Manipulating the DOM with jQuery: 10+ useful code snippets

The Document Object Model is an API which allows developers to access, read, and modify the content of a web page. In this article, I’m going to show you 10+ extremely useful code snippets to manipulate the DOM using jQuery. read more

A pixel is not a pixel is not a pixel

Very informative and useful article about pixel sizes on mobile devices. A must read. read more

Easily Share Videos To Facebook And Twitter From Your Cell Phone With Thwapr

Facebook and Twitter users who own smartphones often are on the lookout for applications that can complement their social media usage. One way in which our social media accounts can be made more active is by developing a simple method to record videos on our cellphones and then share them… read more

Creating and Applying Natural Textures

Textures make a website feel tangible.

They give content a relationship to the physical world, a sense of place and a reality that people can relate to.

Unfortunately, simulating physical textures isn’t as simple as shooting a photo or running a few Photoshop filters.

One has to blend random … read more

25% OFF our Photography E-Books Bundled Together

Over the last 6 months here at dPS we’ve launched two downloadable E-Books:

The Essential Guide to Portrait Photography
Photo Nuts and Bolts: Know Your Camera and Take Better Photos

Both have been downloaded and appreciated by thousands of our readers and in doing so have helped to keep dPS funded… read more

Hollywood and “The Cove” Join Forces for Dolphin Awareness PSA [VIDEO]

Hollywood is coming together to spread the word about the brutal slaughter of dolphins off the coast of Japan. In the Academy Award winning documentary The Cove, these practices are exposed from the perspective of those that are working to put a stop to it.

In honor of Earth Day,… read more

Apple Considering $8 Billion Acquisition of ARM [RUMOR]

ARM Holdings, the company that creates the processors for most of the world’s mobile phones including the iPhone and iPad, is now the center of major acquisition rumors. The potential buyer: none other than Apple.

According to the London Evening Standard, there is huge chatter in London’s financial scene… read more

Facebook Open Graph: What it Means for Privacy

At Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference today, the company fleshed out its plans to become the social center of the web. With the new Open Graph API and protocol and the ability to integrate websites and web apps within your existing social network, the platform will become more robust than… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Job Listings in Social Media

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to… read more

Mashable’s Google Wave API Contest Winners

After poring over the multitude of submissions we received to the Mashable’s Google Wave API Challenge, we’re proud to announce the results.

The three winners in our people’s choice categories are Texas Holdem Poker for “Most Fun,” Wave Transformer for “Most Useful” and Resourcy for “Best Use of the… read more

5 More Ways to Go Green for Earth Day

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.

There are many ways to take part in the environmental movement on the social web. With Earth Day rapidly approaching this Thursday, we decided to revisit our… read more

Facebook Reveals FriendFeed’s Future [VIDEO]

Last August, when Facebook bought Twitter competitor FriendFeed, many of its core users were shocked and concerned, even speculating as to whether the social networking giant would shutter the startup and absorb its tech as part of a new feature or product.

At the time, we wrote, “There would be… read more

Leaked Next Generation iPhone Footage Goes Viral: Will It Boost Sales? [POLL]

By now, practically everyone has seen Gizmodo’s video of what is said to be a next generation iPhone — well, about 3.5 million people worldwide have seen it, at least. The incident itself, in which a hapless Apple employee named Gray Powell misplaces the phone at a bar, has… read more

Facebook’s Open Graph Personalizes the Web

Facebook has created a platform that allows sites and apps to share information about users in order to tailor offers, features and services to each one’s interests and tastes — even if that individual has never visited the site before.

When you’re signed on to Facebook, participating websites like CNN.com… read more

Facebook to Kill Facebook Connect

Facebook Connect, the company’s tool for bringing your social graph to third-party websites, will soon be no more.

During a press conference today at Facebook’s F8 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the Facebook Connect brand would be eliminated as part of the launch of Open… read more

Pentax K-x – taking shots at Nikon and Canon

Pentax K-x: Background

I’d really looked forward to getting my hands on this camera. The reviews had been tantalising. Imaging Resource said: ‘the Pentax Kx has enormous value, thanks to its remarkable image and print quality, fine build, and class-leading burst speed, all combining to make one impressive digital SLR… read more

Pandora Partners with Facebook for Social Music

Music discovery engine Pandora is receiving some deep social integration with Facebook, Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today at the F8 Developer Conference.

