When Should You Go All-In on Your Startup? [VIDEO]

From bootstrapping his company, to raising a seed round last year, to his company’s recent $8 million A round, Neil Capel exemplifies the grit and hustle typical in successful entrepreneurs. Capel founded Sailthru, an enterprise software-as-a-service company that uses clickstream data to individually tailor marketing emails to each user,… read more

Twitter Joke Trial: Judges Don’t Get Social Media, Says Stephen Fry

TV personality, activist, and social media comedian Stephen Fry has taken sides in the Paul Chambers “Twitter Joke Trial,” saying that British judges fundamentally don’t understand how Twitter works.

Fry’s stance is more interesting for the larger question it raises about the rising role of social media and the generation gap… read more

LinkedIn Hits 150 Million Members

LinkedIn on Thursday announced it has 150 million members in its network, a 20 million increase over November.

The figure was disclosed in a press release the company issued Thursday announcing its fourth quarter and full-year 2011 results.

The company posted revenues of $167.7 million, beating the analysts’ consensus of $160… read more

Daily Inspiration #1053

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

FarmVille Toys Are Coming: Zynga and Hasbro Sign Licensing Deal

If Angry Birds and Cut the Rope can have toys, why can’t FarmVille?

Social gaming juggernaut Zynga is teaming up with toy maker Hasbro to create a “wide range of toys and gaming experiences” based on Zynga properties and brands, a release read.

The first products are expected to hit the market… read more

Live LOLz: Cheezburger Plans Grammy Awards Memes in Real Time

I Can Has Cheezburger plans to turn the 54th Grammy Awards into a laughing matter by giving viewers an outlet to write funny captions for red carpet and ceremony photos.

The “Live LOLing” event starts Sunday at 4 p.m. PT when Cheezburger’s ROFLrazzi site, Twitter profile and Facebook page will… read more

Popularity of an Article Can Be Predicted Before It’s Tweeted [VIDEO]

HP Labs says it’s possible to know if your tweet will be a dud before you type the 140 characters.

Researchers have developed a formula that predicts the number of times a news “article will be tweeted with surprising accuracy.” The researchers predicted tweet popularity with 84% accuracy based on… read more

Yahoo’s New Visualization Beautifully Shows What’s Happening on the Web

Yahoo has launched a new webpage that visualizes what’s happening on the web in near real time — and it’s totally beautiful.

The Content Optimization Relevance Engine (C.O.R.E.) HTML5 site hopes to show users the “behind the scenes” process Yahoo uses to match readers with content on their personalized homepage,… read more

Who Really Invented the Web? Texas Trial Questions Tim Berners-Lee [VIDEO]

Tim Berners-Lee, who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web, testified this week in a Texas courtroom against a company that claims it has a patent on the same technology.

The man who claims to have the patent on the “interactive web” is Michael Doyle. His company, Eolas Technologies, has… read more

Mass Effect 3 Gets iPad Version with Action-Packed ‘Infiltrator’ [PREVIEW]

Mass Effect 3 is coming to an iPad near you in the form of Mass Effect Infiltrator, an iOS game aimed at expanding the game’s narrative and give players some mobile combat.

Infiltrator isn’t a direct port of the latest Mass Effect game. Unlike its big brother, a sci-fi role-playing game… read more

5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics

Ann Smarty is a search marketer and full-time web entrepreneur. Ann blogs on search and social media tools. Her newest project, My Blog Guest, is a free platform for guest bloggers and blog owners. Follow Ann on Twitter @seosmarty.

Social media analytics and tracking can be very time-consuming and expensive. You’ll… read more

U.S. Wants You to Test Terrorist Tracking With Social Media Game [VIDEO]

The U.S. government wants to more aggressively track terrorists on social media — and it’s asking for your help.

The U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Embassy in Prague are sponsoring a social media gaming contest to test ways social media and open source data can be used to… read more

Outstanding Neon Illustrations by Digimental Studio

One of the biggest influences around Abduzeedo’s look is the good old shiny neon. We love it, and it’s great to see illustrations with it, like these, made by Digimental Studio. Pretty sweet, I’d say.

