Valley Still Beats Alley in Meetup Tech Groups

Silicon Valley’s tech scene still beats out Silicon Alley’s, at least as far as Meetup numbers go.

Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman announced at the 21,000-member New York Tech Meetup on Wednesday that Bay area tech Meetup groups had more RSVPs in 2011 than those in any other city.

New York City… read more

BBC, Sky News and CNN Grapple With Twitter Rules

The BBC, Sky News and CNN are trying to figure out how to make Twitter play nicely with traditional newsrooms. Sky News and the BBC released new social media guidelines this week, while CNN has suspended an analyst for controversial tweets.

The BBC’s new rules require journalists to file a story… read more

Game Developer Wooga Draws In 40 Million Users

LIVE from the third annual Inside Social Apps 2012 conference.

Mobile game developer Wooga recently ranked as the third most popular game developer in terms of monthly active users (MAU) on Facebook with more than 40 million players each month. The company has so far released six games: Brain Buddies,… read more

New Facebook Filings Reveal Details of its Relationship With Zynga

Facebook just amended its S-1 filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the documents offer deeper insight into Facebook’s relationship with Zynga.

Facebook amended or added 26 new documents to its SEC filing and these updated documents provide more color on Facebook’s stock allotment and its relationships with other… read more

Pinterest Partner: Yes, They’re Making Money from Pins

News that popular social bookmarking site Pinterest might be generating revenue by adjusting and tracking the links attached to user-generated pins made the rounds online on Wednesday — but according to the site’s affiliate tracking partner, the concept is hardly a new one.

A report by social media blog LLSocial… read more

6 Time Lapse Apps for Android

6 Time Lapse Apps for Android

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Cloud Technology Lets Doctors View Internal Organs on an iPad [VIDEO]

Doctors can now save lives and office space with the latest cloud-based technology that will let them view live medical endoscope scans (medical images of internal organs) on their Apple iPads.

Current endoscopic images are generally viewed on bulky video monitors plugged into the wall. The new wireless endoscopy tools… read more

NBA’s Perkins Calls Out LeBron James for Dunk Tweet

Oh, drama! Oklahoma City Thunder center Kendrick Perkins is not pleased with LeBron James’ reaction on Twitter to Perkins’ victimization by what many have called the “dunk of the year.”

Perkins was on the receiving end of an especially savage slam by Los Angeles Clippers star Blake Griffin last week…. read more

Groupon Posts Loss, Stock Falls 12%

In its first quarter as a public company, Groupon on Wednesday posted a loss of $.08 per share, which sent the company’s stock sliding in after-hours trading.

The consensus among analysts polled by Thomson Reuters was that Groupon was going to post a profit of 3 cents a share on… read more

14 High Quality Free Comic Fonts

Here we are presenting high quality collection of free comic fonts that will add a lively feeling to your bore and dull designs. Did you ever feel that the usual fonts have become somewhat uninteresting? If yes then you must need something new and fresh to make your designs look… read more

Five Slick Menu Bar Apps For Controlling iTunes

So you want to control iTunes from your menu bar? It’s a simple enough task, but which app is right for you? Are there any free options? Can you also control other apps like Spotify and Rdio?

There are a million of these apps on the market but we’ll save the… read more

Mashable Connect 2012: Get Tickets to Mashable’s Biggest Conference of the Year

Mashable is excited to announce that Mashable Connect 2012 will take place May 3-5 in Orlando, FL. Registration is now open!

Mashable Connect is Mashable’s annual destination conference that brings our community together for three days away to connect (offline!) in an intimate setting at the Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney… read more

GigaOm Acquires PaidContent to Create ‘Powerhouse’

Tech blog GigaOm announced Wednesday it has acquired paidContent‘s parent company ContentNext.

GigaOm founder Om Malik cited location and staff as reasons for the acquisition.

ContentNext — which owns MocoNews, paidContent:UK and ContentSutra, in addition to paidContent — has offices in New York and Europe.

