Showcase Of Formula 1 Website Designs

By Callum Chapman

The 2009 Formula 1 season had an audience of over 520 million viewers, most of whom stayed up to date with the latest news on the official Formula 1 website, as well as their favorite teams websites, and even the track websites to find out current conditions and… read more

Bulletproof Email Marketing: Overview, Tips and Tools

We all know, that today is the era of online marketing. Without neglecting how the traditional marketing system started and work as well, we still cannot assume that online marketing is a thing in vain. More than that, online marketing can make thing more efficiently, short, and more real time… read more

Was Twitter’s Success Hard to Predict in 2006? Apparently, No [VIDEO]

In September 2006, when Twitter was still in its infancy (and MySpace reigned the social networking space), 747 Media conducted a feasibility study for Twitter, describing what the service is about to 20-somethings and asking them what they thought.

You can see the answers in the video below, and they’re… read more

5 Essential Apps for Your Business’ Facebook Fan Page

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

If you’ve already searched for some Fan Page inspiration and undertaken the task of building a custom landing page for your business’s Facebook presence, you may… read more

5 Essential Apps for Your Business’s Facebook Fan Page

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

If you’ve already searched for some Fan Page inspiration and undertaken the task of building a custom landing page for your business’s Facebook presence, you may… read more

Why Chatroulette Is More Than Just Penises

Five months ago, right around the time that Andrey Ternovskiy was building Chatroulette, no one could have predicted that being “nexted” would become the modern day equivalent to a rite of passage.

But after three days of coding, Ternovskiy introduced his pet project for random video chat to friends, then… read more

Violent Flash Mobs Becoming a Problem in Philly

Flash mobs are usually associated with randomized fun (or pantlessness), but in Philly, they’re basically akin to randomized violence. Last night, Mayor Michael Nutter and District Attorney Seth Williams took to the streets to spread a message to the city’s young, social media-savvy inhabitants: Flash mobs will not be… read more

Daily Inspiration #468

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

15 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

It’s happened again. Another week, jam-packed with expert insights, has flown by. You’ve probably caught a few of the week’s essential resources, but there’s always that chance you missed something that could transform your social media or business strategy.

Here at Mashable, we don’t like to take those chances,… read more

HOW TO: Support Earth Hour With Social Media

The World Wildlife Fund’s now annual Earth Hour campaign is great way for individuals to take a stand against climate change. Something as simple as switching your lights off for one hour can make a visual statement of your support for the global sustainability movement.

Begun back in Australia in… read more

Exclusive: Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher Launch Campaign to Ban Child Slavery

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have just launched a social and global campaign to raise awareness about child slavery in Haiti with the goal to completely ban the “restavec” system that is promoting it.

In an exclusive interview with Mashable, the couple explained to us exactly what is happening in… read more

Daily Inspiration #467

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

Facebook Proposes Revisions to Privacy Policy, Hints at More Location Features

In keeping with a new tradition, Facebook is ready to alter its Privacy Policy and Statement of Rights yet again, but it’s asking for user feedback before making the changes permanent.

The proposed changes encompass an array of things, including location (another sign of things to come), new language related… read more

FRIDAY POLL: How Did You Celebrate Twestival?

Yes, it’s that time once again, folks — time for the Weekly Poll!

Yesterday, thousands of people in more than 175 cities got together to celebrate the second annual Twestival, an event that has (at the time of this posting) raised $311,696 for Concern Worldwide, an organization that works to… read more

5 Ways Non-Profits Can Increase Engagement With YouTube

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.

According to ForeSee Results’ 2010 Social Media Study, YouTube is the second most powerful social network for consumer engagement. This critical component of the social web remains vital… read more

The Dire State of the Newspaper Industry [STATS]

We’ve known for a long time that the newspaper industry as we know it is dying. The shift from print to online has been a painful process — but just how painful has it been?

On Wednesday, the Newspaper Association of America released its estimates for advertising revenue across… read more

600+ Communities Are Fighting for Google Fiber Internet

Ever since Google announced last month that it would build its own high-speed fiber optic Internet network, there has been a fierce competition between countless cities and communities to become ground zero for the Google Fiber experiment.

