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7 Services to Find and Reserve Your Name Across the Web
This series is supported by Gillette. Learn more about Gillette and its products at Gillette.com.If you choose a different username for every site you’re on, it can be hard to create a consistent identity across the web. The problem, however -- as TwitterTwitter-spoofed Megan Fox, BP, and even ...Read More
Twitter Wants You to Share Your Twitter Stories
Twitter has launched a new section of its website called Twitter Tales, a collection of "examples of great Twitter use [that] will also likely inspire others to use the service in innovative and interesting ways."On the official TwitterTwitter blog, communications staffer Carolyn Penner wrote that Twitter Tales is intended to ...Read More
Morning Brief: Nook for iPhone, Wii Holiday Release Dates, Verizon iPhone 4 Rumors
This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America's first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The "First to Know" series keeps you in the know on what's happening now in the world of social media and technology.Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in ...Read More
5 Trends Affecting How We Connect Through Social Media
Yuli Ziv is the founder & CEO of Style Coalition, a network of independent online publishers in the fashion and lifestyle vertical, based in NYC. She blogs on social media, entrepreneurship and tech at YuliZiv.com. Follow her on Twitter @yuliz.No matter how much we open up on the web, creating ...Read More
Mashable Launches Yahoo App
Today we're releasing the Mashable on Yahoo application, giving you easy access to social media news as you navigate Yahoo.This new application lets Yahoo users easily view MashableMashable content through Yahoo Pulse, Yahoo Toolbar, Yahoo Homepage and My Yahoo. To add the application, users must first give "permission" to ...Read More
Kid Receives 26,000 Texts After Justin Bieber Tweets Phone Number
On Saturday, Justin Bieber broke a sacred rule: He tweeted "everyone call me [number] :) or text" to his 4.5 million followers. The number wasn't his, though, and the boy it did belong to was inundated with thousands of calls from Bieber's fans.Bieber deleted his tweet shortly after publishing it, ...Read More
Why Location-Based Social Media Needs to Get “Passive” Aggressive
Jesse Thomas is the CEO and Founder of JESS3, a Creative Interactive Agency. JESS3 designs products and experiences for brands like Google, Nike, Facebook, MySpace, C-SPAN, Microsoft and NASA.Ten years ago, Seth Godin predicted the demise of "interruption marketing" and the rise of "permission marketing." His idea was that intrusive ...Read More
Mashable Weekend Recap: 12 Stories You May Have Missed
It's Monday morning, and you know what that means: It's time to rejoin the rat race. Make sure you have a head start by reviewing these news stories and resources you might have missed this Saturday and Sunday.This weekend, TwitterTwitter let a bug slip by that (for just a couple ...Read More
Facebook Acquires Web Publishing Startup Chai Labs
Facebook has acquired yet another small company. This time it's Chai Labs, a startup that helps other companies build search-friendly websites focused on specific topics. The All Things Digital blog BoomTown heard about the acquisition from "several sources" but wasn't able to confirm how much FacebookFacebook spent, so a ...Read More
“Craigslist Killer” Philip Markoff Found Dead
Alleged "Craigslist killer" Philip Markoff was found dead in his jail cell today, one day after what would have been his first wedding anniversary. It appears that he committed suicide. Markoff was indicted on charges of murder and armed robbery in 2009. He claimed innocence of all the charges, ...Read More