GuideMe Doles Out Deals for the Venues You Love

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Quick Pitch: GuideMe helps you build a local to-do list and get deals on the places… read more

Etsy’s Unofficial Music Scene Takes Off

As Lady Gaga stormed the web with promotions for Born This Way this summer — Farmville knockoff, Starbucks virtual scavenger hunt and Gilt Groupe deal included — her presence on one unlikely platform went largely unnoticed.

Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods, hosted a sale of posters inspired by… read more

Sites of the Week #163

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Forefathers and Sullivan NYC. Also we’re featuring a nice service called Yoggrt, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more… read more

40 useful APIs for web designers and developers

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Small Business Podcasting: 7 Tips to Grow Your Listener Base

Mignon Fogarty is the founder and managing director of the Quick and Dirty Tips podcasting network and the author of the New York Times bestseller Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing. She’s been podcasting for more than five years, and distributes her content through her own website,… read more

How the Digital World Is Changing the Way Agencies Do Business

The Modern Media Agency Series is supported by IDG. The smartphone is quickly overtaking the cellphone and tablet use is growing. Those statistics were found from the 14,000 that participated in the IDG Global survey . To view the worldwide survey with slides, click here.

Social media has fundamentally changed the… read more

Lance Armstrong, Doug Ulman & Abigail Disney Join Social Good Summit Lineup

We’re excited to reveal more speakers for the Social Good Summit in September: Lance Armstrong, Doug Ulman, Abigail Disney, Brian Gott, Asi Burak and Tamara Gould are now part of the dynamic lineup of speakers.

The Social Good Summit — presented by Mashable, 92nd Street Y and the UN Foundation —… read more

Anonymous & LulzSec Lash Out at FBI: “We’re Not Going Anywhere”

Anonymous and LulzSec, the two hacker groups responsible for some of the most high-profile cyber attacks of the past year, have issued a defiant statement in the wake of a recent FBI crackdown on the groups.

The statement is a direct response to FBI Deputy Assistant Director Steve Chabinsky, who made… read more

Professional Practices They Don’t Teach You In Art School: Contracts – It’s Business!

Yes, everyone says GET IT IN WRITING! Still most people are afraid to ask a client for a contract. Don’t be ashamed of yourself for not doing it – most freelancers don’t. There are many reasons behind this problem.

You don’t know what to include in a contract.

You’re afraid you’ll “insult”… read more

Turntable.fm Is Now Licensed by ASCAP, Will It Come Out of Beta Soon?

Still-in-beta interactive music startup Turntable.fm has taken another step toward going mainstream Tuesday. It has just become licensed by ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), a performing rights organization which licenses and collects royalties for performances.

Turntable.fm has been taking the web by storm of late, amassing around 300,000… read more

“Amazing Spider-Man” Trailer Hits the Web [VIDEO]

Let the battle for summer blockbusters begin. For summer 2012, that is.

Two days after Warner Bros. released the first teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, the third installment of the rebooted Batman franchise, Sony Pictures has released its first teaser trailer for the first installment of the rebooted Spider-Man… read more

Case Study: Cafeka by Studio Alopra

Today we are going to show a irreverent project done by Studio Alopra, Cafeka is a oustanding experimental project realized with the will to mix stop motion with 2D animation. This is probably our first case study about a video/animation, so I hope you guys enjoy and also learn… read more

Top 10 Ways to Use Email Marketing Effectively

Many businesses implement the use of email marketing in tandem with their overall marketing strategy. From e-commerce sites to brick and mortar stores, large or small, business all around are engaging in email marketing to increase sales. Statistics don’t lie, 88% of B2C firms currently use email marketing and another… read more

HOW TO: Launch a Mobile Campaign for Non-Profits

Text message campaigns are fundraising miracles. They allow almost any cellphone user to instantly turn his or her support into a donation.

These paper-free, link-free, check-free campaigns rid the donation process of several steps that may dissuade donors from giving. If you’re a small non-profit, a mobile campaign could be… read more

Some Apple Board Members Looked for a Steve Jobs Replacement [REPORT]

Members of Apple’s board talked to executive recruiters and at least one “head of a high-profile technology company” to succeed CEO Steve Jobs, according to a report.