Digimental Studio is located in London, and they definitely love their neon. These are absolutely awesome,… read more

Vibrant Collection Of Fresh And Free Social Media Icon Sets

At the moment, we are sharing with you a very comprehensive list of fresh social media icons so that you can use them on your website or blog. The icon sets presented in today’s collection can very easily be integrated within the design and theme of any website or blog,… read more

The Properties of Identity

This is an illustration series by Alex Varanesse, he believes that if identity can be reduced solely to a finite set of properties—and I’ve always believed that it can—then this series serves as a woefully incomplete but sternly determined starting point.

A collection of [seemingly] random visual ideas produced over a… read more

Smashing Special: WordPress Theme Trends For 2012

This special is the first in our series of Smashing Specials — extended articles and studies dedicated to a specific topic. The special features current WordPress theme trends for 2012, covering past trends, new developments in theme design and trends in the theme development.

2011 was a great year for WordPress,… read more

What Digital Non-Profits Can Learn From Companies Like Google

Daniel Atwood works with organizations in the social sector to craft meaningful experiences for customers and constituents, and to find innovative product, campaign and messaging ideas in unexpected places.

We live in a world where new digital products are solving problems daily — from managing our finances to remembering the groceries…. read more

Comment and Highlight on Websites with commentto

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

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Quick Pitch: Comment anywhere.

Genius Idea: Commentto is a browser add-on service that allows users… read more

Worldwide Photography #57: Honolulu

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: Honolullu, Hawaii.

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

Twitter Comedy: How to Be Funny in 140 Characters

Comedy is king on Twitter. Professional humorists and armchair standups alike have amassed legions of followers that hang on every 140-character quip.

Twitter humor is a brand-builder, a great writing exercise, and if you’re really good, it might even land you a job (but probably not, so settle down).

So, what does… read more

Check in at Walgreens and Receive Tweet Deal Coupons [VIDEO]

Walgreens is tweeting mobile coupons to customers who check in on mobile apps including Foursquare, Yelp and Facebook — letting customers in on deals while they shop.

The retailer is taking advantage of knowing who is in one of its 8,000 national locations. It is one of 40 companies currently… read more

‘Walk Off the Earth’ Gets 50 Million YouTube Views in a Month [VIDEO]

Meet Walk off the Earth, the ultra-talented quintet that turned its version of a sleeper hit into a viral phenomenon on YouTube and earned itself a record deal.

The Canadian indie band posted a video covering Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” last month, and it has since been viewed… read more

DKNY Takes Top Honors at Fashion 2.0 Awards

After nabbing four of the eight awards handed out at last year’s Fashion 2.0 Awards, apparel brand DKNY was once again recognized for its use of digital media, taking home awards for Best Twitter and Best Blog by a Fashion Brand.

The honors are well deserved. DKNY’s Twitter account and Tumblr… read more

Snooki Channels Her Inner Zuckerberg With New Facebook Game

Snooki’s Match Game

Jersey Shore star Zucki … uh, I mean Snooki has just unleashed her first Facebook game.

Dubbed… read more

ESPN’s ‘Complain About Women’ Option Exposed by Twitter User

Until Tuesday, ESPN had a special section on its website for viewers to complain specifically about announcers who happen to be female.

“Commentator — dislike female commentators,” read one option in a drop-down menu that enables viewers to provide feedback about coverage topics including blacked-out games, camera angels and audio/video… read more

Notifications and the Web

I’m guessing most of us use some sort of notifications system within our day-to-day workflow. On our smartphones and tablets, we get sounds, alerts and other visualisations to bring new or modified information to our tablet and even on the traditional computer, most of us here a unique chime everytime… read more

Valley Still Beats Alley in Meetup Tech Groups

Silicon Valley’s tech scene still beats out Silicon Alley’s, at least as far as Meetup numbers go.

Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman announced at the 21,000-member New York Tech Meetup on Wednesday that Bay area tech Meetup groups had more RSVPs in 2011 than those in any other city.

