The Health Benefits of Having Pets in Your Home Office
Those of us with a cat or dog know that our pets are like a member of the family. And, like the important members of your family, you just feel better with them around.
My chihuahua is never far from me… read more
Word-Wrap : An Extremely Useful CSS Property
Titles and headings have the difficult intent of sum up the whole article content in a few words. Those words have to be attractive, eye-catching, tell the story and transmit curiosity to invite the reader in continuing his reading.
Are your titles powerful? Are they able to stick the readers? Do… read more
A Guest Post by Andrew S Gibson who’s new eBook – Andes – has recently been launched on Craft and Vision (for just $5).
There’s one way to get your photos published in photography magazines that I didn’t mention in my previous post, and that is to write an article accompanied… read more
Truth be told, I am a philistine. When people talk about recycling, I don’t think of saving the planet.
In my earlier post, “Lessons Learned: Productivity Tips For Running A Web Design Business,” I wrote about how we can reuse and recycle what we do in the Web industry to save… read more
Chances are you don’t leave home without your mobile phone, but how much do you actually know about our portable telephonic devices and their fascinating history?
Do you know who Martin Cooper is? How about a textonym? What are one-quarter of U.S. mobile phone towers disguised as? Who devised the 160-character… read more
A short while ago, I wrote an article titled “Why Photographers Should Love Twitter” detailing the reasons why I love Twitter for interacting with other photographers and how great the community is there. Twitter is still great but everything has changed with the introduction of Google+. I’ve just started looking… read more
For a platform that started its life as solely a platform for blogging, WordPress has come a long way over the last few years. It’s certainly earned the right to be known as the most popular Content Management System (CMS) on the net with speculation that between the self hosted… read more
Twitter launched in Dutch and Indonesian Monday, bringing the microblogging service’s total count of supported languages to 11.
Dutch and Indonesian were the first two languages to be fully translated by a team of volunteers, who worked through Twitter’s Translation Center to translate twitter.com, support pages, and the service’s desktop and… read more
Argentina is a melting pot of races and cultures, and its people have developed a complex identity. Tango, political passion and soccer are just some of the features of this South American country’s make-up.
Argentina is an important cultural center, with a plethora of museums and art galleries where the European… read more
Koka Sexton is director of social strategy at InsideView and director of InsideView’s Social Selling University. InsideView helps sales professionals know their leads and prospects inside and out by delivering real-time sales intelligence seamlessly to any CRM. By combining social media insights with traditional editorial sources, InsideView increases sales productivity… read more
All over the Internet, it seems that any blogger, who has nothing to say or is simply uninspired for the moment, will surely post something about the rise and the progress of social media.
The subject is debated from news websites to the ones about gardening and the trend is that,… read more
Come anticipato qualche settimana fa con questo post, Twitter ha oggi inaugurato ufficialmente la pubblicità nelle timeline degli utenti attraverso l’introduzione dei “promoted tweets”.
Dopo i “promoted trends” e i “promoted users”, con questo nuovo sistema, Twitter spera di monetizzare ulteriormente l’attività dei propri iscritti, consentendo agli utenti di poter… read more
Simple Slide Effect On Blogger Using Jquery
In a lot of ways, the sharing of recipes harkens back to times past. To a time when family recipes were closely guarded secrets, when picnics and get-togethers were an every weekend affair, and showcasing those family specialities was a point of intense pride.
Sharing recipes was an intimate thing,… read more
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Tom Anderson is the founder and former president of MySpace. MySpace sold in 2005, and Anderson left the company in early 2009. You can find him on Google+, Twitter or Facebook.
Sometimes when you follow… read more
Already using Google+? Follow Mashable’s Pete Cashmore for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as social media and technology updates.
Google+ hit 20 million unique visitors this week, and the company launched a mobile app. The stats are impressive, but the new social network has… read more
Mignon Fogarty is the founder and managing director of the Quick and Dirty Tips podcasting network and the author of the New York Times bestseller Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing. She’s been podcasting for more than five years, and distributes her content through her own website,… read more
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Chris Yeh is an independent angel investor and VP of Marketing for PBworks, one of his investments. He has been involved with Internet startups since 1995. His Twitter handle is @chrisyeh. He has been… read more
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: Tribalfish
Quick Pitch: Tribalfish is a realtime discussion network that replaces blogs and forums, making it easier… read more
Yuli Ziv is the founder & CEO of Style Coalition, a network of top fashion and beauty bloggers in partnership with ELLE. Her first self-published book in the Fashion 2.0 series Blogging Your Way to The Front Row: The Insider’s Guide to Turning Your Fashion Blog into a Profitable Business… read more
La vera sfida a Twitter arriva dalla Cina e si chiama Weibo che in lingua cinese significa semplicemente “microblogging”. Lanciato da Sina Corporation nell’Agosto del 2009, Weibo è uno dei siti più popolari del Paese e ha raggiunto, in appena due anni di attività, la ragguardevole cifra di 145 milioni… read more
You’ve released a great new app or started the store you’ve always dreamed of, you’ve gotten covered in all the top sites, and you’ve got customers actually paying you money for your hard work. Congratulations! Now comes the hard part: supporting your customers.