The conversations, which “weren’t explicitly aimed at recruiting a new chief executive and were more of an informal exploration of the company’s options,”… read more

Former Reddit Employee Indicted, Charged With Data Theft

Former Reddit employee Aaron Swartz was indicted Tuesday on charges that he stole more than 4 million documents from MIT and academic journal and paper archive, JSTOR.

According to The New York Times, United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Carmen M. Ortiz filed the charges after Swartz allegedly… read more

The Artwork of Saad Moosajee

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Today we are going to take a second look at Saad Moosajee. We featured some of his pieces back in 2009. Today, we will be featuring some of his newest works.  Saad is a 17 year old self taught freelance Illustrator and Art Director. Since establishing his website in… read more

Create An HTML/CSS Mobile Web App Using Sencha Touch

The world of mobile app development is quickly becoming a crowded and complicated space, especially for those outside of the development niche.

“Which development platform should I use?” “Do I go native or Web-based?” “Which devices should I plan for?” “Can I build my mobile website by hand or should I… read more

Global Web Design Trends: South America

We live in a global world that has an overflow of information. The Internet has given us access to very different cultures and allowed us to share much more information than ever before. But do different regions have their own specific Web design trends?

Design usually has to do with creating… read more

Orbit and Reveal: jQuery Plug-Ins For Image Sliders and Modal Windows

A visitor comes to your website all giddy to learn more about your product, when suddenly a snazzy slideshow loads with some snap. Impressed, they go to register and are greeted by a most elegant modal window. At this point they are finally overjoyed by the velociraptor that suddenly charges… read more

Google+: The Complete Guide

Already using Google+? Follow Mashable News for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as our top social media and technology updates.

Google+: It’s the hot social network on the block. In just three weeks, Google’s competitor to Facebook and Twitter has amassed more than 10… read more

Four Ways to Get Your Mac Talking

When I was a kid playing around on my first Mac, I always thought it was loads of fun to have the computer read out whatever I’d written in KidPix (remember KidPix?). On my grown-up Macbook, I sometimes set up spoken alarms and alerts, so that I can imagine Stephen… read more

HOW TO: Add Mashable Staff to Your Circles on Google+

Already using Google+? Follow Mashable News for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as our top social media and technology updates.

Ever since its launch on June 28, the tech community has been rushing to join Google+ — and Mashable staffers… read more

Can Web Video Views Predict Box Office Magic for Harry Potter?

Matt Fiorentino is the director of marketing for Visible Measures. Previously, Matt was a freelance journalist for the Associated Press, The Dayton Daily News, and The American Magazine. He lives with his wife in Newton, Massachusetts.

With Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 hitting theaters this… read more

Carmageddon Approaches: Here’s What It Will Look Like [VIDEO]

Carmageddon: It’s a wonderful neologism that Los Angeles residents have coined to describe this weekend’s planned closure of the 405 Freeway, a road that carries more than 280,000 cars per day across L.A. The city plans to close a 10-mile section of Interstate 405, starting at 7 p.m. Friday and… read more

Top 3 Stories This Morning: Foursquare, Facebook & Google+

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.

Foursquare Updates iPhone App With New Notification System

Foursquare just released version… read more

Get Back to the Basics with GetSimple CMS

It’s no secret that I am a huge WordPress advocate. It’s full-featured, extendable, and super powerful. However, depending on the project it could be overkill. You need space and a database backend, and you’ll end up with a lot of features that some clients might not use. Especially if you’re… read more

Street Artist’s Participatory Art Project Takes Shape Around the World [VIDEOS]

In the months since TED Prize Winner JR’s global participatory art project was announced, thousands of photos have been uploaded and more than 150 huge posters sent out as the French artist looks to transform urban landscapes with portraits.

Now, JR is starting to document what he calls… read more

Mobile Hacking: How Safe Is Your Smartphone?

New instances of phone hacking seem to emerge from Rupert Murdoch’s empire on a daily basis. But are the reports of interest beyond Murdoch and his detractors? Should you, as a consumer, fear that your phone will be hacked?