New York City… read more

Daily Inspiration #1052

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

On Facebook and Twitter, Few Want Political News [STUDY]

Only six percent of Americans are getting their political news from Facebook while a meager two percent do the same on Twitter, according to a study conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

The study, which analyzed how Americans are watching the 2012 presidential race, also… read more

BBC, Sky News and CNN Grapple With Twitter Rules

The BBC, Sky News and CNN are trying to figure out how to make Twitter play nicely with traditional newsrooms. Sky News and the BBC released new social media guidelines this week, while CNN has suspended an analyst for controversial tweets.

The BBC’s new rules require journalists to file a story… read more

New Facebook Filings Reveal Details of its Relationship With Zynga

Facebook just amended its S-1 filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the documents offer deeper insight into Facebook’s relationship with Zynga.

Facebook amended or added 26 new documents to its SEC filing and these updated documents provide more color on Facebook’s stock allotment and its relationships with other… read more

Pinterest Partner: Yes, They’re Making Money from Pins

News that popular social bookmarking site Pinterest might be generating revenue by adjusting and tracking the links attached to user-generated pins made the rounds online on Wednesday — but according to the site’s affiliate tracking partner, the concept is hardly a new one.

A report by social media blog LLSocial… read more

Cloud Technology Lets Doctors View Internal Organs on an iPad [VIDEO]

Doctors can now save lives and office space with the latest cloud-based technology that will let them view live medical endoscope scans (medical images of internal organs) on their Apple iPads.

Current endoscopic images are generally viewed on bulky video monitors plugged into the wall. The new wireless endoscopy tools… read more

NBA’s Perkins Calls Out LeBron James for Dunk Tweet

Oh, drama! Oklahoma City Thunder center Kendrick Perkins is not pleased with LeBron James’ reaction on Twitter to Perkins’ victimization by what many have called the “dunk of the year.”

Perkins was on the receiving end of an especially savage slam by Los Angeles Clippers star Blake Griffin last week…. read more

Groupon Posts Loss, Stock Falls 12%

In its first quarter as a public company, Groupon on Wednesday posted a loss of $.08 per share, which sent the company’s stock sliding in after-hours trading.

The consensus among analysts polled by Thomson Reuters was that Groupon was going to post a profit of 3 cents a share on… read more

Mashable Connect 2012: Get Tickets to Mashable’s Biggest Conference of the Year

Mashable is excited to announce that Mashable Connect 2012 will take place May 3-5 in Orlando, FL. Registration is now open!

Mashable Connect is Mashable’s annual destination conference that brings our community together for three days away to connect (offline!) in an intimate setting at the Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney… read more

GigaOm Acquires PaidContent to Create ‘Powerhouse’

Tech blog GigaOm announced Wednesday it has acquired paidContent‘s parent company ContentNext.

GigaOm founder Om Malik cited location and staff as reasons for the acquisition.

ContentNext — which owns MocoNews, paidContent:UK and ContentSutra, in addition to paidContent — has offices in New York and Europe.

Staci Kramer will remain the editor… read more

PlayStation Vita: Your Price (and Games) May Vary

With Sony’s PlayStation Vita handheld console set for release in the United Kingdom and North America later this month, the picture of what we can expect is becoming clearer.

The Vita will start at $249 in the United States for the wireless-only model, and $299 for the 3G version, according… read more

Marketers Who Share Content Drive Traffic, Gain Customers [INFOGRAPHIC]

Content marketing was a top priority for businesses in 2011, and it is going to remain so in 2012. That’s according to a study conducted by the Content Marketing Institute, a marketing education and research company.

In the past year, marketers distributed more business-to-business content on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook… read more

New Interview with Archan Nair

Archan Nair is a really kind person and one of the top notch digital artists nowadays. This is actually our second interview with him, as we always like to know more and more about him and all his knowledge thru this years working on the creative field. Hope this conversation… read more

The End of “Don’t be Evil”

It sounds simple: don’t be evil. How hard can it be, really? Don’t kill kittens. Don’t perform illegal acts involving chainsaws, guns, or exotic fruits. Easy.

