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The V&A is Wrong (1)
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I took advantage of one of the last "extra" opening days the V&A is offering for its musical instruments gallery to check out the fuss. Having been sitting on the fence - sympathetic to the pleas for historic fashion displays, though drawn by my background as a violist and pianist to the music side - I came out storming. Yes, musical instruments are about playing (an argument that some are using to closet them away ...Shared by feelinglistless (43)Comment View comments -
Best Rap Catch Phrases – Round 2 (1)
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Sure, most of these are noises/adlibs/back-ups rather than ‘catch phrases’…but you say tomato juice, I say vodka. Snoop fans please note: the man is a walking catch phrase – there’s no way to narrow it down to just one. 50 Cent: G-G-G-G UNIT! Never before has stuttering been so marketable. Although these days it’s more a case of *C-C-C-Crickets* Young Jeezy: YEEEEAAAHHHHH! By popular demand for all the Jeezy stans. Flavor Flav: YEEAAAHH BOYYEEEEEE! Best. ...Shared by Trey (91)Comment View comments -
10 Amazing Hacks that Harness the Awesome Power of USB (1)
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After our USB 3.0 coverage last week, we figured it would be a good time to turn our attention back to USB 2.0 (aka High Speed), and one of the classic nerd hobbies: USB hacking. Because of its highly-accessible wiring, USB can be easily modified for all sorts of purposes, even by neophyte hardware hackers. In the past, we've shown you how to perform some simple hacks, but now we want to highlight some of ...Shared by Fee (61)Comment View comments -
5 Insightful TED Talks on Social Media (40)
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The 2010 Technology Entertainment Design conference will be kicking off tomorrow in Long Beach, California, bringing the leading minds of many fields together to talk shop about innovation, change, and what the future holds.As social media has become a game changer for industries across the board, you can bet the experts at this year’s TED conference will have their sights set on peeling back the hype and getting at the core of what social technology ...Shared by algoz (5) arpik (8) Bjoern (5) BostonDave (4) BritCrit (26) Corvida (304) Dave (19) Dave (17) eLd0raDo (5) ellen (26) and 30 more »Comment View comments -
5 Insightful TED Talks on Social Media (1)
onThe 2010 Technology Entertainment Design conference will be kicking off tomorrow in Long Beach, California, bringing the leading minds of many fields together to talk shop about innovation, change, and what the future holds.As social media has become a game changer for industries across the board, you can bet the experts at this year’s TED conference will have their sights set on peeling back the hype and getting at the core of what social technology ...Shared by Davidinho (21)Comment View comments
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10 free ways to keep track of changes to any website, without an RSS reader (1)
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Filed under: Utilities, Features, Web services Do you need to know about a new product release the minute it happens? Are you watching Amazon price changes like a hawk? Is your F5 key worn out from overuse? You might want to look into some automatic ways to monitor website changes. I know RSS is the trendy way to keep up with new posts on websites -- I use it all the time -- but some ...Shared by Wardell (60)Comment View comments -
5 Levels of Effective Communication in the Social Media Age (11)
onSoren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, which brings together staff from Google, Facebook, and Twitter with others to explore living wisely in our modern age. Mashable readers can use code ‘Mashable‘ for a discount when registering.In the era of social media, our networks are much larger than they have ever been, and we have more ways to communicate with those in them. Even if you are not very active on Facebook ...Shared by Dennis (31) Gambrill (25) GlennIsaac (63) Jurr (14) Kevin (35) Lido (3) LouCypher (310) Matt (30) MatthiasHeil (183) Mike (10) and one more »Comment View comments
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5 Levels of Effective Communication in the Social Media Age (1)
onSoren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, which brings together staff from Google, Facebook, and Twitter with others to explore living wisely in our modern age. Mashable readers can use code ‘Mashable‘ for a discount when registering.In the era of social media, our networks are much larger than they have ever been, and we have more ways to communicate with those in them. Even if you are not very active on Facebook ...Shared by Andi Narvaez (11)Comment View comments
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10 free ways to keep track of changes to any website, without an RSS reader (13)
onFiled under: Utilities, Features, Web services Do you need to know about a new product release the minute it happens? Are you watching Amazon price changes like a hawk? Is your F5 key worn out from overuse? You might want to look into some automatic ways to monitor website changes. I know RSS is the trendy way to keep up with new posts on websites -- I use it all the time -- but some ...Shared by awqi_zar (12) giotse (34) hadi060 (164) hnouwens (43) Imran (19) Joe (36) Le (155) Mahendra (270) mike (53) Nandan (13) and three more »Comment View comments
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feature: Daddy's Home: Ars reviews Bioshock 2 (4)
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The world of Rapture has a lot in common with Jurassic Park. Both fictional places tried to create a sort of closed paradise, playing with nature to fulfill the needs of their respective creators. Both experiments went horribly wrong, making a point about the will of man. In popular culture, when reach exceeds grasp, people die terrible, action-packed deaths. Bioshock 2 takes place ten years after the events of the first game. I'll keep this ...- Cristian said: "Trying to find a reason to return to Rapture again in the inevitable third installment. This story didn't need to be told, but it works. A third game? We may be looking at diminished returns."My sentiments exactly.
