Why Great Design Is the Future of Content Marketing

Chuck Longanecker is the founder of Digital-Telepathy, a user-experience design company passionate about creating products, like SlideDeck and Impress. Follow him at @dtelepathy.

Although it’s still early in 2012, the importance of visual storytelling is clearly one of the year’s breakout trends. Facebook Timeline, Pinterest, and Instagram are forcing brands to… read more

Create a Professional Home Office

Many freelancers have some dedicated space in their home in which to do their work. And setting up a great home office is key to your productivity, sanity, and professionalism.

Of course, some people don’t have an entire room in their home dedicated to a home office, but if you… read more

Build a Better Freelance Business with Strategic Branding

When I first started freelance writing, I thought branding for businesses merely referred to having a consistent “look and voice”. With my partner, we put together a website, designed a logo, added social media accounts– and called it our branding strategy. But I learned that these are just functional… read more

10 Simply Amazing Logos

Branding a business can be quite the difficult task, regardless of if it’s your own or a clients.  One of the most difficult things to do in this process is come up with a logo.  A sole image, or tag of some sort, that will effectively portray what that business… read more

Developing Case Studies for Creative Professionals

I have written case studies for clients, but haven’t implemented this in my own business yet. It is definitely something I’m going to be working on in the coming months.

Why, you may ask? Because a case study, at its root, combines the all-powerful client testimonial with step-by-step details on… read more

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Maximum Clarity – 3 Essential Ways to Think For Your Users

We’ve all been there: a client really, really wants to make a change to your design that, as a designer, you can immediately tell will result in disaster. It happens to every designer, and, as far as I can tell, there’s no real way to avoid it. However,… read more

Jay-Z Launches Facebook Game ‘Empire’ for You to Take Over the World [PICS]

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4 Tips for Keeping Your Gamified Community Motivated

Shannon Duffy is the president of marketing at Data.com, a Salesforce.com company. Follow her @sullytoduffy.

Everyone agrees: Gamification is hot. So hot that the market is expected to hit $2.8 billion in revenue by 2016. Naturally, companies are taking a long look at how to capitalize on this trend.

If you’ve… read more

How One App Uses Digital to Empower Education

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: Three Ring

Quick Pitch: Create and share digital portfolios of students’ work quickly and easily.

Genius Idea: Three… read more

CISPA Authors Confident Bill Will Pass Despite Rising Opposition

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich), author of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as CISPA, is confident the bill has enough support in the House to pass when it comes up for a vote Friday. Rising opposition from privacy groups and concerned Internet users has not shaken his… read more

How Digital Journalists Used Data to Report on Murdoch Scandal

Innovative digital journalism played a starring role in the wake of a massive document release during an inquiry into British media ethics.

The Leveson Inquiry, a judicial investigation into the culture, practice and ethics of the press, was originally called to examine the widespread phone hacking that took place at… read more

This High-Tech Plane Flies Non-Stop From Boston to Asia [VIDEO]

The first ever non-stop flight from Tokyo to Boston, via Japan Airlines, took place on April 22 using the 787-8 Dreamliner. As a result, the East and West got a little more “connected.”

The flight not only marks the first commercial use of the 787 Dreamliner in the U.S., but… read more

PinPuzzle Turns Pinterest Into a Mobile Game

Fascinated by their girlfriends’ obsessions with Pinterest, two friends have created a mobile app that turns your Pinterest boards into a mobile game. Called PinPuzzle, the app takes photos from your boards (or anyone else’s on the service) and turns each one into a new level of a sliding puzzle… read more

How Does Google Drive Compare to the Competition?

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Daily Inspiration #1117

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Apple’s Q2 iPad Sales Weren’t So Insanely Great

Despite the gloom surrounding its stock price of late, Apple delivered another blowout quarter on Tuesday, thanks in large part to iPhone sales. But if you took the iPhone out of the equation, the overall numbers were just OK as Macs had a so-so quarter and iPad sales fell… read more

Apple Sells 35.1M iPhones, 11.8M iPads in Q2

Apple on Tuesday announced it sold 35.1 iPhones and 11.8 iPads in its fiscal second quarter. Analysts had expected Apple would sell about 30.5 million iPhones and 12.3 to 13.5 million iPads.