Earlier today, the technology titan posted an update on the status of the… read more

10 Fantastic Websites for Spotify Fans

With Spotify bound for the U.S. later this year, now is the time to start getting ready for all that music goodness. Which is why, in addition to our getting started guide to Spotify, and our hints, tips and tricks for getting the most out of the music streaming… read more

4 Tips for Reducing Social Media Stress

Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, April 30th-May 2nd in Silicon Valley, which brings together staff from Google, Facebook, and Twitter, along with Tony Hsieh from Zappos and many others, to explore living wisely in our modern age. Mashable readers can use code Mashable for… read more

The History of Online Shopping in Nutshell

The Electronic commerce or e-Commerce as is known today evolved as businesses (end to end process) started to shift from real time market to digital market. All of the business today as we see is done over the internet and anything which is not there is meant to be wiped… read more

Keys to Getting Your First Web Design Clients

I receive a lot of emails and comments from designers who are just getting started in their work as a freelancer and looking for advice. With that in mind I thought it would be helpful to many readers to provide some tips or pointers for getting those… read more

Daily Inspiration #466

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

Friendgiftr Lets You Buy and Send Gift Cards on Facebook

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: Friendgiftr

Quick Pitch: This app allows you to… read more

13 Essential Social Media Lessons for B2B Marketers from the Masters

This series is supported by the MarketingProfs B2B Forum, where you’ll learn the ins-and-outs of social media as part of your overall B2B marketing mix. Register today!

Social media marketing might feel simple for the B2C crowd, but with B2B, it’s an entirely different beast. Businesses are entities that are… read more

CTIA Roundtable: Biz Stone, Aneesh Chopra and James Cameron

Wrapping up this year’s CTIA mobile show here in Las Vegas is a special round table of thought leaders: Twitter’s Biz Stone, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra and filmmaker James Cameron came together with host and CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera to discuss the impact of mobile technology on business, media… read more

Internet Hearts Pi-Reciting, Book-Balancing Rubik’s Cube-Solving Girl [Randomly Viral]

This just goes to show: There’s a viral video crush for everyone. First there was the Fully Sick Rapper, then Merton, and now there’s this chick, whose mad multitasking skills are winning the hearts of nerds everywhere.

Although “booksonmyhead,” who appears to be an 18-year-old named Lauren (if… read more

3 Useful iPhone Apps to Help File Your Taxes

Tax season is upon us, and the iPhone is here to take the sting out of Uncle Sam’s April chore. The current arsenal of App Store software is useful for both simple and complex tax processes, and is generally cheaper than desktop equivalents.

While there are a variety of… read more

6 Easy Ways to Score the Best Deals with Social Media

Sara Dunham is the community manager at online coupon site and community Savings.com.  You can read more of Sara’s posts on the Savings.com coupon blog or fan Savings.com on Facebook.

We all want to save some cash. Social media-savvy shoppers know that right now there are more opportunities than ever to… read more

I’ll Have a Big Bite, a Slurpee and… a FarmVille Card!

Zynga’s legion of social gamers have a new way to buy virtual goods – pre-paid game cards that will be available for purchase at a combined more than 12,800 7-Eleven, Best Buy, Target, and Gamestore stores.

The deal sees $10 and $25 cards for FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and YoVille go… read more

Flickr, Picasa and SmugMug Shootout

Flickr, Picasa or SmugMug—which is best? Which one best suits your needs and your budget? What kind of professional level features do you get with each? These are questions I’ve been asking for awhile and it’s now time to compare three of the most popular photo storage and sharing services… read more

Personal Branding for Web Designers

“It doesn’t matter how good you are. What matters is how good you are at showing it!” This statement represents the ABCs of personal branding, self marketing or whatever you prefer to name it. As a designer, you are so fortunate that your work is pure creativity. As a result,… read more

What Makes A Great Cover Letter, According To Companies?

Ah, the dreaded cover letter. Boring to write, difficult to get right, and you’re usually preoccupied by other things (such as the portfolio and resume, which are also really important). Unfortunately, your cover letter is a company’s first exposure to you, and it determines whether your application is trashed or… read more

Mysterious Monkey of Tampa Bay is a Facebook Phenomenon

A monkey has gone viral … on Facebook. The story dates back more than a year, when numerous sightings of a mysterious monkey were first reported around the state of Florida.

