Mark Zuckerberg Pays Tribute to Steve Jobs

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has posted a message paying tribute to late Apple founder Steve Jobs. Writing on his Facebook profile, Zuckerberg wrote, “Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss… read more

Newspapers React to the Death of Steve Jobs [PICS]

As news of the death of Steve Jobs spread across the United States like wildfire, newspapers reacted, posting headlines and pictures of the fallen industry leader. Here’s a sample of headlines by some of the major newspapers in the United States.

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Jobs Family Statement: “Steve Died Peacefully”

In a statement, Steve Jobs’s family revealed that the visionary leader of Apple died peacefully.

The family also announced that a website will be erected “for those who wish to offer tributes and memories.”

Steve Jobs has been battling pancreatic cancer since 2004. He took his third and final leave of… read more

Steve Jobs Remembered: 10 of His Most Magical Moments [VIDEO]

Steve Jobs demos Apple Macintosh, 1984

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RIP Steve Jobs: Share Your Condolences [OPEN THREAD]

The social web has breathed a collective sigh of mourning.

Steve Jobs, longtime leader of Apple, passed away Wednesday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Site commenters, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ users alike are sharing their condolences for one of the most renowned tech innovators of our time. Apple.com transformed… read more

Steve Jobs: 1955 – 2011

Steven Paul Jobs, the co-founder and chairman of Apple, died Wednesday at the age of 56.

Born in San Francisco in 1955, Jobs grew up near Cupertino, Calif. After attending Reed College in Portland for one semester (and auditing classes for free for several more), Jobs took a job at Atari,… read more

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011: The Web Remembers

Steve Jobs has passed away, at the age of 56. Web users have turned to their social networks to share the news, the memories and inspiration from the former Apple founder and former CEO.

Apple.com has published its own memorial as well. And Facebook users have already created multiple Pages… read more

Apple’s Board of Directors on Steve Jobs

After a six year struggle, Steve Jobs was taken by his longtime battle with cancer.

Apple’s Board of Directors said the following in a statement:

“We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.

Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve… read more

Apple Pays Tribute to Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder and longtime leader of Apple, has passed away at the age of 56.

To honor his memory, Apple.com now displays a full-page tribute to the man that helped reinvent computing, entertainment and mobile. Apple has also posted a short letter. It reads as follows:

“Apple has lost… read more

Steve Jobs Has Died

Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman of the board, former CEO of Apple and industry icon for decades, has died.

Apple released this statement:

We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.

Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives…. read more

10 Cool Places to Learn the Art of Photoshop

The great thing about the internet is how much people are willing to share a heap of valuable information. When it comes to our favourite post-processing software, then it’s staggering the amount of great information on Photoshop if you know where to look. Well, now you do know!

Pastel Colored… read more

Yes, Sprint Will Offer Unlimited Data for iPhone 4S

Ask and ye shall receive. No sooner did we post our story on the top 10 burning questions that remain about the iPhone 4S than the first one gets answered. Sprint has confirmed it will be offering all-you-can-eat data packages on the iPhone 4S after all, according to AllThingsD.

“We will… read more

New iPhone Questions: 10 Things We Still Don’t Know

Apple’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” event answered some of our burning questions — such as what the next iPhone will look like (answer: same as the old one) and when we can get our hands on one (Oct. 14). But to quote the final season of Lost: Every answer only leads… read more

Could This 10,000-Square-Foot QR Code Be the Largest Ever? [VIDEO]

A Jersey Shore racetrack has been covered in 80 gallons of black and white paint in one company’s quest to create the largest QR code of all time.

The monstrous code spans 10,000 square feet on the Wall Stadium Speedway — which means it’s only visible in all its glory from… read more

Comcast, Verizon & HBO Coming to Xbox Live

Microsoft has signed on an impressive roster of 40 TV and entertainment partners to Xbox Live, as the service evolves from a gaming hub into a full-range multimedia center.