Earnings for the quarter were $12.30 a share on revenues of $39.2 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had… read more

3 Reasons the Call Center Is Far From Dead

Jeff Valentine is senior vice president of product at M5 Networks, ShoreTel’s cloud division, and is responsible for bringing new M5 products and services to market.

Zor Gorelov, CEO of Speech Cycle, recently wrote an article in which he suggested that the call center “will cease to be the… read more

More Video Comes to Mashable

Over the last few months you may have noticed more video appearing on Mashable. We’re currently producing original content to complement our news coverage, shows like “World at Work” that dive deeper into a given topic (social entrepreneurship in this case), and specials like “Leaders in Digital” that go… read more

3 Ways WordPress Makes You a More Profitable Web Designer

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Making an Impact with Clever Marketing Materials

I’m a believer that marketing materials will never go out of style. There’s something to be said when you have something really cool to give to someone else that characterizes you and your business.

I’m not talking about one of those squishy, stress reliever balls or a pen with your… read more

A Closer Look At Font Rendering

The Web font revolution that started around two years ago has brought up a topic that many of us had merrily ignored for many years: font rendering. The newfound freedom Web fonts are giving us brings along new challenges. Choosing and using a font is not merely a stylistic issue,… read more

The 15-Step Freelance Writers’ Guide to Writing for Magazines

Do you have this dream? You go down to your nearest big newsstand one day and check out all those big, glossy magazines. You flip one of your favorites open…and there’s your byline.

You’ve cracked the competitive world of writing for national magazines.

The good news is, this is not a… read more

10 Core Financial Tips for Freelancers

As a freelancer, you are on your own when it comes to keeping track of your finances. And let’s face it, the financial side of things are generally the last thing we want to mess with at the end of a day. As painful as it might be to… read more

200+ Free Vector Grunge Graphics for Designers and Illustrators

If you’re looking for free vector grunge graphics, such as distressed backgrounds, worn textures, dirty paint splatter, and more, then you’ve found a compilation worth downloading. We’ve collected an assortment of vector grunge illustrations, free vector grunge textures, and wickedly worn graphics available for free download. Jump in and grab… read more

Migrating Side Projects into your Work Schedule

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To work as a freelance web designer requires a lot of patience and perseverance. You need to wake up every day and tackle problems one after another until you can successfully complete your projects. There is a lot of stress and turmoil which goes into this… read more

MatchPuppy: OKCupid for Doggy Play Dates

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: MatchPuppy

Quick Pitch: MatchPuppy is a social networking site for canines.

Genius Idea: The website matches… read more

Are Hipster Playing Cards Cool Enough for Kickstarter Funding? [PICS]

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7 Tips for Women in the Tech Industry

Being a female entrepreneur in the male-dominated tech industry is challenging, and comes with a distinct set of barriers. Thankfully, there are several female-led organizations that are working to bring more women into the tech fold.

I asked a panel of successful young female entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit… read more

Open Atrium: Collaboration, Free and Flexible

When it comes to general group and project management apps, there are plenty out there to choose from. In that sense, it really comes down to what each organisation or group wants to achieve from the use of the app and this can really help to cement that decision. Another… read more

Win a set of Business Cards from UPrinting.com!

Here’s a great giveaway for all of you Bittbox readers! Our friends from UPrinting.com are back and they are offering a set of 250 pieces die-cut business cards. UPrinting is an online printing company that serves thousands of on-demand printing. They’ve been online since 2000 and have been established as… read more

4 Tips for Picking the Right Crowdfunding Platform

Ryan Caldbeck is the founder and CEO of CircleUp, an equity-based crowdfunding platform. Prior to CircleUp, Caldbeck was a private equity investor at Encore Consumer Capital and TSG Consumer Partners.

Raising capital is one of the most important, and intimidating, decisions in the life of a young company. Founders have long… read more

Startups Make Their Pitch to Get Into TechStars [VIDEO]

One of the biggest moments in an entrepreneur’s life can be their pitch to a potential investor. In order to get into TechStars, one of the leading startup accelerator programs, companies must first stand out from hundred of applicants and be chosen to present their idea in-person to the program’s… read more

Netflix Adds 3M Streaming Subscribers in Q1, Now Has 26M Total

Netflix added close to 3 million streaming subscribers in its first quarter for a total of 26 million, but lost 1 million DVD subscribers and posted a loss.