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How Social Gaming is Improving Education (23)
onFor decades, educators have been scrambling to find better ways to prepare students for the real world. It began with the mildly apocalyptic government report, A Nation at Risk, which warned that an outdated school system was unwittingly sabotaging America’s economic superiority. Year after year, major educational organizations would echo the report’s call with threats of dire consequences and pleas for sweeping reform, from the U.S. Department of Labor to the Accreditation Board for Engineering ...Shared by Aditya Rao (4) Andy (85) Andy (24) Bart (6) Casablanca (6) chrisbrogan (157) Daniele Bazzano (dAn) (88) Eric (7) Gera (5) grudelsud (66) and 13 more »Comment View comments
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The 10 Oddest Apple-Themed Products [PICS] (28)
onApple fandom has inspired a generation of designers to create products that complement, contrast or clash with design guru Jonathan Ive’s cleverly thought out consumer electronics.We’ve pulled together a list of Apple-themed products — both real and conceptual –- that ooze wit, and celebrate those that nod to the fun side of life in their product designs.If we’ve missed anything, do let us know your favorite fun Apple-themed object in the comments below.1. 500XL Giant ...Shared by Addi (133) Andrew (28) arne (28) Benjamin (36) cireasa (30) Crilo (106) Dedalus (60) Diego (14) fpinna (1) gary (1) and 18 more »Comment View comments
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3 New Ways to Measure the Social Web (39)
onTim Trefren is one of the founders of Mixpanel, Inc. a real-time analytics service that helps companies understand how users behave with web applications.When most people think of web analytics, they think about pageview tracking; basically, measuring which pages on a website are being viewed. Pageview tracking is a well-established technology, but it’s no longer meeting the needs of many of the most well-known companies in social media. Companies like Facebook, Zynga, Slide, and RockYou ...Shared by Aadje (14) Alex (51) Alex (20) andy brudtkuhl (52) Brad (8) c_ (3) chrisbrogan (157) Craig (31) Crilo (106) Dan (83) and 29 more »Comment View comments
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How Web Video SEO is Finally Coming of Age (22)
onThough publishing videos on the web has been child’s play for years now, the process of getting them to rank high in search remains enigmatic at best, frustrating at worst. The pace of video publication is accelerating faster than ever, and though video SEO seems to have been left behind the rest of the industry, it’s finally starting to catch up through some exciting developments that will hopefully provide more incentives for publishers to produce ...Shared by Andrew (25) Andy (85) arne (28) Barry (112) benhamin (7) bpearce76 (10) Bryson (18) Ethan (7) gadgetboy (54) icue (60) and 12 more »Comment View comments
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5 Essential Tools for the Mobile Journalist (31)
onThe multi-function playground that is the smartphone has shrunk the capabilities of a van-sized 1970’s news team into the pocket of a single reporter. Today, front-page news can stream from any individual with a cell phone camera and a Twitter account, as it did during Iran’s election protests last summer. Today, major news outlets, such as CNN, have crowdsourced parts of their newsroom to locally-savvy citizen journalists, often armed with little more than a camcorder.In ...Shared by Alex (20) Alexandre (75) awqi_zar (12) C (37) Daniele Bazzano (dAn) (88) Doug (50) Dreamer (9) Ethan (7) foleymo (65) Gambrill (25) and 21 more »
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The Birth of the Virtual Assistant (26)
onDag Kittlaus is the Co-Founder and CEO of Siri. He is a serial innovator and consumer wireless Internet veteran of 10 years in both Scandinavia and the US. Siri is Dag’s third consecutive mobile product.In the near future, anyone who lives a connected lifestyle will be able to delegate their everyday tasks to intelligent virtual assistants that will coordinate, execute and simplify users’ lives.We will look back on these days and ask ourselves how we ...Shared by Aaron (82) arne (28) begum (2) Blu (8) Brutal (17) Dan (83) Drew (17) Harper (138) Jeremy (135) jmbullis (59) and 16 more »
- Ricky said: I want a personal assistant so bad - imagine how much more productive you could be?