Staci Kramer will remain the editor… read more

PlayStation Vita: Your Price (and Games) May Vary

With Sony’s PlayStation Vita handheld console set for release in the United Kingdom and North America later this month, the picture of what we can expect is becoming clearer.

The Vita will start at $249 in the United States for the wireless-only model, and $299 for the 3G version, according… read more

Marketers Who Share Content Drive Traffic, Gain Customers [INFOGRAPHIC]

Content marketing was a top priority for businesses in 2011, and it is going to remain so in 2012. That’s according to a study conducted by the Content Marketing Institute, a marketing education and research company.

In the past year, marketers distributed more business-to-business content on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook… read more

Quick Look: Cool Mojito

Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Cool Mojito. The developer describes Cool Mojito as a web app that lets you create… read more

The End of “Don’t be Evil”

It sounds simple: don’t be evil. How hard can it be, really? Don’t kill kittens. Don’t perform illegal acts involving chainsaws, guns, or exotic fruits. Easy.

For such a simple motto – slogan, really – Google seems to have been having difficulties with this lately. Has the omnipresent company grown from… read more

Weekly Poll: Do You Use Online Banking?

Do you use online banking?

One of my earliest memories of the internet is going to the bank with my parents in, oh, the mid ‘90s, when our bank was handing out packets with a floppy to help you get started using internet banking. The floppy included a browser (Netscape,… read more

xScope 3: Big Improvements to the Designer’s Best Friend

Back in 2009, we reviewed xScope, the then-new comprehensive toolkit for designers. xScope offers precision features for measuring, previewing, and organizing everything on your computer’s screen, from element dimensions to color codes in any format.

The Iconfactory recently released xScope 3: a  major update to their popular software, promising over 70… read more

Dolody: A new Design Dialogue – Plus a FREE ebook

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From the creators of BundleHunt.com and Noupe.com, a new design dialogue just launched today Dolody.com.

Dolody (@dolody) is a weekly design magazine that brings together the latest (and, yes, the greatest) tutorials, articles, freebies & webcasts on the topics of UX and UI design for the web… read more

Super Bowl XLVI Serves a Record 2.1 Million Live Streams

More than 2.1 million viewers watched Super Bowl XLVI via live streams. While this paled in comparison to the game’s record-breaking 111.3 million broadcast viewers, it still set a viewership record for online sporting streams.

NBC tells the Associated Press that the Super Bowl was the “most-watched single-game sports event online.”

NBC… read more

‘App Economy’ Has Created Nearly Half a Million Jobs Since 2007 [STUDY]

That app you use to play Words with Friends on your phone or book a reservation using Open Table might be giving the American economy a nice boost, at least according to a new survey by TechNet.

The new “app economy” has created about 466,000 jobs in the United States… read more

GoPollGo: The Quickest Way to Find Public Opinion

Everyone has an opinion about almost everything. Never mind if one is an expert in a topic or not, there will be something to say about it anyway. Now that social networking is a rage, you cannot away escape from opinions as they are always being shouted and posted around… read more

12 Pinterest Boards for Valentine’s Day Inspiration

1. Etsy

Etsy is a no-brainer for gifts, and even though its Valentine’s Day board is rather sparsely populated,… read more

Jason Mraz Launches Instagram Contest: Make Photo Art for This Song

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Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz wants Instagram users to translate his new song, “I Won’t Give Up,” into a… read more

Top 5 Social Sites for Film Fans

If you ranted and raved about the recent Oscar nominations on Facebook, but none of your friends seemed to care, it’s time to either A) find new friends or B) find a social network that caters to your cinematic needs.

Here are five great sites that help you connect with film… read more

An Idea for Fixing Education: Skip College, Work at a Startup

Skip college, work at a startup. That’s the idea behind a new two-year program called Enstittue that started accepting applications Tuesday.

As newspaper headlines about recent college graduates read along the lines of “educated, unemployed and frustrated” and the average college student takes on a record-breaking amount of crippling debt (on… read more

Fashion Startup Moda Operandi: Now Opening to the World

Moda Operandi, the closely watched online retail operation from ex-Gilt exec Aslaug Magnusdottir and Vogue contributing editor Lauren Santo Domingo, is in transition.