In the U.S., Bravo, Comcast, HBO Go, Verizon FiOS, Epix and SyFy will be joining existing partners Netflix, Hulu Plus and AT&T… read more

3 More Reasons to Attend the Mashable Media Summit

The second annual Mashable Media Summit will bring to life the biggest changes occurring in media. Held on Nov. 4 at the TimesCenter in New York City, the one-day conference will examine how technology is transforming journalism, advertising and media business models.

Industry professionals who have recently joined our dynamic… read more

Sketch a Spaceship in Perspective With Photoshop

Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners,… read more

Typography Mania #100

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.

Click here to check out all the previous Typography… read more

Google+ Now Lets You Lock Down Posts Before Publishing

One of the distinctive features of Google+ is that it lets you disable comments and lock down posts from sharing, but so far, you were only able to do it after you share a post.

Now, you can do it before you share, which makes much more sense; after all,… read more

10 CMSes for Easier Image Management

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While WordPress (using the numerous portfolio themes and plugins) has become a very popular choice for creating photo blogs or online portfolios, sometimes you may just need a dedicated CMS in order to create a web gallery. In this article, we shall take a look at… read more

New iPhone Blues: Why Apple’s CEO Doesn’t Care What You Hoped To See

There’s an odd sense of deflation across much of the tech world in the wake of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s first product launch Tuesday. It is a feeling akin to your favorite team making a pretty dull night out of what was supposed to be a major game, as… read more

If Google’s Management Doesn’t Use Google+, Then Why Should You?

One of the most important rules in software is to eat your own dog food. The concept is simple: if you have confidence in your product, you should be using it.

Perhaps somebody should tell that to Google’s senior management, because they are failing to eat their own dog food when… read more

The 20 Most-Shared iPhone Ads [VIDEOS]

Face Time is not only a cool feature, but it was a gift to Apple‘s ad agency as well.

TBWAMedia Arts Lab, which handles Apple’s advertising, took the idea of displaying a touching moment via Face Time and ran with it. Apple’s ads have used a variation on that theme about… read more

Disney to Re-release 4 Hit Animated Movies in 3D

Disney is planning to re-release a cadre of its most popular and beloved animated films in 3D.

The decision followed close on the heels of the re-release of the Lion King in 3D. That film is close to crossing the $80 million mark, according to Disney.

While $80 million may not… read more

iPhone 4S: 4 Reasons to Upgrade

Apple has finally revealed its next iPhone — the iPhone 4S. The company is, as would be expected, calling it “the most amazing iPhone yet.” But what makes it better than the iPhone 4?

Apple fanboys and girls the world round might be disappointed that the new device does not live… read more

How Magazines Are Adapting to the Mobile Revolution

Editors and executives from several leading magazine publishers took the stage at the Magazine Publishers of America’s Magazine Media Conference in New York City Tuesday. Discussion centered around early lessons from tablet publishing and the challenges of extending their content to a proliferating number of tablet sizes and platforms as… read more

iPhone 4S, New iPods & Siri: Everything You Need to Know About Apple’s Big Day

Apple gathered the world’s tech press at its headquarters in Cupertino to announce its latest products — and to dash the hopes of anyone expecting the iPhone 5 — on Tuesday.

What CEO Tim Cook did reveal during his first major product announcement was the iPhone 4S — which, if… read more

Apple Shows Us What the iPhone 4S Can Do [VIDEO]

Apple announced its latest handset, the iPhone 4S, on Tuesday. Over at Apple.com, the company also posted this video showcasing the device and its new features.

Although the iPhone 4S looks almost identical to the iPhone 4, inside, the phone has been totally overhauled. Not only does it have a faster… read more

iPhone 5 A No-Show: Did Apple Fail To Manage Expectations?

For the past year, we’ve endured a near-daily slew of rumors about a device called the iPhone 5. When Apple delayed its release of a new phone until Fall 2011, it only heightened expectations. Surely, if we were to wait more than the usual year between versions of the iPhone,… read more

iPhone 4S: When and Where You’ll Be Able to Get It [PICS]

Apple has officially announced its fifth generation handset, the iPhone 4S. The new device, which retains the iPhone 4 form factor, will be available for pre-order on Oct. 7 and available to purchase on Oct. 14.

