StumbleUpon’s Most Popular Searches and Links of 2011

StumbleUpon, the site that lets you discover the web through its “Stumble!” button, released its Best of StumbleUpon 2011 package, including the below infographic and its most popular links of the year.

The most-popular topics of 2011 were the Japan earthquake and tsunami, the Royal Wedding the Steve Jobs‘s death. In… read more

Senator Calls on Twitter to Block the Taliban [VIDEO]

Sen. Joe Lieberman is calling on Twitter to block accounts affiliated with the Taliban and accounts that support the organization.

The chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee has asked the micro-blogging site to remove users such as @Abalkhi and @alemarahweb,… read more

How Tech and Social Media Companies Cashed Out in 2011

A colleague here at Mashable proposed an Onion-style spoof story entitled “Google Buys Everyone,” which would detail how the search giant hoovered every company in existence. As Homer Simpson once said, “It’s funny because it’s true.”

Google‘s insatiable appetite for other companies was just one of the business narratives of… read more

Vintage Christmas Ads

Christmas time is a great opportunity to find time and enjoy the holiday with family and friends. Every time, there’s Christmas, there’s just ads everywhere we look. It got me inspired to look and share this collection of vintage Christmas ads, what really stroked me is the ads were so… read more

Does a Non-Traditional Resume Limit Your Odds? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Non-traditional resumes, while unique and eye-catching, may limit a job applicant’s chances of landing his or her dream job.

Many companies, especially large corporations, use applicant tracking systems (ATS) to automatically parse through submitted resumes in search of keywords that indicate desired skills and experience.

When dealing with an ATS, a text-based… read more

Best Of 2011: Best Useful jQuery Plugins And Tutorials

jQuery is one of the most accepted JavaScript library that possesses an enormous collection of plugins which makes it even more powerful. On the other hand, there is a good deal of additional codes or modules, from simple alert functions to multifaceted galleries or form validation methods, that are hard-coded… read more

iPhone of the Future May Be Powered by Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Sometime in the future, Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPad and MacBook might work longer than ever on a smaller and lighter battery pack. How is this possible? By using hydrogen fuel cells, which convert oxygen and hydrogen into water, heat and electricity.

The US Patent & Trademark Office has… read more

Mashable Weekend Recap: 36 Stories You May Have Missed

With the sound of sleighbells still jangling in our half-frozen ears, we plowed through our Christmas rituals and at the same time kept on working the wires, looking for the best news the world had to offer our steadfast weekend readership. Yes, we are multitaskers.

And you know what? We had… read more

Daily Inspiration #1014

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 Do Co-Founders Meet? 17 Startups Tell All

1. Airbnb — Nathan Blecharczyk, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia

I moved to San Francisco in early 2007 and… read more

Anonymous Hacks Company That Specializes in Security

Hacker group Anonymous began its promised week of Christmas hacks, assaulting a long list of targets. The first Anonymous hack resulted in stolen emails and credit card data from Stratfor, an Austin-based think tank that concentrates on security issues.

One alleged conspirator said the goal was to use that credit card… read more

Got an iPhone 4S for Christmas? Have Some Fun With Siri [PICS]

Ever since we got our iPhone 4S, we’ve been having a lot of fun with its built-in digital assistant, Siri. An excellent repository to all kinds of Siri tricks has been LifeWithSiri.com. Now, there’s Life with Siri, an ebook that compiles the funniest Siri responses from the site, giving you… read more

Best Holiday Tech Gift: We Have a Winner! [CONTEST]

Last week, we asked our readers to share the story behind their favorite tech-related holiday gift.

The best story wins an Xbox Kinect Bundle (pictured below) courtesy of Target, and a pack of games from Activision, featuring DJ Hero, DJ Hero 2 Party Bundle (2 turntables + microphone), Guitar Hero: Warriors… read more

The Pros & Cons of Google+ for Small Business

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 big brands, Google+ is probably a good investment — but is Google+ an efficient use of time for small businesses?

Google unveiled Google+ brand pages in November,… read more

Wallpaper of the Week 183 by Anthony Harmon

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Anthony Harmon; the creative director of SlashTHREE and Aharmon Design Group. Aharmon Design Group is a multi-disciplinary design firm based out of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Founded by Anthony Harmon in 2007, the business grew quickly into a fully established, award… read more

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Merry Christmas from Abduzeedo

We here over at Abduzeedo wish you a Merry Christmas to all of you. We know that it’s last minute but just in case you haven’t sent a greetings card to your beloved ones we are sharing an artwork created by Amanda Macedo.