Not yet. Experts say that it’s still fairly easy… read more

Easily make sexy error messages in WordPress (and everything else)

Some hosts have custom error page options in their admin panel software, but if you want to bypass that and easily make your custom error messages work (as long as you’re running Apache) it’s pretty simple. Especially if your a blogger, and you’re familiar with .htaccess files, this is a… read more

6 Successful Foursquare Marketing Campaigns to Learn From

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There are now more than 500,000 businesses on Foursquare. We’ve… read more

HOW TO: Turn Fans Into Brand Ambassadors

The Behind the Social Media Campaign Series is supported by Oneupweb, an award-winning agency specializing in search marketing, social media and design for mid-to-enterprise level brands. Download Oneupweb’s free whitepaper, “Measuring Social Media’s Contribution to the Bottom Line: 5 Tactics.”

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The Teenage Winners of Google’s Global Science Fair [PICS]

Google’s first-ever Global Science Fair showed off advances in chemotherapy and carcinogen research, turbine design and more — all from teenage researchers.

At a packed event this week in Mountain View, California, 15 teens presented their research to a panel of judges that included “father of the Internet”… read more

UFeedMeBack Giveaway

So…who/what is UFeedMeBack? UFeedMeBack is a straightforward consulting tool that gives it’s members (invite only) access to request feedback from well-known designers (feedbackers) who are willing to share some of their wisdom with the goal of helping others in the design community who are eager to learn and grow…. read more

Architect Day: Lissoni Associati

Office formed by the architect Piero Lissoni and Nicoletta Canesi in 1985, presents an incredible list of clients such as Boffi, Alessi, Cappellini, Cassina, Benetton, among other major brands. With over 70 professional employees, also have an area for development of graphic designs.

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Behind The Scenes Of Nike Better World

Perhaps one of the most talked about websites in the last 12 months has been Nike Better World. It’s been featured in countless Web design galleries, and it still stands as an example of what a great idea and some clever design and development techniques can produce.

In this article, we’ll… read more

10 Best Practices for Bands on Facebook

The Facebook Marketing Series is supported by Buddy Media, Power Tools for Facebook. Are you posting blindly? Use our insights to help you deliver the right content at the right time and get the results you need. Download our data report now.

Hey, bands, Facebook isn’t just for… read more

How Western Entrepreneurs Are Supporting Egypt’s Growing Startup Scene

A group of young American and Danish entrepreneurs traveled to Egypt last week for the NexGen IT Entrepreneurs Boot Camp, an intensive mentorship program meant to teach Egyptian youth how to turn a simple idea into a viable business in the IT space.

The sort of “traveling startup… read more

Is Taking Secret Photos in an Apple Store Legal?

After artist Kyle McDonald rigged Apple Store computers to take photos of customers, the Secret Service confiscated his computers with a search warrant for computer fraud.

McDonald had been compiling photos for a project called “People Staring at Computers.” He had installed a program on about 100 computers… read more

50+ Useful CSS Tools And Generators for Developers

CSS tools are essential for web developers because they act like a sort of magic lamp that can simplify the job at hand. Most development tools are time savers that are there to help developers create stylish, functional and optimized websites with a few shortcuts.

CSS tools and generators are available… read more

5 Things to Know About WordPress 3.2

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

Self-hosted WordPress.org users got a nice surprise on Independence Day with the release of WordPress 3.2, “Gershwin.”

WordPress 3.2 is the fifteenth major WordPress release in the project’s… read more

3 Cool Web Apps for Your Online Convenience

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.

Each weekend, Mashable handpicks a few startups we think are building interesting, unique or… read more

Up to 25% of Accidents Are Associated With Gadgets

A new study from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) highlights the impact that cellphones and other gadgets can have on car crashes. According to the study, as many as 25% of U.S. car crashes are associated with drivers distracted by a cellphone or gadget.

