VentureBeat:
Online photo service Pixable, which lets you print albums from your Facebook content, is launching its Calendar Creator feature today. The new feature will let you print out calendars to remember important dates from your information stored on Facebook, which is where many of us now have all of our photos (Facebook claims m (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by PartnerUp.Companies across the globe are hitting the social media scene hard in an effort to better reach their customers and deepen relationships. This kind of activity is visible on sites like Twitter or industry/company-specific online communities.While many small business owners (Read More)
Mashable!:
Patrick Moran is chief strategy officer at Fuze Box, the company behind Fuze Meeting. He was also chief marketing officer at Mzinga, a leading social media and white label community provider, and led online marketing at Cisco WebEx.Companies of all sizes and in all sectors regularly use virtual meetings to connect with col (Read More)
Mashable!:
Black Friday tends to bring out the animalistic side of shoppers looking for great bargains. Smart retailers are hip to the craze, which has been somewhat of an internet meme ever since October, and they’re using the web and social media as platforms to generate even more interest.Toys”R”Us appears to have found the magic f (Read More)
Mashable!:
Shira Lazar is the co-host of Yahoo! TV’s recently launched “What’s So Funny?“, a daily 3-minute show that takes a look at the funniest moments from last night’s TV lineup and lets viewers vote on their favorites.The convergence between the small and even smaller screen continues, as some of our favorite TV shows find new w (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Yesterday, Facebook’s Dave Recordon commented on the service that he just finished a marathon session of The West Wing, a great show about the inner-workings of a fictional White House that ended its run on NBC in 2006. I agreed with Recordon, it was a great show. You know who else agreed? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.S (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moscovitz is starting a new startup called Asana to solve enterprise collaboration, and he just closed a $9 million series A round from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz. this follows $1.2 million angel round last spring from investors including Ron Conway, Peter Thiel, mySPace CEO Owen v (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter is looking to pick up a few talented developers through acquisitions says Biz Stone:Reuters: "That is something we are definitely interested in," Stone told a news conference in Tel Aviv. "We made an acquisition last year that turned out to be an outstandingly good decision."Read the rest of this story »See Also:Twi (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Microsoft has issued Security Advisory 977981 in regard to public reports of a vulnerability that exists as an invalid pointer reference of Internet Explorer. Under certain conditions, it is possible for a CSS/Style object to be accessed after the object is deleted, and thus, if Internet Explorer attempts t (Read More)
Engadget:
Wow, talk about digging deep in the memory bank. The same phone that we spotted way back in July (known then as the iPAQ K3 Obsidian) has finally emerged in official fashion on AT&T. Dubbed the iPAQ Glisten, this all-business smartphone boasts a vanilla coat of Windows Mobile 6.5, a 2.5-inch AMOLED display, 3.1 megapixel ca (Read More)
TechCrunch:
While they’ve been selectively displaying them for a little while now, Google today took the time to talk about and show off its new search ads. The general gist? Bigger, bigger, click me, bigger. Or, in Google’s own words, “Text is often useful, but sometimes videos and pictures are a more effective way to receive informat (Read More)
Engadget:
Nokia's just confirmed on its official blog that the X6 will hit shelves in Finland and the UK starting next week, with other countries to follow soon after. After hearing a while back that the touchscreen, Comes With Music-lover would be shipping around November 12th -- well, we didn't want to falsely get anyone's hopes up (Read More)
CNET News.com | Tech news blog:
The social network has converted all existing shareholders' stock to the more powerful Class B; it'll go back to Class A if they sell it during an IPO. But the company says it still doesn't have IPO plans set. Originally posted at The Social
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Ars Technica:
As with any new release, in Silverlight 4, Microsoft has made some changes that developers like and others do not. There are too many to list of the former, and just a handful of the latter, but one of them is quite serious: cross-platform support has become less of a priority. For example, the HTML control (Read More)
TorrentFreak:
In file-sharing terms, Spain currently has among the most relaxed laws of leading European countries. The country is believed to have some of the highest rates of online sharing of music and movies and currently it is perfectly legal, providing no money is made directly from infringement, to run BitTorrent and eDonkey sites (Read More)