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53 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

With the holidays in full swing, that means the new year is just around the corner. Here at Mashable, we’ve been reflecting on the changes 2011 has brought for technology and social media and what those changes mean for the future.

If you’ve been busy decking the halls and getting… read more

3 New Ways to Connect With Content That Interests You

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

Each weekend, Mashable selects startups we think are building interesting, unique or niche products.

This week, we… read more

How Santa Delivers All Those Gifts by Christmas Morning

Santa Claus needs a tremendous amount of tech backup to effectively deliver presents to every child’s house in the world before the sun rises.

Peter Baynham, screenwriter of blockbuster film Arthur Christmas, spent nearly five years calculating exactly how Santa could deliver so many presents to so many houses in such… read more

Santa is Heading Out, Right After This [COMIC]

Santa is about to start making his rounds, but what’s this? He’s busy doing something else? What is it? It certainly couldn’t be as important as distributing toys and gadgetry to children of all ages, could it?

It looks like our Editor-In-Chief, Lance Ulanoff, has discovered a secret interest Santa… read more

Air Jordans Did Not Cause Death, Despite Twitter Rumors

Air Jordan XI shoes were released Friday to mobs of eager shoppers, hoping to snag a pair of the retro Nike sneaks. Amid reported arrests and robberies, social networks buzzed that an 18-year-old had been trampled to death in suburban Washington, D.C. while shopping for the popular shoes.

Reports began… read more

5 Ways to Boost Your Digital Media Career in 2012

Hanson Hosein is the Director of the Master of Communication in Digital Media at the University of Washington. He’s written Storyteller Uprising: Trust & Persuasion in the Digital Age, and the host of Four Peaks on UWTV and has advised Microsoft, CVS Caremark and MasterCard on digital media storytelling strategies.

As… read more

Is Gamification Right for Your Business? 7 Things to Consider

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

This year has lent itself to a slew of new buzzwords, and gamification is easily one of the most buzzed about in the marketing industry.

Businesses clamored… read more

Top Comments on Mashable This Week

We’re back again for a weekly roundup of the top Mashable comments of the week.

In this post, we showcase the week’s best comments on our site. We always look for thoughtful comments that engage the community and drive more conversation as well as those that make us laugh. This week’s… read more

Trololo Man Returns for a Rousing Encore, 35 Years Later [VIRAL VIDEO]

And now for a Christmas gift we know you’ll enjoy: Trololo Man is BACK! Russian singer Eduard Khil still has that special magic, even 35 years after the sensationally corny premiere of his odd, yodeling croon on Russian TV.

That old video from 1976 (see the original upload embedded below) became… read more

Global Hotels, Broken Down By Social Media Rewards [INFOGRAPHIC]

A new year is just around the corner, which means one thing — a new batch of vacation days! But where will you go? And, more importantly, where will you stay? Lucky for you, savvy traveler, the infographic below can help you figure that out. There are deals to be… read more

Merry Christmas and Thank You

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It has been an amazing 2011 for Speckyboy. This was our first full year of daily publishing, we expanded our categories to cover almost all aspects of design from the web and mobile design to graphic design, from freebies and resources, from opinion pieces to… read more

SoundCloud: Your Favorite Social Sound Site on Your Mac

There are a bunch of websites to allow you to share and discover new music, especially from artists that aren’t as big or popular as they deserve. Perhaps the most widely used of these is one called SoundCloud, which is used by many artists personally.

The app that we are reviewing… read more

Best of the Week #202

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

Startup Brings Ecommerce Directly to Magazine Websites

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: 72Lux

Quick Pitch: Shop across many online retailers with a single checkout and shipping fee.

Genius Idea: Bringing… read more

7 Cool Digital Projects and Apps We Learned About From the Mashable Awards

On Monday, we announced the winners of the 2011 Mashable Awards.

While some nominees are popular and have mainstream recognition (See: Facebook, iPad 2), others have significant followings but are not quite as well known.

While every Mashable Award winner and nominee should be unbelivably proud of their achievement, we’ve… read more

Xerox Lab Founder, Tech Innovator Jacob Goldman Dies

Jacob E. Goldman — founder Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, the widely admired hub of innovation that developed many keystones to modern computing — died Tuesday in Westport, Conn.

Goldman was 90 years old and died of congestive heart failure, according to news reports.

A physicist by training, Goldman was Xerox’s… read more

How will Digital Change Small Business in 2012?

