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Summer Vacation - See You All in September Jul 17, 2008 15:31:54 GMT

Hi, everyone. The lack of updates on the site lately has been apparent to anyone who’s followed it from the beginning. There are several reasons for it. First, I’ve devoted most of my energy to writing on Mashable. This blog, FranticIndustries, has become a vehicle for some web and tech

The Secret Behind Twitter’s Success, In a Very Long Post Jun 29, 2008 16:34:20 GMT

Hey, folks. I know my writing here has been a bit sporadic lately, but it’s mostly because I’ve been writing posts like these for Mashable. It’s so long that one might convert it to PDF and proclaim it an e-book *cough* Seth Godin *cough*, but I’ve refrained myself from it -

Time’s List Of 50 Best Websites Is, Like, Totally Random Jun 18, 2008 07:20:17 GMT

I’m checking out Time’s list of 50 best websites of 2008 and I don’t get it. Sure, these are all nice sites, but I fail to find any criteria upon which this list is based. A quick skim through the list reveals very different types of sites and services. Hulu is there, which means

Road Tripping On My Favorite Google Map Jun 10, 2008 10:51:54 GMT

If the standard way of watching Google Maps is boring you to death, a game in which you can drive several different vehicles all around the map might be a welcome refreshment. The game, developed by Geoquake, is based on Google Maps API for Flash, which enables it to run at smooth 40 FPS (as always

Tag Galaxy - The Awesomest Way To Browse Flickr May 25, 2008 19:58:12 GMT

Usually, mashups and innovative, alternative GUIs for popular websites are slow and mostly unusable, but Tag Galaxy breaks that habit with being really functional, as well as being really, really cool. Type in a tag - any word, really - into Tag Galaxy, and you’ll get a small solar system of

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Tweetmeme Retweets Become Elite Next Week Jul 04, 2009 05:43:05 GMT

Retweeting, as we’ve mentioned before (see HOW TO: Retweet on Twitter), is an increasingly popular way to share content on the web. Twitter is such a powerful tool for sharing media, in fact, that the former market leaders are racing to keep up. News sharing site Digg recently added short U

Task.fm Adds Smart Reminders via Twitter Jul 04, 2009 04:11:13 GMT

A few months ago, we reviewed a unique reminder app: Task.fm. In our assessment, we noted its Twitter-like approach to reminders and its ability to decipher human language – you can tell it Task.fm “I need to call mom at noon tomorrow” and expect a reminder the next day. We did n

Happy Internet Dependence Day! Jul 04, 2009 03:01:57 GMT

With the 4th of July weekend just hours away, it’s time to wish our US readers a Happy Independence Day! Hopefully you’ll be spending at least some of your weekend away from your computer and enjoying the festivities, but for those who have difficulty leaving the laptop at home, here&

HOW TO: Discover and Get Feedback On New Web Apps Jul 03, 2009 23:54:12 GMT

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: Launchly Quick Pitch: Launchly showcases ne

A Special Summer of Social Good Thank You Jul 03, 2009 22:49:33 GMT

This week we ran a special Summer of Social Good charity promotion and many of you got involved. Mashable and the whole Summer of Social Good team would like to thank everyone who donated, tweeted, retweeted and showed their support. While the promotion might be over now, because of the great respo

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DocStoc Charges Out Of Beta With DocCash May 14, 2009 05:16:32 GMT

If you are looking to make money on the web, but aren't too technically savvy, DocStoc has just released a cool new product that lets you easily make money. Through their new program, DocCash, every time you upload a document to DocStoc you will get 50 percent of the ad revenue DocStoc earns. For m

How To Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time May 13, 2009 04:09:28 GMT

Over the past few weeks I have been reading a book called Twitter Power by Joel Comm. As many of you know I am not a big fan of books, but I have to say it is one of my favorite books. Even though I already know a lot about social media it made me think about Twitter in a new way. Here are a few thi

You Have to Talk to People to be Successful! Who Knew? Apr 15, 2009 21:35:50 GMT

Almost everyone on this planet wants to become successful, there is no doubt about it. You can't blame people for wanting this. Success in wealth can take you places you've always dreamed of going and buy you things you always wished for. Success in contribution allows you to feel the joy and happin

Tip'd Turns 2.0 Apr 08, 2009 04:51:36 GMT

Financial social media site, Tip'd, just went 2.0.

iNetMania Now Available for Download on the Apple App Store! Apr 06, 2009 19:25:30 GMT

Do you love Monopoly? Then you have to check out iNetMania, which is kind of like a Monopoly type of game for Internet companies. If you have an iPhone, you can download the game here.

