Top 10 Most Popular Topics on Twitter This WeekSaturday, January 23, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/23/top-twitter-topics-jan-23/service=bit.ly"/aWhat did people buzz about the most this week? Who was the singer that people tweeted the most about? What issue caught the world#8217;s collective attention?/ppSocial media is not only a great medium for conversation, but it#8217;s also an effective way to discover and analyze the popular topics of the day. By aggregating and picking apart the millions of tweets, status updates, and posts generated on the web every day, it#8217;s possible to figure out what people care about in real-time. [...] Read more |
Foursquare Beats Yelp and Gowalla in Reader PollFriday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/23/poll-foursquare-beats-yelp-and-gowalla/service=bit.ly"/aIt#8217;s been another exciting week here in our long-running a href="http://www.mashable.com/tag/web-faceoff"Faceoff Series/a. We pitted three of the top #8220;check-in#8221; a href="http://mashable.com/2010/01/18/local-faceoff-yelp-foursquare-gowalla/"location-based mobile services/a against each other to find out which among them is the preferred choice for Mashable readers. [...] Read more |
Time-lapse Footage of Flight 1549 Exhumed from the Hudson [VIDEO]Friday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/flight-1549-video/service=bit.ly"/aAfter US Airways flight 1549 emergency landed in New York#8217;s Hudson River last January, a href="http://mashable.com/2009/12/26/twitter-year-review/"citizen journalism provided the first on-the-scene reporting/a, thanks to Janis Krums#8217; a href="http://twitpic.com/135xa" target="_blank"infamous Twitpic/a of the crash./ppMore citizen journalism from a href="http://www.kontain.com/david/"David Martin/a resulted in the a href="http://laughingsquid. [...] Read more |
Google Founders to Sell 10 Million of Their Google SharesFriday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/google-founders-sell-shares/service=bit.ly"/aLarry Page and Sergey Brin, the two billionaire co-founders of Google, will each sell 5 million of their Google shares over the next five years, according to a href="http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312510011019/d8k.htm" target="_blank"an SEC filing/a./ppSince Mr. Page and Mr. Bring are significant shareholders and executives for the technology giant, they are required to report their transaction plans for their piece of the company they founded over a decade ago. [...] Read more |
YouTube Working to Bring Major Studios to its Movie Rental ServiceFriday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/youtube-movie-rentals-deals/service=bit.ly"/aNot surprisingly, it appears that YouTube’s ambitions for getting in on the online move rental game extend far beyond the a href="http://mashable.com/2010/01/20/youtube-movie-rentals-2/"5 independent films/a they made available earlier this week./ppThe Google-owned video sharing site is once again talking to the major movie studios about offering up their content for rental, following reports last Fall that a href="http://mashable. [...] Read more |
HOW TO: Add Multitouch Support to Your Nexus OneFriday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/nexus-one-multitouch/service=bit.ly"/aOne of the most common complaints about Google#8217;s new a href="http://www.mashable.com/tag/nexus-one"Nexus One/a Android wunderkind is that it a href="http://mashable.com/2009/12/18/googles-nexus-one-no-multitouch/"lacks native multitouch support/a, making things like resizing objects with a finger pinch gesture impossible./ppThat is, until now. Developer a href="http://twitter.com/TaimurAsad" target="_blank"Taimur Asad/a has posted a href="http://www. [...] Read more |
Hot Tub Time Machine: The Anatomy of a Social Media CampaignFriday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/hot-tub-time-machine/service=bit.ly"/aa href="http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/HTTM-top.jpg"/aWe believe that the movie industry has embraced social media in a big way. Not only do social networks and the Internet offer a direct connection to fans and potential consumers, but campaigns can be better targeted and better measured. Avatar, District 9, and Paranormal Activity are all good examples of what social media can do for a film. [...] Read more |
TalentTrove Helps Creatives Build Online Portfolios For FreeFriday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/talenttrove-helps-creatives-build-online-portfolios-for-free/service=bit.ly"/aThis post is part of Mashable#8217;s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details a href="http://mashable.com/bizspark"here/a. The series is made possible by a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com/BizSpark/Pages/At_a_Glance. [...] Read more |
What’s Up With Virtual Worlds? [ANALYSIS]Friday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/virtual-worlds/service=bit.ly"/aa href="http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/vwheader.jpg"/aFrom 2005 up through 2008, virtual worlds seemed like the a href="http://mashable.com/2008/06/24/imvu-milestone/"hottest ticket/a in tech, but we#8217;ve heard less about them in recent months. We imagined the people of Earth leading double lives in alternate realities. It was the stuff of science fiction, like flying cars and robot butlers, and unlike those things, it actually looked like it could become reality. [...] Read more |
The Sims 3 Tops PC Sales Charts and Is Booming OnlineFriday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/the-sims-3-sales/service=bit.ly"/aa href="http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/thesims3screen.jpg"/aThe Sims franchise of computer games is now 10 years old, but it#8217;s still sitting at the top of the charts. The latest installment, The Sims 3, has been named the a href="http://www.kidzworld.com/article/22749-the-sims-3-tops-the-charts-in-2009-as-1-best-selling-pc-game-worldwide" target="_blank"top-selling PC game of 2009/a by the a href="http://www. [...] Read more |