No matter how nice your service or product… read more
Linux is an excellent open source operating system, but the reason why many people hesitate to try it is because of the limited number applications available. Today, we have gathered a list of useful instant messaging clients which every Linux users should try.
You are welcome if you want to share… read more
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10 Apps for More Efficient Tweeting
As Twitter continues to grow at an incredible pace each day, the importance of the platform grows with it. Developing a strong social media presence and growing your network of followers demands being active on Twitter. Fortunately, there exist many tools… read more
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
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 web tool for your projects, we strongly recommend WordPress to you. WordPress is a great tool, and best thing is FREE!
Now days… read more
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Name: Percolate
Quick Pitch: Percolate bubbles up relevant content for you to comment on.
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Open source blogging platform WordPress has reached an important milestone: It powers more than 50 million websites, about half of which are hosted on WordPress.com.
Also, more than 287 million people view more than 2.5 billion pages on WordPress.com each month and, on an average day, WordPress.com users… read more
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Self-hosted WordPress.org users got a nice surprise on Independence Day with the release of WordPress 3.2, “Gershwin.”
WordPress 3.2 is the fifteenth major WordPress release in the project’s… read more
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
There’s little doubt that a custom-designed and developed website is ideal for business. A trained professional can help you optimize your site for good… read more
Ormai la notizia sembra certa. Tra qualche settimana, probabilmente già a partire dagli inizi di Agosto, Twitter inaugurerà il nuovo servizio “Promoted Tweets” che introdurrà dei tweet promozionali all’interno della timeline degli utenti, indirizzati ai loro followers.
Il nuovo prodotto sarà integrato sul sito web Twitter.com e rappresenta un ulteriore tentativo… read more
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Name: Lyst
Quick Pitch: Follow brands, magazines and style icons to get a personalized stream… read more
If you have a blog or write for an online publication, chances are you’ve used WordPress. From the free hosted WordPress.com blogs to customized WordPress.org installs like the ones that power AppStorm and other Envato blogs, WordPress is one web app you see all the time without realizing. In fact,… read more
Twitter is testing a Facebook-like message wall on profile pages, prompting users to send public tweets (a.k.a @ replies, or mentions) to specific users directly from their profile pages.
Twitter is testing the feature with a small percentage of users. Spokeswoman Carolyn Penner said it was designed to… read more
Despite being rather outspoken about China’s human rights track record, Radiohead has just set up an account on one of the country’s most popular microblogging sites, Weibo.
Weibo is located on Chinese Internet portal, Sina.com, and is basically the Chinese version of Twitter. Radiohead’s page went up Friday… read more
It’s interesting to look back at our previous WordPress themes round-ups. It’s almost like looking at a visual timeline not only of WordPress’ advances in theme design, but of the rapid development in functionality of the CMS itself. The themes from year to year clearly differ in style as Web… read more
Shane Snow is co-founder of Contently.com, an “agile publishing” platform for brands-turned-publishers and freelance journalists.
Most people quit blogging — and most companies do too, for that matter.
Like healthy diet, frequent exercise, proper posture or any other New Year’s resolution, blogging results take time. A 2008 Technorati survey… read more
We all love Tumblr for its ease of use and unique social blogging features. But we really love Tumblr because the right theme can turn your humble cat musings into sophisticated works of web literature. Just click that “install” button and, “Look Ma, I’m a web designer!”… read more
Tumblr is out with version 2.0 of its iPhone app, and it has completely overhauled the interface, making it much easier to post from multiple blogs.
