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MySpace Co-Presidents Reveal Company’s Plan for the Future [INTERVIEW]

We had a chance to step into MySpace HQ for a chat with new Co-Presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones, who preside over the News Corp.-owned social network from a shared desk in Beverly Hills. The joint office speaks to how closely Hirschhorn and Jones are working together to… read more

Appboy Gets a New Design, iPhone App and Best Buy Partnership

Back in October we wrote about Appboy, a social network for mobile app developers and users. Since launching, Appboy has continued to evolve into a community for both developers and users to find and rate apps, as well as submit ideas for new mobile applications. Appboy has just rolled… read more

Watch Out, Topeka: Greenville, SC, Also Wants to be Googletown, USA

Google’s call for medium-sized cities to pilot its high-speed broadband network has attracted the marketing wit of another locale: Greenville, South Carolina.

Citizens of Greenville have launched the “We Are Feeling Lucky” campaign –- an obvious play on Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” button — an effort that will culminate in… read more

Daily Inspiration #452

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

HOW TO: Prepare for Disasters Using Social Media

Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to be a geek chic chick.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes — lately, it… read more

On Android, MySpace Reigns Supreme

Despite CEO drama, plummeting traffic and even declining mobile website usage, MySpace Mobile for Android is the most popular social app in the Android Market and the third most popular downloaded application overall.

While Facebook might dominate social networking apps on the iPhone, Facebook for Android leaves… read more

Retweet.com Sells for $250,000

Retweet.com, which put itself up for sale last month, has sold for $250,000 in an online auction on Flippa. The auction saw a fair amount of interest with 35 bids in total, but it appears that the winning party came in with a “buy it now” offer for… read more

Foursquare + Google Maps = FourWhere

New location-based social search tool FourWhere shows Foursquare tips and comments using Google Maps so you can search and discover what everyone is saying about nearby places.

Users simply input a location or address into FourWhere, right-click (control click) on the map and select display preferences. The map can display… read more

Facebook to Launch Location Features Next Month

Facebook’s move into location has seemed inevitable for some time, and it now appears that the company will reveal its plans at next month’s Facebook developer conference – f8.

According to The New York Times, the social network will incorporate location in two ways: (1) its own features for sharing… read more

Foursquare Courts Business Users with Checkin Analysis Features

The Foursquare platform currently caters to consumers and offers businesses the ability to provide specials. Today, however, we’re learning more information about a business dashboard — complete with checkin analytics — that’s being gradually rolled out to business owners.

While the dashboard is still an alpha product, it’s already able… read more

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Go Tribal Helps Friends Coordinate Informal Plans

Launching in beta today, Go Tribal tackles the other side of the equation from formal event services like Meetup or Plancast by helping members organize informal group plans. By identifying when users are free and available to hang out, Go Tribal hopes to eliminate some of the hassle involved… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.27

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

Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy, and you’ll be kept up to date with loads of design news… read more

Gowalla Launches on webOS and Vies for Your Checkins with Free Stuff

Foursquare is battling for your SXSW check-ins with a musical scavenger hunt. Rival Gowalla is going to go after them with free gadgets – specifically free Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus devices as part of a promotion the location-based social networking service is unveiling in conjunction… read more

Oscars Fashion, Winners and Speeches: Google Names the Search Leaders

Google’s latest blog post has revealed what Oscars-related searches topped the hot search list during the Oscars.

This is probably no surprise to most of you: some of the most popular searches were related to stars’ fashion choices? So who topped the list? The leading fashion-related searches were… read more

Google vs. Yahoo: Who Has the Right Social Strategy?

The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.

Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; YouTube; Wordpress: these companies, built from the ground-up, are mainstays in social media. None of them were created… read more

Did Blog Buzz for “Hurt Locker” Predict Its Oscar Win?

The blogosphere was literally split down the middle in terms of online buzz around the 82nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees. Both Avatar and The Hurt Locker each maxed out with three quarters of a percent (.75%) of blog post buzz across the web.

The data in question comes from… read more

Daily Inspiration #451

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

Is Google Search Coming to Your TV?