Produced using a… read more

Business Card Design and Prepress Preparation in CorelDRAW – a Technical Guide

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CorelDRAW is considered top, both for vector editing and prepress solutions. Its unique capabilities exceed the typical vector designing software, places it deep in the heart of the user who tried it and understands it. In this article I will not discuss the ease you can use VBA with,… read more

7 Easy Ways to Do Good Online Beyond Donations

Kelley Fernbacher is the director of non-profit outreach at BroadCause, a social good platform that unites people, brands and non-profit organizations to activate passionate communities around the causes that are most important to them. Follow BroadCause on Twitter and Facebook, or support BroadCause non-profits through the BroadCause… read more

Give the Finder the Boot with Path Finder

The Finder and I go way back: from my family’s ’96 Performa to my MacBook Pro, I’ve used it to navigate my Mac for well over a decade. Since the initial transition from OS 9 to OS 10, I would argue that the way we use the Finder has changed… read more

Smartphone Attachment Diagnoses Cataracts

Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab have created a smartphone attachment called Catra that can diagnose cataracts in a matter of minutes. The screening tool is currently being tested on subjects.

Catra clips on to devices such as phones and iPods, and scans the lens of the eye to… read more

Versace Deletes Facebook Protest, Prevents 500,000 Fans from Posting to Page

Versace has shut down posting to its Facebook Page after activists covered its Wall with messages protesting the Italian fashion house’s use of sandblasting, a technique for giving denim a worn look.

Dozens of messages linking to the campaign appeared on the brand’s Wall last month after a… read more

Garrett Grove: Photographer Spotlight

This commercial photographer spotlight features Garrett Grove. Garrett’s career in photography developed out of the world of action and adventure sports. He has worked with companies such as Patagonia, La Sportiva, Necky Kayaks and for publications British Airways, ESPN, National Geographic Adventure and Skiing. Garrett lives and works in Washington… read more

Announcing Social Good Summit 2011 [VIDEO & REGISTRATION]

Mashable, 92Y and the UN Foundation are thrilled to announce that the second annual Social Good Summit will take place September 19-22 at the 92Y in New York City. Held during UN Week, the Social Good Summit is where big ideas meet new media to create… read more

You Can Has Official App: LOLCats Launch on iPhone

Oh look, another thing to focus on in lieu of ogling everyone in the elevator. I Can Has Cheezburger? has launched its iPhone app packed with adorable kittens and other fripperies. There have been fan-made apps before, but this is the first official, fully-supported source for LOLCats… read more

“The Rent Is Too Damn High” Guy Gets a Documentary [VIDEO]

Jimmy McMillan may have been toiling away at his political career for nearly 10 years now, but it took YouTube fame to catapult him into the public eye. Now he’s the subject of a new documentary — titled Damn! — premiering in August.

The film, which garnered funds via a… read more

Intel’s Little Laptop That Could Brings Tech to Millions of Children Around the World

Intel has created a low-cost, high-function laptop designed to get beat up, dropped and deliver education to children around the world.

The Intel-powered convertible classmate PC is about the size and weight of two iPads stacked on top of one another with a soft rubber backing and carry… read more

Book Giveaway – Book #Three by Radim Malinic

A few weeks ago, we made an interview with Radim Malinic, an illustrator and graphic designer based in London, England. Now he’s back this week with a Book Giveaway for his Book #Three, a collection of commercial and experimental work done by Radim during the last couple years.

The interview… read more

The Rise Of The Virtual Sculptor

Virtual sculpture artists are immersed in the digital world. They’re not to be confused with digital sculpture or info sculpture artists, who use computer-aided design (CAD) to create physical objects.

Sculpture is thought to be one of the truest forms of art, perhaps because it is tangible. You can see and… read more

Professional Practices They Don’t Teach You In Art School – What Is Your “Brand?”

When I speak to senior students at art schools, there is one major thing I try to impress upon them: to freelance is to run a small business and a freelance design business has all the needs and headaches of running a bakery, pizza parlor or crack house – although… read more

HOW TO: Land a Job at Airbnb

There’s a curious phenomenon happening, and home owners, renters, travels and vagabonds alike are starting to feel it. It’s the shift away from traditional hotel stays to temporary vacation rentals, booked by way of Airbnb.

