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DONE DEAL: Yahoo and Microsoft Finalize Search Partnership
The Microsoft-Yahoo search and advertising deal , first announced back in July, has just been finalized by the two companies. Back in October, it was revealed that details were still being mulled over because of the deal’s complexity, but this ...
LUNCHTIME POLL: What’s Your Favorite Blogging Platform?
Happy Friday, folks! That means it’s time once again for the weekly Lunchtime Poll ! Last time we asked about your favorite video sharing sites — be sure to check out the results of Mashable readers’ video sharing favorites to get c...
8 Tips for Managing a LinkedIn Group
Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. Her company, Nette Media develops social media technologies for women and multicultural communities, and she blogs at Technicultr . With over 50 million users , LinkedIn continues to be am...
WARNING: New Facebook Chat Phishing Scam in Progress
Be on the lookout for a current spate of phishing tactics spreading on Facebook via the chat feature . The attack employs similar methods to those used by past scams, using hijacked user accounts to send chat messages with a generic message and a lin...
Google Finance Now Streams News in Real-Time
In June of 2008, Google Finance introduced real-time streaming quotes , making the site much more useful for Wall Street watchers. However, stock quotes aren’t the only kind of information that is beneficial when offered in real-time; financial...
5 Big Changes to Watch in Facebook’s Upcoming Redesign [Screenshots]
Just over a month ago, Facebook rolled out a new homepage redesign . Now it looks like the social network isn’t completely satisfied with the results, as it’s now testing yet another homepage redesign. We don’t know when the new des...
Cyber Monday? More Like Fail Whale Monday
Millions of people might be hitting retail sites today for Cyber Monday, but are they also hitting Twitter to the point that the site is failing? We’re not sure, but thousands of users are currently seeing the infamous “fail whale” when attempt...
Microsoft Posts Unaired Family Guy Windows 7 Clips [VIDEO]
Remember the odd Family Guy and Windows 7 sponsored romp that never came to fruition? You may recall that Microsoft, anxious to push its newest operating system, set out to sponsor a special episode of Family Guy. Of course, they eventually came to t...
How SMBs Can Capitalize on the Twitter Woes of the Fortune 100
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Weber Shandwick recently released the results of their study on the Twitt...
It’s Not Just You: Facebook Is Down
Update: Facebook has informed us that they’re looking into the problem and will provide more details soon. - A quick check of Twitter confirms it : Facebook is down . The world’s largest social network is having some type of uptime issue ...
SKATING BABIES: YouTube Video Ad Campaign Enters Guinness Book
YouTube and the web have provided a new and powerful medium for video and TV commercials. The great ones can go viral, resulting in millions upon millions of views. MSI’s Acrobuttocks commercial , Microsoft’s MEGAWOOSH and Windows 7 ads ,...
New Facebook Worm Spreading Via User’s Walls [WARNING]
Anti-virus maker AVG is warning of a new worm spreading on Facebook via user’s walls. According to one of AVG’s bloggers, the worm spreads as users that are already logged into the social network click on the suggestive photo that is being placed...
Google Maps Navigation: Now (Almost) Every Android Phone Has It
Several weeks ago, Google made some serious waves when it launched Google Maps Navigation for Android . The app made Google an instant player in the GPS market. To add insult to injury, Google made the app free, which has ravaged share prices for Gar...
Apple’s Got AT&T’s Back in New Verizon Attack Ads [VIDEO]
Verizon opened up total war against AT&T in October when it unleashed its “ There’s a Map for That ” ad campaign, slamming AT&T’s 3G coverage using the iPhone commercial catchphrase “there’s a map for tha...
Ballmer: Windows 7 Flies Off the Shelves
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has never been too modest about Microsoft’s sales numbers; in fact, throughout the Vista era he insisted that the news OS is doing great, selling better than any other Microsoft OS in history. Now, he claims ...
With Chrome OS, Google Intends to Destroy the Desktop and Microsoft
Google stole the tech and media spotlight today as it revealed a mountain of new details about Chrome OS , the company’s new operating system due in late 2010. It is a completely different type of OS (we provide a summary of how ) that eliminat...
Zynga’s Next Facebook Game: PetVille?
Oops, they did it again: popular Facebook games maker Zynga last month trademarked the name FishVille and promptly launched the game by that name less than a month later. This time Games.com reports it could be pets the social games giant is going af...
Twitter Founder to Murdoch: Blocking Google Will Fail Fast
Speaking at an event in London earlier today, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone addressed Rupert Murdoch’s plan to wall off his sites and prevent Google from indexing News Corp’s online properties. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he characterized the ...
Magntize Helps You Build a Simple Social Media Business Card
This post is part of Mashable’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 here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark....
Location Is Everything: Foursquare’s API Is Proof
Twitter, for all of its greatness, would not have significantly altered the landscape of real-time online communication without the swell of developer interest around its API. The simpleness of the service was, no doubt, key to Twitter’s meteor...
Twitter Adds Support for MMS Photo Sharing (But Only in UK)
Since practically its inception, Twitter has supported SMS (short message service) for updating your Twitter status. If you text something to 40404 in the U.S., your Twitter will update with that text message. However, most smartphones are capable mu...
Twitter Opens Up People Search for Twitter Apps
Twitter apps can do almost everything that Twitter.com can: search Twitter, follow and unfollow users, and even manage Twitter lists (well, only a few apps so far). One thing Twitter Apps couldn’t do though was search for other Twitter users th...
Disney Posts Alice in Wonderland Posters on Facebook
As social media becomes more pervasive, it’s becoming a frequently common practice for movie studios to use sites like Facebook and Twitter to connect with plans. Tim Burton’s 3D epic “Alice in Wonderland” doesn’t hit th...
Google’s Plan to Make the Web Twice as Fast
Google is apparently in the early stages of a research project that appears to aim as high as perhaps replacing the HTTP protocol, the fundamental technology that essentially makes the World Wide Web possible. In a somewhat obscure post on the Chromi...
Twitter and Facebook Come to Xbox Live November 17
If you didn’t get into the Preview Program for Xbox LIVE’s forthcoming social networking integrations featuring Twitter, Facebook and last.fm support, don’t worry — you don’t have too much longer to wait. According to Ma...
Orange UK Sold 30,000 iPhones on Launch Day
Well, this definitely puts Verizon’s 100,000 sold Droids on its first weekend into perspective: Orange UK has announced it has sold 30,000 iPhones on the first day of launch. As Orange’s comms team man Conor Maples tweeted after the launc...
iPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010 [RUMOR]
Many signs point to the Apple and AT&T agreement that makes the latter the exclusive carrier of the iPhone within the US coming to an end within the next year. For starters, non-exclusivity has been profitable for Apple in others part of the wor...
FishVille Launches on Facebook; It’s Like Underwater FarmVille
We were sort of surprised to discover how many of you proclaim your love for FarmVille , the social farming sim game from Zynga. We reported that the company had trademarked the name FishVille last month, and speculated that an aquatic derivative of ...
5 Must-Have iPhone Apps for Wine Lovers
Megan Berry is an evangelist for Mobclix , the industry’s largest mobile ad exchange, working on social media and marketing. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and the Mobclix blog . You can follow her on Twitter as @meganberry , or through ...
Droid Does: An Ad on Google’s Homepage
In addition to celebrating Muppets today, Google appears to be loudly and proudly celebrating something else on its home page. With the Verizon Droid launch hot and heavily underway today, the search giant is according the highly-regarded Android pho...