Over the course of 2011, we witnessed social media and location-based services really take off for small businesses — the mom and pop shops of the world continued to get more digital and more mobile.

As this year wraps up, we look back at the technological advancements that small businesses have… read more

TwitWipe Gives You a Fresh Start by Deleting All Your Tweets [VIDEO]

Do you feel like everything you’ve done for the last few years is recorded by Twitter’s eternal digital record? A new service, TwitWipe, can get rid of all your carefully crafted (and less carefully crafted) 140-character messages.

Rather than creating a new… read more

Top 10 Apps Downloaded in 2011

It was the year of Angry Birds domination. The popular game is the most-downloaded mobile app of 2011, rounding out the list of top 10 apps of the year ahead of Facebook, Twitter and Fruit Ninja.

A new report from mobile analytics app company Distimo looked at data on downloads across… read more

Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Small Business Owners

As humans, we’re continually looking to improve and advance. Whether it’s trying to eat better, to quit smoking once and for all, to spend less money, or to spend more time with family and friends, we formally or informally create our own goals — optimistic that we’ll stick to them… read more

Daily Inspiration #1013

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

Holiday Google Doodle Goes Live in the U.S., Plays “Jingle Bells”

Google has unveiled its holiday Google Doodle, an animated iteration that plays “Jingle Bells” and then automatically directs you to the results for a “Happy Holidays” search.

As previously reported, a holiday Google Doodle went live early Friday in countries including New Zealand, South Korea and Japan, where it was… read more

‘Digital Christmas Song’ Celebrates Tech Life, Name-Checks Mashable [VIDEO]

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

It’s hard to resist a video parody that mentions your publication, particularly one that tunefully celebrates the digital life during the holidays. Ottawa Tourism, you’ve got our attention.

Nick Iannitti, director of digital marketing for Ottawa… read more

‘Dark Knight Rises’ Trailer’s 12.5 Million Views Breaks iTunes Download Record

The trailer for Dark Knight Rises, the conclusion of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, got 12.5 million views through the iTunes Movie Trailers site in 24 hours, breaking the previous record by 2 million.

Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures released the trailer exclusively to iTunes on Monday, surpassing the… read more

13 Tech Luminaries the World Lost in 2011

This year, the world mourned the loss of technology icon Steve Jobs. But we didn’t just lose one tech luminary in 2011, we bid goodbye to a wave of the first pioneers in technology. From computer sales to software programming, the digital world that thrives today would not have existed… read more

Here Comes More 4G: AT&T Gets OK to Buy Huge Chunk of Wireless Spectrum

AT&T is about to get its hands on $1.9 billion worth of wireless spectrum in a deal that will let it bring faster 4G LTE wireless broadband to more than 300 million bandwidth-hungry wireless users in the U.S., AT&T announced Friday.

AT&T got permission from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission… read more

How Do You Deal With Overstressed, Irrational Clients? An Entrepreneur’s View

As an entrepreneur who has been on the client’s side of the design and development process, I’d like to discuss the thought process of the client, as well as some effective ways to interact with them. For example, why do they ask for Shakira music on the home page? And… read more

Abduzeedo Holiday Giveaway

There’s been a lot of giveaways lately on Abduzeedo but it’s the magic of the Holidays! It’s a great opportunity for us to share our love to you guys especially after 5 years! Just a little reminder to be safe during the Holidays and stay abducted by design! Now let’s… read more

Best Buy Runs Out of Goods, Cancels Some Online Orders [VIDEO]

Best Buy will not be able to fill all of its customers’ online orders before the holidays, the company has announced.

“Due to overwhelming demand of hot product offerings on BestBuy.com during the November and December time period, we have encountered… read more

In-Flight Wi-Fi Provider Gogo Files For $100M IPO

Gogo, a firm known for providing Wi-Fi to airlines including Virgin America, Delta and Air Canada, among others, has filed for an IPO that could raise as much as $100 million.

The filing reveals that Gogo posted $113.8 million in revenues for the first nine months of 2011, an 89.3%… read more

Today’s Top Stories: Best Buy’s Christmas Woes, Louis CK’s $1 Million

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories.

Best Buy Can’t Send All Online Orders Before Christmas

Best Buy said it won’t be able to fill… read more

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User Interface Design in Modern Search Engines

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The search engine is our best tool for sifting through all of today’s websites. There are billions of domains online and many of them haven’t even been crawled by search engines! Google is certainly the pioneer of this industry. But over the years we have… read more

Beautiful Houses: Foster Loop in Washington

The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful… read more

Man Uses Internet Memes for Marriage Proposal [VIDEO]

Like a boss, a man recently interrupted his girlfriend’s dinner to propose to her with Internet memes.

