Why Facebook Timeline Will Be Huge for Brands

Zeny Huang is an Emerging Media Strategist at JWT New York where she helps brands connect with fans in innovative and meaningful ways using social media. You can follow her on Twitter @Zenidala.

When Facebook unveiled Timeline last week, many users were struck by the idea of humanizing your profile by… read more

Fashion Blogging Grows Up: Why Advertisers Want a Piece of the Action

Alisa Gould-Simon is the Director of Marketing & Communications at Pose.com, a free mobile shopping application. She is a fashion consultant and writer and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal. You can follow her on Twitter at @alisagouldsimon.

The advent of… read more

How Pandora Bounced Back From the Brink of Ruin to Revolutionize Internet Radio

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Costly Internet radio royalty rates left Pandora on the brink of extinction in the summer… read more

Conversation Techniques For Designers

Designers are visually literate creatures. We use visuals to express our ideas, whether by building wireframes, sketching interfaces or pushing pixels. As a result, the majority of knowledge captured when we design a product is some form of “corporate memory”: a combination of assets and documentation. This creation of visual… read more

Ask FreelanceSwitch: Clients with Bigger Problems

In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, we look at clients with underlying problems. Ask FreelanceSwitch is a regular column here that allows us to help beginners get a grip on freelancing. If you have a question about freelancing that you want answered, send an email to askfreelanceswitch@gmail.com.

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Schizophrenics may not… read more

Web Design & Development Podcasts

Not long ago we had a post that discussed the role that podcasts have been playing in the design field. After which we were asked for a post that focused on more web design and development related podcasts for our readers. Something of a proverbial playlist of shows that are… read more

25+ free unique business card PSDs

As designers, we sometimes deal with clients who may be on a budget but want a super cool business card, and want it quick. As designers, we might even be that client.

A business card is often viewed as the first image a person has about your business and the work… read more

Putting Your Best (Business) Foot Forward – Presentation Folder Design

Putting Your Best (Business) Foot Forward – Presentation Folder Design

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A Showcase of Landing Pages Designed for Conversion

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The best landing pages are the ones that have been built with one specific goal in mind. Whether it’s to encourage users to sign up, encourage purchases or convince people to buy a product, the landing page can make or break a sale.

It’s often not enough… read more

How Open Source Development Is Becoming More Social

Tim Yeaton is the President and CEO of Black Duck Software. He has more 30 years experience working in the software community. Contact him at tyeaton@blackducksoftware.com.

Most people do not think of software developers as being high on the “social” scale. In fact, the (misinformed) stereotype for a typical developer is… read more

A+E Uses Facebook to Connect You to the Stars

Facebook’s 800 million-member social graph should be able to show how you’re linked to celebrities and historic icons of yore. That’s the premise behind A+E Networks just-launched Bio.com website.

The new Bio.com, the online home of A+E’s long-running and Emmy Award-winning Biography series, shows visitors who log in via Facebook how… read more

30 Super Creative Business Cards

30 Super Creative Business Cards

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Groupon Launches Groupon Goods for Online Sales

Amazon has gotten into Groupon‘s daily deals business and now Groupon is repaying the favor with Groupon Goods, an online retail site.

Groupon sent emails to select customers on Wednesday promoting the new offering, which offered deals on pilates, coffee brewers and LED TVs. “(The offer is) already seeing good… read more

5 Tips on How to Utilize Facebook for Your Photography Brand

In this post by Julia May PhotoInterview.ru we look at the topic of how Facebook can be used by Photographers. By the way – don’t forget to ‘like’ the dPS Facebook Page to keep in touch with our latest updates.

Many of you have probably been hooked with Google+ lately and… read more

Amazon Fire Puts Barnes & Noble in a Tight Spot

Barnes & Noble has has asked investors for a while to be patient with its ebook initiatives, but Amazon’s Fire has turned up the heat.

B&N began testing its investors’ resolve in February, when the company suspended its dividend to plow more money into Nook. It’s a move that would have… read more

Yahoo’s Strategy After Bartz? “Deeply Personal Digital Experiences”

Yahoo has begun outlining a new strategy to become the “world’s premiere digital media company.” And to explain it, the company is invoking the periodic table of elements.

During a presentation at Flickr headquarters in San Francisco, Yahoo VP Steve Douty said that Yahoo has refocused its mission in the… read more

Groupon Launches Rewards Program

Daily deals juggernaut Groupon expanded its product lineup Wednesday to include Groupon Rewards.