Google is testing a new television programming search service in conjunction with Dish Network, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The service, which appears to be very much in a limited testing phase, runs on a special set-top box and apparently searches content from both the Dish programming guide, as… read more

Tweeting Bike Keeps Festival Goers Updated [VIDEO]

An ongoing festival in London is offering a unique way of keeping up with happenings: following a tweeting bike on Twitter.

The East Festival — boasting a “uniquely rich creative mix of East London” — will be documented in part by the “Twike”, a two-wheeled creation from Pete Fowler, who… read more

Gowalla Gets “Food Wars” Passport Stamps

Gowalla users will be able to check in to locations featured on the Travel Channel’s Food Wars show, thanks to a new collaboration between the network and the checkin service.

Food Wars, which pitches culinary rivals against each other to create “The Best Dish In Town,” will get specially created… read more

How Job Seekers 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.

Whether you’re looking for your first job, exploring a career change, or… read more

“The Cove” Movie Uses Oscars to Promote Social Media Activism

One of the men responsible for The Cove — 2010 Oscar winner for best documentary — used the Academy Awards stage to promote a web and mobile-based activism campaign tied to the film’s save-the-dolphins subject matter.

During the acceptance speech, dolphin activist Ric O’Barry held up a sign saying, “Text… read more

3 Things to Do Before MashBash SXSWi This Sunday Night

MashBash SXSWi 2010, Mashable’s annual event at the SXSW festival in Austin, is less than 1 week away! Here’s a checklist for those wishing to attend:

1. RSVP on Eventbrite and the Facebook event page so your friends know you’re coming.

2. Add yourself to Austin Realtime, our growing directory… read more

Enter to win Trip Journal 4.0 for the iPhone DO NOT POST

<pps has updated their app Trip Journal to version 4.0, and the new update adds a fair bit of functionality to the already pretty impressive set of trip recording and tagging features. As with previous versions, you can track pictures, notes, and maps of your trips, and communicate via a… read more

A Private Web: Digital Journal with Penzu

Remember when people used to keep journals and diaries? Okay, maybe some of you still do—but mass sharing has taken over in recent years with platforms like WordPress, Tumblr and Twitter. Every day millions of people share their immediate thoughts and moments of life—to millions of strangers; what happened to… read more

5 Ways to Use Google Wave for Business

Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com.

Remember Google Wave? Clearly, Google Buzz has recently overshadowed Google’s other hotly anticipated social communication platform, but before you ditch your Wave account, give… read more

Social Media Dorks Get an Anthem [VIDEO]

Remember the Pantless Knights of “I’m on a Mac” fame? Well, they’re back today with a new vid titled “The New Dork,” a parody of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s “Empire State of Mind” that pays tribute to social media adherents and hipsters alike.

With shoutouts to Zuckerberg, Mashable,… read more

The Ultimate (Fresh) Collection Of High-Quality Free Social Media Icon Sets

A beautifully designed icon is the perfect way to represent your product or service, and they always come in handy whether you want to place them on your blog or want to represent yourself in an outstanding manner. A comprehensively designed icon can provide your user with the memorable metaphors… read more

14 Free Mobile Application Development Icon Sets

The gap between the desktop/laptop and the mobile device is becoming smaller and smaller, it has never been a better time for mobile app development – The market is huge, very lucrative and highly profitable. Our ever growing appetite for more powerful and better mobile devices has pushed the demand… read more

Common Questions About Design Professionalism

The design profession is full of happy folks, and understanding why so many designers enjoy their work is not hard. But not all are so happy. If you’re not careful, the joy of getting paid to pursue your passion can be tainted by the less joyous realities of the professional… read more

U.S. to Allow Export of Web Services to Iran and Cuba

According to The New York Times, the United States Treasury Department will tomorrow give Internet services license to export consumer-aimed services like instant messaging and photo sharing to countries with which trade has previously been restricted, including Iran, Cuba and Sudan.

The United States defines these nations as “closed societies”… read more

Oscars Live Video Stream – Watch Online [Academy Awards]

As a result of failed contract negotiations, Disney pulled New York affiliate ABC7 off of cable company Cablevision’s channel lineup early this morning, leaving over 3 million people without a channel to watch the Oscars on tonight unless they tune in over the air.