Airbnb is the scrappy 3-year-old startup inventing an entirely new online travel marketplace…. read more

This Week in Politics & Digital: Twitter Town Halls & Gay Marriage

The Republican field is starting to settle despite one giant question mark over Sarah Palin’s potentially presidential head. This week shifted away from the GOP to focus on some serious democratic victories and announcements. And another sexting politician surfaced, just when you thought Weinergate was behind us.

Take… read more

Social Media Day 2011 Around the World [PHOTOS & VIDEOS]

Thursday’s second annual Social Media Day celebration was a huge success throughout the world. Thousands of people came together offline in their local communities to recognize the technological advancements that enable everyone to connect with real-time information, communicate from miles apart and have their voices be heard.

Participation… read more

Remix & Record Your Way to Stardom in Online Game

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: BreakoutBand

Quick Pitch: Hone your musical skills and compete against others for prizes and… read more

The Voice Behind @JFKTurtles Shares Twitter Lessons

As about 150 turtles crossed JFK airport’s runways on Wednesday and delayed several flights, a Twitter account emerged to crack jokes from the turtles’ perspective. The account, agreed publications from the L.A. Times to the Huffington Post, was worth a good laugh.

Its creator, 26-year-old digital media director… read more

Guardian & Observer To Shut Down International Editions

The international print editions of The Guardian and The Observer are among the earliest casualties of the Guardian News & Media’s (GNM) evolving “digital first” strategy.

International copies, printed in New York, Frankfurt, Madrid, Malta and Cyprus, will cease printing October 1, GNM announced Friday.

The international audience of… read more

Google in Preliminary Talks To Buy Hulu [REPORT]

Google already owns the most-viewed online video site, YouTube. Now it might be picking up the video site with the most ad views as well.

The company is in preliminary talks to buy television streaming site Hulu, the L.A. Times reports.

According to the newspaper’s sources, Hulu has been… read more

Twitter Facing Antitrust Inquiry from FTC [REPORT]

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Twitter and at least one company that builds applications using its data, according to multiple reports.

Why Twitter is under investigation is not yet clear, although the FTC’s antitrust arm appears to be the one making the inquiries. Steve Chadima, chief marketing… read more

Seeing The Negative In Everything: Charles Goslin

While I loved my art school teachers, they were all very different. There were some who taught technique. They were masters at drawing, design and type and their tips and tricks were valuable to a successful career, but some of my favorite teachers were the ones who taught creative thinking.

I… read more

Ask Questions to Build Fan Relationships: Successful Facebook Marketing

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Editor’s Note: Skellie is the director for the Envato Tuts+ network and drives the social media promotion for nine brands with over 100,000 Facebook fans. This article is an excerpt from her newest book, Successful Facebook Marketing, sold by Rockable Press.

Your goals with Facebook should… read more

Where to Find Mashable on Social Media Day 2011

We’re gearing up for Social Media Day events here at Mashable HQ. So far there are 1,400 Meetups with 7,000 attendees scheduled in six continents on Thursday, June 30. That’s more than double the participation we had last year.

In addition to the events we’re organizing in our… read more

Traditional Higher Ed Opens Doors for Tuition-Free Online University

Online universities have earned a reputation among traditional higher education institutions as businesses that offer low-quality degrees in exchange for hefty debt. But online University of the People challenges the stereotype.

The University is completely free. Its mission is not to turn out a profit, but rather to… read more

5 Innovative Facebook Campaigns to Learn From

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If you’ve tried to run a campaign on Facebook and… read more

Latest Political Sexting Scandal Involves Louisiana Councilman

Weinergate was just beginning to retreat into the mists of political scandal folklore and now this: City Councilman Joe Stagni from Kenner, Louisiana, admitted that he sent an underwear snap of himself to a city employee after the image showed up on the city computer server.

The picture… read more

Complete Guide to Facebook Fan Pages

Facebook fan pages are a great way to promote a business, and an important part of any social media marketing plan. Creating a basic page isn’t that complicated, but creating a page that fans will like, share, and engage with is a bit trickier.