Groupon Rewards is a loyalty platform for the company’s merchants — and a set of incentives for its most active subscribers.

The product integrates with merchants’ Point of Sale systems to let them offer customers special deals whenever… read more

50 Power Tools And Applications To Make Your Life Easier With Twitter

Twitter is a powerful micro-blogging platform whose worth cannot be overlooked. Companies and individuals are using Twitter not only to connect with their peers and stay ahead of the curve, but also to promote the goods and services they offer.

Here we are sharing some valuable tools that help you make… read more

Barnes & Noble Stock Falls 9% After Amazon Tablet Launch

Amazon‘s Fire has claimed a victim: Barnes & Noble.

The bookseller’s stock was down more than 9% this morning after Amazon introduced its $199 Fire, a tablet that undercuts the Nook Color’s price by $50. Amazon also cut the price of its e-Ink Kindle to $80 from $119. The Nook Simple… read more

You’re Pricing It Wrong: Software Pricing Demystified

Pricing your own product is always a tricky proposition, and the more critical the price is to your product’s success, the more difficult it is to set. It’s easy to look at another product and say how much you would be willing to pay for it, but how can you… read more

Review: One Simple Idea

A recent Freelance Freedom episode shows our hero driving around town, criticizing the design of business signs. It gets to the point where the wife has to put on music in order to silence him.

Our irritated freelancer has a lot in common with the people profiled in Stephen Key‘s… read more

5 reasons why your web design résumé sucks

Hiring a web designer is like sorting packages. Hundreds of applications filter in. Before you can even get to the good stuff, you have to sort through all the ones that might not be a good fit.

And even though you may not judge a book by its cover, hiring managers… read more

Piictu Is an iPhone App For Picture Conversations

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Name: Piictu

Quick Pitch: Piictu is a visual network where you interact with friends and people around the… read more

Mark Zuckerberg Killed a Bison

Keeping with his commitment to only eat what he kills, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shot and killed a bison for food.

Questions about Zuckerberg killing a bison began to surface during his f8 keynote last week. During his presentation, one box on his Timeline profile displayed that he was cooking bison… read more

Should You Really Quit Your Day Job in a Down Economy?

Nellie Akalp is CEO of CorpNet.com. Since forming more than 100,000 corporations and LLCs across the U.S, she has built a strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs in starting and protecting their business the right way. To learn more about Nellie and see how she can… read more

Disney’s iPad-Friendly Toys Give Playtime A Digital Boost [VIDEO]

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

Disney announced a new toy line Tuesday that turns the iPad into an interactive play mat. The new toys, called Disney Appmates, interact directly with a free app for the iPad that brings them to life.

The… read more

6 Ways Brands Can Earn More Exposure on Tumblr

Shane Snow is co-founder of Contently.com, an “agile publishing” platform for brands and freelance journalists.

With 29 million blogs (more than WordPress at last count), and at least as many millions of posts every day, Tumblr is a force of nature in the Internet ecosystem that cannot be ignored. That massive… read more

How Mint Found Startup Success By Solving Real Problems

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Staying on top of your finances can be a daunting and time-consuming task. Aaron Patzer knows… read more

Facebook Gives $10 Million in Free Advertising to Small Businesses

Facebook is cozying up to small businesses in a big way with a new program that gives away $10 million in free advertising.

The program, Facebook Marketing Solutions, which includes a partnership with the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, will roll out over the next… read more

Kobo’s New App Lets You See Who’s Reading With You

Kobo is continuing its bet on social books with a new feature that shows who is reading at the same time as you and a Facebook integration that makes sharing your reading activity automatic, using Facebook’s new Open Graph.

The Borders-backed company became the first of the major ebook players to… read more

How To Blow A Business Ghostwriting Assignment

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“Ghostwriting” business communications is a lucrative and satisfying writing niche that requires some special skills and the right mindset. I’ve had excellent projects writing presentations for CEOs of very large corporations, and writing trade and newsletter articles for one-person consulting shops.