Since then, the local media has latched onto the case, with the St Petersburg Times devoting a microsite… read more

WordPress Founder: Open Source Is About People, Not Technology

We’ve discovered a lot of great ideas here at The Economist Innovation Conference in Berkeley, California. Pixar’s President spoke on how the company creates great films and Paola Antonelli of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) discussed the history of the @ symbol, among other presentations and workshops.

Now… read more

Naked Apartments Strips the Hassle out of Real Estate Hunting

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: Naked Apartments

Quick Pitch: The Match.com for NYC… read more

Online Dating Is Bigger Than Porn [Infographic]

Online daters should no longer be considered a desperate minority that trolls the web for love. In fact, a fascinating infographic from Online Schools reveals the truth about online dating — it’s booming and might even be bigger than porn.

Per the graphic — which pulls data from a number… read more

5 Ways to Get Involved With Twestival

On Thursday, March 25, the second annual Twestival Global charity event will kick off in over 175 cities across the world. Thousands of people will get together at events around the globe to help raise money for Concern Worldwide, and help the estimated 72 million children around the… read more

Daily Inspiration #465

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

Google Bookmarks Adds Lists Feature for Social Bookmarking

Google Bookmarks now includes an experimental feature (for English users) called Lists for privately saving links in buckets, sharing them with friends, or publicly publishing them to the Web. Coupled with the recent addition of stars in search, Google Bookmarks — an oft-ignored product — is a lot… read more

Gmail Adds New Security Features

Today Google has introduced a new Gmail alerts system to further protect users from hackers and scammers.

Should Google detect any suspicious activity happening with your Gmail account, you’ll now see a bright red warning below the search bar alerting you to the issue. You can then click the “Show… read more

10 Beautiful Free Blogger Templates

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

Let’s face it: The default themes that come with a Blogger account aren’t going to win any design awards. They’re plain, fussy, and lack that bit of the snazz you’re… read more

KoldCast Brings Its Web Shows to Boxee

Today Boxee (the media player software with a social twist that you can use on your Mac, PC, Apple TV and soon, Boxee Box) has announced its latest content partner: KoldCast TV. KoldCast TV bills itself as a premier destination for original web-based on-demand programming.

KoldCast TV has… read more

Facebook Blamed for Rise of Syphilis in UK

Health experts at NHS Hartlepool in Britain are claiming that Facebook played a role in the recent fourfold increase in cases of syphilis in Teesside, Durham and Sunderland.

Director of Public Health Peter Kelly told the Telegraph research points to sites like Facebook “making it easier for people to meet… read more

Vlingo Reads Texts Aloud While You Drive

Vlingo is offering BlackBerry-owning drivers a safer way of keeping up to date with texts and e-mails while on the go with its 4.5 release, complete with the “SafeReader” app.

If you get a message while driving, rather than fumbling around pressing fiddly buttons while you should be watching the… read more

Music Matters Tries to Make You Feel Guilty About Piracy

Got sticky fingers when it comes to illegal music downloads? Well a new site, Music Matters, launched yesterday in an attempt to alert you when you’re about to snag an artist’s well-earned cash whilst snagging their most recent disc pro bono.

The Music Matters concept is a rather… read more

8 Apps to Chat with Random Strangers

In the 21st century, an online service has the potential to garner hundreds of thousands of hits if it is social networking enabled. Networking is the key. Now after a decade of connecting with real world friends online, people suddenly have the desire to befriend strangers. Let us not get… read more

Why Your Brand Needs to Be on Facebook Now

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.

With 450 million users globally… read more

Photoshop Tutorial – Face Transform with Type

In this tutorial, written again by Violet Bag, you are going to learn how to change a normal and basic image of a little kid and transform his face so that it appears to be constructed with text.
There are fifteen easy to follow steps to complete this tutorial… read more

How To Organize/View Your Feeds In A Magazine Like Start Pages In Chrome

Recently I came across a great website titled Fav4. It provides users with a four thumbnail shortcuts to websites. The websites can be selected from a list of the most social media websites. Fav4 has an appealing look and can serve as a great clutter-free start-page for any user.

But what… read more

Etacts Transforms Your Gmail into a Contact Management Hub

Etacts, which just presented earlier today at Y Combinator’s Demo Day, is an attempt to bring advanced customer relationship management to your personal contacts list via a few simple features and a slick Gmail integration.