The new phone will be available on more than 70 carriers in 100 countries… read more

Apple Announces iPhone 4S

Apple has unveiled the iPhone 4S, the next version of its popular smartphone.

It will be available for pre-order on Oct. 7 and available to purchase on Oct. 14. And like previous versions of the iPhone, the iPhone 4S will retail for $199 for a 16 GB model and $299 for… read more

LEAKED: iPhone 4S Pics Appear on Apple’s Website

The first images of the iPhone 4S have apparently leaked directly from Apple’s website.

By playing with the URLs on the company’s website, 9to5mac was able to pull up an image of what appears to be the next-generation iPhone. The devices (black and white) look remarkably similar to the iPhone 4…. read more

Celebrities Say F–k You to Famine [VIDEO]

A host of celebrities have joined anti-poverty advocacy group ONE to launch a PSA campaign fighting the growing famine in Somalia.

The video features an all-star cast including George Clooney, Bono, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba, Ewan McGregor, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mike Huckabee, Colin Farrell and more. The premise is that… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.106)

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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 you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our RSS feed.

Scalable and… read more

10 Online HTML5 Tools For Web Designers

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If you haven’t heard, HTML5 is taking the web by storm! It is currently being enhanced by experts to provide us Web Designers & Developers with awesome new revolutionary web page features!

HTML5 Background Information

For those of you who are new to HTML5, here is some quick… read more

Sean Parker Joins Twitter, With An Apology to Zuckerberg

Napster co-founder and former Facebook president Sean Parker is appearing in our newsfeeds with increasing frequency these days.

First, there was the Forbes cover. Then there were the Facebook ads asking users to “Like” Sean Parker on Facebook, which Gawker discovered was part of an effort to build up buzz for… read more

RIP Diggnation: The End of a Web Video Era

After six years and 340 episodes, weekly online video show Diggnation is coming to an end, parent company Revision3 has announced.

Featuring Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, Diggnation pairs the top tech stories from Digg with copious amounts of alcohol, frat boy humor and general nerd humor. The show made its… read more

Mafia Wars 2 Is All About Aggression [PREVIEW]

Zynga’s new Mafia Wars 2 makes the hotly anticipated game more social by including Facebook shout-outs and contains more mature themes than its predecessor.

Zynga, the studio behind immensely popular games including FarmVille, Empires & Allies and the original Mafia Wars, will release in the coming weeks the sequel,… read more

iPhone 5 Wish List Starts With 4G and Bigger Screen

Sure, there’s a tiny chance Apple will not unveil the iPhone 5 at tomorrow’s Cupertino launch event, but it’s highly unlikely Apple would invite the press to its campus for a relatively insignificant upgrade like an iPhone 4S. Apple’s going to roll out the big guns. And the features of… read more

Estee Lauder Facebook App Gives Breast Cancer Awareness a Makeover

The Estee Lauder Company’s 19-year-old Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign is getting a social media makeover this October. The new Shine a Light on Breast Cancer campaign includes the launch of a new Facebook app, website, and read more

Facebook’s New Advertising Strategy Is Brilliant and Unexpected

Facebook and Google get compared a lot these days, but with its new advertising strategy, Facebook is adapting Google’s ad strategy to its social media.

Improving advertising on the popular social network is not a new or particularly innovative idea. Still the transition from advertising as a message-delivering medium to… read more

David Hasselhoff Rides a Toy Horse in the Clouds for Air New Zealand [VIDEO]

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

The Internet’s fascination with David Hasselhoff continues this week with this odd ad for Air New Zealand that features the Hoff doing just what the title of this story says.

The premise is that “The Inseparable Sheep… read more

5 Brands That Are Surprisingly Successful on Facebook

The Digital Marketing Series is supported by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, Mass., that makes a full platform of marketing software, including social media management tools.