The company’s net loss of $5 million, or 8 cents a share, for the quarter is less than analysts predicted, but Netflix’s… read more

Startup Improves Google Social Search

A startup called Wajam has created a more useful social search experience for Google than Google could.

Google’s own three-month-old social search product is called “Search Plus Your World.” But given the absence of Twitter and Facebook updates in the product’s results, it would be more appropriate to call it “Search… read more

Is Apple Killing the 17-Inch MacBook Pro? [VIDEO]

Apple may be dropping the 17-inch MacBook Pro from its products lineup this year, according to an industry analyst.

KGI Securities research analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts Apple is cutting the largest laptop it sells because of weak sales.

The 13-inch (starting at $1,199) and 15-inch (starting at $1,799) MacBooks… read more

Facebook to Investors: Here’s Why We Bought Instagram

Facebook’s updated S-1 filing has offered some new details on its recent Instagram purchase, including structure of the payment.

The social networking giant paid $300 million in cash for Instagram and about 23 million shares of common stock. In addition, Facebook has agreed to pay a $200 million termination fee to… read more

Why You Should Get an Ivy Bridge PC

Why Ivy Bridge?

Intel’s 22-nanometer processor tech promises better performance, with more features (like security) built right into the… read more

Google Giving Away $50 Million in Free Advertising to Promote Video AdWords

Google officially opened up its AdWords for video product to all businesses on Monday with a new program offering $50 million in free advertising to small businesses.

The company announced on Monday that it is offering $75 in free advertising for 500,000-plus businesses. (The original post on the offer set… read more

Stop Shouting. Start Teaching.

Imagine you are in a classroom. Let’s say a high school classroom. You’re sitting at your desk, listening to your favorite teacher—the one who inspired you, the one who got you excited about that thing you love for the first time.

You’ve stopped taking notes because your body just can’t quite… read more

The Art of the Graphic Design Leave Behind

The graphic designer leave behind has, ironically, been left behind in recent years. Its something that is heavily focused on in design school, but rarely is it put into practice in the real world. I think that’s a shame.

If you made a good impression on your potential client… read more

Scribe – Outlines With A Little Extra

As a writer about Mac, iPhone and iPad applications you sometimes think you’ve seen it all, apps being very similar, especially when they perform basically the same tasks. I should know better – it’s the details that can make all the difference and I tried to highlight that fact in… read more

Adobe officially announces Creative Suite 6

After several sneak previews and a fully-functional beta version, Adobe has today officially announced the latest reincarnation of its popular Creative Suite software package, version 6, which sports among other things a whole wealth of new features, a massive overhaul to the default user interface and integration with Adobe’s new… read more

How to Find and Land Clients For Your Business

Christmas is always a particularly fun time of year for me.  Sure, there are the obvious reasons of family, gifts, music, movies, eggnog and all that good stuff.  But for me it has more to do with the questions I’m asked by family members and I couldn’t help but laugh… read more

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A Collection of Beautiful Joomla Templates

Originally a fork of Mambo, Joomla has grown into the second most popular Content Management System (CMS) on the web behind WordPress. In January 2012 Joomla was upgraded from 1.7 to version 2.5. It brought a lot of great new features such as notifications for easier updates, multi database support… read more

15 Stunning Business Cards from Famous People or Companies

15 Stunning Business Cards from Famous People or Companies

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5 Ways to Lose Your Dream Job During the Interview Process

Mona Abdel-Halim is the co-founder of Resunate, the makers of the Apply widget for startups. You can start attracting top talent free by getting an Apply widget for your company at Resunate.com/employers. Connect with Resunate on Facebook and Twitter.

If you’ve been on the job search for a while, it’s likely… read more

10 Uses of Google Earth That Have Made Positive Impacts on the World

When Google acquired Keyhole — the tool that would become Google Earth — in 2004, the company believed it would become the ultimate video game. Google thought travelers could peruse potential vacation destinations and movie makers could use the detailed satellite imagery as a backdrop in films.

