Posts Tagged ‘search’
On Google’s Impending China Decision, and How It Has Lost Its Impact
The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.Two months ago, Google threatened to shut down its China search engine over censorship. Yet until today, its China search engine has stayed up with results still censored. Now the search [...]
Tweet #RefreshMashable to Support New Location App to Change Your Community
Here in Austin, I just finished introducing SparkHelp, the project Mashable has decided to support for the Pepsi Refresh SxSW Challenge. We’re competing against two other teams over the next few days to help get our idea $50,000 in funding, which will help make it a reality.The ProjectAfter lots of great submissions from our readers, we [...]
5 Must-See Google Easter Eggs
There’s no doubt Google has a sense of humor — its excellent April Fools jokes are a testament to that. But there’s a wealth of funnies that can found any time of the year too. Here we pull together a handy list of Google “Easter eggs” that you can uncover right now.Bearing in mind we’re working up another list [...]
Pete Cashmore Talks Foursquare, iPad, and Location on Bloomberg [VIDEO]
![Pete Cashmore Talks Foursquare, iPad, and Location on Bloomberg [VIDEO]](http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://mashable.com/2010/03/13/pete-cashmore-location-bloomberg/ "Pete Cashmore Talks Foursquare, iPad, and Location on Bloomberg [VIDEO]")
If you had to pick the one buzzword that’s dominating social media chatter today, it would have to be location. Just over a year ago, Foursquare burst onto the scene at the SXSW conference in Austin, TX. Since then, it’s only grown dramatically.The result has been a battle for domination in the geolocation space. While many still [...]
Top 10 Twitter Trends for This Week [CHART]
![Top 10 Twitter Trends for This Week [CHART]](http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://mashable.com/2010/03/13/twitter-trends-3-13/ "Top 10 Twitter Trends for This Week [CHART]")
Hooray for Hollywood! — the big winner this week in our roundup of the top 10 Twitter trends. From the Oscars to Alice in Wonderland (and of course, Justin Bieber), celebrity — whether be it music or film — dominated the Twitterverse.The latest data, which comes from our friends at What the Trend, gives us a snapshot of what [...]
Chatroulette Founder Working to Preserve User Privacy
The creator of Chatroulette has revealed that he is working on a way to preserve user’s privacy, following the launch of Chat Roulette Map, a Google Maps mashups that pinpoints the location of users of the service.Andrey Ternovskiy, speaking in an interview with the New York Times Bits blog, stated, “There is a certain level of [...]
Giiv Lets You Give Gifts Via Text Message
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. Name: Giiv Quick Pitch: Giiv is a mobile gifting service that delivers gifts in real time in [...]
Keyboard Cat: The Next Generation [VIDEO]
![Keyboard Cat: The Next Generation [VIDEO]](http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://mashable.com/2010/03/12/keyboard-cat-the-next-generation/ "Keyboard Cat: The Next Generation [VIDEO]")
For years now we have all found solace and joy in Charlie Schmidt’s “Keyboard Cat,” a musically inclined feline with Beethoven-sick skills and a mischievous mien. Now, a new kitty is on the scene: Bento. And believe you me, this Cat’s got synth-drenched magic coming out of his claws. By now we all know the story of [...]
Apple Sells 90,000 iPads in the First Day? [REPORT]
![Apple Sells 90,000 iPads in the First Day? [REPORT]](http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://mashable.com/2010/03/12/ipad-preorder-numbers/ "Apple Sells 90,000 iPads in the First Day? [REPORT]")
The iPad officially became available for pre-order earlier today and while plenty of you are still debating about whether or not to pre-order, it appears as if the device might already sold 51,000 units in just two hours via pre-order. Wow. If you’ve ever doubted how insane dedicated Apple fans are, the background on how these figures were [...]
The iPad: A Pre-Order Preview
The iPad is now officially available for pre-order, which means that news is going to be flowing in all day about its various specs and features. We’ll keep you updated on said news with this handy-dandy, ever-changing post. Keep your eyes here for the latest. If you’re still trying to figure out if you want to pre-order an iPad or [...]
Google Buzz E-mail Notification Changes Are Coming
Google’s new social network, Google Buzz, is getting some additional refinement, based on user feedback. Today’s news: The search giant is testing new features that will give you control over the flood of Buzz e-mail notifications.Google Buzz has the benefit of being integrated directly into Gmail. Not only does it have a prominent [...]