What they have in common is… read more

How to Create a Responsive Portfolio Site with WordPress and Semantic.gs

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I doubt that I need to explain to WDL readers what responsive design is, or why it’s important. Suffice it to say that it is a big part of the future of our industry. Fortunately, making responsive layouts is easier than it was when when we… read more

Advertising as we know it is DEAD

As an undergraduate of my university’s advertising program, every year, I’d have some sort of Super Bowl function that was centered around watching the commercials. After all, as an ad student, this was kind of a big deal and would be absolutely relevant to the next week of classes.

We would… read more

Happy Birthday Google: Celebrate With All the Anniversary Doodles [PICS]

This month marks Google’s 13th anniversary. The exact date Google celebrates this occasion has changed over the years, according to the company, “depending on when people feel like having cake.”

However, in recent years Sept. 27 is the day the celebratory Google Doodle appears; since 2002 Google has put up… read more

Apple Denied Trademark for Multi-Touch by Patent Office

Here’s a term Apple will have no dominion over: “multi-touch”.

Apple originally applied for the trademark on Jan. 9, 2007, (the day when iPhone was announced), but the United States Patent and Trademark Office decided that the term was too broad.

After Apple’s appeal, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board… read more

Phocus: Effective Strategies for Getting Ahead in Photography That You Can Use Starting Today

As our article on why some photographers are successful and others aren’t should have shown, evolving as a photographer in the modern world is by no means an easy process. If you’re trying to extend your reach, recognition, become a socially connected photographer or make income as a photographer, then… read more

4 Key Considerations for Scaling Your Database

Razi Sharir is the CEO of Xeround – The Cloud Database Company – that provides an elastic database-as-a-service for MySQL applications.

Scalability is one of the biggest buzzwords around the cloud ecosystem. Scalability of the database tier, in particular, takes center stage these days.

The cloud promises scalability in that virtualized… read more

33 Futuristic Looking Scenes from Cities

With a little imagination and planing a photographer can make a lot of city scenes look futuristic and get some great effects. We think this is a nice selection of what can be done. Enjoy and get out and shoot your own city!

toronto city hall by paul (dex), on… read more

Is the Era of Music Video Games Really Over?

Scott Steinberg is the author of the new book Music Games Rock (100% free to download online). He is a noted technology expert, the CEO of high-tech consulting firm TechSavvy Global, and a frequent keynote speaker and media analyst for ABC, CBS and CNN. A celebrated author and entrepreneur, he… read more

Michael N. Lee – letterpress busines card design

Michael N. Lee – letterpress busines card design

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4.7 Million LinkedIn Users Are Employed by Small Businesses [INFOGRAPHIC]

There are more paths to a good job than the usual four years of college and an internship at a big firm. As the infographic below shows, a fair number of people on LinkedIn are veterans of the military services or graduates of community colleges.

For the former, operations and information… read more

Local Newspapers Hold Ground Against the Internet [STUDY]

Local newspapers might seem like the deteriorating historical landmarks in the local media landscape, but new research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project indicates they are still a key source for local information — even as more people turn to the Internet for the same types of information.

While… read more

5 Smart Apps for Currency Conversion

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 are a lot of times and a lot of reasons why you might be stuck trying to spitball an exchange rate. Perhaps your small business is… read more

6 Tips for Launching a Product on Facebook

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Businesses rely on Facebook… read more

Netflix & DreamWorks Sign Streaming Deal

Netflix has reportedly signed a contract to bring films from DreamWorks Animation to its streaming service, shortly after inking a similar deal with Discovery.

The deal has not been confirmed by either company, but the New York Times claims the deal is worth $30 million per picture in a multi-year arrangement…. read more

Personalized Pens Giveaway – $125 VALUE, Get Them FREE

Today I am excited to bring you yet another giveaway. This one is unlike any others we’ve had over the years.  We’re teaming up with Amsterdam Printing, the popular promotional pens  website, and we’re giving away 50 Inspire pens, worth $149.95, absolutely free. Use these pens to give your web… read more

Tumblr Secures $85 Million in Funding Amid Big Growth in Pageviews

Microblogging platform Tumblr has secured $85 million in funding, the company announced Monday, adding that it has seen its pageviews increase greatly this year.

Aside from the funding round led by Greylock Partners and Insight Venture Partners, the company shared impressive new stats: Tumblr’s pageviews per month this year have gone… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 4, September

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

How Search Marketing Costs Are Evolving

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Search marketing’s bull-boom years appear to be… read more

Will Facebook Ever Charge for Its Service? [POLL]

Shortly after Facebook announced new features at F8 on Sept. 22, rumors surfaced, claiming that Facebook will start charging for the service.