Made possible by Facebook’s new Open Graph protocol, Pandora will be able to stream music directly on Facebook.com from bands you’ve “liked” across the web. You’ll… read more

Facebook Teams Up with Microsoft on Docs.com

Mark Zuckerburg announced today on the stage of f8, the Facebook developer conference, that Facebook will be launching a collaborative document-editing tool with Microsoft. Docs.com will be released to the public in just a few hours.

Users will be able to find, create and share Microsoft Office documents with their… read more

8 Social Media Strategies to Engage Multicultural Consumers

Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. Her company, Nette Media develops social media technologies for women and multicultural communities, and she blogs at Technicultr.

Recently, more companies than ever have begun using social media to reach multicultural consumers. If you’re wondering what’s behind the trend, it stems… read more

Facebook Makes Major Announcements at F8 [LIVE]

Here at Facebook’s F8 Conference in San Francisco, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making major announcements to an audience of developers and press.

Here are my live notes:

Live Notes: Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote

- It took only 15 months for 100 million users to use Facebook onnect

- Asking for user… read more

Hospital Outfits Staff with 100 iPads

A hospital district in Visalia, California, has ordered 100 iPads to provide staff with access to rudimentary applications like e-mail, as well as X-ray images, EKG results and patient monitoring programs around its five sites.

Nick Volosin, the hospital’s director of technical services, thinks the iPad is a superior alternative… read more

AudioBox.fm: Like iTunes in the Cloud

When we say the world is increasingly moving towards desktop-like applications in the cloud, AudioBox.fm is a perfect example proving just that. Although there are many great music web apps, none of them give you the capabilities and interface AudioBox.fm does.

The AudioBox.fm is consistently making improvements and enhancements, sure to… read more

Get the Most out of Game Film with HomeField

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: HomeField

Quick Pitch: HomeField is a… read more

The Making of a Chocolate Bar Character

Thought some of you might like to see my process for designing a character. This one is filled with cocoa love and chocolaty goodness. I’ll take the concept from sketch through to vector final. You’ll learn the process of making a fun loving character based on a clear concept. Also,… read more

5 Ways Classrooms Can Use Video Conferencing

The author of two books, 12-year-old Adora Svitak published her first, Flying Fingers, at the age of seven. In addition, she has spoken at some of the nation’s pre-eminent education conferences and taught students around the world via her video conferencing programs. Most recently, she spoke at the TED… read more

Google Considers Shelling Out $1 Billion for ITA Software

Google is in talks to acquire airline IT and services provider ITA Software for the price of $1 billion. According to Bloomberg, it’s not a done deal yet, but several people familiar with the matter confirmed that negotiations between two companies are indeed happening. It’s a big number, but… read more

Five Tips For Making Ideas Happen

Creative types have a problem. We have so many great ideas, but most of them never see the light of day. Why do most ideas never happen? The reason is that our own creative habits get in the way. For example, our tendency to generate new ideas often gets in… read more

WIN 1 of these 2 Great E-Books

Which of these great E-Books would you like to win?

This week I’ve got a great little competition for you which will put you in the running to win one of two great E-books. Bruce Percy has produced a great range of photography E-books and has been generous enough to give… read more

Typography Mania #25

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from videos to images everything is full of great design and inspiration. Check out this weeks Mania and comeback in 7 days for more.

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How to Create Bamboo in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to draw semi-realistic bamboo in Adobe Photoshop—perfect for textures and backgrounds.

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Download the PSD (Source Files)Step 1: Creating a New Document

Create a new document with 800 on 600 pixels, resolution 300 dpi and a transparent background.

Step 2: Making the Texture

For texture,… read more

Why I Believe in Pricing Work Based on Value

For freelancers, the question of how to price your services is always up for debate. Should you charge by the hour or per project? What should your hourly rate be? What type of payment terms should you require? The answers to these questions will vary based… read more

How to Illustrate a Professional Looking Apple iPad

In this tutorial we will learn how to make a realistic looking illustration of an Apple iPad using the Rounded Corner Rectangle, Gradient Mesh and Gradient Tool. Don’t let the professional finish fool you; this tutorial is perfect for beginners and experts alike.

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40 High-Quality Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs

It’s essential for Designers to have a good understanding of typography and selection as the importance of typography in design can’t be neglected. The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design into attractive piece of art.

Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve three necessary objectives of web… read more

15 Javascript and Plugins and Tutorials for Adding Ratings

Giving users the ability to interact with your web site is one of the key elements to its success. Allowing users to post a comment or response and socially sharing are two of the basic fundamentals of web interaction, another, maybe less popular, is giving users the quickfire option of… read more

Google Maps Navigation Comes to UK and Ireland

Late in 2009, Google released Google Maps Navigation for Android devices, which effectively brought free turn-by-turn navigation to every Android owner in the US.

Now, Google Maps Navigation comes to the UK and Ireland, and it works on smartphones running Android 1.6 and later. Voice commands and voice search, street… read more

12 Tips for Avoiding Burnout as a Freelancer

Freelancing is attractive to a lot of people because of the opportunity to work on your own and to set your own hours. However, in reality most full-time freelancers face a lot of stress and experience burnout in their work on a regular basis. In this post we’ll look at… read more

KartMe Is A Great Way To Organize And Share Your Favorite Online Content With Other People

We see social media sites popping up everywhere today. Beginning from Orkut, I now have accounts on more online social networks than I can count. The essentials of all social media are the same: stay in touch with your contacts and share interesting stuff you find online. Some social media… read more

Adobe Gives Up on iPhone App Development

The saga of Adobe and Apple or, more precisely, Flash app development for the iPhone, is drawing to its inevitable conclusion. It all started with Apple’s change to its iPhone Developer Program License Agreement – the notorious article 3.3.1 – which banned the use of the Flash-to-iPhone converter. In… read more

Huge 3D Printer Makes Buildings Out of Sand [VIDEO]

We’ve seen 3D printers before, but none quite this ambitious. Italian inventor Enrico Dini’s D-Shape is on a scale large enough to print entire buildings out of simple components: sand and an inorganic magnesium-base binding material.

The three-dimensional printing apparatus has hundreds of nozzles on its underside, which… read more

70+ Inspirational Logo Designs

I find viewing other artists and designers logos is a great way to get inspired for you next project. If you want to get those creative juices flowing, you should check out this post. I have assembled a beautiful collection of fresh logo designs that will definitely help stimulate your creative juices for your… read more

New Google Chrome Ads Show Off Extensions and Translate [VIDEOS]

Google has just lreleased two new ads on YouTube to show off Chrome features. Extensions and Translate are two components that flesh out users’ browsing experiences while simplifying online actions at the same time.

The spots were created by agency BBH, and they’re drop dead adorable.

The first illustrates how users… read more

89% of Content on Google Buzz Is Automated [STATS]

Social media analytics company PostRank found that the vast majority of content on Google Buzz — just slightly under 90% — comes from news feeds or other automated sources.

62.57% of Buzz posts originate on Twitter. Users are automatically re-posting their tweets to Buzz so they don’t have to type… read more

Exclusive: Tour the “If I Can Dream” Command Center [VIDEO]

Today, we went behind the scenes at Simon Fuller’s new direct-to-Hulu TV series If I Can Dream for a tour of the show’s command center and live DREAM Studio.

We met with David Ellner, President of Digital at 19 Entertainment, the company behind the impressive technical production for the show…. read more

Google Acquires Stealth Startup Founded by Ex-Apple Employees

Google has acquired Agnilux, a very secretive stealth startup founded by former Apple employees that reportedly was working on new server technology.

The company was founded by a group of engineers from P.A. Semi, which was acquired by Apple in April 2008 for $278 million — their technology is what… read more

Google Makes Government Requests for User Info Public

Google just introduced an app called the Government Requests tool. It’s a Google Maps app that shows how many requests each nation’s government has made for users’ personal information or for the removal of URLs from Google’s search index.

Google is the first Internet titan to make this information publicly… read more

BlackBerry OS 6.0 Screenshots Leaked [PICS]

Boy Genius Report has posted some screenshots of BlackBerry OS 6.0, the next big release from RIM. The screenshots don’t reveal every aspect of the OS, but it does give us a nice look at the new WebKit-powered web browser.

In August, RIM acquired Torch Mobile and with… read more

Daily Inspiration #488

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

4 Tips for Tapping Into Twitter Conversations

Leyl Master Black is a Managing Director at Sparkpr, one of the world’s top independent PR agencies. Leyl has more than 15 years experience driving high-impact communications programs for emerging technology companies.

At any given time, there are thousands of conversations happening on Twitter. I’m not referring to… read more

What is the Oldest Piece of Camera Gear that you still Use Today?