When Facebook became a big deal a couple of years ago, it was fairly easy to predict that some brands would… read more

Completing the Animation in Adobe Edge

Tom Green wraps up his video series about Adobe Edge, a new web motion and design tool. In this tutorial series, Tom creates an animation based on the LayersMagazine.com logo. Click here to see the first 3 videos of this tutorial series.

Download a free trial of Adobe’s Edge software from… read more

The Whys And The Hows Of Textures In Web Design

Texture is becoming integral to design. It’s gone beyond being a trend — it’s now a simple and effective way to add depth to a website. Wielding the power of texture is a great responsibility. It increases the effectiveness of websites and is a quality tool in the arsenal of designers. It… read more

The Perfect Office #107

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Yahoo and ABC News Join Forces

Yahoo and ABC News have announced an agreement to share content including stories and web videos.

Under the deal, announced Monday, Yahoo and ABC News will reach 100 million users a month and redistribute content including GoodMorningAmerica.com, which is now on Yahoo.

The two will also introduce original web video… read more

Apple Might Only Launch iPhone 4S, Facebook Timelines Launch Delayed: Today’s Top Stories

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

Apple Might Only Launch iPhone 4S

New evidence and speculation suggests that perhaps only the… read more

HTC Security Flaw Exposes Private Data [REPORT]

Several HTC Android handsets, including EVO 3D, EVO 4G and Thunderbolt, are susceptible to a security flaw that exposes users’ private data, including emails, phone numbers and SMS data, according to a report from Android Police.

HTC recently added a suite of logging tools to some of its devices that gather… read more

Designers Know Your Code: Web Design Tutorials

As almost any web designer worth their salt, and a large percentage of web developers will tell you, to be fully considered a web designer you have to have some background in code. Not to the depth that full on developers must, but it really is unfair to the rest… read more

Elmedia Player: The Right App With The Wrong Purpose?

At AppStorm, I’ve reviewed all kinds of media players and managers for Mac, from the great (Plex), to the not-so-great (Songbird). I’ve always been looking for something that has wonderful management features, but is also a pleasure to actually consume media with. While I use and love Plex, it still… read more

#OccupyWallStreet Takes Over Twitter & the Brooklyn Bridge [PICS & VIDEOS]

The Occupy Wall Street movement, a series of nationwide demonstrations that opposes corporate greed and social inequality, has caught fire in recent days. What started as a single protest in New York City has spread to multiple cities and resulted in hundreds of arrests.

The movement began in July after anti-consumerist… read more

The Significant 7: The Most Influential Phones of the Last 10 Years

October 1 marks 10 years since Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo flipped the switch on the world’s first 3G network in Tokyo. Heralding new speeds and amazing possibilities such as “real-time videoconferencing or sending and receiving e-mail attachments with 10,000 characters,” it was an important moment in cellular history.

To celebrate this… read more

10 Neat Nintendo Facts

Despite a few flops along the way, Nintendo has been one of the most successful players in the video game industry since the early 1980s.

But how much do you know about Nintendo? Did you know it’s over 100 years old? Do you know which American sports team it owns? Did… read more

YouTube Cover Song Face-Off: Maroon 5′s “Moves Like Jagger”

Each week, Mashable picks a popular song, finds 10 covers of it and asks you to vote for your favorite.

“Moves Like Jagger” from Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera — both Best New Artist Grammy winners — lands atop Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart this week.

The song debuted June 21 to… read more

Top 10 Reasons Your Website Is Losing Sales

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

UK retailers are losing more than £8 billion ($12.6 million USD) per year due to website inefficiencies, according to research by data and analytics firm QuBit.

Using its… read more

62 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

This week seemed to go by fast, am I wrong? You barely had time to finish last week’s roundup — it was a doozy with 61 stories — before our newest list rolled out this week.