We’d like to offer those 3… read more

“Alice in Wonderland” Has Record-Breaking Opening Weekend

Entertainment Weekly reports that Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland drew almost $40 million in box office revenue on Friday, setting the stage for what will likely have been a $100 million (or more) weekend. The film will definitely beat the previous record for this weekend of the year —… read more

Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week

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5 Ways to Use Twitter to Avoid a Backchannel Disaster

Cliff Atkinson is author of The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever (New Riders, 2009).

What do you do when you’re giving a presentation, and notice that your audience is looking down, busily typing on their laptops and smartphones? And what about… read more

8 Great Spotify Hints, Tips and Tricks

We’ve already brought you a how-to guide to get started with Spotify (read that first if you don’t know what it is), but now we’re delving a little deeper into the music streaming software with a look at some hints, tips and tricks that will help you get the… read more

Top 10 Geekiest Decorations for Your Home or Office [PICS]

We certainly wouldn’t advocate turning your office, cubicle or home office into some kind of over-the-top dork theme park, but a few witty items carefully placed here and there can brighten up the dullest work space with some geek chic.

Having an office gives you the chance to display things… read more

Foursquare and SPIN Magazine Turn SXSW Into Musical Scavenger Hunt

For complete SXSW coverage, check out Mashable’s SXSW channel.

Popular music magazine SPIN is going geeky for South by Southwest’s music festival, integrating custom Foursquare badges into its event presence and rewarding the most adventurous users of the location-based game with free tickets to their annual music showcase at Stubb’s.

Festival… read more

Best of the Week #109

It’s time for our best news of this week, the first one of 2010. 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… read more

Handy Tools and Tips for E-Commerce Websites

Running an e-commerce website is a never-ending task, from trying to squeeze that extra bit of conversion rate out of the check-out page to figuring out which referrers give you the best traffic. There’s also a plethora of tools out there to help you achieve your goals. But which ones… read more

Gowalla Launches for Android

The battle for social geolocation domination has expanded to Google’s Android platform, as Gowalla, the primary competitor to Foursquare, has just made its debut on Google’s Android app store.

The new Gowalla 1.0 app isn’t some secondhand version of its iPhone counterpart — it’s completely packed with an array of… read more

TextMarks Makes Sending Mass Text Messages Easy

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: TextMarks

Quick Pitch: TextMarks group text… read more

Major Facebook Investor Hopes to Score with Chatroulette

Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian venture capital firm that has invested $400 million in Facebook, has apparently made an offer to buy a piece of Chatroulette, the webcam network where you can chat with random strangers.

According to Spiegel Online, DST made an offer to 17-year-old Andrey Ternovskiy to buy… read more

The Top 10 Most Watched Web Series, February 2010

*The Visible Measures Top 10 Webisodes Chart focuses on digital studio-driven Web series that appear on Internet video-sharing destinations. Each Web series is measured on a True Reachô basis, which includes viewership of both studio-syndicated video clips and viewer-driven social video placements. The data are compiled using the Visible Measures… read more

Conan Pledges to Change One Woman’s Life… on Twitter

Sarah Killen loves gummy dinosaurs, coke syrup, peanut butter and now Conan O’Brien. The Michigan gal — not a fan of Russell Bigos, her sister-in-law’s treadmill singing or cleaning — happens to be the only person that the jilted late night personality follows on Twitter.

Conan, who up until minutes… read more

Granny DJ Spins the Internet into a Frenzy [Randomly Viral]

This little news item has yet to go totally viral, but it’s definitely on the cusp: Behold DJ Ruth Flowers, a 69-year-old world-spinner, groove-shaker, beat-maker from Paris, France.

This CBS News story hit YouTube yesterday and has so far garnered nearly 10,000 views, but its burgeoning popularity on… read more

Daily Inspiration #449

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

Hulu Users Tag Leno’s Return as “Vomit Inducing” (and Much Worse)

Before NBC heralds Jay Leno’s triumphant return to late night (the TV ratings are great) it might want to check out The Tonight Show’s Hulu tag pages. The show has garnered seven pages of astoundingly negative user-created tags — think “sellout,” “craptastic,” “vomit-inducing,” and “coco crybaby” — that speak… read more

How Companies are Using Social Media to Make Better Decisions

Mat Fogarty is the Founder and CEO of Crowdcast, a leading provider of collective intelligence and prediction market solutions.  You can read more of Mat’s posts on the Crowdcast blog or follow @crowdcastinc.