Kodak Brownie Starlet – by Silvio Tanaka

What is the oldest piece of camera gear that you still use today?

Last week I posted a list of popular digital cameras and photography gear that our readers are currently buying. It’s an interesting snapshot of new (ish) cameras and gear that people are… read more

Take A Chance To Win Personal License Of SWF & FLV Player PRO

Eltima Software is running a contest, where winners will get 15 personal licenses of SWF & FLV Player PRO (worth $19.95 each). Well, you guys know what SWF & FLV Player PRO is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.

SWF & FLV Player PRO is a smart Flash Player, enriched… read more

30 New Tutorials for Manipulating Photos in Photoshop

Photo manipulation is one of the most common practices of photoshop users and designers. Aside from faking images, This type of technique can create unique and outstanding art designs. Learning how to manipulate photos could be fun and that’s why we compiled a list of photo manipulation tutorials… read more

AT&T Unveils Buzz.com

AT&T is officially opening up its recommendation service, Buzz.com, to the public. We wrote about the project when it was still in beta in January. The service is essentially Yelp meets Yellowpages.com and it shares a lot of similarities with the new Google Places.

The idea behind Buzz.com… read more

5 Unique Ways to Use Twitter for Business

**This series is supported by the Social Influence System and WE twendz™ pro, presented by Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. To learn more visit Waggeneredstrom.com/nozombies.

Customer service, recruiting, contests, giveaways and promotions — these are all standbys for businesses using Twitter as a medium to connect with customers and fans.

Given that Twitter… read more

Google Places: Google’s Local Business Center Gets an Upgrade

Google’s Local Business Center has been renamed “Google Places.” The re-branding effort is accompanied by a handful of new features designed to help local business owners gain an edge in search engine marketing.

The name change was made to better tie the business owner dashboard with Place Pages, the… read more

Tumblr Raises Another $5 Million in Funding

Tumblr has just announced another healthy influx of cash — $5 million from Spark and Union Square Ventures — nearly doubling the $5.2 million raised in A and B rounds of financing. The popular mini-blog company has been testing and optimizing various paid features for a while and hopes… read more

How Social Media Can Affect Real Social and Governmental Change

Craig Newmark is the founder of cragislist. He can be found on Twitter as @craignewmark and blogs at cnewmark.com.

People have always used the “social media” of their time to affect change. Without belaboring history, consider that some of the most widely-felt changes in the Western world were made… read more

Virgin America Announces Expansion via Twitter

Today, Virgin America announced its forthcoming expansion to Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) not via the travel press, but on the company’s Twitter account.

In addition to using Twitter to make the announcement, Virgin America is also running a 50% off promotion for the first 500 travelers who book flights… read more

Easy Time Tracking and Invoicing with FreshBooks

There’s quite a few invoicing apps out there, many of which do a fantastic job. One of my favorites though, and the one I actually use personally is FreshBooks. It’s arguably the best time tracking and invoicing web app available, certainly making billing far less painful.

Several Freelancers I’ve spoke with… read more

How Social Media Can Effect Real Social and Governmental Change

Craig Newmark is the founder of craigslist. He can be found on Twitter as @craignewmark and blogs at cnewmark.com.

People have always used the “social media” of their time to effect change. Without belaboring history, consider that some of the most widely-felt changes in the Western world were made… read more

Facebook Turns Off Facebook Lite

Facebook has stopped supporting its stripped-down Facebook Lite website. If you go to the old Facebook Lite address you’ll be redirected to the regular Facebook homepage.

The change was announced on Facebook’s own Fan Page. The company didn’t elaborate on why it decided to axe Lite. Its brief status… read more

14 Ways to Be the World’s Worst Web Project Manager

14 Ways to Be the World’s Worst Web Project Manager

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Bands and Artists Websites: Showcase and Best Practices

Bands and Artists Websites: Showcase and Best Practices

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10 Nations Send Open Letter to Google: Protect Our Privacy

In a letter addressed to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the Commissioner of Canada Jennifer Stoddart and the heads of the data protection authorities in France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom have expressed their concern about various privacy issues connected to some of… read more

30 Breathtaking Examples Of Drops Photography

30 Breathtaking Examples Of Drops Photography

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Seven JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My Career

I’ve been writing JavaScript code for much longer than I care to remember. I am very excited about the language’s recent success; it’s good to be a part of that success story. I’ve written dozens of articles, book chapters and one full book on the matter, and yet I keep… read more

Tuesday Total Textures #15

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week’s textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection.