For such a simple motto – slogan, really – Google seems to have been having difficulties with this lately. Has the omnipresent company grown from… read more

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Dolody: A new Design Dialogue – Plus a FREE ebook

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From the creators of BundleHunt.com and Noupe.com, a new design dialogue just launched today Dolody.com.

Dolody (@dolody) is a weekly design magazine that brings together the latest (and, yes, the greatest) tutorials, articles, freebies & webcasts on the topics of UX and UI design for the web… read more

Super Bowl XLVI Serves a Record 2.1 Million Live Streams

More than 2.1 million viewers watched Super Bowl XLVI via live streams. While this paled in comparison to the game’s record-breaking 111.3 million broadcast viewers, it still set a viewership record for online sporting streams.

NBC tells the Associated Press that the Super Bowl was the “most-watched single-game sports event online.”

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#Linsanity! Knicks Guard Is Social Media’s Newest Athlete Darling

With the NFL season over and Tim Tebow long since bounced from the playoffs, social media users appear to have found their newest object of sports fascination, at least for now. His name is Jeremy Lin, and he is a career underdog who plays point guard for the New York… read more

GoPollGo: The Quickest Way to Find Public Opinion

Everyone has an opinion about almost everything. Never mind if one is an expert in a topic or not, there will be something to say about it anyway. Now that social networking is a rage, you cannot away escape from opinions as they are always being shouted and posted around… read more

12 Pinterest Boards for Valentine’s Day Inspiration

1. Etsy

Etsy is a no-brainer for gifts, and even though its Valentine’s Day board is rather sparsely populated,… read more

Jason Mraz Launches Instagram Contest: Make Photo Art for This Song

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Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz wants Instagram users to translate his new song, “I Won’t Give Up,” into a… read more

Daily Inspiration #1051

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

Top 5 Social Sites for Film Fans

If you ranted and raved about the recent Oscar nominations on Facebook, but none of your friends seemed to care, it’s time to either A) find new friends or B) find a social network that caters to your cinematic needs.

Here are five great sites that help you connect with film… read more

Lady Gaga’s New Social Network Resembles Pinterest, Reddit [PICS]

LittleMonsters.com

Pop megastar Lady Gaga has pierced her powerful, digitally-willing paws deeper into the online world with the closed… read more

Prop 8 Is Unconstitutional — Social Media (Mostly) Says Good Riddance

A federal court decided on Tuesday to uphold a ruling from 2010 that declared the ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional — and it caused a hubbub on the interwebs.

The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to uphold a lower court’s decision that declared… read more

An Idea for Fixing Education: Skip College, Work at a Startup

Skip college, work at a startup. That’s the idea behind a new two-year program called Enstittue that started accepting applications Tuesday.

As newspaper headlines about recent college graduates read along the lines of “educated, unemployed and frustrated” and the average college student takes on a record-breaking amount of crippling debt (on… read more

Fashion Startup Moda Operandi: Now Opening to the World

Moda Operandi, the closely watched online retail operation from ex-Gilt exec Aslaug Magnusdottir and Vogue contributing editor Lauren Santo Domingo, is in transition.

Once accessible only via application, the year-old site is opening its doors and bolstering its content offerings in an attempt to draw new shoppers in and keep… read more

Ferris vs. Ferris: Super Bowl Ad and Movie Compared [VIDEO]

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

What do you get when you combine an iconic movie with a buzz-winning Super Bowl ad? An overdose of awesome.

The skilled editors at AkooTV juxtaposed scenes from John Hughes’s 1986 masterpiece Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with… read more

How Pinterest Is Changing Website Design Forever

Even if you haven’t ever visited popular visual bookmarking site Pinterest, you might recognize its design elements — which have been popping up everywhere since the startup burst onto the mainstream scene in 2011.

The site doesn’t use traditional web building blocks.

“It’s almost like a window-shopping mode,” says Khoi Vinh, the… read more

Anonymous Takes Revenge on Oakland Officials, Posts Private Data

Vigilante hacker collective Anonymous made public personal information of Oakland, Calif. city officials Tuesday, in response to what the group calls violent behavior toward Occupy Oakland protestors.