Tumblr announced the update via its blog, stating that the app “has been recoded, rewired, and rethought from the ground up to… read more
If you registered for Twitter in the past two or three years, chances are you didn’t get your top choice handle. That’s probably because Twitter use has grown exponentially, topping 200 million accounts this year. But get ready to meet the users that scored premium real estate… read more
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So you want to start a blog. You’ve decided on WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, or whatever, which is a good first step. Before you start blogging you need to think about how you’re going to differentiate your blog from the thousands of blogs out… read more
Facebook fan pages are a great way to promote a business, and an important part of any social media marketing plan. Creating a basic page isn’t that complicated, but creating a page that fans will like, share, and engage with is a bit trickier.
Below, we’ll cover how to set up… read more
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone will be taking a back seat at the microblogging site and will be moving on to work on a few new projects, he announced in a blog post Tuesday.
Stone will once again be collaborating with Ev Williams, another Twitter co-founder, on these new… read more
Popular microblogging service Tumblr has been hit by a largescale phishing attack over the past few days.
Following standard phishing protocol, the attack works by luring users to enter their Tumblr credentials to access something special. In this round of Tumblr attacks, the most common scenario is the… read more
Twitter has become an invaluable tool for journalists when it comes to finding sources and sharing stories. Now the microblogging site has released a guide that shows reporters how to best use the tool in their daily travails.
The guide, titled “Twitter for Newsrooms,” is a little bit… read more
Like a lot of others, I love Google Calendar. It’s well maintained and constantly updated with useful features. While it has the right set of features with almost no bloat, some of us might find it to be a bit underwhelming. Lack of social sharing features is clearly one downside… read more
There are numerous blogs powered with WordPress as one of the most popular blogging tools available for free. But most of us forget about a small secret WordPress in fact has – it’s a powerful and user-friendly content management system. So what? This means that on the basis of WordPress… read more
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Seeking to take Twitter beyond a social phenomenon, its founders have lately set their sights on… read more
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If you have more than one freelance specialty, one strategy is to dedicate a separate site (blog) to each specialty, develop strong targeted brands, and grow them independently across multiple social media. With this strategy comes the question of how can we manage all our… read more
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 Socialbar. The developer describes Socialbar as a toolbar for your website that offers more than… read more
Dallas Lawrence is the chief global digital strategist for Burson-Marsteller, one of the world’s leading public relations and communications firms. He is a Mashable contributor on emerging media trends, online reputation management and digital issue advocacy. You can connect with him on Twitter @dallaslawrence.
Nearly a century after… read more
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7 Top-Notch Blogs for the Savvy Freelance Blog Writer
In addition to FreelanceSwtich, there are a handful of blogs that stand out a cut above the rest, and are well worth reading for freelance blog writers. These blogs are dedicated to blogging, writing, utilizing internet tools and… read more
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
Elliott Spelman is an intern at WePay which allows you to collect payments online without the hassle. You can contact him at elliott.spelman@wepay.com.
Four years and three internships later, I’m a graduate of USC. Like a lot of people my age, I’ve become pretty comfortable with the fact… read more
The Social-Savvy Food Truck Series is supported by the Ben and Jerry’s Scoop Truck. For more information on the scoop truck and where it stops, click here.
Sitting at the window table of Rickshaw Dumpling Bar‘s Flatiron restaurant, it’s hard to see why they need a food truck…. read more
There’s no doubt that WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms and content management systems on the Internet. It’s widely supported, relatively easy for the end user to learn, and is easily extensible. For the average user, the WordPress theme engine makes it easy to customize the look… read more
According to their respective websites, 4-year-old microblogging platform Tumblr now hosts more blogs than 8-year-old WordPress.com.
In January, Tumblr had more than 7 million individual blogs. At the time of this writing, the total blog ticker on its site read about three times that at 20,873,182 — beating… read more
Music-sharing platform Soundcloud has become mighty noisy over the past year by adding 4 million registered users in one year, which now brings it to the 5 million user mark. This comes just a few months after the company announced 3 million users.
Soundcloud, which reports that it… read more
Useful Add-Ons for Your Blogging Experience
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It’s massive freebie time again! We’ve rounded up a huge collection of social media icons in, you guessed it, vector format. These designs are simple, clean, and versatile. They’re easy to integrate into your next app, interface, blog, web design, or anything you have in the pipeline that needs… read more
Jesse Thomas is CEO and founder of creative agency JESS3. Follow him @jess3 and invest in (e)JESS3 here.