Timothy Tiah Ewe Tiam sneaked up on his long-time love interest Audrey Ooi Feng Ling at Neroteca, a restaurant in Malaysia, and began showing her poster-sized printed memes such as Socially Awkward Penguin, Y… read more

ConnectYard Connects Students and Profs Via Text, Social Media

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: ConnectYard

Quick Pitch: A social media platform that connects students and professors through their preferred form of… read more

It Doesn’t Matter If RIM Is Lying, It’s Still in Deep Trouble

When Research In Motion (RIM) announced that BlackBerry 10 devices would be delayed until late 2012, co-CEO Mike Lazaridis blamed the delay on needing to wait for dual-core, dual-mode LTE chipsets.

Early Thursday, Boy Genius Report refuted that story. Citing an unnamed “high-level RIM employee,” BGR said that the real… read more

Study Shows Pinterest Will Compete with Top 10 Social Networks [VIDEO]

Pinterest, a social networking site with an “online pinboard” interface, has made great strides this year. According to Experian Hitwise, this invitation-only site now has 40 times the number of total visits it had six months ago, now finding its way… read more

5 Ways to Win at Website Localization

Robert Laing is the founder of myGengo, a 500 Startups company that helps businesses all over the world go global with convenient, affordable and high quality human translation service that scales.

Let’s delve into the topic of website localization to learn exactly what every company needs before going global. But first,… read more

27% of Photos and Videos Now Captured on Smartphones [STUDY]

More than a quarter of photos and videos shot by individuals in the U.S. are now being captured by smartphones, according to an online survey of 3,300 Internet users ages 13 and up. Sales data suggest smartphones are replacing consumers’ need for low-end point-and-shoot cameras and camcorders.

The percentage of photos… read more

7 Ways Businesses Can Get More Social With SlideShare

Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy. She was recently elected to serve on the board of directors of WOMMA.

Online presentation website SlideShare is… read more

Twitter Delivers Bug-Fixing TweetDeck Update

Ever since Twitter unveiled its first Twitter-branded version of TweetDeck, there have been complaints about the Twitter dashboard’s stability and overall performance. Now Twitter is finally rolling out TweetDeck 1.1 for the desktop, as well as an update to the Web-based Chrome version.

There is some irony in TweetDeck’s 1.1 status…. read more

6 Crazy Tech Predictions for 2012

We live in a world of absolutes: Here’s what happened. Even when we look to the future, our predictions are couched in the world’s sometimes difficult realities. It can, to be honest, take all the fun out of guess work. So, once a year I allow myself to go beyond… read more

Medify: Stay Current on Your Medical Research

Do you always get straight answers or detailed explanation about your illness from your doctor? I didn’t think so. Medical professionals usually don’t have the time or interest to spoon feed common folk on complex medical terminologies. Even when they do, it might not be easy to wrap our brains… read more

4 Reasons 3D Movies Aren’t Just a Fad

Roy Taylor is a GM and EVP at Hollywood-based MasterImage 3D. You can follow him on Twitter @Roy_Masterimage.

There’s a lot of discussion these days about the viability of 3D and what the future holds for it.

Is it a gimmick? A trend? Or is it the next great frontier in… read more

Facebook and iPhone Lead Way on Klout’s Top Topics of 2011 Lists [INFOGRAPHIC]

Social media users had no shortage of things to discuss in 2011 as big news — good or bad — got even bigger online.

Hot topics that revolved around major tech companies or products such as Facebook, Netflix, YouTube, iPhone, Xbox 360 or Kindle Fire incited a flurry of online reactions.

In… read more

Daily Inspiration #1012

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

Why Real-World Socializing Is the Next Big Thing for Social Media

René Pinnell is the CEO of Foreca.st, a free mobile app that lets friends share where they are going and what they are doing. Foreca.st is the latest app from Hurricane Party.

Often, there is an ironic disconnect between your online and offline social networks. In other words, we’re “friends” with… read more

Gift-Giving Got You Stumped? This Site Can Help [VIDEO]

If you’re scrambling to find a Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa gift, but have no idea what to get, you might want to give Anonysize.me a shot.