Let’s all just agree: Contact management is a pain in the butt. You want… read more

When Do Twitter Users Sleep? [Apps]

A website called SleepingTime.org analyzes any Twitter user’s tweets to figure out when he or she is most likely to be sleeping.

All you have to do is plug a username into SleepingTime.org’s main page. It determines the user’s timezone from his or her location and looks at the times… read more

Twestival Global 2010 Raises Funds for Social Good Tomorrow

One year ago the first Twestival event brought together social media savvy and social good-minded folks in over 100 cities together to raise money and awareness for charity:water. Tomorrow kicks off the second annual Twestival Global, this time reaching more than 175 cities and bringing together thousands in support… read more

DEMO: The Winning Startups in Mobile, Social, and More Are…

DEMO Spring 2010 just ended and executive producer Matt Marshall has just given out the DEMO God awards to the most promising companies in a range of categories, as well as the audience choice award, which offers the winning company $1 million in free advertising on the IDG network.
… read more

Daily Inspiration #464

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

US Army meets with Apple, discusses tech for soldiers

Rather than continuing to invest heaps of money to research its own devices, Maj. Gen. Justice wants to take a different approach: leveraging the knowledge and research of the commercial sector into the Army’s portable equipment. This approach makes perfect sense for a number of reasons. Companies like Apple have… read more

Twitter Reduces Spam to 1% of Tweets

In a blog post today Twitter comments on the “State of Twitter Spam.” Once a pressing issue for most Twitizens, the graph released today shows pretty clearly a sharp reduction over the past eight months or so — so much so that the current spam volume is now down… read more

The Future Newsroom: Lean, Open, and Social Media-Savvy

On the campus of Penn State University, a rivalry between a rogue campus blog and the official newspaper has become a fascinating mirror of the strife between old and new media. In only a matter of months, the unofficial campus blog Onward State, has marshaled the power of… read more

Foursquare Lets You “Follow” Celebrities

Foursquare has announced a deal with MTV & VH1, and with it, introduced a new “Celebrity Mode” that introduces the Twitter concept of following – i.e. not friending – to users.

Starting with Jersey Shore’s DJ Pauly D, users can now sign-up to “follow” celebrity users as opposed to establishing… read more

The Future Newsroom: Lean, Open and Social Media-Savvy

On the campus of Penn State University, a rivalry between a rogue campus blog and the official newspaper has become a fascinating mirror of the strife between old and new media. In only a matter of months, the unofficial campus blog Onward State, has marshaled the power of… read more

Videos: Wired, VIVmag showcase iPad offerings

Well, here we are in 2010 and many of us still have print magazines showing up in our physical mailboxes on a regular basis. But it could be that the new generation of tablet devices, as heralded by the iPad, could finally create such a great user experience that most… read more

The New Digg Is Coming: Redesigned Buttons and Widgets Released

Ever since Digg revealed the completely overhauled version of its website at South by Southwest (SXSW), there has been a lot of anticipation surrounding the completely overhauled interface. Now we’re one step closer to the launch, as Digg has just released redesigned Digg buttons and a new version… read more

Phone Halo Saves Absentminded Phone Owners from Themselves

At DEMO today, Phone Halo introduced its product to the crowd. Phone Halo is designed for people who have a tendency to lose their phone, money clip or keys.

It uses GPS, e-mail and SMS to keep you alerted audibly when you leave a device behind, and also to let… read more

YouTube Choir of 250 Fulfills Composer’s Dream [VIDEO]

American composer and conductor Eric Whitacre spliced together nearly 250 submitted YouTube videos to form an online choir performing “Lux Arumque,” and then posted the assembled piece on YouTube.

Whitacre used social media — his blog, a Facebook page and YouTube — to assemble and audition singers for his piece…. read more

10 Sites to Get a Custom Twitter Design

We all want our stuff to look good, right? For those more serious about Twitter, such as businesses and social media guru’s, the appearance of their Twitter profile is a key element to their success. It’s not just the pros that get to have great looking Twitter designs though! There… read more

10 Essential Design Tools for Social Media Pros

This series is supported by Wix.com, an online design tool that enables you to create your own Flash websites, social network layouts, and more, for free. Learn more about Wix here.