Once accessible only via application, the year-old site is opening its doors and bolstering its content offerings in an attempt to draw new shoppers in and keep… read more

Apple Says it Will Boot Developers Who Manipulate App Store Rankings [VIDEO]

Apple says it will not tolerate manipulation of App Store rankings even if a third-party service is responsible for doing the dirty work.

Making it to the top of the charts is tough, considering more than 500,000 apps are available for download…. read more

Ferris vs. Ferris: Super Bowl Ad and Movie Compared [VIDEO]

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

What do you get when you combine an iconic movie with a buzz-winning Super Bowl ad? An overdose of awesome.

The skilled editors at AkooTV juxtaposed scenes from John Hughes’s 1986 masterpiece Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with… read more

How Pinterest Is Changing Website Design Forever

Even if you haven’t ever visited popular visual bookmarking site Pinterest, you might recognize its design elements — which have been popping up everywhere since the startup burst onto the mainstream scene in 2011.

The site doesn’t use traditional web building blocks.

“It’s almost like a window-shopping mode,” says Khoi Vinh, the… read more

Pandora vs. Spotify: Who Will Win the Battle for Streaming Music?

Matthew Bryan Beck is an NYC-based singer-songwriter, producer, editor, graphic designer and photographer. He writes the tech/social media blog Sludgr. Follow him on Twitter and Subscribe on Facebook.

Once upon a time, the future of streaming music rested squarely on the shoulders of Pandora Radio.

Built on the Music Genome Project, a… read more

How Much Do Tech Companies Make Per Employee? [CHARTS]

As the U.S. limps back from recession, the tech industry has been hailed as a boon for growth and job creation.

But upon closer inspection of multi-billion dollar valuations and scrappy startups on their way to profitability, you might notice that the revenues these companies command are wildly disproportionate to the… read more

Teen Sends Her MIT Admissions Letter to Space [VIDEO]

A 17-year-old accepted into Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched her admissions letter 91,000 feet to the edge of space and videotaped its journey.

Erin King of Georgia used a weather balloon, GPS-equipped ham radio transmitters, a GoPro Hero camera and a helium… read more

Adobe Sheds Light On Its Upcoming “Creative Cloud” Service

A couple of weeks after Adobe revealed an upgrade offer to CS6, the latest reincarnation in its popular Creative Suite, which includes such big software names as Photoshop, Flash and Dreamweaver, to any existing CS3 and CS4 owners, the San Jose-based technology shed a little more light on its upcoming… read more

Let The Clients Organise Your Day With BookingBug

Many people struggle with bookings and reservations, especially if they offer services to clients. One day they’ll have nothing to do whatsoever, and the next they’re busting themselves trying to do three things at once.

Well, there is a solution to this problem. BookingBug is a time management and scheduling tool… read more

Why I Don’t Backup My Photos Using Lightroom

If you’ve used the Import dialog in Lightroom, you’ve probably noticed an area under File Handing called “Make a Second Copy To:”. This is Lightroom’s way of letting you make a backup of your photos as you import them. That way you can get your import and your backup all… read more

NewsBar Lets You Scroll Through Your News with Ease

RSS and news apps make up one of the more crowded categories at the App Store, spanning the ranges of quality and price. Despite the abundance of RSS apps, they tend to all have similar feature sets, and differentiate themselves based on their interfaces (and often a few gimmicks). NewsBar… read more

Time for Mail: Services That Improve Gmail Productivity

Gmail exploded onto the internet in 2004 (beta) offering users a whopping 1GB of storage. This was unheard of at the time with the largest email service Hotmail only offering a few megabytes of storage. Currently Gmail offers 7GB of free storage with competitors such as Hotmail offering 5GB of… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.119)

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 and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

15 Apps to Use With That Shiny Graphics Tablet

I recently acquired a Wacom tablet. I love using it, but being the software geek that I am I was eager to find some software to use the tablet with. Now, keep in mind that the tablet can typically be used as a mouse replacement and can be used with… read more

Press Page Generator Hopes to Solve Startup’s Media Problems

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: Totem

Quick Pitch: Totem — a press pages generator — displays company accomplishments and social facets in… read more

Netflix Launches First Original Series, ‘Lillyhammer’ [VIDEO]

Netflix has launched its first original series, Lillyhammer. The series stars Steven Van Zandt as a New York gangster who finds himself living in Norway as part of the witness protection program.

Rather than rolling out episodes individually, all eights… read more

How Digital Tools Help Companies Offer Better Health Care

Kevin Wildenhaus, Ph.D., is director of science and innovation at Wellness & Prevention, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company. Dr. Wildenhaus is a clinical psychologist specializing in health behavior change and practical, effective health intervention programs.

Health risk assessment (HRA) is continually evolving to meet the ever-changing demands of the health… read more

20 Best (or Most Annoying) Animated Super Bowl GIFs

The Butt Touchdown

Photo from Tumblr.

Click here to view this gallery.

Are you ready for some GIF-ball?

That’s right —… read more

Facebook Is Bringing Ads to Mobile Apps [REPORT]

Users of Facebook‘s apps — for Android, iPad and iPhone — may begin seeing ads as soon as early March, as the company looks to gain an addition revenue source before it goes public.

Sources close to the matter say Facebook has already discussed proposals with advertising agencies, according to the… read more

Avoiding Social Networks and Staying on Task

Do you have a Facebook? Possibly a Twitter? Or maybe you’re one of those inactive Google Plus folks? There’s even the case that you don’t have any of these and you’re having fun over at Diaspora. In any case, you’re always susceptible to becoming addicted to your favorite social network… read more

Google to Test Mystery Device in Employees’ Homes [VIDEO]

No one is sure what Google has up its sleeve, but it could be something you’ll have at home in years to come.

Google applied for a Federal Communications Commission experimental license to test an unnamed prototype entertainment device in its employees’… read more

Galaxy Note Super Bowl Ad Inspires Twitter Backlash

Samsung has been hyping its campaign for its Galaxy Note smartphone/tablet hybrid for the past few weeks, culminating in an ad shown toward the end of Sunday night’s Super Bowl.

Whether or not you thought the ad was clever, you couldn’t miss the prominent reappearance of a technology that the… read more

Google Earth Deletes Rumored Lost City of Atlantis

The lost city of Atlantis — rumored to be discovered in a Google Earth map — is once again lost, thanks to a maps update from the search giant.

A grid-like pattern on a Google Ocean — a Google Earth extension — map raised speculation in 2009 that Google had discovered… read more

Weekly Poll: Which Version of OS X Are You Running?

Which Version of OS X Are You Running?

OS X Lion was announced way back in October of 2010 and released in July of 2011. You’ve now had lots of time to prep for the switch and over six months to make the purchase and upgrade your system (granted that… read more

How to Fix Best Buy

Alex Goldfayn’s new book is called Evangelist Marketing: What Apple Amazon and Netflix Understand About Their Customers (That Your Company Probably Doesn’t). He is CEO of the Evangelist Marketing Institute, a marketing consultancy with clients that include T-Mobile, TiVo and Logitech.

Some people insist that Best Buy is dying a slow… read more

How New York City Went Digital in 2011

Since 2010, New York City has strived to become a global digital leader. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and commissioner Katherine Oliver announced NYC Digital last July, with the mission to create a better civil society and stronger democracy with the use of technology – engaging, serving and connecting New York.

Rachel Sterne… read more

8 Alternatives To WordPress As A Blogging Platform

No doubt in that, that WordPress is the most famous and popular platform for blogging that has been used by millions of bloggers all over the world. But sometime it just does not meet with some of your specific needs and you find yourself helpless as there is no other… read more

Super Bowl’s Most-Searched Term: Madonna [VIDEO]

The Giants may have won the Super Bowl, but Madonna won the Google search competition.

The 53-year-old halftime performer was Google’s most-searched term during the 2012 Super Bowl game between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants.

Google released its most-searched… read more

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Interactive Music Video Lets You ‘Look Around’

The Red Hot Chili Peppers just released an interactive version of the music video for the band’s latest single, “Look Around.”

The non-interactive version of the video was… read more

LeVar Burton to Bring Reading Rainbow Back … in an App

When Reading Rainbow ended its 26-year run in 2009, it left behind decades of preschoolers for whom its theme song will forever surface nostalgia:

Take a look, it’s in a book, a reading rainbow.

The PBS program was cut because nobody would fund it. But John Grant, who was at the… read more

Amazon to Open Retail Store [RUMOR]

In what may be a sign that 2012 really is the year of the apocalypse, revered online retailer Amazon is rumored to be opening a brick-and-mortar retail store.

The site Good Ereader reports that sources “close to the situation” say Amazon will open up a single store in the Seattle area… read more

Tumblr Humor Editor Reveals the Secret to Finding Hilarious Content

Today alone, Tumblr has already seen nearly 62 million posts — overall, the site just surpassed 17 billion posts total.

For a network that produces and reproduces millions of pieces of content daily, the company relies on a number of editors for each category. And as one of the most popular… read more

Grow Your Community by Asking Questions

Reporters at The Washington Post are now actively engaging their readers by posting comments in streams on the paper’s news stories online, something they’ve never done in the past. The paper switched to a new website platform called Echo, which has helped them grow their online community. Reader comments… read more

Thanks to Our Weekly Sponsor: Ramotion

Our featured sponsor this week is Ramotion, a fantastic icon/UI design and iOS development company. Typically we reserve weekly sponsorship slots for our favorite apps but Ramotion has such an impressive portfolio that we simply couldn’t turn them down.

One of Ramotion’s primary strengths is icon design. Stop by their icon… read more

Getting Started Building iPhone Apps in Xcode 4.2

The newest version of Xcode comes packaged with a few noticeable interface changes. For beginners and intermediate users it can be difficult figuring out even the most basic functionality. And although Apple’s online documentation is well-written, it’s certainly not friendly for the average user.

So in this guide I’d… read more

SpeedTao: A Promising Download Acceleration App

I’m sure you’re familiar with the many download managers available for Mac, such as JDownloader, Leech (which we reviewed in 2010) and others. The purpose of most of these apps is to help folks who have multiple downloads keep things neatly organized and packed into one app.

JDownloader even offers a special… read more

How to Follow New York Fashion Week Online

Snapshot from Nanette Lepore’s Spring/Summer 2012 collection.

Fashion Week returns to New York Feb. 9, and once again designers and the press are heading to the web to engage consumer audiences.

Building off success from past seasons, many brands — roughly one-third showing at Lincoln Center — will live-stream… read more

Player Cut on Super Bowl 2012 Eve Will Tweet During Game

A New England Patriots wide receiver who was shockingly released from the team less than a day before Super Bowl XLVI will instead tweet updates and reactions as he watches the game on television. The bizarre turn of events will provide a wholly unique experience for fans who follow Tiquan… read more

Turn Patriots Coach Bill Belichick into a Super Bowl Meme [CONTEST]

Before, during or after the Super Bowl game, take a stab at turning Patriots coach Bill Belichick into a meme.

We know football fans are full of wit and humor. So tackle this challenge with all the knowledge you have about the Patriots, Giants, NFL and hoopla surrounding the Super… read more

Top 6 Super Bowl 2012 Apps

On Sunday night, millions of people will be watching Super Bowl 2012 on their televisions, while others might be watching it on their smartphones.

This year marks the first time the Super Bowl will be streamed live online, and with the trend of sports becoming more social, you will be able… read more

How to Follow Super Bowl 2012 With Social Media

It’s never been easier to get your pigskin fix on the internet than Super Bowl XLVI. The NFL’s biggest sporting event, airing Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET on NBC, is shaping up to be the most socially connected in football history. It’s also the first to feature official live video… read more

4 Tools for Better Agency-Client Collaboration

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 most effective consultant/client relationships tend to morph into partnerships, in which the consultant is truly an extension of the internal team. However, elevating a relationship from… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 1, February

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

Wallpaper of the Week 189 by Jeff Huang

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Jeff Huang. Jeff is a freelance art director and illustrator based in New York who specializes in Creative Design, Abstract Art, Photo Editing, and 3D.

Jeff has been working professionally for more than 6 years now and has produced work… read more

Apple Loses German Court Bid To Block Sales of Samsung’s Nexus Phone, Galaxy Tab 10.1N

Apple Loses German Court Bid To Block Sales of Samsung’s Nexus Phone, Galaxy Tab 10.1N

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29 Meme-Inspired Movie Posters [PICS]

If Internet memes were turned into movies, their promotional posters might resemble the designs London-based Stefan van Zoggel conjured up.

“I took the context of the usually short-lived internet memes and virals, and translated that to simple film poster designs,” says van Zoggel on his Meme Movie Posters blog.

He has… read more

2012 Grammys Embrace Digital, Mobile and Social Media

The 54th Grammy Awards ceremony is only eight days away and the Recording Academy is kicking off the next phase of its digital and social campaign. Under the heading of “We Are Music” the Academy and its partners are harnessing the power of social, mobile and digital to make the… read more

Facebook Turns 8, And Together We’ve Grown

I’ve been on Facebook for 2,561 days, having joined during the first year of its existence and my first year of college.

As the world’s largest social network turns 8 years old today, millions of people will reflect on the impact Facebook has had on their lives, however big or small… read more

15 of the Most Popular Pictures on Pinterest

1. Hands

Pinterest via Edris Kim.

Click here to view this gallery.

If you’re like us, you’re obsessed with Pinterest. You… read more

Quick Look: Get Dealy

Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Get Dealy. The developer describes Get Dealy as site offering sales on tech products. Deals… read more

3 Free iPhone Apps for Creating Your Own Stop-Motion Videos

1. Created with the Stop-Motion Camera App

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Top 10 Google Chrome Plugins for Small Businesses

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 Google Chrome Web Store has made it easy for anyone to stay organized, and the browser has gotten much faster, as we’ve noticed in the beta… read more

Best of the Week #208

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

Hype: A Worthy Flash Alternative?

Hype, by developers Tumult, seems to have a rather appropriate title. There has been a great deal of talk about this web animation app since its release some months ago, and that can hardly be a surprise, given that it claims to allow the user to create “beautiful HTML5 web… read more

Stylitics Is an Analytics Dashboard for Your Closet [INVITES]

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: Stylitics

Quick Pitch: Mint.com for your closet.

Genius Idea: A new way to organize your wardrobe and track… read more

Like Testing New Apps? BetaBait Will Hook You Up

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: BetaBait

Quick Pitch: BetaBait connects startups with beta testers.

Genius Idea: Access to early adopters that doesn’t require… read more

4 Ways to Tweet as a Visual Brand

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

Companies that rely on a visual or photographic web presence often find it difficult to convey their media on Twitter. Take, for instance, apparel brands that need… read more

Olapic’s Crowd-Sourced Photo Campaigns Becoming a Sports Trend

Crowd-sourced social photo sharing appears to be the latest community engagement trend among professional sports teams, largely powered by the online startup Olapic.

Olapic’s service allows organizations to quickly and easily enable fans, readers or other types of audiences to submit photos of their own experiences at a game or… read more

The Strange and Epic Lifestyle of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom

If you’re not aware of Kim Dotcom, the man who changed his last name to pay homage to the World Wide Web, we offer you this brief history lesson. Born in Germany, Kim Schmitz (a.ka. King Kimble, a.k.a. King of the Kimpire, a.k.a. The Kim-pin), is a larger-than-life Internet hustler… read more

Top 10 Web Apps For Making Valentine E-Cards

Top 10 Web Apps For Making Valentine E-Cards

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Travel Website Lets You Book Flights Featuring Wi-Fi, Live TV

Travel is so much easier when you’re prepared and know what to expect. Airfare shopping website CheapAir.com now lets you find out which flights offer Wi-Fi, live TV and movies before you book.