The rumors are unfounded, and Facebook confirmed that the social network is “free and always will be.”

However, things change. Who knows what direction Facebook will take in… read more

Office Bullying: Designers Are The Biggest Targets

As in the schoolyard, some children just do not play well with others. Some children are liars and some are tattle-tales. Some children just make up for having small penises with office power plays. That goes for some women I know, too!

Human resources or employee relations in any firm, large… read more

20 High Quality, Extraordinary & Free Web PSD Templates

No matter who you are or what your business may be, you will always want your website design to stand out. Having an extraordinary website allows you to stay on the mind of most of your visitors and can help translate how unique your product or service is to someone.

The… read more

Thanks to Our Weekly Sponsor: Studiometry

Our sponsor this week is Studiometry, an amazing professional project management tool from Oranged Software.

Studiometry is a powerhouse of professional organization tools. Whether you’re managing contacts, generating estimates, tracking work, or billing clients, this one app has you covered in a single beautifully cohesive workflow.

Small businesses, freelancers, large… read more

10 Attractive Business Cards with Source File

10 Attractive Business Cards with Source File

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Epson Stylus Photo R3000 Pigment Inkjet Printer Review

I’ve owned an Epson 1290 A3 printer for some years now and have loved it like a brother!

The 1290 weighs 8.4 kgs with overall dimensions of 609x414x766mm (WHD). Colour: basic beige.

The R3000 is quite a different beast: heavy as lead at 15kg and measuring 616x228x369mm, it’s styled in black. Not… read more

26 new business cards – Best of September 2011

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Etsy on Twitter: 13 Creative Handmade Backgrounds [PICS]

Anyone who has taken a tour of Etsy’s offices realizes that the company tries to promote handmade goods in every corner of its business. Heck, even the pipes are covered with colorful hand-knitted yarn.

About one year ago, it occurred to Etsy social media specialist Dave Brown that the company’s black-and-white… read more

5 Ways to Dip your Toe into the Business of Photography

I had an email yesterday from a reader named Stephanie who said that she’s caught in a vicious cycle of portfolio building. She doesn’t want to charge while she’s portfolio building because then, she’ll be in business and have all the worries that come with it but she doesn’t want… read more

Linkswitch #87, Use LinkedIn, Difficult Clients, Marketing Mix

5 Reasons for Freelancers to Use LinkedIn

Many of the freelancers I know stay active on Facebook, Twitter, and Google +, but they ignore one of the most powerful professional networks out there: LinkedIn.

Maybe it’s because they think LinkedIn is for job-seekers. Maybe it’s because they like procrastinating by reading… read more

15 Free HTML5 and CSS Templates

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Ready-made HTML5 templates are currently one of the most sought after resources within the web design community. They not only offer a quick and easy-to-edit solution for building modern websites, they also offer a fantastic route to explore and understand HTML5s syntax.

All of the themes below… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Sep 19-Sep 25, 2011

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

9 Great Business Tools That You Should Definitely Know About

9 Great Business Tools That You Should Definitely Know About

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Cool Metal Business Cards To Boost Your Sales Demand

Cool Metal Business Cards To Boost Your Sales Demand

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3 Ways to Find Top Talent for Your Startup

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

While the latest unemployment numbers are unnerving, there are still many companies struggling to find the right employees for their organizations — especially when it comes to… read more

Why Colleges Need to Better Prepare IT Grads [OPINION]

This post reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily those of Mashable as a publication.

Aaron Stibel serves as senior vice president of technology of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp, the leading provider of credit building and credibility solutions for businesses. He holds a BS in computer science from… read more

750 Business Cards Giveaway From UPrinting – 3 People Will Win!

We have partnered with UPrinting to bring you this exciting giveaway. UPrinting is an online printing company that offers custom business cards and many other print services. Comment below and get a chance to print business cards for free.

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250  pcs Custom Business Cards for one winner. There… read more

3 Fun Apps That Amplify and Filter Your Social Connections

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Each weekend, Mashable picks startups we think are building interesting, unique or niche products.

Here we highlight… read more

61 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

The Facebook redesign news kicked this week’s features roundup into full-throttle. For instance, press “command F” and search “Facebook”. Go ahead, try it. The word comes up 31 times on this page alone.