Good design is a critical part of any web or social media presence. Like the clothes you wear… read more

Flurry data: 44% of apps tested on the iPhone are games

<p night on the Talkcast, we pointed out that we didn't know exactly which developers were getting those test iPads to play with. However, we might know just which apps they're testing. According to Flurry Analytics, who have (somehow) been watching traffic from the iPhone OS 3.2, 44% of the… read more

The Most Popular SXSW Music Acts by Social Media Buzz [STATS]

Wondering which bands garnered the most buzz at SXSW this year? Well, stats service Next Big Sound has the answers, and it’s a hearty mix of up-and-comers, music vets and under-the-radar stalwarts.

Next Big Sound created two lists of buzzed-about bands by counting increase in social media activity… read more

What’s Brand?

Design Informer

What’s Brand?

Brand is an important part of any business. So why do some of us claim we brand businesses, when we fall so short on it’s definition and limit ourselves at logo design? There are many factors that affect a brand and these factors can contribute to a… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.29

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

Most Creative Ads Series: Beer

I don’t exactly know since when beer became so popular. There are so many dominant multinational companies and thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries.

More than 133 billion liters (35 billion gallons) are sold per year, producing total global revenues of $294.5 billion since 2006. Beer is… read more

Chatroulette Beats Hot or Not in Reader Poll

It looks like Hot or Not just got nexted. The new shiny of the moment Chatroulette soundly trounced the older site in this week’s edition of the long-running Web Faceoff series.

At 742 votes, Chatroulette commanded 66% of the vote, more than twice the 281 votes Hot or Not netted… read more

Ngmoco’s We Rule is live, but buggy

<pco's We Rule is now available for download worldwide in the App Store — it's the first ground-up game developed for their big freemium experiment, in which they give away a game and then support it with periodic updates, bringing in revenue with in-app purchases driven by social interaction and… read more

Tweets Calling for Obama’s Assassination Prompt Secret Service Investigation

Two Twitter users are learning the hard way that threats against the President of the United States are taken very seriously, even when they’re just a tweet.

Following last night’s passage of the healthcare reform bill, @THHEE_JAY and @Solly_Forrel expressed their frustration with the President by publishing tweets reading “ASSASSINATION!… read more

New York’s Museum of Modern Art Acquires the @ Symbol

The Department of Architecture and Design at New York’s famous Museum of Modern Art has acquired what is arguably its most famous work of art to date — the @ symbol.

Because the @ symbol is owned by no one, the acquisition is symbolic — pun hopefully not intended —… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Social Media Events Guide

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s… read more

How the Fashion Industry Uses Location-Based Marketing

Macala Wright Lee is the CEO of FashionablyMarketing.Me a digital marketing and merchandising firm that specializes in fashion, luxury and beauty brands in Southern California. You can follower her on Twitter at @FashMarketing.

While location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla are gaining serious traction on the social marketing scene, many… read more

Chatroulette Improv Piano Player Removed from YouTube

Merton, a.k.a. the Chatroulette Improv Piano Player, has had his viral video yanked off of YouTube “due to terms of use violation.”

Merton became the big Internet sensation when he logged onto Chatroulette with his glasses, hooded sweater, and trusty keyboard and created songs for random strangers on-the-fly. The… read more

How Small Businesses 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.

Social media can be a scary prospect for small businesses; unlike traditional… read more

Make Online Purchases With Your Verizon Wireless Account

Looking to cash in on the increasingly lucrative social gaming and virtual goods market, Verizon Wireless is introducing a new mobile payment service.

Called Billtomobile, the service allows approved merchants to integrate a payment option into their checkout systems where purchases – both one-time and subscription – are added to… read more

5 Stellar Ways to Explore Space Using Social Media

Space — the final frontier, and all that jazz. As the folk over at the Hubble Telescope website say, “Your body may be trapped at your desk, but your imagination can roam the far reaches of the universe, thanks to the wonders of the web.”

Here’s a spaced-out selection… read more

Simultaneous Web and TV Use Is Surging [STATS]

New data from The Nielsen Company lends more credence to the idea that watching television while surfing the web is becoming more common in U.S. households.

In fact, nearly 60% — or 134 million people — do it at least once a month, with the average time spent consuming media… read more

Give Your Readers Personalized Content with My6sense

At DEMO this week, my6sense will be launching its free Attention API, which allows third parties to tap into the “digital intuition” technology that my6sense utilizes.

