Oh, social media: we had such high hopes for you! From helping non-profits to saving newspapers to getting us back into employment. Alas, your paradigm shift turned out to be a revolutionary new way to gossip about reality TV shows.
Despite our woefully incorrect prediction that he’d win American Idol, Adam Lambert still dominates Kris Allen in web search (go figure, we couldn’t) and YouTube star Susan Boyle is back in the headlines tonight after proceeding to the Britain’s Got Talent semi-finals.
Feeling the inevitable urge to put these two on a stage together, Current TV, creator of the hilarious Celebrity Twitter clip, has struck gold yet again with a cartoonish creation that puts Lambert and Boyle in an unlikely duet. Full story...
This past weekend, Digg CEO Jay Adelson revealed that the social news site is working on a complete overhaul that will be rolled out over the coming weeks and months.
YouTube has just announced that it has surpassed yet another milestone, and this one’s a doozy: 24 hours of video is now uploaded to the social video site every sixty seconds.
Posterous — the e-mail-to-blog-to-everywhere platform — has just introduced a new feature that will let users schedule posts to be published in the future via e-mail, web or bookmarklet.
From the time we wake up in the morning to the moment we call it a day, and every moment in between (think bedroom, bathroom and dinner table), we’re checking in on our favorite social media sites.
Yahoo Inc. has announced at the 201 IMG World Congress of Sports that it will be acquiring Citizen Sports, a social and mobile application development firm focused on sports.
There’s a new viral video making the rounds that challenges the normal order of the written word.
A Microsoft architect has developed an application that lets you stargaze from Bing Map’s street level view.
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
We’re used to Google and other search engines decorating their homepages for special occasions, and this St Patrick’s Day is no different with various doodles, graphics and costumes marking the holiday around the web.
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups.