Announcing MashBash BlogWorld: Win a Free Pass [CONTEST]

Mashable is excited to announce MashBash BlogWorld, the opening party for this year’s BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas on October 15-16. To kick off the Expo, we’ll be hosting the first night’s official party at Haze at Aria Hotel.

We would love for you to join us, so… read more

Blogging Basics for Designers: Choosing a Name and a Platform

Blogging Basics for Designers: Choosing a Name and a Platform

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20 Useful Free PDF ebooks for Designers and Bloggers

Over the years I have a saved a decent sized library of useful design and blogging related PDF ebooks, I love them. I have voraciously collected them, and all stored on my mobile for whenever the chance of quick read arises. In this post I would like to share my… read more

4 Tips for Writing SEO-Friendly Blog Posts

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

In addition to writing for their human readers, web writers and bloggers have to consider the digital web crawlers employed by search engines like Google. Your business… read more

Creative Bookmarks: Best of August 2010

August was another awesome month with great tutorials and articles oozing from everywhere. Here’s Creative Bookmarks August!

Quick Nav:

Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsHow To Create The Expendables Winged Skull Poster Art

In this tutorial, by Chris Spooner, you’ll learn how to re-create the sinister and gun-crazy poster for the… read more

The Case For Open-Source Design: Can Design By Committee Work?

In celebrating the merits of free software and the excitement over this radical networked production method, an important truth is left unspoken. Networked collaboration shines in the low levels of network protocols, server software and memory allocation, but user interface has consistently been a point of failure. How come the… read more

HOW TO: Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet, her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. Follow her on Twitter @corpnet and Facebook.

Now that we’re nearing the home stretch of… read more

Best of the Vector Web – August 2010

As you know, each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we found some really great tutorials on vector character design, creating charts in Illustrator, and vector skulls among others. We’ve also expanded this month’s offering…. read more

The Robust Collection Of (50) Mindblowing Icon Sets For Your Next Design

Icons can be useful to furnish users with unforgettable images and examples if used properly, and this is the reason why Icon sets always come in handy. You will find the huge collection of recently released icon sets which are believed to assist you in bettering your designs on websites… read more

3 Winning Alternatives to Online Sweepstakes

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 Real Time Marketing Group.

For some time now, companies have… read more

How CEOs Will Use Social Media in the Future

This series is supported by Gist. Gist provides a full view of the contacts in your professional network by creating a rich business profile for each one that includes the most news, status updates, and work details. See how it works here.

Today’s CEO is not social. So says Forrester… read more

Arcade Fire’s Experimental New Video Shows What’s Possible with HTML5

Watch out MTV, the music video has just got a new gold standard. Indie band Arcade Fire has released a vid for the song “We Used to Wait” off of their new album, The Suburbs, and it’s basically one big ball of HTML5/Google Maps/musical goodness.

The video was announced today on… read more

Writing and Web Design: Editorial Calendars and Style Guides

A few years ago, you might not have pointed out during a meeting with a potential client that you maintained a blog. Over time, though, blogs have evolved from the being a personal hobby to a serious work tool. In fact, today, web designers are supposed to know much more… read more

HOW TO: Watch the 2010 Emmy Awards Online [VIDEO]

As per usual, there’s no legal way to stream video of the whole 2010 Emmy Awards ceremony live online, but there are a few ways you can use the web to supplement your TV viewing experience.

This year the options include Facebook and Twitter-integrated, live red carpet and backstage video from… read more

6 Job Search Tips for Aspiring Programmers

It’s true that most programmers don’t need any help getting a job. While other professions have cut down on hiring during the recession, the number of programming jobs has shot through the roof. Demand is expected to increase by 21% between 2008 and 2018.

But not all programming jobs are created… read more

Linkswitch #33: Photo Manipulation, Investing, WordPress SEO

Why I Stick to Pen and Paper for Goals and Tasks

Technology is great…but I sure do like pen and paper – as I mentioned to one of our readers who asked me what I use to keep track of things. For one thing, I remember things better… read more

Comics of the Week #40

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile… read more

The Cost of Tweets (CO2 Emissions)

What’s the cost of tweets sent daily on Twitter in terms of CO2 emission?

According to data from Twitter, published in February 2010, every day around 50 million tweets are sent over the popular micro blogging platform.

Considering an average time of 10 seconds to write one single tweet and the average… read more

Multi-Website Publishing with Halogy

Remember that website you always wanted to create but never managed to find the time or lacked the technical expertise to get it running? Or maybe you’re a designer that loves being creative but you’ve always struggled to grasp the process of converting your designs into a theme that can… read more

100+ Free High Quality Icon Sets for Web Designers and Developers

Icons are the basic requirement of any web related projects and good icons are like a treasure for web designers.

The demand for good icons are too much in these days and finding the best icon sets from the pool with tens of thousands of packs is not a easy job… read more

3 Steps To A Killer Freelance Social Media Process

You began with a glorious hallucination of what social media was going to do for your business, social life, and even writing ability. You tweeted, facebooked, and smothered Linked-in contacts with glowing recommendations. You commented on all the top blogs in your niche and dutifully updated your own blog on-schedule…. read more

The Best Free to use Posterous Themes

Don't mistake Posterous as another micro-blogging service, it is much, much bigger than that. There are no limits to what you can do with it and there are seemingly no limits to what you can post to it – photos (auto resizing), audio files and links, documents and video (auto… read more

5 Lightweight CMS Alternatives 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.

Even in 2010, managing and maintaining a website can be a daunting and complicated process. Blogging platforms like Tumblr and Posterous are great, but they aren’t always… read more

20 Cool Twitter Accounts for Daily Fun and Inspiration [PICS]

Twitter is an ever-expanding source of fascinating information. More than just news and updates, there is also another, more fun side of Twitter that is sometimes overlooked.

You can use the real-time micro-blogging service to get a daily dose of education, entertainment, or something in between. Whether you want to expand… read more

Philadelphia Tax Code Sparks Big Controversy with Small Bloggers

Do you use Google AdSense or other ad services on your personal blog or website? If you live in the city of Philadelphia, you might want to rethink that decision.

Last week, the Philadelphia City Paper published an article discussing the potential impact of the city’s Business Privilege Tax on residents… read more

100+ Upcoming Social Media & Tech Conferences and Events

Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Would you like to have your conference or event listed here? If so, please contact us at least one month before your event to establish a media partnership. For more upcoming listings, check… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.52)

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more

Posterous Redesign Highlights Ways to Share Beyond E-mail

“Dead simple” blogging platform Posterous — which has built up a loyal following of users by allowing them to quickly and efficiently e-mail in their blog posts, no formatting required — has released a redesign highlighting the many ways users can share multimedia content on the platform besides e-mail.

At the… read more

7 Cool Chrome Extensions for Twitter

We all know Chrome is fast, but can it also be social? We’ve already brought you a list of social media extensions for Google’s Chrome browser, but here we set our sights on extensions designed specifically for Twitter.

We’ve scoured Chrome’s extensions listings and found seven free tools that we think… read more

10 Tips For Aspiring Community Managers

As the world of dominant brands becomes more fragmented, established companies and startups are hiring community managers to cultivate an engaged community in a digital world where customers’ experiences with the product is amplified through social media, whether good or bad. And it’s not just the experience that a users… read more

Best of the Week #133

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

Comics of the Week #39

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile… read more

100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition

It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since our last WordPress theme collection, but there you have it — the time has come again. Once a year we feature the most useful and interesting WordPress-themes that we are collecting over months and present them in a nice quick… read more

Why Blogging Makes Sense for Designers

Why Blogging Makes Sense for Designers

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7 Services to Find and Reserve Your Name Across the Web

This series is supported by Gillette. Learn more about Gillette and its products at Gillette.com.

If you choose a different username for every site you’re on, it can be hard to create a consistent identity across the web. The problem, however — as Twitter-spoofed Megan Fox, BP, and even… read more

Recession Survival Tips For Online Businesses

In a recession, companies go one of two ways: either they become the cautious cat, adopting a wait-and-see attitude, spending carefully on their marketing and less overall, cutting back, or they become the ferocious lion, bold, taking advantage of their competitors’ caution to seize opportunities in the tough market.

Whatever your… read more

Tumblr for Android Is Here

Tumblr fans with Android devices, hustle over to the Android Market: Tumblr has released an official Android app.

With little or no fanfare, this application has appeared with handy tools for posting photos, links and more to your Tumblr. You can take pictures and record audio and video for your posts… read more

15 Simple Ways to Integrate Facebook into Your Website

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”. Facebook stands as the contemporary example that proves the quote so right. When Myspace was at the top people ignored Facebook, then they laughed at their ambitious plans to become… read more

Reader Tutorial: AeroStuff by Trisme

The tutorial of this week is from one of our readers, his name is Trisme and he is an illustrator, digital artist and web designer from Poland. Trisme will show us how he created the design called AeroStuff, it’s a really cool artwork mixing photos and some 3D objects. The… read more

Reader Case Study: AeroStuff by Trisme

The tutorial of this week is from one of our readers, his name is Trisme and he is an illustrator, digital artist and web designer from Poland. Trisme will show us how he created the design called AeroStuff, it’s a really cool artwork mixing photos and some 3D objects. The… read more

5 Tips for Aspiring Copywriters and Art Directors

Between high-profile awards shows and TV series like Mad Men, more and more of the American population are coming to realize the glamor of the advertising industry — and there’s perhaps no role more inspiring, frustrating and, yes, sometimes glamorous, than the role of an advertising creative.

Advertising creatives fall into… read more

5 Key Benefits of Monitoring Your Client’s Brand on Social Media

Lauren Fernandez is the Agency Community Manager at Radian6, the social media monitoring and engagement platform. She is @cubanalaf on Twitter, and blogs at LAF and MarketingProfs Daily Fix.

From an agency perspective, many utilize social media monitoring at the request of a client who either doesn’t know much about… read more

Comics of the Week #38

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile… read more

The Best of the Business Blogs, July 2010

At the start of every month, we’ll be rounding up the best posts from the business network of blogs and directing you to them. Here’s the best of business in July, including articles from WorkAwesome, the Netsetter and FreelanceSwitch.

The Netsetter

50 Netsetters You Should Know About

There are thousands of… read more

15 Excellent Corporate Blogs to Learn From

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

Creating and maintaining a corporate blog, or a blog of any sort for that matter, isn’t always the easiest of tasks and doesn’t come naturally to most… read more

Can Flash Move Forward?

There has been a long debate about Adobe Vs. Apple, or even Flash Vs. HTML5. Whatever side of the fence you are on—you probably won’t be changing your mind anytime soon. Flash brings a lot of features and creativity for web designers, but then again the promise of HTML5, CSS3… read more

MTV Selects First-Ever Twitter Jockey [VIDEO]

Earlier this week, MTV selected its first-ever TJ (Twitter Jockey) via a live finale filmed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Although some may look askance at the idea of a “TJ,” the phenomenon marks a truly interesting milestone in the life of the microblogging service: total and complete mainstream… read more

What Every Photographer Needs to Know about Social Media

An introduction to social media for photographers by Australian Freelance Photographer Gemma Carr.

How critical is social media/marketing to your photography business?

Photographers are busy people. So too are our clients. More so than ever before we have an abundance of information available to us at the click of a mouse. It’s… read more

90+ Brilliant Fresh WordPress Site Designs for Design Inspiration

Many of you should know that instantShift is proudly powered by WordPress, as a Blogging and CMS tool. If you are in search of good CMS or a new web tool for your projects, we strongly recommend WordPress to you. WordPress is a great tool, and best thing is free!

Now… read more

Precious the Tweeting Bike Takes to the Road to Raise Money for Livestrong

Ever wonder what your bike is thinking during those, hot sweaty summer rides (aside from wishing you hadn’t opted for the skin-tight spandex short-shorts)? Well, now you can get a better idea of what’s going on in the subconscious of the two-wheeled one by following Precious, a tweeting bike that’s… read more

5 Funny Social Media Web Comics [PICS]

Satire comes in many forms, but one of our favorites here at Mashable is the cartoon.

The world of social media is a ripe target for web comics, with some talented artists turning their sights on our new online lifestyles.

Get ready to snicker, giggle, and yes, even snort your way through… read more

How Freelancers Might Use Social Media In The Future

This series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies. See how it works here.

For freelancers, social media has been a real game changer, and brings networking to a… read more

5 Useful Tools to Track Twitter Unfollowers

It can be hard not to take it personally, but being unfollowed on Twitter is as much a part of the microblogging service as direct messages and trending topics.

We can’t make losing followers less tough, but we can help you track who stops reading your tweets, and potentially figure out… read more

Creative Bookmarks: Best of July 2010

We’re a week late due to some server trouble last week. Now that we’re back to smooth sailing, we’re bringing you a new edition of Creative Bookmarks. Enjoy!

Quick Nav:

Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsCreate Beautiful Abstract Female Art in Photoshop

In this tutorial, from PSDTuts+, you’ll learn how to… read more

Mashable Weekend Recap: 11 Stories You May Have Missed

Whether you were working overtime, hanging out at the beach, or jamming out to Lady Gaga and The Arcade Fire at Lollapalooza, it’s all in the past now; the weekend is over, and the trickle of information is about to turn back into a waterfall. Before you dive off, though,… read more

7 Perfect Posterous Themes for Multimedia Blogs

Posterous has been around since 2006, but the super-simple blogging platform is still relatively unknown when compared to blog giants like WordPress and Tumblr. If that sentence didn’t mean anything to you then, ironically, Posterous was designed for you.

The platform takes all the functionality and impressive visuals from (sometimes complicated)… read more

38 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

Capping off a busy week at Mashable HQ we bring you a massive list of social media resources you may have missed. We’ve got 38 of the most interesting features and tools published over the last week or so in case you were, you know, outside during the summer.

Have a… read more

How I spread my photography business for maximum profitability

Off the top of your head, what do you think photographers do? Take pictures? Yep. What else? So much more!

As a business woman, I soon learned that if I was going to be a photographer who eats, I had to branch out. I learned not to rely on my clients… read more

Linkswitch #30: Pricing Tactics, Effective Marketing Campaigns

An Effective Marketing Plan: Getting Started

Effective marketing campaigns are the foundation for your business’ success. You might be the best at what you do, but if nobody knows about you and your offerings, and why they’re of value, then that shingle you hung up is going to come tumbling down.

… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Aug 1-Aug 7, 2010

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

Top 5 Tips for Aspiring Music Bloggers

So you wanna be a music blogger? Congrats! As any struggling artist can tell you, putting your finger on your passion can take a while. You, however, are halfway there. Well, before you venture past the halfway point, might I ask how you feel when faced with the following sentiment:… read more

Comics of the Week #37

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile… read more

5 Terrific Twitter Mapping Tools

Twitter is undeniably useful as a standalone service, but it becomes so much more fun when you start factoring in all the cool tools and awesome apps available.

We’ve previously brought you various Twitter visualization services, but now we’re taking a look at mapping tools that work with the microblogging site.

Whether… read more

A Brief History of 9 Popular Blogging Platforms

Even though Microsoft’s spell check insists that “blog” and “blogger” are not real words, they’ve been been in the dictionary since 2003. Blogs and their platforms have a lengthy history.

The beginnings of blogging was a time not unlike today: Plaid was in style, a beloved rock star had passed, and… read more

Morning Brief: Saudia Arabia’s Blackberry Ban, Motorola’s TV Tablet, London Cabs on Twitter

This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and technology.

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in… read more

3 Social Sites for Demonstrating Your Business Acumen

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

In order to positively impact the bottom line through social media, small business owners should look beyond the sales pitch. Today’s savvy business owner maintains a social… read more

Is Technorati still relevant to bloggers?

Mashable, in celebration of their fifth birthday, have published a Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Blogging. The post begins with a reference to one of the original pillars of blogging: Technorati. Back in the day, every blogger who was anyone made sure their blog was in the… read more

10 Free and Fun Twitter Bird Icons for your Website

Everyone loves Twitter’s little blue bird, unless of course they’re ornithophobic, which would pretty much make the Twittersphere hell on earth. But finding the right bird icon for your site can be a challenge, especially if your budget is bird seed.

We’ve had lots of fun pulling together a gallery of… read more

A Look Back At the Last 5 Years in Blogging

In honor of Mashable’s five-year anniversary, this series is supported by IDG. Customers are talking about your brand and products — find out what they are saying with IDG Social Scout.

Five years is eons in Internet time, and a lot has changed in the blogosphere since 2005. Sites have… read more

100+ Upcoming Social Media & Tech Events

Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Would you like to have your conference or event listed here? If so, please contact us at least one month before your event to establish a media partnership. For more upcoming event listings,… read more

How 12 CEOs & Founders are Leveraging Web Video

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 debate continues on whether CEOs should be fluent in social media or not, but the number of CEOs using social media to engage customers is still… read more

5 Free Ways to Never Miss a Twitter @Reply

There are plenty of Twitter apps and clients offering brand monitoring and keyword alert services, but if you’re only one person, you may want a more lightweight way of keeping track of what people are saying about you on the micro-blogging service.

To this end, we’ve found five free, web-based Twitter… read more

HOW TO: Legally Structure your Startup

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet, her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs in getting their business off the ground in a fast, reliable, and affordable manner. … read more

How Small Businesses Will Use Social Media in the Future

This series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies. See how it works here.

Short of saying we’ll all be doing business from Foursquare-fueled hover cars, the future of… read more

YouTube Star to Put His Life in Your Hands for a Year [VIDEO]

Heyo all you megalomaniacs out there — may we introduce yet another way to get your jollies this year: Dan 3.0. Starting today, 20-year-old YouTube sensation Dan Brown is launching a new web show/social experiment in which he will turn control of his life over to you, the viewers, for… read more

Is Tumblr’s Growth off the Back of Porn?

Recent tech press coverage of Tumblr has been to tell us just how fast Tumblr has been growing. In fact TechCrunch reported a couple of weeks ago that Tumblr pumps out 1.5 billion pageviews a month!

Here at Web.AppStorm we get a fair bit of search traffic for terms relating… read more

The Making of “Climb” – An Awesome 3D Text Composition in Photoshop

The Making of “Climb” – An Awesome 3D Text Composition in Photoshop

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Linkswitch #29: Upselling, Report Writing, Meeting Deadlines

How to Balance Your Internet Life with Your Real Life

Hi, I’m Carl, and I’m a blogger.

I really started blogging back in 1997 when I created an e-mail newsletter for the newspaper. I would start each daily e-mail with some personal insights then list the day’s headlines. I didn’t know… read more

Twitter Hits 20 Billion Tweets

There have now been more than 20 billion tweets since Twitter’s inception, according to tracking service GigaTweet. The milestone comes just two months after the service hit 15 billion tweets and about five months since it reached 10 billion, indicating that activity levels on the microblogging service continue to… read more

Comics of the Week #36

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile… read more

Twitter Starts Offering Personalized Suggestions on Who to Follow

Twitter is in the midst of rolling out a new feature called “Suggestions for You” that offers up personalized recommendations of users that you might want to follow on the microblogging service. You’ll find the new feature under the “Find People” link in the header of Twitter.com.

According to Twitter,… read more

Twitter Starts Offering Personalized Suggestions on Whom to Follow

Twitter is in the midst of rolling out a new feature called “Suggestions for You” that offers up personalized recommendations of users that you might want to follow on the microblogging service. You’ll find the new feature under the “Find People” link in the header of Twitter.com.

According to Twitter,… read more

6 Online Tools for Expanding Your Video Strategy

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

Online video continues to be an area with huge growth and expansion for small businesses and brands. Video is such a great way to connect with users… read more

Sites of the Week #113 – Winners Giveaway

For this Sites of the Week, we’re announcing the winners for the WeGraphics giveaway, check it out below! Also we have selected some great sites such as iFontMaker and Score Factory. As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

How an Ambitious Startup Wants to Revolutionize Banking

When we think of banks, we think of the brick-and-mortar financial institutions we turn to to keep our money safe. Even though in recent years we’ve seen reputable banks crumble and interest rates tumble, most of us would never think to abandon a bank — especially one whose history dates… read more

Kanye West Raps at Twitter HQ, Tweets a Whole Lot [VIDEO]

It seems that Kanye West is doing a tour of the Silicon Valley’s nerd hubs. After freestyling over at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California, the other day — and subsequently joining Twitter yesterday — he jammed on over to Twitter Central and treated Biz Stone and Co. to a… read more

How Women Use the Web [REPORT]

More women than men across the world visit social networking sites and spend 30% more time per month using them.

As such, in the “Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet” report, comScore concludes that women are the digital mainstream, a group of savvy Internet explorers who are… read more

15 Developer/Hacker Women to Follow on Twitter

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

Everyone should know at least one woman who can code her way out of a wet paper bag.

While women developers, computer programmers and hackers of all stripes are by far outnumbered by… read more

HOW TO: Add Multimedia to Your Blog

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

A website without multimedia is like a cupcake without icing: Functional but lacking. These days, all manner of web pages from huge company sites to small business… read more

Morning Brief: Apple Releases Products, Facebook & Twitter Test New Options

This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and technology.

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in… read more

Competition: 3 Free Web Templates from Admin Template + Discount

Today we have the unique opportunity to offer three of our readers the chance to win a free professionally developed web template from a recently launched start-up called Admin Template.
All you will have to do enter this competition is leave a comment below telling us about yourself or about… read more

HOW TO: Send an Audio Tweet

When Twitter’s 140-character limit just isn’t enough to get your message across, or you want to give a tweet the personal touch, why not add some audio?

We’ve already brought you ways to share music on Twitter, but the solutions below will help you share the spoken word. Whether you want… read more

75+ Upcoming Social Media & Tech Events

Every Monday, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Would you like to have your conference or event listed here? If so, please contact us at least one month before your event to establish a media partnership. For more upcoming event listings,… read more

The Benefit of a Responsive Community

A few weeks ago, I had an article published here on DesignM.ag entitled “The Problem with Free Fonts,” in which I basically suggested that one of the potential problems that may emerge from the vast pool for free fonts that are available (in a variety of capacities) across the internet… read more

31 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

Ahoy, social sailors! Hop aboard for another round of Internet catch up, courtesy of the good ship Mashable.

The resource buffet is open 24/7 for your perusing pleasure. This week, we have a look at how far social media’s come over the last five years, a slew of juicy factoids… read more

Linkswitch #28: Choose a Domain Name, Hire a Designer

Hire A Designer For Your Site

There is a great discussion going on in the Forums about trying to design for yourself. For anyone that has tried to do so you know that you end up falling into two camps:

1. The camp that has no problem doing it. Unfortunately… read more

5 Tips for Aspiring Social Media Marketers

Within the past few years, it seems that social media positions are popping up everywhere, in all types of organizations, from The New York Times, to Pizza Hut, and even in the White House. Businesses of all types are identifying the need to stay connected with their communities because they… read more

Comics of the Week #35

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile… read more