Facebook Threatens to Sue Daily Mail Over Sex Predator Claims
According to the Guardian and Global Dashboard, Facebook has threatened to sue Daily Mail over an article which wrongfully claimed Facebook makes it easy for older sex predators to approach and seduce minors.Daily Mail’s article, which can (in edited form) be found here, was written by a former police detective Mark Williams-Thomas, and had [...]
Take a Virtual Walk Through Hong Kong With Google Street View
If you’ve never been to Hong Kong, and you’ve heard legends about the busy streets of the city, you can now see how it looks for yourself without leaving your comfy chair, as Google has launched its Street View service for Hong Kong.The huge city has been covered extremely well; just zoom out of Street View, pull the little yellow [...]
Opera Mini 5 Beta Comes to Android
Opera Mini 5 Beta was first introduced about 5 months ago, but owners of Android-based smartphones had to wait until now to get their hands on Opera’s nifty mobile browser.This version is nearly identical to the Opera Mini 5 Beta for other handsets; biggest improvements are speed dial, tabbed browsing, password management and better [...]
Search for Missing Portland Hiker Suspended
Skamania County Undersheriff Dave Cox says a multi-day search for a Portland hiker missing near Bonneville Dam has been suspended.Read the original here: Search for Missing Portland Hiker Suspended
The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS]
![The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS]](http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://mashable.com/2010/03/10/twitter-follow-stats/ "The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS]")
A new study from security firm Barracuda Labs provides some interesting insights into the state of the Twitterverse. Unfortunately for the microblogging startup, the stats say that most of its users aren’t very active.The study looked at around 19 million Twitter accounts (PDF) in order to figure out how people are using Twitter. It [...]
15 Famous Tech Titans Hit Forbes’ Billionaire List
Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s billionaires and when it comes to technology, the list includes many of the same faces we see year after year.After regaining the throne last year, Bill Gates has once again been displaced as the world’s richest man — this time by Carlos Slim (who held that post back in 2007), [...]
Google Reader Play Transforms Feeds into Entertainment Experience
Google has just released an alternative player for Google Reader that gives those with a penchant for browsing news the ability to do so in an image-heavy, TV-like fashion.Dubbed Google Reader Play, the new tool is an experimental Google Labs project that presents stories one by one — based on their Recommend Items technology — using [...]
Brizzly Launches a Guide to Twitter Trends and iPhone App
Web-based Twitter client Brizzly has three major developments to report: a new free iPhone app, a new Brizzly Guide (which gives trending topics on Twitter their own hub pages as permanent resources for information on the top Twitter discussion items over time), and the acquisition of WikiRank.The Brizzly Guide is a user-editable area that fleshes [...]
Google Fiber Sparks Online Competition Between Cities Nationwide
It seems like every city in America wants Google Fiber. And who can blame them? Ever since Google announced its plan last month to bring ultra-high speed Internet connections (as in, up to 100x faster than what most of the country has today) to between 50,000 and 500,000 people, cities across the U.S. have been clamoring to curry the favor of [...]
YouTube Wants You to Grill the FCC’s Chairman
YouTube is pushing itself further into citizen journalism with an interview with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, and just as it has in the past, the world’s largest video portal is allowing its users to submit questions via CitizenTube.The interview, which takes place right after the release of the National Broadband Plan on Tuesday, March [...]
FarmVille Adds Facebook Credits Payment Option
The Facebook platform game FarmVille now supports the Facebook Credits virtual currency.The popular online game uses two units of in-game currency: Farm Cash and Farm Coins. Previously, you could buy them with a credit card or PayPal. Now the game offers Facebook Credits as an option.Facebook Credits are the number-one option, actually. [...]
Microsoft Gains, Google Loses Search Share: Report
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iKat: Your New Augmented Reality Pet
There’s something about the idea of an augmented reality pet – and a markerless one, too – that will make the heart of every true geek skip a beat. The idea is not entirely new, but it’s still amazing to see a virtual creature hopping around on a real-life surface, seen through your mobile phone’s camera.iKat was [...]
An Onslaught of Tablets Coming This Year
You think the iPad will be the only tablet we’ll talk about in 2010? Not even close. According to Arm’s worldwide mobile computing ODM manager Roy Chen, we can expect as many as 50 tablets before the year’s end.“The first tablet devices will launch in the second quarter by carriers. You’ll see a lot more in the third [...]
