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Skype Slams Facebook and Twitter in New Ads
12:13:08 AM
Technology is changing the way people think and operate, but is it also degrading humanity? That's the premise behind Skype's new $12 million marketing campaign, which slams both Facebook and Twitter as it promotes its own more-intimate form of...



How Major League Baseball Stacks up on Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 11:50 PM
Spring is in the air and Major League Baseball season is officially underway. Hot dogs, beer and lazy days at the ballpark are on tap for the next several months. But how do the game's players, teams and leagues stack up on the social web? The...



Facebook Misses Privacy Deadline in Ireland. Now What?
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 9:56 PM
Following a three-month audit by Ireland's Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), Facebook promised at the end of last year to make a slew of changes to give users more control over their privacy. The social networking company gave...



How Google+ Can Succeed at Business Without Really Trying
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 9:11 PM
Google+ arrived last summer armed and ready to compete with Facebook. Yet despite more than 100 million users, the network has failed to slow Facebook's growth or diminish its market share. Many have already dismissed Google+ as a failed venture,...



Google Glasses: Would You Wear Them? [POLL]
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 6:39 PM
Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Woody Allen, Bono, Tina Fey: the list of celebrities who made a specific style of glasses famous is surprisingly small. And now Google dares to go where other tech companies fear to tread -- into the eyewear market. But...



Jennifer Lopez and Yap.tv Make the Second Screen Multilingual
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 6:20 PM
Simon Fuller's XIX Entertainment has partnered with yap.TV to create an immersive second-screen experience around the multilingual international hit ¡Q'VIVA!. ¡Q'VIVA! The Chosen is reality competition show featuring Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony...



Facebook Marketers Reveal States Where Users Click on Ads Most [EXCLUSIVE]
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 5:34 PM
Facebook users in South Dakota, Tennessee and Colorado click through ads on Facebook at record rates. In South Dakota, Facebook users click on ads at a rate of 174% the national average. Meanwhile, residents of Vermont, Alabama and Indiana are...



This Music Video Lets You Buy Clothes While You Watch
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 4:53 PM
Online clothing retailer Ssense has debuted what appears to be the first music video you can make purchases in, featuring Australian rapper Iggy Azalea alongside hip-hop duo FKi and Grammy-nominated producer Diplo. The music video is pretty...



Shapeways CEO Will Discuss the Future of 3D Printing at Mashable Connect
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 4:31 PM
We're pleased to announce that Peter Weijmarshausen, CEO of Shapeways, will join Mashable Connect as a premier speaker. Imagine a future where instead of having to search for the perfect piece of furniture or jewelry, you could easily design your...



What If Your Emails Never Went to Gmail and Twitter Couldn't See Your Tweets?
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 3:19 PM
A new tool under development by Oregon State computer scientists could radically alter the way communications work on the web. Privly is a sort of manifesto-in-code, a working argument for a more private, less permanent Internet. The system we...



Can Social Media Buzz Predict Election Results? [STUDY]
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 3:07 PM
The social media buzz surrounding a political candidate can sometimes predict election results, according to a new study from NM Incite, a Nielsen/McKinsey company. NM Incite looked at four elections held during the 2010 midterm: two Senate races...



Google: Here's What Our Sci-Fi Glasses Look Like
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 1:08 PM
We're more than a quarter of the way through 2012, and as you may have noticed, we have failed to acquire silver jumpsuits or jetpacks. In fact, aside from that headset in your ear, smartphone in your pocket and tablet in your purse, everything...



New York Times Feature Includes Embedded 'Kick Ass' Game
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 12:33 PM
The web version of a feature in this weekend's upcoming New York Times Magazine article on "stupid games" features a very clever perk: An embedded game modeled on the game Kick Ass. Instead of the usual lead image on the page, there's live...



Rumor: YouTube Rentals Coming to Google TV Soon
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 11:22 AM
YouTube is working hard to transition for an amateur video sharing site into a full-blown TV network and first-run movie-consumption destination. It's creating its own TV shows and has made big deals, including one this morning with Paramount,...



500 Paramount Films Coming to YouTube
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 8:56 AM
You'll soon be able to rent nearly 500 Paramount Pictures films via YouTube and Google Play, thanks to a newly signed licensing agreement between the two companies. Many of those films, including The Godfather trilogy, Ferris Bueller's Day Off...



 
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