Another rad browser plugin called Google Alarm hit the Internets this week, which alerts you every time your personal info is sent to Google’s servers. How? Via notifications, a running tally of dangerous sites and, naturally, a super annoying, vuvuzela -like alarm
What do you get when you put a black rhino, a watermelon and Mashable in the same room? We didn’t know the answer either — at least until today.
Dell has confirmed that its Streak tablet will get the Android 2.2 operating system (Froyo) later this year, but it will not run on T-Mobile’s 3G network. The device, which features a 5-inch screen, dual cameras, an Android operating system, $500 price point and 3G data access via AT&T, has been much discussed in the tech sphere. The company recently announced that the Streak is “the most successful pre-sale [it has] ever offered.” While the device will indeed get the Android 2.2 operating system later this year via an over-the-air update, it will run Android 1.6 at launch
Disney has officially acquired Playdom , the makers of popular social games like Social City and Sorority Life , for $563.2 million, with an additional $200 million that could be paid out based on performance.
Cyrus Patten is the editor of Pingable.org , a blog about everything WordPress. He specializes in the role of technology in community organizing.
Brian Casel is a web designer and owner of ThemeJam WordPress Themes and CasJam Media . You can follow Brian on his blog at briancasel.com or on Twitter @CasJam . WordPress is the fastest growing CMS platforms in today’s web design industry (yes, it’s a true CMS). Much of the action in the WordPress community is largely driven by the market for WordPress themes. The vast selection of free and commercial themes is what makes WordPress so attractive. But the theme is often only a starting point for further customizations. Web developers and DIY website owners like to start with a great theme and tweak it to perfectly suit their (or their client’s) needs.
PostRank Analytics , a service that captures social engagement and traditional metrics in one dashboard, in launching a new beta feature called PostRank Activity Streams . PostRank describes Activity Streams as “FriendFeed for content.” In other words, an ever-changing overview of what is happening with all your content all across the web. PostRank Analytics has always offered an aggregated report for individual articles, noting how many tweets, bookmarks or comments a post received, but now that data is displayed in real time in a single view on your PostRank dashboard.
According to Google’s AdPlanner stats , Facebook is the #1 most-visited destination on the web. Weighing in at an unfathomably heavy 570 billion page views and 540 million users, the ubiquitous social network outranks every other non-Google site, taking more than 35% of all web traffic measured.
Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007. According to ForeSee Results’ 2010 Social Media Study, YouTube is the second most powerful social network for consumer engagement. This critical component of the social web remains vital for causes, associations and government organizations.