- kevinpshan said: I'll be first on line for a virtual assistant.
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Social Media Marketing: How Pepsi Got It Right (26)
onSocial media marketing campaigns are proving to be goldmines rich with customer engagement and insight that companies wouldn’t likely have otherwise. Companies like PepsiCo are going to extensive lengths to foster this type of collaboration with fans, and the payoff has been big.The company’s Mountain Dew division is several stages into its DEWmocracy campaign — a plan to launch a new Mountain Dew flavor with the public’s involvement at all levels of the process, and ...Shared by ChrisMyles (7) Dave (1) DesignDyke (11) Gauravonomics (6) Geoff (12) GlennIsaac (63) Jason (1) Jeff (30) JimOgle (10) Josh (257) and 16 more »
- Steven said: Good analysis and a quote from Jay Baer! Way to go @Jaybaer!
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HOW TO: Build a More Beautiful Blog (44)
onThis series is supported by Webdesigner Depot, a popular web design blog covering tutorials, design trends, blogging and inspirational posts. You can visit WDD at webdesignerdepot.com and follow WDD on Twitter @designerdepot.Whether you’re blogging for business or pleasure, now is the time to take your little corner of the web to the next level. Social media makes your blog more visible and valuable than ever, and the amount of resources available to beautify and streamline ...Shared by Alexandre (75) Andy (85) Atmos (64) Barry (112) Basajaun (61) BrokenRhino (39) Bryson (18) Carlos (0) chathura (27) Daniel (93) and 34 more »Comment View comments
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The Anti-Hype: Why Apple’s iPad Disappoints (27)
onThe iPad is not the transformational device so many Apple enthusiasts were hoping for. It won’t turn all the content industries upside down, it won’t be your primary computing device, and it’s not even a bigger, better iPhone.Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPad as a device to fill the gap between smartphones like the iPhone and high-end laptops like the MacBook and MacBook Pro. He said there needs to be a middle device, but ...Shared by a77ila (185) Basajaun (61) chathura (27) Daniel (32) Deb (1) Denis (13) Jason (6) Jesse (119) Joe Dawson (30) joe_dauz (10) and 17 more »Explore read four notes
- Rizzn said: I can't remember the last time I said these words: "Mashable nailed it."There it is, though. Mashable nailed it.
- joe_dauz said: LOL - Apple slips in a new chip and talk is about a piece of glass. Can Mashable be any more anti apple. They pushed the hype in my face for days with all apple and pc ces rumors about crappy tablets. Now its Ipad sucks - Ipad is evil.
- Zhang said: In terms of experience, iPad should be better than iPhone, of coz, not for portability. I can't use it as main device, but can put in my bag at any time.
- Solon said: OBRIGADO.
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The Maturation of Social Media ROI (36)
onBrian Solis is a principal at new media agency FutureWorks, and author of the upcoming book, Engage. You can connect with him on Twitter or Facebook.The debate over measuring social media investment inspired many brands to cannonball into popular social networks and join the proverbial conversation without a plan or strategic objectives defined. At the same time, the lack of ROI standards unnerved many executives, preventing any form of experimentation until their questions and concerns ...Shared by Alex (51) Dan (83) Daniele Bazzano (dAn) (88) Dominik (28) Drew (0) Ed (7) foleymo (65) Gerald (16) Giulio Ardoino (3) GlennIsaac (63) and 26 more »
- Marshall said: Read in detail
- Riche said: Great article. I don't agree that new media is changing organizations from the inside out though. Organizations are being changed from the outside in via new media by buying into the buzz of new, social technologies without evaluating their true value to the organization and developing strategies and success metrics to measure their effectiveness.
- Manne said: Dear me this is a long post with many complicated words. For most restaurants I would say that if you engage in social media for some time and you don't see your online bookings going up; you are either doing something wrong or should focus efforts elsewhere.
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