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Huggies Targets Social Media Moms With New Campaign
Brand sponsored social media campaigns are everywhere. From SeaWorld, Starbucks, and Dunkin’ Donuts, to Cadbury, A&E, and even Universal, it’s officially the hot trend to replace or supplement traditional marketing campaigns with social media. Huggies, the maker of diapers, training…
Polar Rose Adds Facial Recognition to Your Flickr Photos
Since the debut of the new iPhoto, which comes complete with facial recognition plus integration with Flickr and Facebook, tagging your friends in photos has become a much easier process. In a similar vein, but on a broader scale, Polar…
Is UNO the New Scrabble on Facebook?
In case you don’t remember the Scrabble fiasco on Facebook from last year, here’s how it went down in a nutshell: a developer built a wildly popular application called Scrabulous that was ultimately shutdown by the game’s license holders, only…
Preview: iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 1 Software Walkthrough
Just like January 2007 when Steve Jobs held up the first iPhone at Macworld and showed the world full screen multi-touch, and March 2008 when Jobs, along with Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall stood up at the Apple Town Hall…
Microsoft Turns to Social Media to Promote Internet Explorer 8
Microsoft has released the latest version of its Web browser, Internet Explorer 8. While the features include improved security and supposedly faster performance, we’re more interested in how the company is promoting IE8 through social media. Once again, Microsoft is…
Foursquare is the Breakout Mobile App at SXSW
Many of us have been anxiously awaiting a smarter Twitter that not only lets us update our status and connect with friends online, but also lets us find our Twitter friends — in real-life — when we’re in the same…
Cut and Paste! Palm Pre-Features! No Video! No MMS! Kevin Rose Diggs iPhone 3.0 Rumors!
Kevin’s back. Back again. Digging iPhone rumors. Tell ya friends! Not iChat Mobile this time, unfortunately, but Gizmodo is reporting that during his SXSW live Diggnation, Kevin Rose - who’s flubbed almost all iPhone rumors, but nailed iTunes and iPod…
In one of the most remarkable inside-media interviews in recent memory, CNBC’s Jim Cramer sat down with the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, and was made manifest for his network and industry’s failures (according to Stewart) to properly fulfill their mandate…
Flickr Photos Become Stock Photography at Getty Images
Many of us use online stock photography when we’re looking for images to spice up a presentation or blog post. A lot of us also love to scour Flickr for the same purpose, since with a little digging we can…
Maggiano’s Gives Away Food to Gain Twitter Followers
Here’s a social media promotion that will likely be effective, but not nearly as edgy as what Skittles is doing: free food. Maggiano’s, the Italian restaurant chain, is offering up a $100 gift card if you simply tweet “Follow @Maggianos…
Turn Your Facebook Photos Into Printed Albums
Digital photography has brought us the benefit of being able to take as many photos as we like without additional cost, but also the curse of nearly never having the actual physical photos in our hands. With Facebook, it’s gotten…
Seattle P-I Might Try Online-Only Version of Newspaper
Last week saw the end of Denver’s Rocky Mountain News after nearly 150 years in the newspaper business. Looking to avoid a similar fate, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has been considering launching an online-only version of its daily newspaper, and is…
Tatango to Broadcast Its Every Move With 24×7 Live Video
Tatango, a group text messaging startup we’ve previously profiled, is going Big Brother and letting you watch their every move. The company has launched Tatango.tv, a website with multiple live cams of the company’s office, which include shots of the…
Find Out the Most Influential Users on Twitter with the ReTweetability Index
Dan Zarrella, Mashable contributor and self-proclaimed viral marketing scientist, is applying his science of retweets to a newly launched site, the ReTweetability Index. The ReTweetability Index isn’t just a list showing the top Twitterers or the ones with the most…
Spice Up Your Presentations With SlideRocket’s Service Directory
SlideRocket, the slick online alternative for pristine presentations that launched in public beta last year, is expanding their virtual marketplace with more content partners and a brand new services directory. SlideRocket’s Marketplace already enabled users to purchase premium content to…
Twitter CEO Evan Williams Interviewed on Charlie Rose [Video]
Twitter CEO Evan Williams let us know last week that he was making an appearance on Charlie Rose, and today, the video is online. In the interview, which lasts about 20 minutes, Williams explains the Twitter phenomenon, some of the…
Skittles Site Receives an Extreme Social Makeover
Many companies are starting to realize that whatever content they offer online still can’t match the various social media offerings out there, where the community contributes to the whole. Few, however, have taken it so far as candy maker Skittles,…
Die IE6! Die. Go to Hell Already
Dear IE 6, Its been a good run, now please leave. Internet Explorer 6 is web designer’s nightmare. Sometime a web site that you design nicely looks really bad in IE6. You can take a look at some of best…
Twitter Fail Whale Tattoo is Awesome, Kinda
If you must ink some kind of web 2.0-related geekery on your body, there’s a whole lot of awful choices and only a couple of good ones. Within that scope, Twitter’s fail whale doesn’t fare too bad; in fact, “normal”…
Is Silver The New Black For Sears Tower?
Could one of Chicago's most famous landmarks be getting a new wardrobe? The owners of the Sears Tower, which has soared over the city's skyline since 1973, have proposed a silver paint job for the iconic black tower. So why…