Not to worry! Mashable has organized all of our features into manageable categories so you… read more

Amazon Silk: An Ingenious Plan to Get You To Buy More Stuff

Pretty much everyone knew that Amazon would introduce a tablet PC last week, but what may have come as a surprise to many was that the company also planned to get into the browser business.

Amazon Silk, as the new browser is known, is a somewhat unusual product introduction for the… read more

WordPress 101 Video Training Part 1: The Dashboard

View engaging conference lectures, interesting how to discussions, and high quality freelance advice via video here on FreelanceSwitch.

This week we look at WP101 Video Training Part 1: The Dashboard by Shawn Hesketh. In this video he reviews the WordPress Dashboard, in the backend administration area. This is part… read more

digital state of mind

empire state building. brooklyn bridge. new york desire. Style based on the “waiting for the end” music video. what else? feel digital now.

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Desktopr: Put a Website On Your Desktop

There are two types of Mac users, those that keep their desktops sparkling clean and those who use their desktops as a digital junk drawer that holds every random scrap of content they come by.

I’m the former type. I like a good, clean desktop, often with an extremely minimal… read more

Facebook Is Getting Too Damn Complicated [OPINION]

Ever noticed how the remote for each new TV you check out seems to have more and more buttons? Or how that online game you used to enjoy is feeling less like fun as the options pile on? It’s not your fault. It’s a well-documented phenomenon, found in hardware,… read more

SpaceX Plans 100% Reusable Spacecraft With Retrorocket Re-entry [VIDEO]

Private aerospace company SpaceX plans to develop reusable spacecraft that gently land on Earth or other planets using retrorockets, according to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

The idea is for both the space capsule and its rocket booster to be capable of “propulsive landing,” where after their reentry into the atmosphere using… read more

Social Good Summit 2011: A Worldwide Success [VIDEO]

Mashable, 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation held the second annual Social Good Summit last week. The event united a dynamic community of global leaders to discuss how new media is creating innovative global solutions.

The summit was a huge success. It had 1,700 attendees during the week, and… read more

Twitter Buzz: How Do You Like Windows 8 So Far? [CHART]

What do users of the latest Windows 8 beta think of the nascent operating system upgrade? A good way to find out is through Twitter — by investigating patterns in thousands of comments and opinions.

That’s exactly what social media listening firm Mashwork did, resulting in this chart of data, taking… read more

Battlefield 3: EA’s New Shooter Gets Social With Battlelog [HANDS-ON]

We got some hands-on time with Battlelog, a new social layer for Battlefield 3, the upcoming first-person shooter from Electronic Arts.

The Battlefield games have always been in direct competition with the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series. Call of Duty has outsold EA’s Battlefield in recent years, but EA thinks… read more

150+ Best Classic Video Game Box Art Covers – Retro Inspiration

150+ Best Classic Video Game Box Art Covers – Retro Inspiration

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92% of Americans Take Action for Social Good [INFOGRAPHIC]

Ninety-two percent of American’s took action for social change this past year, according to the Social Change Impact Report from Walden University.

The report was created as a kind of barometer for who is engaged in social change, what issues matter to them and how they’re working together. Surprisingly, tech… read more

How to Deploy your First Rails App: New on Premium

In this Premium video tutorial, we’ll teach you how to deploy your first Rails web application with Heroku. Particularly if you’re somewhat new to Rails, you may find that you’re met with a long string of errors when pushing your app and database to their servers. Don’t worry, though; this… read more

29-Year-Old Deaf Woman Hears Her Voice for the First Time [VIRAL VIDEO]

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

Sloan Churman was born deaf. For 29 years, she has relied on reading lips and, to a very limited extent, hearing aids.

Two months ago, she received Envoy Medical’s Esteem Implant, which utilizes ear drum vibrations to… read more

Canadian Mother Will Broadcast Her Natural Birth Online

A chiropracter in Ottawa gave an unusual invitation to the World Wide Web this week.

“Hi, I’m Dr. Nancy Salgueiro with YourBirthCoach.com,” she said in a YouTube video, “and I’d like to invite you into my home to watch my live birth online.”