When I asked Duleepa Wijayawardhana (a.k.a. “Dups”), co-founder and CEO of the self-described “social media exchange” Empire Avenue (EA), if he wanted to be the next Gordon Gekko, he replied,… read more
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In addition to FreelanceSwtich, there are a handful of blogs that stand out a cut above the rest, and are well worth reading for freelance blog writers. These blogs are dedicated to blogging, writing, utilizing internet tools and trends to maximize your freelance writing income, and… read more
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Collaboration Marketing as a Freelance Web Designer
Here’s the skinny… Too many designers are sitting at home, talking about the elusive “portfolio” they plan on building or waiting for word of mouth to take them where they want to go. Here’s some tough love: what good is… read more
On Friday, the state of Alaska released 24,199 pages of email correspondence from former Gov. Sarah Palin’s time in office. The partially redacted printouts, which were first requested nearly three years ago, are now being digitized and will be available online in a indexed and searchable database.
Research… read more
I’m always looking for simple ways to keep a log certain activities- my workouts, my side project progress, my lesson plans, or whatever else I may want to reference later. So far the most trustworthy has been my handy-dandy notebook (cue Doug- “Dear Journal…”), but I don’t always have that… read more
Visitors to WordPress.com blogs can now leave comments with their Twitter or Facebook accounts.
It’s a small new feature on the surface, but it opens up a lot more commenting opportunities for WordPress.com blogs. Third-party commenting systems such as Disqus and Echo have allowed users to authenticate with… read more
Twitter has announced that links shared on Twitter.com will be automatically shortened using the service’s t.co URL shortener.
Links of any length will be cut down to a tidy number of characters — 19, to be precise — and an ellipsis when the sender clicks the Tweet button.
Although… read more
The Facebook Marketing Series is supported by Buddy Media, Power Tools for Facebook. Fans see when you post content on your brand’s Facebook Page, right? Wrong. Cut through the mystery of Facebook’s Edgerank — download the white paper now.
While some businesses are still figuring out the value… read more
Greetings from our perch at Moscone West where Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at WWDC 2011, the Apple developers’ conference, is about to get underway. Luminaries milling around the stage include Jonathan Ive, Apple’s star product designer, and Walter Isaacson, author of the forthcoming official Jobs biography.
We’re… read more
Mashable‘s back this week with another whopping list of tools and resources for your digital life.
This week we have stories about how to make a 3D video using YouTube, a look back at the history of WordPress and some great May roundups like the most shared stories… read more
By now, unless you live under a boulder large enough to block data signals, you know that New York Rep. Anthony Weiner is embroiled in a scandal involving an extremely personal picture sent from his Twitter account to a Seattle college student. Weiner says his account was… read more
WordPress is amazing. With its growing popularity and continual development, it is becoming the tool of choice for many designers and developers. WordPress projects, though, are pushing well beyond the confines of mere “posts” and “pages”. How do you go about adding and organizing media and all its complexities? With… read more
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Cody McKibben isn’t your ordinary freelancer. After he quit his job in 2007 to begin freelancing, McKibben took off from Northern California and headed for Asia. McKibben currently lives in Thailand and has built up a successful freelance business while exploring Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, and… read more
Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences.
Here are some tips on how to network, share your information and promote your event using social media:
The Future of Event Planning and Social MediaHOW TO: Plan and Promote Events with… read more
Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal has announced his retirement from the NBA via Twitter and a short video he linked to from the microblogging site on Wednesday.
In the video, which was posted to startup Tout, O’Neal says, “I want to thank you very much, that’s why I’m telling… read more
There’s so many web apps today, it’s hard to keep up with them all. From the apps we’ve all used for years such as Gmail to newer apps that just came out this year such as Flow, web apps have increasingly become a part of our daily lives.
Whether you’re just… read more
Twitter has acquired web advertising company AdGrok, the Y-Combinator-backed startup announced on its blog Tuesday.
“When Twitter approached us and asked if we’d be interested in working on their monetization platform, we realized that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that we just couldn’t pass up,” the blog post… read more
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Over the years Vectortuts+ has had the pleasure of publishing interviews with some of the most talented Designers and Illustrators in the industry. Today we have a selection of exciting interviews from the archives that are sure to inspire. If you look closely you may even spot a Vectortuts+… read more
Instead of the standard introduction with a potential scenario that the application can save, I’m going to jump right in because today’s app, Flowdock, has a lot of features. Flowdock combines a group collaboration tool alongside a social media tracking stream to help develop your products and your business. Think… read more
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On May 27, 2003, the first public version of the open-source project known as WordPress became available for download. What started as a fork of the blogging… read more
Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on five particular stories of interest today.
Google Unveils Mobile Payment System, Lawsuits Ensue
Google unveiled Google Wallet, its… read more