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Social media gurus should give Qantas a break
If industrial unrest wasn’t bad enough, Qantas is now being widely criticized for its social media efforts during the recent 48-hour shutdown. Critics are charging the airline with being “too corporate” on Twitter and not responding to individual customers’ needs.…
Google Releases Blogger for iPhone
Earlier today Google announced the release of Blogger for iOS, an iPhone app aimed at Blogger users who have been looking for a way to edit or write new blog posts directly from their mobile devices. The app is free,…
BIS 3.1 Screenshot Confirms Address Book Sync
Although we’re hearing rumors that BIS 3.1 and 3.2 are coming with Yahoo!, Gmail and Hotmail sync, it’s always good to see some screenshots that confirm. The most recent leaks show some Address Book sync with Yahoo! confirming that we’ll…
BlackBerry Desktop Manager 6.0 Screenshot Leaked
A screenshot of BlackBerry Desktop Manager 6.0 has been leaked and the UI looks great. It reminds me of the BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac, with a simple menu structure and device information readily available. There is a podcast feature…
After 50 Years, Battle Still Rages Over Iconic Photograph of Che Guevara
Fifty years ago, Cuban photographer Alberto Díaz “Korda” Gutiérrez took a picture of Ernesto “Che” Guevara at a funeral with a 90mm lens on a Leica camera. Korda was on assignment as a photographer for the publication, Revolucion. He snapped…
Photo Theft Versus Conceptual Art
Acclaimed photographer Harry Benson was recently flipping through the New York Times when he came across an article about the Whitney Biennial exhibition in NYC, one of the leading shows for up-and-coming artists. He was shocked to find that the…
HootSuite to Integrate with Foursquare and MySpace This Week
Today at the #140tc Twitter Conference in Seattle, Washington (which I keynoted this morning), HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes announced that its popular Twitter application will be integrating with both MySpace and Foursquare, starting this week at the South by Southwest…
Google Wave Gets a Smarter API
Google Wave, the real-time communication platform that made a huge splash last year, is looking to bring back some of its original buzz and developer excitement with the launch of v2 of the robots API.For those who are unfamiliar, developers…
4.35 Million Watch Chile Earthquake and Hawaii Tsunami Video Streams
Yesterday video streaming site Ustream ran live video of local news broadcasts covering the earthquake in Chile and the ensuing Hawaii tsunami warning. Today Ustream announced that it has delivered 4.35 million streams related to the events.Some streams were news…
Facebook Secures Patent for News Feed
A new patent awarded to Facebook this week could have some big implications for the entire social media industry. The world’s largest social network now own the patent for the news feed.Patent #7,669,123, first unearthed by All Facebook, credits Facebook…
Microsoft Outlook to Add MySpace and Facebook Integration
Microsoft Outlook has just become a lot more social through new partnerships with Facebook and MySpace and an existing one with LinkedIn.You might remember back in November that Microsoft announced Outlook Social Connector, a new Office 2010 feature that hooks…
Facebook Is the Web’s Ultimate Timesink [STATS]
The average U.S. Internet user spends more time on Facebook than on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft, Wikipedia, and Amazon combined. Think about that for a moment.New numbers released by Nielsen today confirm what we’ve known for a while: Facebook is…
BlackBerry OS 5 Adoption Rates Slower Than Expected
Despite OS 5.0 being released over 3 months ago, 26.6% of 9530 users are still using OS 4.7. While OS 5.0 use has increased over time, the 73.4% that use it now are not that much more than the 61%…
Adobe AIR Support on BlackBerry Announced at MWC
Adobe have announced Adobe AIR is now ready to support mobile platforms such as BlackBerry. AIR leverages specific features of Flash Player 10.1, and is optimized for mobile screens. Also part of the announcement is that Adobe Flash 10.1 was…
Foursquare for BlackBerry Updated with Friend Management
Nan Palmero let me know that Foursquare for BlackBerry has been updated. The biggest update seems to be that you can now manage friends in the “More” tab. With this latest feature, you can add from pending friend requests or…
Google Buzz Surpasses 9 Million Posts and Comments
GMAIL USERS: You’re invited to join the conversation on Mashable’s Google Buzz account.Google Buzz just launched on Tuesday, but it looks like it’s already made a big splash with Gmail users. Now the Google team is moving quickly to make…
CONFIRMED: Google to Acquire Social Search Startup Aardvark
We’ve just confirmed with Google that the company has signed an agreement to acquire social search engine Aardvark.Google isn’t disclosing the terms, but news of the acquisition was first reported by TechCrunch, who put the figure at around $50 million.…
Flickr Co-Founder Returns to Roots
Some of you might know that popular photo sharing service Flickr was originally a set of tools built for a massively multiplayer online game called Game Neverending. In November of 2009 we also reported that Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr,…
US Tech Sector Growth Slowed Significantly in 2008
According to data released earlier this month by the US Census, the growth of the nation's software and IT tech sectors dramatically slowed in 2008 - the first such drop since the dot-com crash. Overall, revenue still grew, just at…
The Twitter Flatline: Why Doesn’t Twitter Grow? [STATS]
Twitter’s growth has stalled for yet another month, according to new numbers from Compete and Quantcast. In fact, Twitter.com’s traffic peaked in July 2009 and hasn’t reached that level since. According to web analytics firm Compete, Twitter’s U.S. traffic grew…
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