My6sense is a mobile app that basically gets to know what you like and what’s important to you, after which it organizes… read more

Are You Just a Freelancer? Or a Successful One?

Freelancer by profession is one who has decided not to be stereotyped in any fashion and will work on his own accord, that is universally known but the question is how many of them actually make it in the market. There comes your decision making in every aspect of your… read more

Choose Your Own Adventure Comes to Twitter

As if Twitter weren’t enough of a time-sink, Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed and Huffington Post fame created a choose your own adventure game using only Twitter (and lots of Bit.ly links.)

In case you aren’t familiar with choose your own adventure games, it’s basically a written work which allows the… read more

10 Blank/Naked WordPress Themes Perfect for Development

If you have to develop WordPress themes on a regular basis then I have no doubt that you too have experienced the tedium that goes with re-writing the same code over and over again. It doesn’t matter how excited you are about a new project or even how much you… read more

Zerista Offers Mobile-Optimized Social Media Tools for Groups

DEMO Spring 2010 officially kicks off on Monday morning, but at the welcome reception earlier tonight, we got a chance to meet with some of the companies that will be presenting their products over the next two days.

One of those companies is Zerista, which is a tool that lets… read more

“Baby Killer” Becomes Healthcare Vote’s “You Lie” [VIDEO]

On Sunday night, the House of Representatives passed a $875 billion healthcare bill with a vote of 219-212. While discussion of the news is currently dominating the social web, a specific moment from the proceedings is also getting attention – a member of the House yelling out “baby… read more

140 Reasons We Love Twitter

Today is Twitter’s fourth birthday, and to celebrate the occasion we asked our Twitter followers: “Let us know how Twitter changed your life – add hashtag #thankstwitter4 so we can find your tweet.”

We got thousands of responses — in fact, #thankstwitter4 has become a trending topic. As promised,… read more

California on Social Media [VIDEO]

Comedian Kassem G conducts “man on the street” interviews each week with Californians — issues tackled include drugs, stereotypes and Tiger Woods.

This week, Kassem asks beach goers for their views on social media, from Twitter to MySpace, Facebook and Farmville … he doesn’t get very far.

Tags: california, social media,… read more

Daily Inspiration #462

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

50 Breathtaking Examples Of Spectacular Aerial Photography

Aerial photography is the technique of capturing photographs of the land from an elevated location. This type of photography usually refers to photographs which are taken when the camera is not supported by a ground-based structure. The camera in Aerial photography may be hand held or mounted, and photographs may… read more

Happy Birthday Twitter!

Sunday, March 21st (a few hours from now on the West Coast) marks Twitter’s 4th birthday — exactly four years since Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent his first Tweet and, along with Evan Williams and Biz Stone, started a phenomenon.

Last month, Twitter hit 50 million Tweets per day, and… read more

4 Ways Non-Profits Can Use Google Buzz

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.

Despite some initial flaws, Google Buzz continues to show promise as a social marketing platform. It has a significant (though somewhat latent) user base, with an increasing… read more

Yelp for Business: 4 Steps for Success

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

For local small businesses, Yelp isn’t just an option — it’s a necessity. People in urban centers use it to choose where to go to dinner,… read more

Plastikman releases SYNK, an app for his tour

<pier we were hearing that Apple might get involved in location-based ad-hoc social networking, and now it looks like Plastikman might beat them to the punch. That's the DJ, not the superhero — he's released an iPhone app that's designed to be used at his concerts this summer, giving you… read more

11 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

We know you’re busy. Even with every social media, web, and RSS tool at your disposal, you can occasionally miss out on some of the week’s most insightful content.

Never fear. We’ve taken a moment to round up the best Mashable resources from this past week and present… read more

Best of the Week #111

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Record Numbers Tune in to March Madness Live Stream

It’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament time — otherwise known as March Madness — and the online streaming initiative from CBS Sports and the NCAA is already netting massive numbers: 3.4 million hours of video/audio were streamed online by three million unique visitors on day one.

Those staggering numbers mean that… read more

5 Things You Need to Know About Location-Based Social Media

Kevin Nakao is VP of Mobile & Business Search for WhitePages, a Top 40 Web and Mobile Publisher. You can find him on Twitter, and on the Whitepages Blog where he writes about mobile, local, and social media.

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Daily Inspiration #461

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