The site, created by read more

Why Good Entrepreneurs Borrow, Great Ones Steal [VIDEO]

Fabrice Grinda is the CEO of OLX, one of the largest classified websites in the world, and he’s very excited about the emerging digital markets Russia and Brazil. His company, which he describes as Craiglist 2.0 for the rest of… read more

9 Awesome High-Tech Holiday Easter Eggs

YouTube Snowflakes

A new snowflake button can be clicked at the bottom right-hand side of certain YouTube videos to… read more

Video Inspiration #49 – Reader Submitted Works

Video Inspiration is a weekly(ish) post where we either feature a specific artist or show a sort of “best of” list of videos we’ve discovered during the week. Everything here may not be brand new, but we felt it worth sharing with the community. If you have good finds that… read more

White House Releases Infographic to Spur #40dollars Campaign Recognition

As part of its ongoing digital campaign to raise support for a two-month payroll tax cut extension, the White House released a new infographic Thursday showing that tweets with the hashtag #40dollars have been coming in from across the U.S.

The infographic also highlights a selection of individual tweets centered around… read more

Why People Are Not Using My Website the Way I Want Them To?!

Bad websites. The internet is full of them. Ugly ones, slow ones, buggy ones, hacked ones, and the worst of them all – what-the-hell-is-going-on-here ones. It seems like creating a good website is pure witchcraft… only it isn’t. And here’s why.

We all have our reasons (or our clients have them)… read more

Researchers Create ‘Sun-Believable’ Solar Cell Paint

Notre Dame researchers have created a semiconductive paste, which can turn surfaces its applied to into solar cells.

A team of researchers, lead by Professor Prashant Kamat, created the new material by coating nano-sized particles of titanium dioxide with either cadmium sulfide or cadmium selenide, and then suspending them in… read more

Christmas & New Year Special Giveaway: Prizes Worth Over $20,000

The end of this year is almost coming and Christmas is already on our doorsteps. It’s never too late to hang your stockings, keep milk and cookies and wait for Santa to drop in at your home with lots of gifts and Christmas cheer. It’s time for Santa’s gifts, for… read more

Freebie: New Twitter Profile Page GUI PSD

Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: a Twitter GUI PSD for the recently released Twitter UI update, designed by Jon Darke of Every Interaction and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The PSD provides the full mockup with all layers in vectors, allowing you… read more

Is Social Media Marketing Worth All the Effort?

Social media marketing is one area of marketing that some organizations question, especially since the true impact of social media marketing can be elusive.

With all the changes to the way social media marketing takes place, businesses are reasonably concerned with whether or not social media marketing is worth the… read more

Infographic: the best education websites by the numbers

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Facebook Names Top Games of 2011

Social gaming was a big trend in 2011 and we expect the market to continue to grow in 2012. Facebook, the biggest platform for social games, released its list of the most popular games of 2011.

Unlike most year-end lists, this one actually has quite a few surprises. I fully expected… read more

You Know Your Klout Score. What’s Your Kred Score?

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: Kred

Quick Pitch: Kred assigns influence scores to Twitter users.

Genius Idea: Transparency.

Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are… read more

New Expedition 30 Crew Members Launch to Station [VIDEO]

Three new Expedition 30 crew members began their journey to the International Space Station on Wednesday, according to NASA. The video above shows flight engineers Don Pettit, Oleg Kononenko and Andre Kuipers blasting off into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome space launch facility in Kazakhstan.

It’s called Expedition 30… read more

Logo Design: Numbers

We keep going through our weekly journey checking out great logos! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new topics, good ones, to share with you guys. Last week we had a great post about logos with shoes, and today it’s all about logos with numbers!

Every week we search… read more

Could Your Next Phone Have Intel Inside?

Intel has been dying to get its chips into mobile devices for a long time. Almost all phones and tablets today have processors based on the designs of U.K.-based ARM. Now Intel hopes to start chipping away (ouch!) at ARM’s near-total market share with a new kind of processor called… read more

Bud Light Searches Facebook For a “Correspondent” to Cover Super Bowl

Are you on Facebook? Do you like drinking beer and watching football? Then you might be just the person Bud Light is looking for.

The Anheuser-Busch brand on Wednesday launched a program on its Facebook Page seeking a Bud Light Hotel correspondent. The winner will cover Super Bowl XLVI from a… read more

Create Online Community Platforms Easily With Hoop.la

Community platforms are a great invention. Think of them as mini social networks where people can share information, comment on posts and connect to each other. Of course, we’ve already got sites such as Facebook and MySpace which will already do that for you but say you want a private… read more

6 Twitter Tips for Photographers

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22+ Last-Minute Gifts You Can Send by Email

1. iTunes gift card

A good ol’ standby, an iTunes gift card is always appreciated. Your recipient can download… read more

Dear Drupal: Season’s Greetings. Love, Smashing WordPress.