Below, we’ll cover how to set up… read more

How to Create a Basic WordPress Theme with Gantry Framework

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Gantry Framework is a WordPress theme framework that, unlike most of its modern counterparts, allows the user to construct a layout and color palette from within the WordPress admin backend itself. It’s powerful and flexible enough that power users can harness Gantry to achieve much greater… read more

Square Raises $100 Million, Now Worth More Than $1 Billion

Hot mobile payments startup Square has announced that it has raised $100 million in venture funding, valuing the company north of $1 billion.

The Series C round was led by prominent venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. KPCB partner Mary Meeker will be joining Square’s board… read more

5 Ways the Advertising Industry Is Preparing for a Digital Future

Chris Schreiber is director of marketing at social video advertising company Sharethrough. A leading expert on social content strategy, Chris recently presented a two-hour workshop on viral video at the Cannes Lions festival, entitled “Making Videos Go Viral: Creative, Social, and Technological Techniques.”

Last week, the world’s top brands and agencies… read more

Neiman Marcus Heralds New Collection With Facebook Styling Contest

Following the successes of sister store Bergdorf Goodman’s Facebook campaigns, Neiman Marcus is launching a Facebook contest to herald the launch of celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe’s new collection on its website.

From now until July 18, fans are encouraged to put their styling skills to the test by… read more

Setup A Ubuntu VPS For Hosting Ruby On Rails Applications

Let’s assume you have built a nice little Ruby on Rails application on your local development machine. Now it’s time for the application to go live. But where should you host this application? You know that you (or your client) do not have much money to spend, and so you… read more

Publishers Launch First Digital-Only Textbook for K-12

McGraw-Hill launched its first all-digital, cloud-based textbook for the K-12 market on Monday at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference.

Unlike the company’s previous digital efforts for this age group, the books are intended to be used as primary texts (other McGraw-Hill digital texts have… read more

A Brief Introduction into Graffiti Typography

As some of you, I always noticed the graffiti on the streets of my town, and I used to do that since I was a kid. I always wanted to understand what those letters meant. Part of not understanding is due to the fact that I didn’t know much about… read more

Designing Your “Coming Soon” Page? 24 Creative Examples

When launching a new web app, or site, it can help to start marketing early. A “coming soon” page has several different purposes. Firstly, it allows you to show a teaser of your new app to people and to start the ball rolling with building the excitement. Secondly, it allows… read more

HOW TO: Land a Job at LinkedIn

In the past year, LinkedIn received about 85,000 job applications — quite a bit for a dedicated global recruiting team of 45. And that number doesn’t even include the lucky group of people that LinkedIn recruiters actively contact on a daily basis.

With such high competition, applicants hoping… read more

BET Makes Social Media Blitz for BET Awards

Cable network BET is in the midst of a major social media blitz leading up to Sunday night’s BET Awards, with plans including on-air Twitter and Facebook integration, a “social media lounge” on premises hosted by Lala and a car giveaway for fans that use a secret… read more

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Recent Graduate? 5 Steps Towards Your Internet Marketing Career

In the world of Internet marketing, many students are stepping into a side of social media, Google and other search engines, and web development that they never saw before. Who would have thought that the same tools that you use to communicate and keep in touch with friends are some… read more

Why Did Facebook Add Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to Its Board?

Facebook has announced that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has joined Facebook’s board of directors. The move could have interesting implications for the future of Facebook.

Hastings will join a board of directors that includes founder Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen (Netscape, Andreessen-Horowitz), Jim Breyer (Accel Capital), Donald Graham (Washington… read more

Gaze at the New York City Sky Without Taking Your Eyes Off Your Screen

New York has been drizzling all over us here at Mashable HQ for the past week. I don’t know that because I’ve actually been outside (I’m practically glued to my desk), but because of the newly launched website, NSKYC.

NSKYC hit the web two days ago — on… read more

16 Food Trucks Serving Up Tweetable Eats

The Social-Savvy Food Truck Series is supported by the Ben and Jerry’s Scoop Truck. For more information on the scoop truck and where it stops, click here.

