GMAIL USERS: You can now follow Mashable’s official Google Buzz profile here: http://www.google.com/profiles/mashable So far, Google has failed to launch a successful social web product to U.S. Internet users
Bummed because you don’t have the time to salivate in front of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Ustream ? Well, now you can get plenty of SI content sent directly to your cell: All you need is a physical issue of the mag and a camera phone. Once you pick up your issue (available on stands today), simply search through the pages for the JAGTAGs — or 2D barcodes — featuring a black and white image of what they’re calling a “mobile beauty.” Snap a photo of the JAGTAG and send it via MMS in order to get behind-the-scenes videos of the models sent directly to your phone.
Last week in our Web Faceoff series, we took a look at one of the newest forms of web communication: the Twitter retweet . This week though, we’ve decided to look at one of the oldest: email . Email has been around in one form or another since the 1960s, before the Internet was even born
Business social networking giant LinkedIn has been keeping busy in recent months. After surpassing 50 million users , the company hooked up with Twitter , announced integration with Outlook and launched its developer platform .
An online tool for managing and making sense of professional connections, relationships. and communication can only function when you’re sitting in front of your computer.
The curtain has closed on yet another great DEMO conference. The fall 2009 event saw 56 demonstrator companies and 14 AlphaPitch startups debut products to a packed house in San Diego. Produced by Chris Shipley and Matt Marshall of VentureBeat (who will be taking over future events as Executive Producer), the climax of DEMO came earlier this afternoon when the winners of the conference’s top prize – IDG’s million dollar media package – were announced for the top consumer and enterprise technologies presented during the show
Banks and creditors seem to share a common dislike with many consumers that are annoyed by rate increases, late fees, and dropped credit limits, amongst other gripes. Thus, it’s not too surprising that one woman’s call to arms against these companies has become a viral sensation on YouTube
RSS, short for Real Simple Syndication, helps you stream all of your news and blog sources into an easy-to-manage RSS reader such as Google Reader . Millions of people use RSS to keep up with Mashable, The New York Times, and even LOLcats
Microsoft is finally releasing Outlook for Mac, announcing today that starting next year, the popular email application will replace Entourage inside the Microsoft Office Suite. For now though, Entourage lives on, with a new Web Services Edition, “so current Entourage users on Exchange will experience improved e-mail and calendaring support.” The download is available here .