Therefore, the theme of this week’s roundup is: We-Pretty-Much-Covered-Everything-You-Need-to-Know-About-the-Facebook-Redesign. In other news, we reviewed the Google Wallet and… read more

Best of the Week #190

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

Design Inspiration: 7 Galleries of Excellent Ecommerce Sites

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

Have you ever contemplated the expansion of your small business through the launch of an online store?

The first phases of any new venture, big or small, is… read more

World’s Top Thinkers Weigh In on Social Good [VIDEO]

The Social Good Summit has come to a close but the UN Foundation was busy behind the scenes culling insights from some of the summit’s most engaging speakers.

The foundation’s video footage broaches a range of topics from micro-loans and digital activism to clean cooking with world-renowned chefs. Mashable dug through… read more

55 Brilliant Letterpress Business Cards

Simplicity can often work wonders and with letterpress printing, you can achieve just that. It also makes most designs clean and elegant. With the relief that it creates on card stock, it is perfect for embossing certain areas in the print.

It makes a great printing option for business cards,… read more

Run a User-Submitted Photo or Video Contest On Your Site With Olapic

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.

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Quick Pitch: Olapic helps online publishers add galleries of user-contributed images.

Genius Idea: Pooling images in a… read more

3 Tips for Retaining Your Software-as-a-Service Customers

Guy Nirpaz is the CEO and co-founder of Totango, which analyzes user actions on SaaS applications, providing sales teams invaluable information in qualifying prospects and prioritizing people to contact who are most likely to buy (or renew).

Once you’ve determined how to convert SaaS trial users into paying customers, you will… read more

4 Reasons Every Online Brand Should Explore Gamification Strategies

Elizabeth Shaw is an emerging media analyst at Forrester Research, serving interactive marketing professionals. Follow her on twitter @shaw_smith2.

Adding a few visual game elements to a brand’s site in order to “gamify” a marketing strategy and increase engagement just isn’t enough. To be done right, gamification must take a behavior-focused… read more

Invoicing for the Future: TradeShift

Efficient accounting is the backbone of any successful business – only when money is flowing in and out of the system smoothly can you rest assured that your hard work is actually paying off. A large part of this is invoicing, which typically refers to sending estimates and quotes, billing… read more

News360 Aggregates & Personalizes the News Reading Experience

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Name: News360

Quick Pitch: A news personalization and aggregation service.

Genius Idea: Launching on seven different platforms in its… read more

Will Amazon Finally Reveal Its Tablet Next Week?

Amazon may be gearing up to announce its much-awaited, much-rumored tablet PC next Wednesday.

The tight-lipped company sent an invitation out to select members of the press Friday. The invite (see below) is for Sept. 28 at 10 a.m. ET in New York. No other details were forthcoming and Amazon reps… read more

Five Unique Search Engines That Can Help You More Effectively

There are many websites and search engines out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing Five Unique Search Engines That Can Help You More Effectively. Read each entry in the list and see which search engine suits your needs best.

You are… read more

HP Shares Tank as Meg Whitman Takes the Helm

Shares of Hewlett-Packard are taking a beating Friday as investors express skepticism that former eBay CEO Meg Whitman can right the ship.

HP’s stock price closed at 22.86 on Thursday, just before Whitman was appointed as the company’s new CEO. Shares of HP were trading at 21.96 as of 11:02 a.m…. read more

10 Excellent User Interface Designs to Learn From

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Over the last few weeks, we’ve gathered together some great resources and information on constructing amazing user… read more

The Evolution of the Facebook Profile

Facebook held a keynote at their f8 conference yesterday, demonstrating a bunch of new stuff, most importantly Timeline, the new face for profiles. Timeline is changing Facebook’s approach to user-centric pages drastically. It’s concentrating on showing a view of a person’s life, as shared through Facebook and a bunch of… read more

Cal Evans and the Education of Freelance Developers

It’s not uncommon to find educational conferences and seminars for most professions. But finding educational opportunities when you’re a freelancer can be a more difficult matter.

Cal Evans, the founder of Day Camp 4 Developers is looking to solve that problem — at least for developers.

The Importance of Educating… read more

Competition: We have three yearly licenses for Solo, project management tool for the modern freelancer to giveaway

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We have a fantastic giveaway for you today, you’ll love it. We have three year-long licenses (worth $120 each) for the recently launched Solo, an awesome project management tool for the modern freelancer.

