TweetMixx: A Better Way to Track Twitter Trends and Topics
New web service TweetMixx is a bit like TweetMeme meets saved Twitter searches meets a web-based Twitter client. It allows you to follow your favorite topics, not just people, and attempts to help cull the best tweets from people you don't and may no...
Facebook Friends Can Now Be Filtered By City (Again)
Over the last few weeks, Facebook has been removing regional networks. Silicon Valley? New York City? Peoria, IL? They have been slowly stripped from Facebook, to the dismay of many. The biggest complaint from users? They want to find their friends b...
ACORN Undercover Video Scandal Rocks Internets
If you surfed the internets at all today it was probably hard to avoid hearing about the alleged undercover footage of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now in Baltimore. The series of two YouTube videos reportedly shows an underc...
So...Do You Like Facebook Lite Better Than Facebook? I Do.
If you've been able to access Facebook Lite (original reports said that the feature is live only for users in US and India, but it works here in Croatia, too), you've seen what it's about: a lightweight, stripped down version of Facebook that won't g...
Your Tweets Are Yours: Now Back Them Up
Yesterday's change in Twitter's Terms of service, in which they explicitly state that every user owns their own tweets is cool, but what does it really mean for the user? The exact wording that Twitter used in its TOS is: Twitter is allowed to "use, ...
5 Ways Banks Are Using Social Media
Written by Lon S. Cohen
Lon S. Cohen is a freelance writer and is @obilon on Twitter. He's also the Director of Communications at @ALSofGNY. Many banks have started using social websites to help them with everything from healing the financial industry to promoting their lat...
100 Days of Twitter Turned Into Pictures
British actor and writer Stephen Fry loves Twitter, has over 750,000 followers and updates it daily. His tweets, however, became a lot more interesting during the past 100 days, as artist Morgan Ritchie took one tweet every day and turned it into an ...
YouTube Fame Lands Graffiti Artist in Jail [Video]
Written by Adam Ostrow
Want to be YouTube famous? Posting video of death defying stunts is a fairly reliable albeit dangerous option, but when those stunts happen to also be illegal, they can get you in serious trouble. Such is the case for a graffiti artist in California,...
Skype: No More Extras!
Skype, fresh off of its sale to private investors, announced that as of today, the Skype Extras Developer Program is no more. No new Extras can receive certification, although existing Extras will stay certified until their expiration. Essentially, S...
AT&T Embraces Its Inner Hulu
It figures. Less than a day after I finish compiling a massive list of places to watch TV online (legally), a new site pops up on the radar! AT&T has just launched a new entertainment portal, aptly named AT&T Entertainment. As Entertainment Weekly po...
Remembering 9/11 Through Social Media
Written by Mashable Team
Today marks the eight-year anniversary of the shocking 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon building in Washington, DC, and the crash of United Airlines flight 93 in rural Pennsylvania. The attacks directly led to the...
Thanks to Mashable's Socially Savvy Supporters
Written by Tamar Weinberg
Thanks to this week's advertisers and partners for enabling us to bring you the latest social media news and resources. We're particularly inspired by those brands that are engaging with our readers as part of our Twitter Brand Sponsors program: Mash...
CBS Launching Last.fm Powered Radio Station
Social music service Last.fm is about to hop from the web onto your local radio station. It's been a long time coming. CBS, the parent company of Last.fm, has announced that it is going to launch a brand new radio station on CBS Radio HD on October 5...
NFL.com to Offer Free Video of Blacked Out Games ... After They Happen
The NFL's blackout policies for games played in local markets are notoriously strict. NFL policy dictates that if a home game has not been sold out within 72 hours of its start time, the game cannot be televised locally. The idea is to get fans into ...
LUNCHTIME POLL: What's Your Favorite Web Browser?
What time is it? Time for the Lunchtime Poll, that's what! If you've been following along already, you'll know how this works. We throw out a poll question, start off with some responses from the staff here at Mashable, and ask you fine folks to answ...