Information released by Anonymous contains names, birthdays, home and work addresses, and phone numbers of city officials including Mayor Jean Quan, city council… read more

Pandora vs. Spotify: Who Will Win the Battle for Streaming Music?

Matthew Bryan Beck is an NYC-based singer-songwriter, producer, editor, graphic designer and photographer. He writes the tech/social media blog Sludgr. Follow him on Twitter and Subscribe on Facebook.

Once upon a time, the future of streaming music rested squarely on the shoulders of Pandora Radio.

Built on the Music Genome Project, a… read more

How Much Do Tech Companies Make Per Employee? [CHARTS]

As the U.S. limps back from recession, the tech industry has been hailed as a boon for growth and job creation.

But upon closer inspection of multi-billion dollar valuations and scrappy startups on their way to profitability, you might notice that the revenues these companies command are wildly disproportionate to the… read more

Teen Sends Her MIT Admissions Letter to Space [VIDEO]

A 17-year-old accepted into Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched her admissions letter 91,000 feet to the edge of space and videotaped its journey.

Erin King of Georgia used a weather balloon, GPS-equipped ham radio transmitters, a GoPro Hero camera and a helium… read more

How Facebook and Twitter Help Sound the Official Earthquake Alarm

When a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the Philippines Monday, residents and local media outlets used Twitter and Facebook to alert residents and quell tsunami-inspired panic.

But they’re not the only ones using social media to sound a digital alarm when disaster strikes. Officials in the U.S. do that too.

The… read more

Gore and Visceral Artworks by Nychos

Nychos is one of these all time recognizable artists, even when he’s not doing some gore illustration or wall painting, his technique just got so much particular that you will know instantly know who’s the author. Bunnies, splatter, gore scenes and black humor are some recurring themes on his highly… read more

Eerie Nature Photography by Jürgen Heckel

I’ve been searching like a mad man for a photographer to capture my wedding. It takes patience and an eye for details, because when it comes a big event like that you just want the best person for the job.

And even the most not-related pictures count when you do that… read more

Build a Better Tweet

A new study from Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science called “Who Gives a Tweet: Evaluating Microblogging Content Value” has unveiled what we like to read, and what we don’t like to read, on Twitter. I have to say, the results aren’t all that surprising.

A team of researchers from… read more

NewsBar Lets You Scroll Through Your News with Ease

RSS and news apps make up one of the more crowded categories at the App Store, spanning the ranges of quality and price. Despite the abundance of RSS apps, they tend to all have similar feature sets, and differentiate themselves based on their interfaces (and often a few gimmicks). NewsBar… read more

Time for Mail: Services That Improve Gmail Productivity

Gmail exploded onto the internet in 2004 (beta) offering users a whopping 1GB of storage. This was unheard of at the time with the largest email service Hotmail only offering a few megabytes of storage. Currently Gmail offers 7GB of free storage with competitors such as Hotmail offering 5GB of… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.119)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Press Page Generator Hopes to Solve Startup’s Media Problems

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: Totem

Quick Pitch: Totem — a press pages generator — displays company accomplishments and social facets in… read more

Top 15 Tweets-Per-Second Moments Ever on Twitter

1. Castle in the Sky on TV

Anime movie Laputa: Castle in the Sky was televised in Japan on… read more

Netflix Launches First Original Series, ‘Lillyhammer’ [VIDEO]

Netflix has launched its first original series, Lillyhammer. The series stars Steven Van Zandt as a New York gangster who finds himself living in Norway as part of the witness protection program.

Rather than rolling out episodes individually, all eights… read more

Brand or Celeb? Social Media Shows Who Super Bowl Ads Helped Most

Social media analytics provided to Mashable show which endorsers — and endorsees — won biggest on Super Bowl Sunday.

Getting a celebrity to shill products during the game’s valuable advertising time can do wonders to imprint a brand in consumer consciousness. But that plan can also backfire, with the celebrities… read more

20 Best (or Most Annoying) Animated Super Bowl GIFs

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Facebook Is Bringing Ads to Mobile Apps [REPORT]

Users of Facebook‘s apps — for Android, iPad and iPhone — may begin seeing ads as soon as early March, as the company looks to gain an addition revenue source before it goes public.