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Creating a Collection of Quirky Caricatures

Last November we decided to round off the Tuts+ year with a bang; a huge giveaway (96 prizes, no less) to reward all the loyal Tuts+ readers. We felt it was a good opportunity to get visitors browsing the content on each and every one of the Tuts+ sites and… read more

Shooting for HDR Portraiture

Few kinds of photography have a more dynamic power than the area of Portraiture.

Portraiture is the medium through which we photographers endeavor to tell the stories of our friends, our family, and our clients. Through this art, we have the ability to capture a likeness of someone that will last… read more

Ask FreelanceSwitch #9

In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, Travis King and Thursday Bram look at dealing with the hidden project approver and how to make connections.

Ask FreelanceSwitch is a new regular column here that allows us to help beginners get a grip on freelancing. If you have a question about freelancing that… read more

Beautiful Monochromatic Portraits by Federico Erra

I really love portraits. I think they are beautiful, inspiring and sometimes intriguing. And what I like most about them is that some photographers have the ability to turn them into really deep pieces, in something that communicates without saying a word, in something that we look and find a… read more

Inspiration: Amazing 3D Typography

Three-dimensional typography is something we’ve seen a lot of recently, and it doesn’t seem to be dying down, either. This post showcases a huge collection of 3D typography, and we have no doubt whatsoever that it is going inspire!

So, how is this magnificent typography produced? There are actually a handful… read more

3 Easy Steps to Improve YouTube on Your Mac

What a great service YouTube is. It’s all too easy to lose sight of how revolutionary it was when it first launched. It broke all kinds of rules and expectations of how we watch video, and how we relate to its distribution. It opened up broadcasting, allowing… read more

Architect Day: A-cero

A-cero is certainly one of the greatest offices of architecture and urbanism today, marking their territory in Spain and, with time, in other countries too. With a strong presence in residential architecture, they have a great sensitivity to drawing shapes, spaces, and details.

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Now Watch TV Channels From All Around The World Free Of Cost With TvTube

Do you have a high speed broadband connection but not know how to kill your boredom? What if I told you that you could view any one of countless television channels from all parts of the world using only your broadband internet and without spending a penny? Surely you could… read more

Breaking Down And Reviewing Important Blog Design Elements

In this post, we will go through each main section of a blog and talk about the design elements, what you should be thinking about, and relevant resources related to that section. read more

10 Excellent Free Web Apps To Create CSS Forms and Grids

CSS forms and grids are something web developers and designers usually employ to create great webpages. If a developer starts writing the code for these forms, it becomes quite a difficult process. That is exactly why numerous online CSS form creators exist, to make the developer’s job easier.

These online CSS… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.33

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources, freebies and good reading articles that we have shared via Twitter and Facebook in the past week.

If would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can… read more

Inspiration: The best “3D” tattoos i’ve ever seen

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14 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins

jQuery has changed the way developers write JavaScript and the way users interact with websites and web applications. If you’re a developer, you know what a joy working with jQuery can be, especially the convenience of plugins. In this post, we’ve rounded up 14 fresh and useful jquery plugins that… read more

Ford’s SYNC AppLink Brings Android and BlackBerry Apps to Your Car

Today Ford is announcing SYNC AppLink, a downloadable software upgrade for Ford SYNC systems that will allow hands-free voice control of popular applications for the BlackBerry and Android smartphones. The first car to get SYNC AppLink support will be the 2011 Fiesta, which will be available later this summer.

Back… read more

Alice in Wonderland Movie Concept Art

Last year we’ve featured the awesome work of concept artist Michael Kutsche, who makes some amazing pieces that are breathtaking. Back then, I remember seeing an illustration of the Red Queen, but i didn’t pay much attention.

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A few days ago I ran into his work once more, and I realized… read more

Apple iBooks Defeat the Amazon Kindle in Reader Poll

It’s been another exciting match here in our long-running Faceoff Series, where two competing services, apps, or devices are pitted against each other for a fight to the finish. In this edition, we pitted relative newcomer Apple iBooks up against its most significant rival, the Amazon Kindle, to see… read more

Stylish Re-Envisioned Movie Posters

Posters of famous and classic movies are very popular on the internet, however I’ve been noticing more and more designers doing reinterpretations of these posters, most of them are simply awesome I could say that much better than the original ones because they sort of manage to convey the ideas… read more

With Twitter’s Official App Looming, Seesmic Revamps on Android

In the wake of last week’s Chirp conference for third-party Twitter app developers, popular multi-platform client Seesmic is announcing upgrades to its Android application. Changes include a widget, geotagging and native retweet support.