The mother of two, who runs a… read more

Video Q&A Platform VYou Makes Broadcasting Personal

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: VYou

Quick Pitch: VYou is a video Q&A platform.

Genius Idea: A video-sharing site with an interactive twist.

VYou’s… read more

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: October 2011

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one — desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the… read more

Getting Started in Digital Photography

Digital photography has many advantages over using a traditional film-based camera. Once one has made the initial investment, one is not expected to purchase endless rolls of films and pay for their development and enlargement. The most important benefit of digital photography is that a person can take pictures again… read more

USA’s “Psych” Social TV Campaign Scores With Fans

USA Network launched a fun new interactive social media mystery game tie-in for its hit TV show Psych.

The game is called #HashTagKiller and it takes place on the Web using Facebook’s Open Graph API. The game launched on Wednesday and will unfold online over the next seven weeks. The… read more

MAD’s ThunderLOLCats Set Memes-Per-Minute Record [VIRAL VIDEO]

How well do you know Internet memes? Find out with this video from Cartoon Network’s MAD TV show, which created this meme-a-licious compendium of goofiness encompassing more than a decade of Internet culture.

Tell us in the comments which of your fave memes were left out, and if you’re sick and… read more

Look at the Honey Badger, He’s Cracking Pistachios! [VIDEO]

Internet meme and utterly fearless mammal the Honey Badger, not content with his 18 million views on YouTube, is headed for the TV screen. He opens pistachios in true badass style in the latest attention-getting stunt from Wonderful Pistachios.

The 19-second ad, a kind of condensed, cleaned-up version of the viral… read more

YouTube Down? Video Service Sees First Disruption Since May

Having trouble watching that video a friend just sent you? That’ll be because YouTube is experiencing its first service interruption in months, and its first significant downtime of the year.

YouTube.com itself appears to be working, but links to individual videos are extremely sporadic. Downrightnow.com has called a “likely service… read more

SaneBox: Spend Less Time in Your Inbox

I don’t have to write anything more about the annoyance of dealing with a constant barrage of emails day in and day out. From those dealing with a handful of emails to those getting hundreds of them, the collective feeling is that of pain and boredom. What is supposed to… read more

Win a Copy of Ensoul or MacHider: 10 Licenses Up for Grabs!

The great folks at MacPaw have hooked us up with five codes for Ensoul and five for MacHider. Because we think our readers are awesome, we’re giving them away to you!

Tweet to Enter

Entering is simple, all you have to do is click the link below and send out the resulting… read more

Fall TV Premieres: Who Won the Social Media Wars?

Fall marks a whole new season of television show premieres. As shows battle to win the airwaves, tracking platform SocialGuide has figured out which shows won the social media wars.

SocialGuide tracked Facebook comments, tweets, overall followers and a variety of other stats on 12 of the most hotly anticipated Fall… read more

Video Inspiration #37

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… read more

Amazon Kindle Fire Just Hijacked Android

One aspect of the Amazon Kindle Fire has consistently been understated by the Amazon team: the Kindle Fire runs on Android.

Amazon didn’t hide the fact that Android powers the Kindle Fire — and allows it to access Amazon’s Appstore for Android — but the message is clear. This is not… read more

Why Facebook Timeline Will Be Huge for Brands

Zeny Huang is an Emerging Media Strategist at JWT New York where she helps brands connect with fans in innovative and meaningful ways using social media. You can follow her on Twitter @Zenidala.

When Facebook unveiled Timeline last week, many users were struck by the idea of humanizing your profile by… read more

David Hasselhoff Dresses Like a Cheerleader and Destroys a Pink Limo [VIDEO]

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

You thought we were kidding? It’s OK, we thought it was a joke too. In this promo video for the downloadable video game Burnout Crash! David Hasselhoff dresses up in a cheerleader outfit and blows up… read more

Which Amazon Kindle Would You Consider Buying First? [POLL]

Amazon is offering consumers new goodies that will heat up the ereader and tablet markets: Kindle Fire and the Kindle Touch — just in time for the holiday shopping blitz.