Sources close to the matter say Facebook has already discussed proposals with advertising agencies, according to the… read more

Avoiding Social Networks and Staying on Task

Do you have a Facebook? Possibly a Twitter? Or maybe you’re one of those inactive Google Plus folks? There’s even the case that you don’t have any of these and you’re having fun over at Diaspora. In any case, you’re always susceptible to becoming addicted to your favorite social network… read more

Daily Inspiration #1050

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

Twitter’s Ad Scrimmage Lets You Relive Super Bowl Commercials

There’s usually one commercial during the Super Bowl that outshines the others for its creativity and laughter-inducing antics — and gets watched over and over. Twitter’s Ad Scrimmage wants to be the website where you do that, as well as vote for your favorite. But move fast; it won’t be… read more

How to Take Incredible Photographs of Flowers

This is a guest post from Izabela Korwel. Check out Iza’s amazing macro photography on her blog, follow her on Twitter, Facebook and also on Google +!

Flowers are the easy subjects to come by and to photograph, even close to home. You can go to local park or find a… read more

Google to Test Mystery Device in Employees’ Homes [VIDEO]

No one is sure what Google has up its sleeve, but it could be something you’ll have at home in years to come.

Google applied for a Federal Communications Commission experimental license to test an unnamed prototype entertainment device in its employees’… read more

Most Super Bowl Tweets Were Not About the Game [STATS]

According to NBC Sports, Super Bowl XLVI was the most-watched TV show in U.S. history, with 111.3 million viewers. But TV ratings weren’t the only numbers breaking records.

During the game, Twitter had not one, but two record-breaking moments in its history — once during Madonna’s halftime performance and then… read more

Galaxy Note Super Bowl Ad Inspires Twitter Backlash

Samsung has been hyping its campaign for its Galaxy Note smartphone/tablet hybrid for the past few weeks, culminating in an ad shown toward the end of Sunday night’s Super Bowl.

Whether or not you thought the ad was clever, you couldn’t miss the prominent reappearance of a technology that the… read more

Google Earth Deletes Rumored Lost City of Atlantis

The lost city of Atlantis — rumored to be discovered in a Google Earth map — is once again lost, thanks to a maps update from the search giant.

A grid-like pattern on a Google Ocean — a Google Earth extension — map raised speculation in 2009 that Google had discovered… read more

Super Bowl Breaks Social TV and Broadcast Records

Super Bowl XLVI was not only a big hit with broadcast viewers, it also excelled in the social TV space.

Hollywood news site Deadline reports that 111.3 million Americans tuned in to watch the New York Giants defeat the New England Patriots. That puts Super Bowl XLVI just ahead of… read more

How to Fix Best Buy

Alex Goldfayn’s new book is called Evangelist Marketing: What Apple Amazon and Netflix Understand About Their Customers (That Your Company Probably Doesn’t). He is CEO of the Evangelist Marketing Institute, a marketing consultancy with clients that include T-Mobile, TiVo and Logitech.

Some people insist that Best Buy is dying a slow… read more

How New York City Went Digital in 2011

Since 2010, New York City has strived to become a global digital leader. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and commissioner Katherine Oliver announced NYC Digital last July, with the mission to create a better civil society and stronger democracy with the use of technology – engaging, serving and connecting New York.

Rachel Sterne… read more

Should Athletes Have Social Media Privacy? One Bill Says Yes

Should universities be allowed to force student athletes to have their Facebook and Twitter accounts monitored by coaches and administrators?

No, says a bill recently introduced into the Maryland state legislature.

The bill would prohibit institutions “from requiring a student or an applicant for admission to provide access to a… read more

Earthquake Strikes Philippines: The Rapid Social Media Response [VIDEO]

Chaos struck the Philippines on Monday after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the central island of Negros, causing fears of tidal waves and a tsunami.

The quake and its 200-plus aftershocks caused landslides and the death of at least 12 people, according to Reuters.