Collaboration and crowdsourcing are the realities of today’s public Internet, and the trend is now gaining real traction in the workplace…. read more

Shorty Awards Honor Twitter’s Finest Micro-Bloggers

The second annual Shorty Awards ceremony went down this week in New York City, honoring the community-nominated and voted on best of the best from Twitter.

Awards were given in 26 official categories as well as a huge selection of crowdsourced community categories. The Twitter community was invited to contribute… read more

Microsoft Allows Xbox LIVE Users to Express Sexual Orientation

Microsoft has announced that it has changed a controversial policy for its Xbox LIVE service that banned people from expressing their sexual orientation in their user profiles.

Said to have been originally put in place to prevent the use of such terms “as insults or slurs”, it was a step… read more

Top 20 Free Windows Mobile Social Media and Networking Apps

There are thousands and thousands of social networking and media apps for the iPhone and for Android, we all know that. But what about all the apps for Windows Mobile? Certainly, Win Mob is no where near as popular within the mainstream of mobile users as the other two, but… read more

Free Tooltip-Style Social Media Icon Set

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Jon Stewart Blows the Lid Off Chatroulette [VIDEO]

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Get Your Oscars Red Carpet Livestreams Right Here! [VIDEO]

The Oscars will air on ABC this Sunday, March 7, but if you’re really into movies (or at least celebrities and fashion), you’ll want to watch the red carpet and backstage coverage on the web too. To that end, we’ve found three live video streams that will accompany the… read more

How to Make a Killer Viral Photo Gallery

This post is by the online imagery experts at Shutterstock, a subscription stock photo agency.

You see photo galleries all over the web: The top 10 such-and-such photos, or 25 amazing this-or-that pictures. If you’re like us, you click on almost every one of them. Themed photo galleries on blogs work… read more

Sites of the Week #92

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as FWA and Cog’aoke. Also we’re featuring a wonderful Wordpress Theme called Simplify Business and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

Redesign and Other Tuts News

Over the last three days we’ve been steadily rolling out a new Tuts+ theme across all 8 sites. The new design is a refinement more than a big change, with lots of little improvements in usability and more suited to big screens. Read on to learn more about the redesign… read more

Daily Inspiration #448

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

Yahoo Mail Makes Friends With Facebook

In December, Yahoo revealed a new strategy: lots and lots of Facebook. Today the company announced that they’re gradually rolling out the first feature to come from the partnership — Facebook Connect integration with Yahoo Mail.

The new feature means that Yahoo Mail users can now connect their Facebook… read more

HOW TO: Get Started With Spotify

Spotify is a free, legal, cloud-based streaming music service delivered via desktop software with a nice social twist. A Swedish start-up with offices in London, it launched back in 2008 in Europe and now boasts around five million users and around six million tracks from the major labels as… read more

American Idol Strips Contestants of Social Media Accounts

This year American Idol made headlines for pushing out individual Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace accounts for each of its 24 finalists. However, the show made a drastic change in strategy last night by consolidating all of them under the AI9Contestants username across sites.

Twitter followers of each of the individual… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media & Web Development Jobs

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 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

Pepsi Refresh Wants to Give You $50,000 for Your Digital Pro-Social Idea

Last month, Pepsi made the bold move of forgoing Super Bowl ads in favor of a $20 million social media campaign centered around the Pepsi Refresh Project.

Today we’re excited to announce that we have an opportunity to get of our reader’s ideas funded to the tune of $50,000, and… read more

Microsoft’s “Project Pink” Mobile Project is Real and Coming Soon

When Microsoft unveiled its plans for Windows Phone 7 Series last month, one part of Microsoft’s long-rumored mobile strategy was revealed. However, the second part, Project Pink — a rumored Windows Mobile/Zune mash-up with a heavy emphasis on social networking — wasn’t mentioned at all.