Roach coach, begone! Today’s food trucks purvey gourmet delights, they’re digitally savvy and they’ve got loads of personality. We spoke with… read more

Worldwide Photography #24:Buenos Aires

Worldwide Photography is a series of posts where every week we’re going to show a city or location around the globe bringing the coolest photography samples of it. The photographs authors are all credited right above their pictures. Today feature: Buenos Aires, Argentina.

For the next week we’re going to feature… read more

HOW TO: Choose a PHP Framework for Your Next Project

There’s no doubt that web frameworks have exploded in popularity over the past few years, and while it’s likely that a large part of that growth can be attributed to Ruby on Rails, the outpouring of MVC frameworks in other languages is no less impressive.

If you’re a… read more

Introducing Pomme Chan

Is really interesting how artists are trying to mix tradicional techniques with digital media and vice versa, the results of this experiments are just awesome and full of style. Pomme Chan is one of kind of artists, she’s a really talented and skilled illustrator that creates some fantastic and organic… read more

A Guide To Starting Your Own Rails Engine Gem

Since Rails 3 was released, developers have been writing Rails engines in a new clean style that can be packaged as RubyGems. A Rails engine is a prepackaged application that is able to be run or mounted within another Rails application. An engine can have its own models, views, controllers,… read more

Find a Job in Social Media, Communications or Design

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… read more

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers Joins Square’s Board

Mobile payments startup Square has added some economic muscle to its board of directors with Larry Summers, the former U.S. Treasury secretary and former president of Harvard.

Summers will join an all-star board that includes venture capitalists Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital, PayPal), Gideon Yu… read more

“Footloose” Remake Trailer Hits Web [VIDEO]

The first full-length trailer for the upcoming Footloose, a remake of the iconic 1984 film starring Kevin Bacon, has hit the web. The movie, which stars Dennis Quaid, Dancing With the Stars dancer Julianne Hough and Kenny Wormald, arrives in theaters on October 14.

As tends to be the case… read more

Introducing John Mark Herskind

He’s a young 18 years old freelance graphic artist from Columbia, South Carolina. He’s also a staff member at SlashTHREE, as well as an artist at Intrinsic Nature. On top of that he’s the founder and creative director of Designers Against Child Slavery (also known as DACS), a non-profit art… read more

Rob Zombie’s Woolite Ad Shows Hidden Terror of Doing Laundry [VIDEO]

Here are two names you probably thought you’d never see in the same sentence: Rob Zombie and Woolite.

The rocker/horror movie director and the fabric care brand have joined forces for a new commercial. The 30-second spot features clips from Zombie’s movies House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects. The… read more

Margaret Atwood Joins Twitter-Based Book Club for Live Chat

Acclaimed novelist Margaret Atwood will be answering readers’ questions live on Twitter beginning at 5 p.m. ET Tuesday as part of The Atlantic‘s Twitter-based book club project, #1book140.

Atwood, a dedicated Twitter user, volunteered to participate in the chat shortly after the club announced that her novel The… read more

Strategies for Promoting Multiple Sites via Social Media

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If you have more than one freelance specialty, one strategy is to dedicate a separate site (blog) to each specialty, develop strong targeted brands, and grow them independently across multiple social media. With this strategy comes the question of how can we manage all our… read more

Set Up An Ubuntu Local Development Machine For Ruby On Rails

So, you want to develop Ruby on Rails applications? While loads of (introductory) tutorials are available for developing Ruby on Rails applications, there seems to be some uncertainty about setting up a lean and up-to-date local development environment.

This tutorial will guide you through the steps of setting up an Ubuntu… read more

The Ultimate Guide to On-Page Optimization

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We work with a great deal of very talented website designers and developers who create first-rate websites for their clients – aesthetically superb but not always the most search engine friendly they could be. Overall it can make the project more expensive for the client because… read more

One Year Later: How a Tennis Match Became the Biggest Event in Web History

American John Isner and Frenchman Nicolas Mahut are set to play in the first round of Wimbledon on Tuesday. It’s a rematch of the silliest, longest, most record-breaking tennis games of all time.

Last year, Isner and Mahut played each other in the first round of Wimbledon. That… read more