August 2011
37 posts
Don’t Fear The Interenet →
Amazing. I wish Don’t Fear the Internet was around when I started playing on the web. Consider sending this to everyone you know.
Are you a print designer, photographer, fine-artist, or…
July 2011
30 posts
TW Cable loses 130,000 home-cable subscribers →
The temptation is to call the people who dropped TWC cord cutters, but are they really unhappy with cable or have they just lost the ability to pay?
Call the White House Boring on Twitter, Get... →
While sending a flurry of tweets Wednesday to address fiscal policy, the White House Twitter account took the time to respond to one bored user with…
The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As User’s Home Is... →
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Until now everything has been just great for Airbnb, a service that lets people rent out their homes and become a sort of mini-hotel. The company launched in…
Groupon Buys Zappedy for $10.3 Million →
Groupon has acquired Zappedy for $10.3 million, according to a document filed with the SEC today. A Groupon spokesperson confirmed the deal, but declined to elaborate on the details. Already, …
Flipboard Begins Displaying Ads →
Flipboard has begun displaying ads in its popular social newsreading app for the iPad as part of a freshly inked deal with magazine publisher Conde…
Forklift Smashes $1 Million Worth Of Wine →
ADELAIDE, Australia — An unsteady forklift dropped a container full of fine Australian wine worth more than $1 million, smashing most of the bottles. The winemaker says he’s “gut-wrenched, shocked…
Condé Nast And Adobe Try To Get A Handle On... →
While it may be exciting for advertisers to try out out an interactive ad in a digital magazine, at the end of the day, they just care about the numbers. With that in mind, Condé…
Smart Entrepreneurs Still Think What's Needed Is... →
Craig Walker’s new mobile application company Firespotter Labs is out with its first launch: Nosh, an app for iPhone and Android that helps users figure out what to eat at restaurants.
Surprise! http://instagr.am/p/Hujn4/
Nosh.me Helps Food Fans Share What Tastes Good →
A new mobile app for iPhone and Android hopes to make it easy for people to share what they are eating, while rating what food is good — and what…
The Talks →
The Talks is a website featuring interviews with actors, artists, designers, musicians – people who influence culture. Looks promising and reminds me of the SpearTalks series we used…
Woman Sues Gaming Buddy For Dumping Her On... →
Cheryl Gray, 50, met Wylie Iwan, 35, on Mafia Wars. The two never met in real life, but now she’s suing him for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress because he told her…
WordPress Now Powers More Than 50 Million Sites →
Open source blogging platform WordPress has reached an important milestone: It powers more than 50 million websites, about half of which are hosted…
The Biggest Tech IPOs of 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC] →
It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that 2011 is the year of the technology IPO.
Linkedin kicked off the tech IPO wave with its successful public offering. The company is now worth more than $9.5…
AOL's HuffPost Enters Crowded Online Arena With... →
The Huffington Post Media Group, AOL’s fast-moving content unit, is launching a celebrity site called HuffPost Celebrity today, as well as another called HuffPost Culture.
HuffPost…
Vroom: How Skywalker Sound Made The Cars 2 Sound... →
Although, arguably, the second Cars was sub-par, it’s nice to see how Skywalker Sound designed the sounds for the vrooming, racing Maters, Lightnings, and British spy cars in the movie.
Ricky Gervais reflects on The Office 10 years... →
So The Office is 10 years old. Well the first episode of Series One aired at 9:30 p.m. on a Monday night, 9 July, 2001. Obviously the concept existed sometime before that. The BBC pilot was…
The Five Best Things About OS X Lion →
If all goes according to rumored plan, OS X Lion should hit stores by July 14 alongside new hardware to run the new OS. I’ve played with the Gold Master over the weekend and I’m pleased to…
Netvibes Debuts Powerful Social Analytics Platform... →
Netvibes, a company that provides social media dashboards and news aggregators for brands and agencies, is debuting a powerful new analytics platform tonight. Netvibes’ new social analytics and…
Harvard Research: What Makes A Team Smarter? The Female Factor. http://t.co/NT8HrR3 via @bostinnovation
10 Top Tech Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite... →
The Social-Savvy Food Truck Series is supported by the Ben and Jerry’s Scoop Truck. For more information on the scoop truck and where it stops,
Video game spending set to hit $74 billion this... →
Market researcher Gartner says the figure will continue to grow over the next several years and, by 2015, reach $112 billion.
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, the New Yorker and... →
Well-known New Yorker writer Ken Auletta has taken on Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in the magazine, with a largely glowing profile provocatively titled: “A Woman’s Place: Can Sheryl…
E-Commerce: Beyond The Metrics →
Gautum Gupta is an associate at General Catalyst Partners, where he focuses on financial services, enterprise IT, consumer services, and new media. You follow him @gRamblings.
For all…
5 DIY Ecommerce Solutions for Small Business →
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and…
Now You Can Comment on & Share Hulu Video... →
Hulu has given users the ability to comment on specific moments of videos and share those moments on Facebook.
This is hardly Hulu’s first …
New York Times Co. Sells 55 Percent of Fenway... →
It took The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) longer to find buyers for a substantial part of its stake in the Boston Red Sox than it did to build the metered paywall for…