Palm Pixi Launches a Facebook Celebrity Voting Competition. Wait, What?
With the new Palm Pixi phone officially announced, Palm is kicking off its advertising and promotional campaign. What boggles us though is why they're starting with a Facebook competition to vote on the most fashionable celebrity. Today the Palm team...
BREAKING: Facebook Lite Launches Internationally
Written by Pete Cashmore
Following the US rollout last night, Facebook Lite, the lightweight version of Facebook that hides distractions like Apps, is now available internationally. As of this morning, our European editors are able to access the service at lite.facebook.com....
Facebook Brings Notifications to Your Mac Menu Bar
As if yesterday's Facebook Lite wasn't enough, the world's biggest social network has also launched a very cool application for Mac users: Facebook Desktop Notifications! Facebook Desktop Notifications adds a Facebook icon to your Mac's menu bar. Cli...
Ads on Twitter: How Would Users React?
Yesterday, Twitter expanded its Terms of Service, turning it into a 15 section document that encompasses everything from spam to tweet ownership. However, the addition that's getting the most buzz is advertising. Twitter has yet to turn on any major ...
Twestival Local: Live Now!
Twestival Local, the international event for bringing Twitterers together to support community charities, officially kicked off their weekend-long campaign for social good yesterday. As the world uses Twitter to come together in hyperlocal forces, yo...
FAIL OVERLOAD: Because You Can Never Have Enough Fail
Who knew there was so much FAIL on the Internet? We love our Internet fails. They amuse us, make us laugh, and remind us that when we fall flat on our face, someone else is probably failing all the way to the front page of YouTube. Heck, we love YouT...
iPhone App Store Changes: Do They Hurt Developers?
Most of the Apple faithful walked away happy from this week's Apple Rock and Roll event announcements this week, except notably at least a subset of iPhone developers. According to Information Week, the redesign of the App Store that accompanied the ...
All For Good: Facebook App Helps You Find Ways to Volunteer
Today has been a day of remembrance and reflection as we mark the eight year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Partly to honor those that were lost, President Obama yesterday proclaimed September 11th Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Rememb...
Can a Professional Twitterer Save Rep. Joe Wilson's Rep?
Earlier this week we mentioned the impact Representative Joe Wilson's outburst had on the Twitter zeitgeist following President Obama's health care speech; 13% of all the related tweets mentioned the South Carolina Congressman's "You Lie!" accusation...
New New Moon Trailer Leaks to the Web
Remember last month when the trailer to the insanely anticipated next Twilight saga film New Moon leaked to the internets and was promptly hoovered up again by its studio, Summit Entertainment? Well, this version of the trailer is now out in full, in...
Why Apple's Tablet Will Eat Kindle's Lunch
At this point it's already the stuff of legend. In geek circles, the Apple Tablet is more coveted, more sought after, and more mysterious than Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and the jackalope combined. One thing that seems increasingly clear is the m...
Twitter Confirms It: Ellen DeGeneres a Good Choice for Idol
When Paula Abdul broke the news — by way of Twitter — that she was leaving American Idol, it wasn't exactly well received by diehard show fans. Fan reaction and questions over FOX's decision-making became hot topics for blogs and entertainment shows,...
Is Facebook Like Google, or More Like Yahoo?
Written by Josh Catone
Here's a very familiar story that we all know: A pair of college kids launch a directory of the Internet that grows to become the most visited site on the web and makes them very rich. Then a few years later, another pair of college kids start a sear...
The Worst Anti-Piracy Ad Ever?
Like the record companies, the software industry wants young people to stop pirating copyrighted content. It's debatable whether the record industry's war against consumers had the desired effect: while the industry spent its time suing its customers...
Disney Buys Marvel, Iron Man Gets Purity Ring [Parody Video]
In August we brought news that Disney was buying Marvel for $4 billion, leading some geeks to wonder what would become of Spider-Man under the ownership of Mickey Mouse. The inevitable "mashups" trend kicked off, with Marvel fans mashing up Disney an...
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