The company’s first tablet, Kindle Fire, two versions of the new Kindle Touch and the price-slashed Kindle will likely attract… read more

Lightroom Video – Colorizing Presets

First off, I wanted to let you know I’ve been posting over at Google+ as well. If you haven’t started an account yet, give it a try. It seems to be a great place for photographers. And Circle me while you’re at it A while back I created… read more

Quick Tip: Create a Versatile Transparent Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

In this video Quick Tip, learn how to use a little-known feature of the Transparency panel to create a glowing, transparent text effect.

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How To Make An eBook

Making an eBook is easy, regardless of your coding experience. This is good, because 99.9% of your time should be spent on writing and getting your book out there, rather than on technology.

EPUB And Kindle

Any electronic book can be called an eBook, but because over 90% of all eBooks are… read more

A Showcase of Landing Pages Designed for Conversion

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The best landing pages are the ones that have been built with one specific goal in mind. Whether it’s to encourage users to sign up, encourage purchases or convince people to buy a product, the landing page can make or break a sale.

It’s often not enough… read more

Amazon’s New Kindles: What You Need to Know [PICS & VIDEO]

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A+E Uses Facebook to Connect You to the Stars

Facebook’s 800 million-member social graph should be able to show how you’re linked to celebrities and historic icons of yore. That’s the premise behind A+E Networks just-launched Bio.com website.

The new Bio.com, the online home of A+E’s long-running and Emmy Award-winning Biography series, shows visitors who log in via Facebook how… read more

Facebook Users Beware: Facebook’s New Feature Could Embarrass You

If you didn’t watch Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook announcements last week — and of course the vast majority of Facebook users did not — you may be in for a surprise. Aside from the dramatically redesigned Facebook Timeline profile pages, which roll out in the coming weeks (and which I’ve… read more

Facebook Privacy: 3 Fights to Expect When You Get the New Timeline

As an adult, you have responsibilities — an income, maybe a mortgage, possibly children. That’s great! Congrats. Now is certainly not the time to be throwing caution to the wind — just know that Facebook will be doing that for you.

The Facebook Timeline resurfaces information you thought permanently buried, or… read more

YouTube Planet: Who’s Watching Videos Online? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Videos are just about the biggest thing on the Internet right now, according to a study from Wistia, a video-hosting company.

The infographic shows that 71% of Internet users visit video-sharing sites like YouTube and Vimeo. This number has shot up from just 33% in 2006. The graphic also shows interesting… read more

Saudi Princess Tweets: Female Driver’s Lashing Sentence Revoked

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has revoked the sentence of 10 lashings that a woman was meant to receive for driving in the kingdom, according to a tweet from a Saudi princess’s Twitter account.

Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel tweeted the news Wednesday, saying, “Thank God, the lashing of Shaima is cancelled. Thanks to… read more

Amazon Kindle Fire: iPad Killer or Ereader Substitute? [POLL]

As tablet after tablet fail to gain significant market share against the iPad, many have attached their iPad-killing dreams to the Amazon tablet.

Amazon unveiled that tablet, the Kindle Fire, on Wednesday. While its functionality is significantly more restricted than that of tablets like the iPad, some argue that its relatively… read more

Amazon Fire Puts Barnes & Noble in a Tight Spot

Barnes & Noble has has asked investors for a while to be patient with its ebook initiatives, but Amazon’s Fire has turned up the heat.

B&N began testing its investors’ resolve in February, when the company suspended its dividend to plow more money into Nook. It’s a move that would have… read more

Amazon Kindle Fire: First Impressions

Amazon just schooled the tablet market. The Fire, a $199, 7-inch color touch-screen tablet may be the first blockbuster Android tablet, though no one will care that it’s running the Android OS.

On the outside (and I do mean “outside” — Amazon wouldn’t let journalists touch or test drive the Fire),… read more

Typography Mania #99

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.

Click here to check out all the previous Typography… read more