However, last week at the conference, Twitter execs announced the company would be rolling out its own… read more

The Bus Ride: Webrings 2.0

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: The Bus Ride

Quick Pitch: The Bus Ride… read more

Learn Web Design: Educational Resources for Beginners

A collection of all the resources you will need to learn more about HTML, CSS, layouts, the design process, typography, and more. read more

FarmVille Could be Headed to iPhone, iPad and Android

Soon you’ll be able to play FarmVille on your mobile phone, not just your desktop web browser. Supported devices will probably include the iPhone, the iPad and Android smartphones, and some sort of text messaging-based play could be in the works too.

Speculation about this bubbled up when Tumblr blog… read more

Vogue Features Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in May Issue

The May 2010 edition of Vogue pays homage to great American women. One of those women happens to be Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, and the glowing editorial profile couldn’t have come at a better time — just days before f8 and amidst a new batch of Facebook features and revised… read more

How Companies Can Use Sentiment Analysis to Improve Their Business

Maria Ogneva is the Director of Social Media at Biz360, a social media monitoring, measurement and engagement platform. You can follow her on Twitter at @themaria or @biz360, or find her musings on the company blog and her personal blog.

Automated sentiment analysis has recently been the focus of an… read more

Daily Inspiration #487

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Free Music Monday: Get Your 10 Free Downloads

Warm welcome, music fans! Thanks for tuning in to this week’s edition of Free Music Monday, where we offer you 10 free tracks in honor of the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter.

Please enjoy some eclectic free tunes we’ve collected for you this week. If there’s a genre you’d like to… read more

The End of Slideshows with Animoto

We come across a boat load of images every single day. In this social age, we share images of friends, happy moments, anniversaries, karaokes, pet hamsters, etc. via email or social networking sites. However awesome or how many images there may be, the standard form of consumption is click and… read more

Apple Countersues Kodak Over Patent Infringement

Apple has filed a countersuit against Kodak in today’s edition of Patent Suit Theater, Patently Apple has discovered. You may recall that Kodak sued Apple and RIM back in January over what it claims are patent infringements.

Citing two USPTO granted patents, Apple is countering Kodak’s claim that… read more

Mountain Dew Releases 3 Fan-Created Flavors

Pepsi Co. brand Mountain Dew has been using its social media fan base to create, brand and market three experimental new flavors that are hitting shelves across the United States today.

The flavors are out now and the one that performs the best — both online and in the real… read more

Palm Pre and Pixi Dropped from RadioShack Stores

Palm’s prospects grow darker as Sprint reseller RadioShack begins phasing out the sale of Palm Pre and Palm Pixi devices from its retail stores and website. This move follows Palm’s devastating quarterly results and more recent news that the company is putting itself up for sale.

Barron’s spoke… read more

Facebook to Link Profiles and Pages

Your Facebook profile is about to get a lot more dynamic. Today, Facebook is starting to roll out an all-new way to share your likes and interests, and it’s all about Community Pages.

These changes are related to the new “like” terminology Facebook introduced at the end of March. Instead… read more

How Recruiters are Using Social Media for Real Results

The Real Results 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.

A recruiter’s job is to find the best employee for a position…. read more

A Brazilian Architecture Office – M² Arquitetura

I have been writing some articles showing you really nice offices around the world. And for my surprise there is one of this great offices in a brazilian city really close to me. I’m talking about an office called M² Arquitetura. As soon as I looked at it I was… read more

Last.fm Tracks Its 40 Billionth Song

Music recommendation, tracking and streaming service Last.fm has “scrobbled” 40 billion tracks since it launched in 2002.

The service gathers data from other music services and applications including iTunes, Xbox Live and Winamp to make a record of every song you listen to. The process is called scrobbling. On… read more

Rolling Stone Releases Entire Archive on the Web

Everyone must get stoned — Rolling Stoned, that is. Starting today, the mag beloved by aging mamas and papas and young music fans alike is making its entire collection of magazines (43 years’ worth) available on the web — for a price.

Although much of the content will,… read more