Facebook friends. The Chinese-American also has over 800,000 followers on Weibo—a… read more

TweetAdder Video Tutorial – The Tool To Get Twitter Followers On Autopilot

Recently I posted a textual review of TweetAdder, and how it helped me get over 30,000 Twitter followers. My friends at IncomeDiary have added their own video review of TweetAdder today, which I thought was an excellent resource. Please take a look at the video below to see how Josh… read more

Getting the Gist of SEO

If you’re starting a new website, one of your first priorities is to drive traffic to it. Traffic means audience, and content without an audience is like the proverbial tree falling in the woods with no one to hear it.

It’s gratifying to have an audience, but there’s more… read more

iOS and OS X Come Ever Closer As Apple Announces “Mountain Lion”

Just over 6 months after the current release of OS X was released, codenamed “Lion”, Apple is already teasing us about the next major update to its default operating system, Mountain Lion. The preview of OS X 10.8 was released today to registered developers with Apple, with summer touted as… read more

How To Recruit A UX Designer

The Web has entered an era of user-centricity. If businesses are to attract new customers and retain existing ones, they must create websites and apps that deliver intuitive and tailored experiences. Whether you run an online retailer or a not-for-profit community website, the user experience is mission critical.

As a consequence,… read more

20 WordPress Themes That’ll Give Your Site Suave

WordPress has been the base of many people’s blogs for quite a while now. It offers many great features on a stable platform and is also very easy to operate. The best part is customization: there are thousands of WordPress themes and plugins to enhance your readers’ experience. You can… read more

7 Warning Signs to Watch for When Working with Subcontractors

Subcontractors can make a world of difference when it comes to how quickly you can complete a project. But if a problem creeps in, the back and forth with a subcontractor can drag out a project.

Making sure that you work with reliable people, whether we’re talking about a… read more

Create a Peacock Illustration in Illustrator CS5 – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, I’m going to show you how I created a peacock illustration with mainly brushes and symbols. Learn how dividing an image into areas and remedying it with the use of art brushes, scatter brushes and symbols can make your workflow quicker and easier. If you… read more

Plan the Best Content for your Emails

Email marketing is one of the really successful techniques currently used in the marketing world. It has become one of the most popular techniques in recent years and is an indispensable part of online marketing.

Sending mails keeps your site active among your audience and increases visits and clicks on your… read more

A Year In Review: 11 Things I Learned From Freelancer to Agency Owner

I’ve spent the last 10+ years freelancing and bouncing back through different agencies. While there were plenty of perks both working for yourself and in an agency atmosphere, It always felt like something was missing. From the first day I opened up Photoshop and built my first website… read more

Worldwide Photography #58: Bucharest

Worldwide Photography is a series of posts where every week we’re going to show a city or location around the globe bringing the coolest photography samples of it. The photographs authors are all credited right above their pictures. Today feature: Bucharest, Romania.

For the next week we’re going to feature Bakersfield,… read more

MSN Launches msnNOW Social Trends App on Facebook, Web and Mobile

msnNOW Homepage

The homepage highlights top trends, biggest movers and topic tabs.

Click here to view this gallery.

One of… read more

The Jeremy Lin Meme Roundup [PICS]

1. Linsanity

The classic.

Click here to view this gallery.

New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin has certainly taken the… read more

Stealth Search Engine Offers Private Internet Browsing

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: Stealth

Quick Pitch: Search the web anonymously

Genius Idea: Stealth is a search engine that… read more

Apple MacBook Air Patented; Beware, Ultrabook Makers

Apple was just awarded 19 patents, one of which is for the design of the MacBook Air.

In theory, Apple could leverage its patent on the Air to try and block manufacturers of other light, thin laptops from marketing their products in the U.S.

The patent, No. D654,072, refers to an… read more

Roomba in Space? Swiss Robot Spacecraft to Clean Up Orbital Junk [VIDEO]

A team of Swiss astronauts and university professors are working to create a robot spacecraft called CleanSpace One, which will grab inactive satellite parts from space and bring them back to Earth.

About 700 active satellites are in orbit around Earth, sending us weather, phone, television and GPS signals…. read more

How Much Do Sports Fans Love Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Sports and social media are a marriage made in heaven. News and score updates break constantly. Heated debate is a big part of the fun. And fans love any chance to interact with the athletes they idolize. But just how much do sports fans love and use social media overall?… read more

Path Releases Valentine’s Day Metrics in Wake of Privacy Controversy

Path released a list of Valentine’s Day stats Wednesday, just one week after a privacy controversy prompted Path’s CEO to issue an apology.

In a press release, Path lists mentions for certain terms such as “romance,” “engaged,” and “single” on Valentine’s Day. The stats are somewhat interesting, however it seems… read more

8-Year-Old Sophia Grace is the Best Red Carpet Interviewer Ever [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

Move over Joan Rivers — there’s a new queen of the red carpet and she’s still in elementary school.

You might remember adorable cousins Sophia Grace and Rosie from their previous appearances on YouTube and Ellen…. read more

Panda Live Stream Hopes You’ll Fall in Love With the Planet

Wildlife enthusiasts, nature buffs and, most importantly, puppy cam lovers are in for a treat when they see the latest in furry live streams: the 24-hour-a-day panda stream.

Philanthropic media organization Explore.org has launched the first HD video live stream of pandas, from the world’s largest panda reserve in Ya’an… read more

Why QR Codes Won’t Last

Jon Barocas is the founder and CEO of bieMEDIA, a Denver-based online marketing and media solutions company that specializes in video content production and distribution, mobile visual search, technology platforms, SEO, VSEO and more.

Like most technology fans, I am always ready and willing to try any technology that promises to… read more

Embracing GTD with FacileThings

It’s great that there’s a spectrum of task management web apps to help you get things done. Each of them offers a different approach and interface, so you can choose from a wide variety to find the app that works best for you. After all, everybody has their own way… read more