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Facebook Friends For Sale: This Time It’s Not a Game
With all the buzz around social media, opportunistic and shady businesses are savvy to the fact that those with less than perfect intentions want to take the easy street to instant credibility.Enter social media salesman, uSocial, a company that has…
Microsoft Apologizes for Photoshop Trainwreck
Earlier today, two screenshots of an ad from one of Microsoft’s sites began circling internet forums and blogs: one depicted a conference table with a couple of happy employees: an Asian man, a black man, and a white woman. The…
Disqus V3 Launches: Publishers and Commenters Get Their Own Services
At Mashable, we really like Disqus and even premiered its social media comments feature back in March. Today, the commenting service is rolling out Disqus V3 and it promises to be the biggest change to the product since its inception…
STUDY: 20% Increase in Companies Blocking Social Media Sites
Just off the heels of a report that 45% of employers now screen social media profiles during the hiring process is more research on corporate social media behavior. It turns out that more and more companies are doing more than…
Google Listen: Google Releases an Audio Search App
Google Labs, the testing ground for the search giant’s experimental products, just released a new project today: Google Listen, an audio search engine that runs as a Google Android app (for now). It allows you to stream or download podcasts,…
TWITTER ANALYSIS: 40% of Tweets Are Pointless Babble
With Twitter being such a hot trend right now, research firms have been anxious to study how people are using the social platform, and analyze trends in aggregate view. One such company, data analytics provider, Pear Analytics, set out to…
Will You Pay For News Online? Rupert Murdoch Says You Will
News Corporation isn’t doing so hot right now. The media conglomerate (and owner of MySpace) has seen huge losses in the last year as newspaper revenues have crumbled and the online ad market has been stung by the recession. That…
Pirate Bay Sale on Life Support
We were shell-shocked when Global Gaming Factory X AB, a Swedish software corporate, announced it was acquiring The Pirate Bay for $7.8 Million. The Pirate Bay, the world’s epicenter for torrents and illegal P2P file distribution, sold to a company…
TwitCam: Live Video Arrives on Twitter
Twitter has been an incredible boon to online live streaming. With a single tweet, a broadcaster can inform thousands or even millions of followers that he or she is on live video and draw those potential viewers in. We think…
Is Crowdfunding the Future of Journalism?
Leah Betancourt is the digital community manager at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minn. She is @l3ahb3tan on Twitter. Crowdfunding, or getting many people to donate small amounts of cash to fund a project, startup, or service, is nothing new.…
Twitter’s 1,928 Percent Growth and Other Notable Social Media Stats
Earlier this month, we looked at some numbers from Web tracking firm Compete, showing the current growth (or lack thereof) at many of the companies we cover. Today, some interesting new stats come our way from Nielsen Online, telling a…
Pandora 1.1.0 Released with Stereo AAC+
Pandora has launched version 1.1.0 today. In previous versions, you could only get mono AAC via your mobile connection. Now, stereo AAC+ is available just like you find on your wi-fi connection! You can download Pandora for free via your…
Google Calendar Gets Its Own Experimental Labs Features
Even though incredibly basic, Gmail Tasks has provided a simple way for Gmail users to create to-do lists while processing email. Today, Tasks is graduating from Labs to become a default email feature accessible under the “Contacts” link. Tasks graduation…
Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following
This isn’t something I was noticing (hey, I follow more than 5,000 people), but Twitter acknowledges on its own blog that “some users are seeing tweets from users they do not follow.” Needless to say, such an issue could create…
Skyfire Alpha for BlackBerry screenshots and impressions
Bla1ze from CB has been using Skyfire for BlackBerry and it looks to be a huge improvement for the BlackBerry internet browsing experience. While the browser is still in Alpha testing, it’s looking really slick. According to the company, some…
Facebook Simplifies Event Planning
Facebook has become a significant player in event planning. After all, why use a service like Evite when all of your friends are already on Facebook? Planning an event on Facebook is already fairly easy – you just click on…
BackType Releases Tweetcount to Challenge Tweetmeme for Retweets
Retweets have quickly become the best way to share great links on Twitter. And as we explained in our guide to retweeting, there are many ways to retweet and to track retweets. The most recognized brand in this area though…
Tumblr app for BlackBerry with video and audio to come
Tumblr is a great platform for the casual, personal style blog and they’ve got a BlackBerry app. This isn’t breaking news or anything but we haven’t written about them yet. Hippocamp developed the Tumblr app which allows you to create,…
4chan Versus Twitter: Round One
Internet pranksters, gathered around the popular anonymous internet forum 4chan, have seemingly orchestrated an attack on Twitter, creating a number of fake accounts and pushing the hashtag #gorillapenis to the trending topics. The attack now seems to be under control,…
Spam In Twitter Trends, Again (Update: Not Really Spam)
Twitter’s trending topics are a great way to find out what’s hot in the Twitterverse, but they’re also a haven for malicious hackers and spammers who are constantly finding new ways on how to abuse them. This time, an odd,…
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