But Google had… read more

The Ultimate Digital Customer Service Guide

In our recent Customer Experience Series, Mashable dove deep into the mysterious alchemy of customer service. Those who own their own business will tell you: Getting (and keeping) customers is not easy. There are so many different factors that must work together perfectly within a company to ensure that fans… read more

5 Ways Preparing Your Resume is Like Doing Taxes

Josh Tolan is the CEO of Spark Hire, which combines a video job board and online interviewing platform to enrich interaction between job seekers and employers. Connect with him and Spark Hire on Facebook and Twitter.

As we bid adieu to yet another tax deadline, it got me thinking about… read more

This Olympic Moms Video Will Make You Cry

As athletes get ready to take the global stage during the London 2012 Olympic Games less than 100 days away, Procter & Gamble has released a new ad praising mothers worldwide. Press play and cue the waterworks.

In three days, the video has received over 700,000+ views on YouTube. P&G,… read more

Bounce Back from Freelance Business Failure

When you started off as a freelancer, did it cross your mind that you might not make it? Did you consider the possibility of failure? If you’re like many first time freelancers, you didn’t.

It’s not that surprising that so many freelance businesses go under, when many freelancers don’t… read more

10 Office Gadgets to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

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

With the breadth of innovations in green technology, it seems that we should all have solar-powered laptops by now. Unfortunately, that’s yet to be the case. In… read more

Microsoft Research: Bringing Sexy Back

Microsoft: The Garage

This is the famous Microsoft Garage. It actually has two giant garage doors. It’s also a… read more

Parking Panda Helps You Find, Rent & Rent Out Parking Spaces

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: Parking Panda

Quick Pitch: Find, rent or rent out a parking space online.

Genius Idea: Earn money off… read more

Google Execs, James Cameron Plan Space Venture

Google CEO Larry Page and the company’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt have joined forces with Avatar director James Cameron for a space venture that will possibly involve mining asteroids.

The venture, Planetary Resources Inc., plans to “overlay two critical sectors — space exploration and natural resources — to add trillions of… read more

Mobile Advertising: 5 DIY Tips for Small Businesses

Zephrin Lasker is CEO of Pontiflex. Follow the company @Pontiflex.

When it comes to digital advertising, small business owners (SMBs) must wade through a lot of industry jargon. Today, they have to make sense of words like SoLoMo, and tomorrow, they’ll be evaluating marketing options with terms such as InstaLikes.

The… read more

How Streaming Video Is Killing the DVD [INFOGRAPHIC]

Will the DVD die off like the LaserDisc and VHS Tape before it?

There’s a compelling case that streaming video is killing its predecessors. This year, it is estimated, there will be 3.4 billion movie views online, compared with 2.4 billion disc views.

Streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime… read more

Create a website to go with Sidengo

In this day and age, establishing your identity online is becoming almost as important as having a mobile phone. Whether you’re an individual looking to impress potential clients and employers, or a brand that wants to engage its audience on the web, an online profile is a must. Thankfully the… read more

Pinch Your Pennies with Squirrel

Everyone wants to be rich. That’s a great goal to have, but it usually takes a multitude of consistent steps over an extended period of time to actually get there. One half of the equation is to earn more than what you are making right now, and fast. From freelancing… read more

15 Amazing App Themes for WordPress

While WordPress is commonly used as a backend for blogs, it can be used for a number of other purposes such as eCommerce and other types of webpages which serve a specific purpose. To build these sites within WordPress, you will need to download a specific theme which fits your… read more

The Perils of Email Communication

When I saw this blog post on Gawker.com, I just shook my head. What else can you do?

Here’s the gist: a guy who is looking for a job created a profile on Monster.com saying he’s looking for a job in the Columbus, Ohio area. He’s contacted by a recruiter… read more

The EU Cookie Law

In a little over a month, some major changes will be occuring in the European Union in regards to Internet privacy protection. On May 26, sites that fail to comply with the EU ePrivacy Directive disclosure requirements could be subject to fines up to £500,000.

These changes were outlined… read more

Startup Pays You to Recommend Apps to Friends

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: Buzzdoes

Quick Pitch: Buzzdoes rewards app users who recommend apps to friends.

Genius Idea: A word-of-mouth marketing… read more

What if Environmentalism Were as Big as Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC]

What if everyone across the globe used his or her social media influence to help the planet?

