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'The Voice' Now Lets You Vote on Facebook Timeline
Friday, March 30, 2012 9:27 PM
Fans of NBC's The Voice can now vote for their favorite contestants via a new app for Facebook Timeline. Facebook Timeline users can begin voting for artists on The Voice on Monday, when the app will be released. Fans can also share their views...



The Evolution of Facebook for Brands
Friday, March 30, 2012 8:59 PM
Facebook Timeline for businesses is officially here, and companies large and small are anticipating how the new changes will affect their existing Facebook presence. The early data creates a promising picture, with one report suggesting that...



How to Enchant Your Audience With Social Media [VIDEO]
Friday, March 30, 2012 7:47 PM
Guy Kawasaki is arguably one of the most recognized names in social media. He is a former Apple evangelist and currently a best-selling author, angel investor and entrepreneur. Behind the Brand host Bryan Elliott talked with Kawasaki about his...



No, You're Not Fat -- Facebook Just Makes You Think You Are [STUDY]
Friday, March 30, 2012 7:18 PM
Struggling with body weight issues? Facebook may be partially to blame, a new study suggests. A new study conducted by The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore found that social media is negatively impacting how people view...



Twitter Limits TweetDeck Access After Security Fears [UPDATE]
Friday, March 30, 2012 6:36 PM
Update: As of 9pm PST Friday, TweetDeck service has been restored. Twitter issued the following statement regarding the outage: As soon as we learned about the issue today, we took TweetDeck down to diagnose the situation. We discovered a bug...



Fake ID Users Beware: Face-Scanning Software Guesses Your Age [VIDEO]
Friday, March 30, 2012 4:41 PM
Are the days of fake IDs over? That may be so, thanks to new facial recognition software. Face.com API, used by photo apps, can now detect the ages and moods of individuals in pictures. The API is most notably integrated in the Photo Finder and...



Google Whips Up 3D Graphing Goodness in Search
Friday, March 30, 2012 4:11 PM
Add one more thing to the list of fun stuff you can do directly from Google's search box: 3D Graph Plotting. And these aren't just still 3D charts. They're colorful and fully manipulable, all thanks to Google Chrome Browser's support for WebGL....



Drunk 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Cover in a Cop Car Is Full of Win [VIDEO]
Friday, March 30, 2012 3:44 PM
Is this the real life -- or is this just fantasy? People often hope to achieve internet fame by uploading a cover song onto YouTube. But most of them aren't performed while drunk in the back of a police vehicle. Robert Wilkinson, a 29-year-old...



Facebook Is Building a Search Engine [REPORT]
Friday, March 30, 2012 3:27 PM
Is Facebook building a Google rival -- one that would use your location and your friends' tastes? A team of more than 20 Facebook engineers -- led by a former Google programmer -- is at work on a vastly improved search engine within the site,...



RIM-sanity! Beyond the BlackBerry Bloodbath
Friday, March 30, 2012 3:16 PM
In response to Research in Motion's ugly quarterly earnings report, newly minted CEO Thorsten Heins is shaking up the executive team. Not only has Jim Ballsillie -- RIM's co-CEO until January -- resigned from the board of directors, but the COO...



Educator Suspended When She Refused to Show Her Facebook Profile
Friday, March 30, 2012 3:04 PM
A former teacher's aide in Michigan says she's been fired after refusing to give her Facebook password to her supervisors. Kimberly Hester was employed directly by Less Cass Intermediate School District as an aide to a local elementary school....



How to Respond to Any Situation With an Animated GIF
Friday, March 30, 2012 2:50 PM
If a picture's worth a thousand words, an animated GIF has to be worth at least a billion, right? There's something unusually satisfying about reacting to everyday moments via GIF -- and that's exactly what the Tumblr site #WhatShouldWeCallMe...



Spotify Facebook Timeline Shows Music History Dating Back 1,000 Years
Friday, March 30, 2012 1:50 PM
Streaming music-service Spotify unveiled on Friday its Facebook Timeline fan page which boasts an ongoing history of music dating back more than 1,000 years. Although Spotify launched in 2006 -- and debuted in the U.S. in summer 2011 -- the...



Mashable Photo Challenge: Candy Creations
Friday, March 30, 2012 1:35 PM
Our weekly Mashable Photo Challenge is back. Last week we asked you to show us What's in Your Laptop Bag. We were impressed with the entries we received -- which you can see in a gallery of some of the best photos and on the Mashable Facebook...



YouTube Slam: Make Your Own Video Duels, Share Them in Google+ Hangouts
Friday, March 30, 2012 1:13 PM
YouTube Slam, a 3-month-old interactive video-discovery tool that randomly spits out two videos at a time for one-on-one battles, now allows users to craft their own matchups -- and share them in Google+ Hangouts. As previously, public voting...



 
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