You can try Solo out first with their 14 day free trial. Click here… read more

A Roundup of Valuable Facebook Tools

Not long ago we had a post featuring some valuable Twitter tools, and we received requests to do the same kind of post for Facebook. In the interest of giving our readers what they want, and the community content that is useful, this post was born. Today we are presenting… read more

Social Good Summit Recap: Final Day [PICS]

The Social Good Summit has finally come to a close with one last exciting day featuring Barbara Bush, discussions on the Arab Spring and Mashable‘s Startups for Good Challenge.

There were great highlights from Day 4, which we’ve summed up for you here. If you’re interested in following what happened… read more

HP CEO Meg Whitman Vows to Stay the Course, But Would You? [POLL]

In her first press conference after she took the helm of HP, new CEO Meg Whitman vowed to stay the course set by her predecessor, former CEO Leo Apotheker.

She wants to continue the purchase of British software company Autonomy for the eye-popping price of $10.3 billion, and continue to… read more

20 Full-Screen Templates for a Company Website

20 Full-Screen Templates for a Company Website

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What Facebook’s Changes Mean for Marketers

Facebook’s bold list of changes, announced Thursday, will put more pressure on advertisers to come up with compelling content and integrate themselves further into consumers’ lives. The big loser? The “Like,” which will have a smaller role in marketing, industry analysts say.

One big change is that Facebook has added a… read more

UPrinting Business Card Giveaway

Another great giveaway sponsored by UPrinting.com , an online printing company, providing three of our readers with  250 Die-cut business cards each. Hurry for your chance to print your custom business cards for free! About UPrinting Located in Van Nuys, CA. UPrinting.com has earned customer loyalty by offering more customizable… read more

Meg Whitman’s First Email to HP Employees

HP made the widely anticipated move today of ousting Leo Apotheker and installing former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as its new chief executive. The news hit the wires late in the afternoon, after the close of trading.

A little while later, HP employees received their first e-mail from their new… read more

How Digital Has Transformed the Home Video Marketplace

The Consumer Trends Series is supported by CBS.com, where brands can find engagement with the ideal audience through exclusive news, clips, trailers and more. To connect your brands with true enthusiasm, visit CBSInteractive.com/ideal.

Practically since the birth of television, consumers have enjoyed watching feature-length movies at home. In the early… read more

The Evolution of the Facebook Profile [PICS]

At Facebook‘s f8 conference in San Francisco on Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major overhaul of the social network’s user profiles.

The new profile will feature a timeline that compiles your Facebook participation history like a scrapbook. Expect your entire profile page to look completely different. Photos will be… read more

Meg Whitman Named CEO of HP

Meg Whitman has officially been named the CEO of Hewlett Packard, following several days of speculation that Leo Apotheker would be forced out of the computing giant and possibly replaced by the former eBay CEO and California gubernatorial candidate.

In a statement, HP also said that Ray Lane has been promoted… read more

7 Lessons From Successful Companies on LinkedIn

Dave Kerpen is the CEO of Likeable, a social media agency that has worked with more than 200 leading brands including 1-800Flowers.com, Verizon and Neutrogena. He is author of the New York Times best seller Likeable Social Media.

Brands are beginning to establish best practices communicating with their customers and prospects… read more

Yahoo Hooks Up With Facebook for Socially Curated News

Yahoo is betting the farm on Facebook with the launch of a completely new and social way to consume news.

The new Yahoo News feature, whose release coincides with the launch of the new Facebook Open Graph, is an attempt to infuse social into the news curation and discovery process.

“Yahoo has… read more

When & How You Should Update Your Mobile App

The Mobile App Trends Series is supported by Sourcebits, a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

You’re done. After months of slaving away over Xcode or Eclipse, you… read more

Color Bets Its Future on Facebook

Color is about to be reborn as a Facebook app for Android and iPhone capable of transporting you around the world, through the lenses of fellow Facebookers.

In less than 30 minutes I went to the beaches of Maui, traveled to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, looked out the window… read more

Video Inspiration #36

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

Improving The Online Shopping Experience, Part 2: Guiding Customers Through The Buying Process

Part 1 of “Improving the Online Shopping Experience” focused on the upper part of the purchase funnel and on ways to get customers to your website and to find your products. Today, we move down the funnel, looking at ways to enable customers to make the decision to buy and… read more