February 2012
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Instagram Upgrade Introduces a Powerful New... →
Take a look at your App Store icon, iPhone users, and if you’re an avid Instagram user, there’s a big surprise for you inside. Instagram just received a big upgrade, and it’s going to make your pictures on the social networking service look a lot better. The standout new feature is called Lux,…
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Live Cats + Facebook = Friskies Marketing Coup? →
Friskies, which rolled out an iPad game for cats last May, has restored human dominance with a Facebook-based live feed that lets humans remotely control the cats’ toys. From 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. ESTime daily, 10 Friskies’s felines will be doing what they do best for the amusement of Facebook user…
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LeVar Burton to Bring Reading Rainbow Back ... in... →
…but don’t take my word for it!
When Reading Rainbow ended its 26-year run in 2009, it left behind decades of preschoolers for whom its theme song will forever surface nostalgia: Take a look, it’s in a book, a reading rainbow. The PBS program was cut because nobody would fund it. But John Grant, who was at the time in c…
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New iPad App Reinvents the Coloring Book -- With... →
It might strike you as strange that Brian Snyder’s series of coloring books teach children how to draw cartoon characters by starting with a butt shape. But when you open the iPad app version, launching on Thursday, it becomes apparent that Snyder’s new approach to coloring books extends far beyo…
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Conan Adds Keyboard Cat to Obama's Google+ Hangout... →
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. Cute alert: U.S. President Barack Obama has met Internet celebrity Keyboard Cat in a Google+ Hangout. We wish this adorable encounter were true, but it’s only a segment from Conan. Poki…
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The 10 Most Blatant Design Ripoffs in Social Media →
In the world of social media, discovering that worthwhile original idea for your app or website is by far the hardest thing to get right. It’s so hard, in fact — and the field so potentially lucrative — that many parties who jump into the field tend not to bother. Why should you create somethin…
January 2012
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How to See When Someone Unfriends You on Facebook →
Would you like to know when someone “unfriends” you on Facebook? There’s not a native way to see this information, and unless you keep a very close eye on your friend list, it’s likely when your friend count goes down, you aren’t sure who went missing. We have found a simple script that works …
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How Brands Can Manage Facebook Comment Overload →
Jason Keath is the CEO of Social Fresh, the leading social media education company for marketers. He works with industry leading brands, agencies and vendors to produce social media conferences and online social media training programs. Follow him on Twitter @jasonkeath. Human beings are socia…
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Get Creative! with Nonprofit Social Media - ASU... →
This is a guest blog I did for the Arizona State University Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation on creative social media for nonprofits!
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Nick Kristof: Facebook Subscribers Are More... →
Mashable’s Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment. [brightcove video=”1415486911001” /] Mashable CEO and founder Pete Cashmore sat down at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with New York Times col…
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Apple Tests Hundreds of Product Packages in Secret... →
[brightcove video=”1411732480001” /] Apple makes its product packaging with stealthy love. An advanced copy of Adam Lashinsky’s book, Inside Apple, reveals product packaging is another thing Apple keeps under lock and key. The tech giant has a secret room — accessible only by security badges…
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Ready or Not, You're Getting Facebook Timeline →
Stop resisting…or don’t and they will make you convert!
[wp_scm_mashable_facebook] Facebook announced in a blog post Tuesday that Timeline will be coming to all users in the next few weeks. According to a Facebook blog post Tuesday — or rather, an update to the post published when Timeline became available to all users — you will have seven d…
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Facebook, Twitter Engineers Tweak Google's Social... →
[brightcove video=”1409770502001” /] A team of engineers, drawn from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, have rebuilt Google to “focus on the user” and re-jigger Google’s recent Search Plus Your World changes, which put results for Google+ pages above sometimes more relevant pages like those on oth…
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Facebook Apps: Highlights of the 60 New Integrated... →
If you enjoy using Spotify or Foursquare on Facebook, imagine having the same integration with a bevy of other apps. Now you can share more than just your location, music tastes and which story you enjoyed reading on the Washington Post that day using Social Reader. Facebook’s announcement on…