News of the earthquake and a… read more

How Social Media Could Improve Public Safety

Todd Piett is the chief product officer at Rave Mobile Safety / Smart911.com. He writes about technology trends in public safety and enhanced 9-1-1. Todd is a board member of the NG9-1-1 Institute and is a member of APCO’s Emerging Technology Committee, in addition to holding numerous technology patents.

When it… read more

Apple iTV a $1.499 dollari: parola di BestBuy (o forse no)

Immaginatevi uno schermo da 42 pollici, nell’inconfondibile design Apple. Un iMac molto più grande, molto più sottile, senza bisogno di una tastiera, appeso al muro del vostro salotto.

Immaginatevi le icone in perfetto stile iOS che appaiono sullo schermo non appena l’accendete, la possibilità di aggiornare – tramite Siri… read more

Super Bowl 2012 Commercials

The title says pretty much what this post is all about. For those who are more concern about the final score, I am more into looking the commercials. It’s where you will witness all the millions of dollars that companies spent each year for a few seconds of air time… read more

Super Bowl’s Most-Searched Term: Madonna [VIDEO]

The Giants may have won the Super Bowl, but Madonna won the Google search competition.

The 53-year-old halftime performer was Google’s most-searched term during the 2012 Super Bowl game between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants.

Google released its most-searched… read more

6 Timelapse Photography Tips [You May Not Have Considered]

A Guest Post by Clayton McLaughlin

There are a lot of tutorials out there that introduce the practice of shooting timelapses with a variety of different cameras. All of which can help you get started. But as with any situation, I’ve found there are a few things that have helped me… read more

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Interactive Music Video Lets You ‘Look Around’

The Red Hot Chili Peppers just released an interactive version of the music video for the band’s latest single, “Look Around.”

The non-interactive version of the video was… read more

LeVar Burton to Bring Reading Rainbow Back … in an App

When Reading Rainbow ended its 26-year run in 2009, it left behind decades of preschoolers for whom its theme song will forever surface nostalgia:

Take a look, it’s in a book, a reading rainbow.

The PBS program was cut because nobody would fund it. But John Grant, who was at the… read more

Amazon to Open Retail Store [RUMOR]

In what may be a sign that 2012 really is the year of the apocalypse, revered online retailer Amazon is rumored to be opening a brick-and-mortar retail store.

The site Good Ereader reports that sources “close to the situation” say Amazon will open up a single store in the Seattle area… read more

Tumblr Humor Editor Reveals the Secret to Finding Hilarious Content

Today alone, Tumblr has already seen nearly 62 million posts — overall, the site just surpassed 17 billion posts total.

For a network that produces and reproduces millions of pieces of content daily, the company relies on a number of editors for each category. And as one of the most popular… read more

Word Paintings by Wayne White

Wayne White is an American artist, art director, illustrator, puppeteer, and much, much more. In this post we highlight some of his amazing word paintings which is a mix of landscape paintings with 3d typography. Enjoy!

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Wayne White is an American artist, art director, illustrator, puppeteer, and much, much more…. read more

Thanks to Our Weekly Sponsor: Ramotion

Our featured sponsor this week is Ramotion, a fantastic icon/UI design and iOS development company. Typically we reserve weekly sponsorship slots for our favorite apps but Ramotion has such an impressive portfolio that we simply couldn’t turn them down.

One of Ramotion’s primary strengths is icon design. Stop by their icon… read more

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SpeedTao: A Promising Download Acceleration App

I’m sure you’re familiar with the many download managers available for Mac, such as JDownloader, Leech (which we reviewed in 2010) and others. The purpose of most of these apps is to help folks who have multiple downloads keep things neatly organized and packed into one app.

JDownloader even offers a special… read more

How to Follow New York Fashion Week Online

Snapshot from Nanette Lepore’s Spring/Summer 2012 collection.

Fashion Week returns to New York Feb. 9, and once again designers and the press are heading to the web to engage consumer audiences.

Building off success from past seasons, many brands — roughly one-third showing at Lincoln Center — will live-stream… read more