The impact would be huge, according to a recent infographic from Recyclebank, a company that rewards green consumers with discounts and deals from local and national businesses.

The data encourages the connected generation to use… read more

5 Hot New Events in Business, Mobile, Social Media and More

From digital advertising conferences to programming hackathons and everything in between, you’ll definitely find a swanky locale to suit your professional and personal interests on Mashable’s new Events Board. Whether you’re an event organizer or an event-goer, our Events Board is an essential resource for helping you build relationships, engage… read more

Microsoft Posts Record Revenue — but Xbox Is Slipping

Microsoft reported record revenues of $17.41 billion for the past quarter, but profits slipped 2.4% from the same period a year earlier, down from $5.23 billion to $5.11 billion.

PC sales were sluggish due to the twin pressures of a hard-disk shortage brought on by flooding in parts of Asia and… read more

How 3 Mashable Readers Landed Jobs Via Social Media

At Mashable, we believe that our community is our biggest asset. We love it when you tell us your success stories. Part of our mission is to empower people through social and digital media.

As Alyssa Milano wrote in her TIME 100 article on Pete Cashmore, Mashable “gives voice to… read more

Keep the Best, Delete the Rest

A guest post by Lara White from PhotoMint.

It’s the one of those things that holds many photographers back. Each time you create a set of images, it’s more like a blooper reel than a best hits collection unless you cull them ruthlessly. Your image library grows and grows, each… read more

Want to Reserve One of Nike’s Hot New Shoes? You’ll Have to Tweet for It

Like Apple, new product releases from Nike generate a lot of hype among fans. Customers will line up in front of a Nike store for days ahead of a midnight shoe release. Sometimes, the police are called in. Such launches can drive a lot of valuable press for Nike —… read more

Airliner’s Close Call Blamed on Pilot’s Texting [VIDEO]

A pilot’s preoccupation with his cellphone caused his crew to forget to lower the landing gear just 500 feet above ground, according to a report issued Thursday by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.

The close call on Jetstar flight JQ57 on May 27, 2010 from Darwin to Singapore began… read more

40 Creative Examples Of Transparent Business Cards

Business card is your business identity that helps other people to memorize your name and business. Getting a transparent business card is the latest and modern trend in the industry. Though this trend has been in the industry since long and it tried so hard to be prominent yet could… read more

Video Inspiration #65

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

Jack Designs – A Free Corporate Identity Package

We have another amazing freebie for you today. Exclusively designed for us by Robby from RobbyDesigns.com, it is a corporate identity package called ‘Jack Designs’ that includes PSD templates for business cards, CD covers (front & back), envelopes, letterheads, door-handles and even a design for a mousepad!.

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5 Downsides of Starting Your Own Graphic Design Business

5 Downsides of Starting Your Own Graphic Design Business

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The 200 Best and Worst Jobs

CareerCast.com just published a list of 200 jobs ranking them from best to worst based on the following criteria: physical demands, work environment, income, stress, and hiring outlook. They used info from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (along with other government agencies) to create this list.

I did a search… read more

3 Insights You Can Learn About Your Freelance Business from Google Analytics

As a solo freelancer, you probably don’t have the budget to conduct big market research studies like the big guys to learn how to improve your business – things like how to improve your sales process, or where your customers are coming from, or a million other market research… read more

7 Great Examples of Brands Utilizing Facebook’s Timeline Effectively

As you may or may not know, recently (as of March 30th, 2012 to be exact) Facebook has rolled out its new “Timeline” layout for pages.  The advent of the new layout is providing more and more opportunity for brands and businesses to better market their brand on the social… read more

10 Secrets to Writing Well

I require my undergraduate journalism students to buy two books to keep by their sides at all times. One of them is the AP Style Book; the other is called When Words Collide: A Media Writer’s Guide to Grammar and Style.

I can’t tell you how much I love my… read more

The New Google Plus Interface

Surprise, surprise! On 11th April Google+ made a new announcement. Google+ now has more than 170 million users!

