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Web Faceoff: Digg vs. StumbleUpon vs. Reddit
One of the most useful aspects of social media has been its power to help people discover people, content, and ideas that they would have otherwise missed. Born from that shared desire for discovery has been an abundance of incredible web communities...
1 in 6 Cell Phone-Toting Teens Have Participated in Sexting [STUDY]
The buzz word of choice these past few months when it comes to teens and technology has undoubtedly been “sexting” — and now a new study from The Pew Internet & American Life Project , titled “Teens and Sexting,” in...
McDonald’s Adds Free Wi-Fi to the Menu
In an effort to become more of a “destination” than a grab-n-go eatery, that most iconic of fast food chains — McDonald’s — is now serving up free wi-fi . Starting mid-January, the restaurant will nix the $2.95 fee that ...
SWEET: Merge All of Your Duplicate Gmail Contacts With One Click
Gmail has an array of useful and unique features that have really made e-mail a slightly more pleasurable experience (or more aptly, a less painful one). We love the fact that you can undo sent messages , stop yourself from e-mailing the wrong person...
YouTube Looking to Replace Your Cable Company?
While Comcast is looking to provide more value to its subscribers by offering its content on the web , YouTube is considering making a subscription play of its own that would potentially compete with the cable companies. According to Reuters , the wo...
Twitter Reveals Most Discussed Topics of 2009
One of the best aspects of Twitter is that it has become a central nexus for discussion of the topics of the day. Twitter is quickly becoming the world’s water cooler , making it a useful tool for figuring out what’s being discussed acros...
Facebook Now Consumes 5 Percent of Our Collective Internet Time
Facebook’s already the Internet’s ultimate time waster , with users spending more time on it than any other website including Google, YouTube, and Yahoo. But here’s another remarkable way to look at it: according to comScore , 5.5% of all time ...
10 iPhone Apps That Bring Holiday Cheer
December is supposed to be a time for joy and merriment, but with the hustle and bustle of daily life, the stress of holiday travel, shopping and planning, the sheer anticipation we used to experience as kids seems a distant memory. But mobile applic...
NYC Showcases Favorite Homegrown Apps
During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, there were a number of projects (and subsequent IPOs) dedicated to making local government in the U.S. more accessible and more transparent. Unfortunately, with the bust of said IPOs, efforts for more open g...
5 Most Memorable Sports Tweets of 2009
This post is part of Mashable’s Fab Five series with Jalen Rose , which highlights trends in the social media space. Jalen Rose is a former 13-year NBA star and current ESPN basketball analyst but may be best known for being a member of the fam...
Keep Tabs on Your Data Consumption with Consume for iPhone
It’s no secret that iPhone users are data whores . Whether it’s the access they have to data-connect applications, the ability they possess to stream video and audio, or how they utilize the Web browsing experience in general, iPhone owne...
“30 Rock” Takes a Crack at Facebook [VIDEO]
NBC’s hit show, 30 Rock , typically takes a social norm and parodies it to no end by dedicating an entire episode to it. Last night’s installment, “Secret Santa,” was no exception. This time around the subject of the show̵...
The Top 10 Most Watched Web Series, November 2009
It’s the beginning of December, which means it’s time to take stock of the web series that captured your attention in November. In case you’re not familiar with our round up of the most popular web shows , each month we look to our ...
Google Tried to Buy Lala: Lost to Apple
Apple wasn’t the only company chasing web-based music startup Lala, it seems: Google was also in hot pursuit, with aspirations to delve deeper into the online music business. Google lost that battle, with Apple acquiring the company for around ...
Google Chrome Gets an Adorable New Ad [VIDEO]
With Google Chrome now available on the Mac , there’s more buzz than ever around Google’s speedy, lightweight browser. Now Google in the UK has created a 4 minute introductory video for would-be Chrome users, featuring pin-boards, graffit...
Mozilla Guy to Users: Leave Google, Switch to Bing
You can start a company with the best intentions, but when that company grows into an enormous entity like Google, it starts being so important to itself that those intentions often take a back seat to company’s ambitions. After Google’s ...
What Do Seniors Do Online? Visit Facebook and YouTube, of Course [STATS]
We’ve known for a while that Facebook users are getting a lot older , but now new data released by Nielsen reveals that the number of seniors (65 and older) using the web has increased by 6 million in the last five years. Not only that, but nea...
AT&T’s New iPhone App Lets You Complain About AT&T
iPhone owners may love Apple’s sexy mobile device , but they absolutely can’t stand AT&T . It ranks dead last in customer satisfaction for dropped calls and spotty 3G service, a sore spot that Verizon has been poking at with new ads ...
Popeye Creator E.C. Segar Gets Spinach With His Google Logo
If you grew up watching cartoons like I did, then it’s impossible not to have known Popeye the Sailor, the Olive-loving, spinach-eating hero who used his unusually large arms and magical spinach powers to thwart the evil schemes of Brutus and o...
Why Facebook Chose to Limit Google and Spare Twitter Search
Google really unleashed a torrent of news and updates today. While events such as the launch of Google Goggles are very interesting, the big news is clearly the launch of real-time search within Google . Now as events unfold, Google will capture the ...
Kenna, Jessica Biel, and Social Media to Climb Kilimanjaro for Charity
Social media’s power to spread the word is well known, as is its ability to help fuel charitable causes. The examples are many, including TweetsGiving , #BlameDrewsCancer , the Social Media Smackdown , Twestival , and the Mashable Summer of Soc...
Boxee Beta Promises to Be Bigger, Better and Boxeeier
At the Boxee Beta Launch event tonight, Boxee showed off a ton of a ton of new features and enhancements for its media center with a social twist. Boxee officially launched in June of 2008 but it’s really been in the last year that the software...
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...
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...
Socialize on Xbox LIVE With Your iPhone
If you’re a gamer who wants to stay connected to your Xbox LIVE account even while on the go, guess what: there’s an app for that. The 360 Live (warning: iTunes link) application is an iPhone app that lets you perform many of the same soc...
Bit.ly Moves to Combat Twitter Scams
Twitter spam and scams : We know that they have been appearing more frequently and have become more dangerous . And it’s been a problem since relatively early on for Twitter. The scammers are smart though and have beaten Twitter’s defense...
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...
Android Gets an Adults-Only App Store
Android , Google’s mobile operating system, already has the Android Market as its official app store, but it may not be serving everybody’s needs, especially those of an adult variety. As it turns out a company called MiKandi (pronounced ...
Guestlist Simplifies Creating and Managing Events
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 BizSp...