Onboard technology can make flying a much more pleasurable and productive experience. But unless you book with… read more

Smartphone Sales Overtake PCs for the First Time [STUDY]

If you bought a smartphone in 2011 — and didn’t buy a PC — you were part of a history-making trend.

For the first year ever, total PC sales around the world were outpaced by total smartphone sales, in units at least, according to data released Friday by market… read more

Amazon Q4 2011: Revenue Dropped by Nearly 60 Percent Despite Strong Kindle Sales

Amazon Q4 2011: Revenue Dropped by Nearly 60 Percent Despite Strong Kindle Sales

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Stephen Colbert: Support NASA Space Station Research [VIDEO]

Stephen Colbert asked his fans to share his passion for space by donating to NASA to support its work with the International Space Station.

Colbert rallied behind NASA’s efforts to create alternative vaccines to fight diseases — including salmonella and pneumonia —… read more

How Social Media Changed ESPN Audio’s Super Bowl Week

Social and mobile technologies aren’t just important for guerilla marketing campaigns and grassroots outreach.

They’re also changing how the world’s biggest broadcast media companies do business.

Mashable recently spoke with top executives and personalities from the sports behemoth ESPN during the company’s biggest week of the year for Super Bowl… read more

How to Deliver a Killer Business Presentation

Meaghan Edelstein has gained national media attention through her blog, I Kicked Cancer’s Ass, which she started to document her battle with end stage cancer. She is an attorney, the founder of the non-profit organization Spirit Jump, and works for the Global Strategic Management Institute.

Working with hundreds of speakers as… read more

GE’s Beth Comstock: Social Media Redefines the Focus Group

Mashable’s Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment.

GE’s Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock sat down with Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore to talk about her role leading business… read more

World Cancer Day Facebook App Hopes to Beat Cancer Before it Starts

Two international cancer prevention groups think the online community can — and should — take a stab at the worldwide cancer epidemic. In honor of World Cancer Day, Feb. 4, Stand Up To Cancer and the Union for International Cancer Control are launching a Facebook app that they hope… read more

MadeFreshly: Instant Ecommerce

Gone are the days when you needed a truckload of money to start an eCommerce venture. I’m not saying that you don’t need a huge amount of capital to start your own shop online. It all depends on the nature and volume of goods you deal with. But one variable… read more

Win a Free Copy of Postbox: 10 Licenses Up for Grabs!

Postbox 3, the latest iteration of this awesome and powerful Mail.app alternative, brings about a ton of great new features and enhancements. The interface has been completely revamped to be more slick and streamlined, great Lion features like fullscreen mode and gestures have been added, there’s better Gmail support and… read more

How Tech Can Prepare You for Extreme Weather

Steve Rubel is EVP of global strategy and insights for Edelman, the world’s largest public relations firm. Rubel studies the future of media and helps clients unify their communications strategies across traditional, emerging, owned and social channels.

Modern technology can’t actually fix the weather — at least not yet. However, social… read more

Red Bull Launches a Fitness Mission With Fitocracy

Red Bull sponsors several extreme sports pros who produce videos with gnarly titles such as “Wakeboarding in the Swamps of Louisiana” and “Dust and Bones.” But through a partnership with online health startup Fitocracy, the company now wants to motivate average joes to submit decidedly non-extreme reports with names such… read more

5 iPhone Twitter Apps that Do More Than Just Tweet

Leo Widrich is the co-founder of Buffer, a new way to publish tweets and Facebook posts at better times for more impact. He writes more about social media tips and tools on the Buffer blog. Follow him on Twitter @LeoWid or subscribe to his Facebook updates.

When Twitter recently launched the… read more