This is not the only reason why you should consider using Google+ for your freelancing business. Another very important reason is that Google+ profiles and pages can make an impact on the… read more

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Worksy: smart business tools for creatives and their customers

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The team behind Worksy has been hard at work on their product for a couple of years now, but it was only recently that it was ready to go into public beta. The Next Web covered the end of Worksy’s stealth mode at the end of March.

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Which license do you choose for your code?

The Berne Convention dictates that any code you write is automatically copyrighted. However, many programmers prefer to release their code to the public through open-source licenses, which allows their work to be modified and improved upon, even as they retain core rights to the original code.

Distributing any work… read more

24 Creative Wooden Business Cards

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Dueling Memes: Lawyer Dog Vs. Business Cat

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Lover.ly Makes Wedding Planning Simple

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: Lover.ly

Quick Pitch: Wedding planning made easy

Genius Idea: Lover.ly partners with bridal blogs and other editorial content… read more

Appcelerator’s Developer Platform: Now with Cloud-Based Tools

Mobile platform company Appcelerator launched the latest version of its popular Titanium platform Tuesday, with cloud-based tools to help developers build more dynamic apps for Android and iPhone devices.

Titanium 2.0, which includes support for HTML5 mobile web apps, aims to help brands create apps quickly and efficiently for their businesses…. read more

How to Stay Focused in a World of Distractions

Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conferences, which bring together staff from Google, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga along with Zen teachers and others to explore living with awareness and wisdom in our modern age. You can follow him at @SorenG.

In our connected world, it is easy to… read more

Women: Calculate How to Achieve Your Target Salary Online

April 17 is Equal Pay Day — and for women in the workforce, it’s a stark reminder of the glass ceiling that still prevails in most industries. Full-time working women earned only 77% of what their male counterparts did in 2010.

That’s why the women of the Levo League, an online… read more

Elle Tries Facebook Commerce, Launches Shoppable Trend Guide

Elle has launched a shoppable trend guide on Facebook in the latest of several ecommerce initiatives within the magazine industry.

The guide, embedded as a tab on Elle‘s Facebook page, invites shoppers to navigate across six editorially chosen spring trends, including floral, nautical and ladylike.

Users can click “love,” “want, “own”… read more

Why You Could Be Prosecuted for Posting Olympics Photos to Facebook

For an event being hyped by organizers as the world’s “first social media Olympics,” the summer 2012 games in London have some pretty antisocial policies.

Athletes will not be allowed to tweet photos of themselves with products that aren’t official Olympics sponsors or share photos or videos from inside the… read more

Google Glasses Have a Stylish Rival: Oakley [VIDEO]

Google’s augmented reality glasses haven’t yet hit the market, but they already have some potential competition. Sunglass maker Oakley is also developing eyewear that can project information onto lenses, Oakley CEO Colin Baden told Bloomberg.

Oakley is working initially on products that would appeal to athletes, Baden said. The headgear… read more

Facebook Meets Instagram: What It Means for Your Brand

Joshua Teixeira heads up the strategy discipline at Big Spaceship, helping shape engagements for active projects and prospective clients alike. Recent projects include work with clients like Crayola, Chobani, Google, Wrigley, General Electric, Urban Daddy, and Gilt Groupe.

When it comes to Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, details are still… read more

CISPA Foes Meet, Seek Common Ground

The Business Software Alliance, a group of top technology companies including Intel and Microsoft, met with Internet privacy advocacy group Center for Democracy and Technology Monday evening.

The goal: find common ground on the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as (CISPA). The big question: how best to… read more

Startup Turns Research Databases Into Searchable Notecards

Citelighter, a browser extension for collecting notes online, is teaming up with Cengage Learning to turn paid research databases such as Questia into a stack of free virtual note cards.

With Citelighter’s first product, students can highlight any text on any web page and click a “capture” button to save it… read more

Most Amazing sports Logos to Upcoming Businessmen

Most Amazing sports Logos to Upcoming Businessmen

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5 Questions for IDEO’s Duane Bray

In just three weeks, Duane Bray, partner and head of IDEO’s global digital business, will take the stage at Mashable’s Connect conference in Orlando, FL to investigate how our present-day digital behaviors will affect us down the road, both as individuals and as a species.

IDEO is a firm that solves… read more

Rare Collection of Steve Jobs Business Cards

Rare Collection of Steve Jobs Business Cards

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