BREAKING: Twitter Launches Location-Based Trending TopicsFriday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/twitter-local-trend/service=bit.ly"/aTwitter has begun rolling out location-based trending topics. These pictures, courtesy of a href="http://twitter.com/lisabarone" target="_blank"@lisabarone/a, show the new feature:/ppMore in a moment#8230;/p img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/twitter-local-trend/" alt="" / Read more |
Twitter Launches Location-Based Trending TopicsFriday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/twitter-local-trend/service=bit.ly"/aTwitter has begun rolling out location-based trending topics./ppThe product is officially called Local Trends. In a statement to us, a href="http://mashable.com/social-media/twitter"Twitter/a said the following:/pp#8220;We#8217;re rolling out local trends to 1 percent of users today, but we#8217;ll share more information when it reaches a larger audience hopefully sometime next week. We#8217;ll keep you posted when that happens. [...] Read more |
Google Search Now Answers Your QuestionsFriday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/google-search-updates/service=bit.ly"/aa href="http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/search-1.jpg"/aGoogle#8217;s just a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/understanding-web-to-make-search-more.html" target="_blank"rolled out/a two new features #8212; answer highlights in search results and rich snippets for events #8212; in the ongoing process to improve the underlying technology and functionality of its core product: Search. [...] Read more |
Facebook and Twitter Lead the Pack as Social Media Usage Skyrockets [STATS]Friday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/facebook-twitter-social-media-usage-stats/service=bit.ly"/aDespite a href="http://mashable.com/2009/12/01/zuckerberg-privacy-changes/"Facebook privacy changes/a and serious cases of a href="http://mashable.com/tag/fail-whale/"Twitter Fail Whale/a, social media use has increased astronomically since this time last year: During December 2009, global users spent an average of five hours on social networking sites, up from three hours in December 2008. [...] Read more |
Developers Band Together to Create Apps for HaitiFriday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/developers-apps-haiti/service=bit.ly"/aTotal donations to Haiti Earthquake relief funds now a href="http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=10632" target="_blank"exceed $355 million/a, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, but money isn#8217;t the only thing being donated #8212; many tech professionals are donating their time as well./ppAlong with volunteer and NGO workers on the ground in Haiti, people in cities around the world are getting together each weekend for so-called Crisis Camps in an effort to develop helpful technologies to bolster the efforts of relief organizations. [...] Read more |
Sleep Talkin’ Man Is a Viral SensationFriday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/sleep-talkin-blog/service=bit.ly"/aa href="http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/adam.jpg"/aIt#8217;s official, one of the funniest blogs out there, a href="http://www.sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"Sleep Talkin#8217; Man/a, has become a bonafide viral sensation, with more than a half a million visitors, nearly 20,000 a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/SleepTalkinMan/244141946435" target="_blank"Facebook fans/a and more than 10,000 a href="http://twitter. [...] Read more |
5 Ways Small Businesses Can Avoid Social Media PanicFriday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/business-social-media-panic/service=bit.ly"/aa rel="nofollow" href="http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/technology/article/5-ways-small-businesses-can-avoid-social-media-panic-leah-betancourt" target="_blank"This post/a originally appeared on the a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.openforum.com" target="_blank"American Express OPEN Forum/a, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. [...] Read more |
Nokia Brings Location-Sharing to FacebookFriday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/nokia-location-sharing/service=bit.ly"/aa href="http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/nokia-location.jpg"/aAs predicted, 2010 is shaping up to be the year of a href="http://mashable.com/2009/12/31/2010-location-predictions/"location/a. An unlikely entrant has just thrown its hat into the location-based social networking ring. Nokia, by way of Ovi Maps, has just a href="http://blog.ovi.com/2010/01/22/share-your-location-with-maps/?utm_source=rssamp;utm_medium=rssamp;utm_campaign=share-your-location-with-maps" target="_blank"introduced location-sharing/a to their smartphone users. [...] Read more |
Ustream Launches Pay-Per-View Live Video PlatformFriday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/ustream-pay-per-view/service=bit.ly"/aa href="http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ustreamcook.jpg"/aa href="http://mashable.com/tag/ustream"Ustream /ais launching a pay-per-view live video service. With it, entertainers and other public figures will be able to charge for virtual admission to live shows and premium content./ppComedian Dane Cook will be the first act to use Ustream#8217;s new platform. He#8217;ll do a Miami-based pay-per-view presentation of his #8220;ISolated INcident#8221; stand-up routine live at 6:30 p. [...] Read more |
Will Apple Gadgets of the Future Be Solar-Powered?Friday, January 22, 2010Source: Mashable | Category: Social pa href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/22/apple-solar-patent/service=bit.ly"/aa href="http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/pa-solar-small.jpg"/aWhile we all anxiously await Apple#8217;s announcement on Wednesday #8212; presumably unveiling the a href="http://mashable.com/tag/apple-tablet"Apple Tablet/a to the world #8212; speculations have taken a decidedly greener turn. The website a href="http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/01/apple-thinks-green-again-with-solar-cell-panels-for-media-players. [...] Read more |