Today Gizmodo is reporting that… read more

Fantastic Content Sliders for your Inspiration

Content sliders are extremely versatile forms of navigation that can be used to display all sorts of information, such as images, popular posts, social information and product features.

Some have automatic slideshow capabilities or buttons to scroll sideways or up and down, and most of them feature a transition… read more

How Much Are Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn Worth? [REPORT]

For the moment, the valuations we have for private companies like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are based mostly on what we know from venture capital investments that have been made in the companies.

SharesPost, however, is a company that lets owners of shares in private companies sell them to prospective… read more

3 Crisis Survival Lessons for the Social Media Age

Dallas Lawrence is Chair of the Social and Digital Media Practice at Levick Strategic Communications, the nation’s top crisis communications firm. He blogs on emerging digital media trends and best practices for social media engagement on Bulletproof Blog. Connect with him on Twitter @dallaslawrence.

If there was any doubt… read more

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook in No Rush to Go Public

Everyone is still trying to figure out just how big a business social networks are, how much is Facebook worth, and how much money it’ll be making in a couple of years. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, however, doesn’t seem worried at all.

Asked about Facebook’s plans to launch an initial… read more

Lucien Rose Complex in France

This housing complex in Rennes, France, was a project idealized by Edmond Herve, Rennes’ mayor from 1977 until 2008. Last year, 2009, the project was finally conceived by Atelier du Pont Architects as an example of modern and social architecture.

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The Lucien Rose complex was built keeping the historic and the… read more

Now Embed Free Online Photo Editor In Your Website With Picmeleo

Picmeleo is a free online photo editor that any third-party developers can easily add Picmeleo to their web service and launch the light-weight yet powerful photo editor whenever their users need to to upload or to edit an image. By adding Picmeleo to your web service, you can now engage… read more

Falling Off the Wall Text Effect – Photoshop Tutorial

At some time or another we have all seen it – neighbourhood walls with old and deprecated graffiti or, just as common, you may have seen some flyers or posters that have been stuck for so long on these walls that they start to peel and hang on by their… read more

How Topeka Became Google, Kansas: The Mayor Speaks

Welcome to Google, Kansas – the capital city of fiber optics, population 122,642. The small city with a big dream recently changed its name from Topeka to Google in order to show its enthusiasm for Google’s experimental Fiber for Communities program.

Mayor William W. Bunten issued a proclamation on Monday… read more

Mobile Social Networking Usage Soars [STATS]

Digital measurement firm comScore released a study today highlighting the rise in social media access via mobile phones and offering some comparison metrics for some of the biggest social networks and their usage on mobile devices.

comScore measured the changes in both mobile browser access to social networks… read more

10 Popular Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

We searched forums, blogs, and Twitter to find out which Firefox add-ons are most popular with web developers, and we came up with this top 10 list.

Every plug-in on the list… read more

MashBash SXSWi: 3 Things to Do Before You Set Off

MashBash SXSWi 2010, Mashable’s annual event at the SXSW festival in Austin, is less than 2 weeks away! Here are 3 things to do before you set off:

1. RSVP on Eventbrite and the Facebook event page so your friends know you’re coming.

2. Add yourself to Austin Realtime, our… read more

RootMusic’s BandPage Makes Better Facebook Fan Pages for Bands

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: RootMusic

Quick Pitch: RootMusic is all about making… read more

The Top 10 Apps for Music Streaming

Whether you’re at home, work or on the road, music surrounds us. In the age of the internet though, we’re no longer limited to the radio you hear in the elevator, in your car or maybe while you’re at your desk working. Not only are we no longer limited by… read more

GetGlue Add-on Brings Social Recommendations Across the Web

Social recommendation service GetGlue, which started out as a browser plugin, has recently added some new features to the Firefox and Google Chrome GetGlue add-ons, including a service called “Glue Tips.”

How the GetGlue add-ons traditionally work is that when you are on a page like IMDB or… read more

Vodafone UK Partners with Foursquare

Vodafone UK — one of the nation’s largest carriers — has just announced a partnership with Foursquare that entails heavy promotion of the location-based gaming app via Vodafone MyWeb and Vodafone live.

As it stands, all Vodafone UK customers will now have instant access to Foursquare’s mobile site from any… read more