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Ads Spotted on Twitter.com - Did You Notice? Jul 03, 2009 23:40:15 GMT

Three months ago we reported that Ads Had Come to Twitter and it was a pretty big deal - until Twitter promptly said the word "sponsored" was only appearing on the site in error. Now the "sponsored definitions" of certain Twitter "concepts" have appeared on the site again - and they sure look legi

Risky Business: Enterprise GRC Platforms Essential, Says Forrester Jul 03, 2009 23:39:00 GMT

In a new report issued on the first of the month, Forrester Research has asserted the importance of enterprise platforms for governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). Pointing to big name corporate failures in the last decade, they argue that the value proposition for GRC software is clear,

Digital Media M&A: Mobile & Analytics Deals Up, Social Media Down Jul 03, 2009 23:17:12 GMT

Peachtree Media Advisors has just released their latest report on digital media mergers and acquisitions. We posted their 2008 report back in January, and this is a mid-year 2009 update to that. According to Peachtree, there were 342 digital media transactions in the first half of 2009, which was

Expose Yourself on Launchly's Site Review Service Jul 03, 2009 22:00:00 GMT

You know that scene in Alice in Wonderland where Alice is tumbling down the rabbit hole past all those miscellaneous chairs and birds? That same feeling of confused dread is often how users feel when they're attempting to navigate a site that has never been tested. We know that developers pour their

Ten Companies Twitter Should Consider Acquiring Next Jul 03, 2009 20:20:19 GMT

If you were a little blue bird, with a good pile of money and a whole lot of hype, what would you buy to spice up your nest? There are so many little services being built on top of Twitter that we wouldn't be surprised to see some more of them acquired by the company soon. That would mean more fea

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On The So-Called “Gold Rush” For Facebook Vanity URLs Jun 14, 2009 21:21:24 GMT

According to Bloomberg, about 3 million vanity URLs have been snagged over the weekend: Facebook Inc., the world’s largest social-networking site, said more than 3 million members registered user names by yesterday morning after it offered people the chance to claim a personalized Web address. Fac

How Many Geeks Are Even Trying Bing? Jun 14, 2009 21:00:13 GMT

I think one of the great advantages that Google has isn’t just the strength of its search technology, or the bottom-line deliciousness of adwords / adsense. Its really the thought leadership of what “Search” — and even, probably “The Internet” — means to s

Security Updates-a-Plenty Jun 14, 2009 15:29:37 GMT

So … DJI is back. Sort of. After browsing teh interwebs about securing Wordpress installations I found a good tutorial over here: http://www.guvnr.com/web/blogging/10-tips-to-make-wordpress-hack-proof/ I would encourage everyone to have a look. Beyond the usual “install the latest ve

How These Six Words Could Energize Friendfeed on the Mainstream Media Jun 14, 2009 15:03:51 GMT

Well, who knows if it really would — but I think one of the biggest inflections in Twitter’s popularity over the past 6-12 months has been the mainstream media’s push, and obvious love affair with socia media. Of course, CNN is one of the biggest culprits / lovers so far, with al

Hacked Again. Jun 13, 2009 16:33:56 GMT

So, I was jazzed to write something new yesterday — the topic of which, I can’t even recall now — when I realize that the blog had been hacked again. Yes, I am guilty of not upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress (was running 2.5), and probably a host of other security lazi

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Was the NYT wrong to keep quiet? Yes Jul 01, 2009 13:35:34 GMT

It’s been more than a week since New York Times reporter David Rohde escaped from his captors in Pakistan, so maybe now is a good time to try and look dispassionately at the massive coverup that prevented news of his kidnapping from being reported for more than six months — a coverup that includ

Crowdsourcing: Top iPhone apps Jun 10, 2009 02:50:21 GMT

I got an iPhone recently (no, not one of the fancy new ones) and so I asked people on Twitter and at work to tell me their absolute must-have favourite apps (I got an iPhone in part because the paper I work for has its own shiny new iPhone app, which was kind of my idea). So I thought I would pull t

GigaOm launches a research offering May 29, 2009 04:10:05 GMT

This is a just a quick note to congratulate my friend Om Malik and his team at GigaOm for launching a new service called GigaOm Pro — a for-pay research site that pulls together analysis on industry trends across a number of verticals, including mobile, green technology and so on. I think this

Chris Brogan’s vision of a new media entity May 25, 2009 14:36:33 GMT

Chris Brogan isn’t — and as far as I know has never been — a journalist. He’s a new-media marketing consultant and the founder of Podcamp (his bio is here). When I saw that he had written a blog post about what a “new media” company of the future might look like,

The golden age of data journalism? May 21, 2009 03:14:55 GMT

Computer-assisted reporting or CAR has been around, well — ever since there were computers. Even when I was in journalism school (which was longer ago than I care to remember), we learned about databases we could search, etc. But the explosion of Web-based tools and ways of sifting through and

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Buy Two Books, Get the Third Free! Jul 04, 2009 17:18:48 GMT

Buy two books direct from O'Reilly and get the third free by using code OPC1 in our shopping cart. This deal includes books from our partner publishers No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing, Pragmatic, SitePoint, and Syngress. All orders over $29.95 qualify for free shipping within the US.

New! O'Reilly Photography Learning Center Jul 04, 2009 17:18:48 GMT

The O'Reilly Photography Learning Center is an evolving resource of tips, tricks, and techniques for photographers, both professional and amateur alike. Each month, we highlight a featured author, provide tips and techniques, and offer special discounts. Right now, check out Peter Krogh's insights

O'Reilly Authors Get Jolted Jul 04, 2009 17:18:48 GMT

O'Reilly authors won three of four Jolt Product Excellence Awards. The winners are: Prefactoring, by Ken Pugh The Art of Project Management, by Scott Berkun Producing Open Source Software, by Ken Fogel

The Largest MySQL Gathering on Earth Jul 04, 2009 17:18:48 GMT

With over 110 sessions and speakers, the MySQL Users Conference is chock full of imperative information and sessions. With the conference schedule now availalble online, you can start planning ahead and not miss any of the action. Join us on April 24-27 in Santa Clara, and register today.

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