Twitter Surpasses 145 Million Registered Users
Posted on 03 September 2010
Buried in last night’s update on skyrocketing mobile usage, Twitter CEO Evan Williams revealed that the company now has more than 145 million registered users. The last time Twitter went on the record with member registrations, it was touting 105 million registered users. That stat came just four months ago, which makes last night’s reveal quite [...] Continue Reading
A Beginner’s Guide to Facebook Insights
Posted on 03 September 2010
Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy. You have created a Facebook Fan Page. Now what? I bet these questions come to mind: “Is my page a success?” “Who is [...] Continue Reading
Google Wave to Rise Again on Its Own
Posted on 03 September 2010
Google Wave was once one of Google’s hottest projects, promising a new way of communication that might even replace e-mail. Alas, it was not to be, and Google shut it down soon after public launch due to lack of user adoption — but not completely. Wave still draws interest from users, although it turned out to [...] Continue Reading
How Do You Stream Internet Content to Your TV?
Posted on 03 September 2010
One of Apple’s announcements yesterday was a completely redesigned Apple TV. It’s competing in a crowded and still confusing field of products that stream video from the Internet to your TV. Boxee and Roku are two smaller companies trying to crack it; and Google TV was unveiled in May. The ultimate goal of all of [...] Continue Reading
How to Get a Job at a Startup After College Graduation
Posted on 03 September 2010
College hiring is projected to rebound in time for the Class of 2011 to feel its effects, according to a new survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Employers who took part in NACE’s survey say they’re anticipating hiring 13.5% more new college grades from the Class of 2011 than [...] Continue Reading
HDR, Game Center and iPad Support
Posted on 01 September 2010
At Apple’s special event today, the company announced its next two iOS releases: iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2. Apple will be releasing iOS 4.1 next week as a free update for the iPhone and iPod touch, fixing some bugs and adding new features like HDR photos, Game Center, TV show rentals and the ability to upload [...] Continue Reading
Apple Overhauls iPod Lineup
Posted on 01 September 2010
Lots of news came out of today’s Apple press event, but in the words of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, iPods were “the entree of the day.” The iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano and iPod Touch each received significant cosmetic and feature updates, while the iPod Classic was removed from the lineup. iPod Shuffle Apple has ditched the ill-received [...] Continue Reading
Apple Introduces “Ping” Music Social Network and iTunes 10
Posted on 01 September 2010
Steve Jobs has revealed iTunes 10, the newest version of iTunes complete with a new logo, new features and its very own social network for music called “Ping” that he described as Facebook meets Twitter for music. Ping allows users to follow others, just like Twitter. You can follow artists or your friends to find [...] Continue Reading
HDR, Game Center and iPad Support
Posted on 01 September 2010
At Apple’s special event today, the company announced its next two iOS releases: iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2. Apple will be releasing iOS 4.1 next week as a free update for the iPhone and iPod touch, fixing some bugs and adding new features like HDR photos, Game Center, TV show rentals and the ability to upload [...] Continue Reading
iOS 4.1, New iPods, iTunes 10, Ping and Apple TV
Posted on 01 September 2010
It was a busy day at the YBCA Theater in San Francisco today as Apple unveiled a slew of new products and services to its crowd, and to those watching live on the Web. We saw upgrades to the iOS software for all iOS devices (even the iPad), a new line-up of iPods for the [...] Continue Reading
Report Examines Where the Top VC Firms Are Investing
Posted on 01 September 2010
Last week, we looked at one of the latest reports from the investment research firm CB Insights, tracking the top venture capital firms across the U.S. in terms of their deal activity. According to that report, over the past year the top 30 firms participated in 663 unique deals (almost a quarter of all [...] Continue Reading
Apple’s Xbox Live-like Game Center to Launch Next Week
Posted on 01 September 2010
Next week, Apple will launch Game Center for the iPhone and the iPod touch. The app and platform will allow video game players to track one another’s achievements, create multiplayer matches and discover new games. The features are comparable to those found in Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network and Steam — online gaming services used by [...] Continue Reading
What If You Could Click A Button And A Sponsor Would Pay A Site Money (Without It Being Clickfraud)?
Posted on 01 September 2010
I recently wrote about Flattr and how it’s a different take on micropayments that seems more interesting to me (though I’m still not convinced it’ll get big enough to make a difference). In that post, I also noted a competitor, Kachingle. Apparently, another company is about to enter the space, named Twixa, but [...] Continue Reading
4 Tips for Writing SEO-Friendly Blog Posts
Posted on 01 September 2010
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. In addition to writing for their human readers, web writers and bloggers have to consider the digital web crawlers employed by search engines like Google. Your business can’t skip the task. Since most [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 01 September 2010
At Apple’s special event Wednesday, the company is expected to roll out a new Apple TV that includes support for Netflix. These latest reports from Bloomberg corroborate rumors of an iOS-based Apple TV that surfaced this spring. With Netflix available on the iPad and the iPhone, an offering for the television set certainly makes sense. I’ve long [...] Continue Reading
Zenoss Announces Monitoring for VMWare’s Cloud Director
Posted on 31 August 2010
It may well mark another milestone in cloud computing that we have been hearing so much buzz lately about cloud monitoring. No longer is it simply questions of “should we move to the cloud,” but questions of “okay, we’re committed to the cloud. How can we tell what works?” Along those lines, Zenoss announces [...] Continue Reading
Apple to Provide Live Video Stream of Tomorrow’s iPod/iTV Event
Posted on 31 August 2010
Apple has announced that it will be live streaming its September 1 “special event,” where the company is expected not only to reveal a new line of iPods, but a new version of Apple TV as well. The announcement is surprising. Historically, Apple has not provided live video for any of its keynotes or special media [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 31 August 2010
At Apple’s special event Wednesday, the company is expected to roll out a new Apple TV that includes support for Netflix. These latest reports from Bloomberg corroborate rumors of an iOS-based Apple TV that surfaced this spring. With Netflix available on the iPad and the iPhone, an offering for the television set certainly makes sense. [...] Continue Reading
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