Every day I work with WordPress in one way or another. My Twitter feed is full of WordPress types, and I’m a regular at my local WordPress meetup. I’m a WordPress fan.

The developer across the hall from me works with Joomla. His Twitter feed is full of Joomla types, and… read more

NBA Stars to Answer Fans’ Questions Live on Facebook

NBA fans will have a chance to interact with some of the league’s biggest stars through a live-streamed Facebook town hall event on Thursday evening. The NBA will also give away 150 free gifts the same day via Twitter, the league announced on Wednesday.

NBA scoring champion Kevin Durant of the… read more

Daily Inspiration #1011

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

Obama Girls Can Expect Tech Gifts From Best Buy This Christmas

Ever wonder where the president of the U.S. does his holiday shopping? President Obama went to Best Buy in Alexandria, Va., while the rest of the first family was already on vacation in Hawaii.

Spoiler alert for Malia and Sasha: The tech gifts the President picked up included Just Dance… read more

Hands on With Kindle Fire Update 6.2.1

Amazon Kindle Fire Prepared for Update

The tablet is ready for an update.

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700,000 Android Devices Are Activated Every Day [VIDEO]

Google‘s Android Chief Andy Rubin has revealed that Android sales continue to climb, boasting 700,000 activated devices daily. In June, that number was 500,000.

Rubin announced the milestone on Google+ and Twitter late Tuesday.

Check out the video above to learn… read more

IBM: Mind-Reading Machines Will Change Our Lives

In five years, we’ll simply be able to think something, and a computer will respond. That’s the vision from IBM, which just published its “5 in 5″ forecast, which attempts to predict five technologies that have the potential to significantly change our lives in the next five years. One of… read more

75% of Worldwide Cellphone Users Send Text Messages [STUDY]

Mobile phones are universally popular — and so is text messaging. Cellphone users in 21 countries were surveyed on their mobile habits and 75% replied they send text messages.

A Pew Research Center Global Attitudes Project study, published Tuesday, examined worldwide use of digital communication tools such as mobile and… read more

Architect Day: Suppose Design Office

Today we have Suppose Design Office, from Japan, on the Architect Day. Makoto Tanijiri thinks that it is important to keep looking for something new as an architect. He defined his work as a chance to realize fresh ideas about buildings and relationships of all interactive elements. It is a… read more

Twitter Users Are More Likely to Follow Journalists Than News Organizations [VIDEO]

A recent study found that during the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, Twitter users were more likely to get information from journalists, bloggers and activists than from news organizations.

“Both revolutions featured prominent use of social media, both by activists organizing the… read more

Celebrate the Mashable Awards Winners at MashBash at CES

Now that the Mashable Awards winners have been announced, it’s time to celebrate their victory at MashBash during CES in Las Vegas.

We’ll be celebrating the best of digital at the brand new 1OAK Nightclub in the Mirage Hotel and Casino on Wednesday, January 11, 2012. You can expect a… read more

Here’s How Twitter Got Big [VIDEO]

A new study suggests good ol’ fashioned real-world networks played a bigger role in Twitter‘s path to prominence than online influencers.

MIT researchers analyzed Twitter’s user acquisition between 2006 and 2009 in 408 U.S. cities with relatively high numbers of Twitter users. They found at first the network spread… read more

NASA’s Virtual Snow Globe Looks at 10 Years of the White Stuff

NASA has released a video that highlights where snow graced the Earth during every month for more than 10 years.

The clip starts with a snow-covered map of the Earth on February 2000 and runs all the way up until last month. The maps show observations collected by the Moderate Resolution… read more

Microsoft’s So.cl Combines Social Networking and Student Research [VIDEO]

After months of speculation, Microsoft rolled out its semi-social network, So.cl. The site is aimed at students looking to collaborate and share searches.

The site also lets users create mood boards similar to Pinterest. “There is a bit of an art… read more

After 2012, Microsoft Is Done With CES Keynotes

Microsoft is ending its years-long run as the Consumer Electronics Show keynote kick-off event. Its 2012 keynote, which should highlight Windows 8 will be its last and next year will also mark the software giant’s last trade show booth at the event.

Microsoft made the surprise announcement Wednesday in a brief… read more