Mashable is hosting the first-ever worldwide Social Media Day celebration on June 30 and you’re invited . Last week, we announced Social Media Day — a global celebration of the revolution of media becoming social. Readers responded enthusiastically by signing up to organize or attend more than 340 meetups in 74 different countries
Over at the official Facebook Blog, the company has announced that it will open new offices in Hyderabad, India. This announcement comes just days after Facebook confirmed that it will also be setting up shop in Austin, Texas . Both the India and Austin offices will be hiring online sales and operations staff.
Travel website Kayak has a hidden easter egg reference to ABC’s TV drama Lost . Search Kayak for flights from Sydney’s SYD airport to Los Angeles’s LAX and you’ll see that Oceanic Flight 815 — the very one that crashed on the mysterious island in the first episode of Lost — is one of your options. That’s exciting if you’re looking to get stranded on a desert island dotted with smoke monsters, apparitions, crazy science experiments, electromagnetic abnormalities, immortals, polar bears, mysterious hatches, giant four-toed statues and warring factions of scientists
As more and more people set up their personal/home WiFi networks, opportunistic WiFi hijackers are finding themselves free to roam around cities in search of unsecure networks. At the very least they’re attempting to piggyback off the internet connections of unsuspecting individuals, but there’s also the risk of far more serious issues like identity theft.
In February 2009, Twestival leveraged the Twitter audience to raise more than $250,000 in the most ambitious Twitter fundraising event to date. (The event was a major inspiration for the Summer of Social Good , a three month charity campaign currently running here at Mashable.) Tonight at #140conf , the two-day Twitter conference in New York, Twestival organizer Amanda Rose announced the launch of the group’s next event: “Twestival Local” takes place on September 12th and encourages local groups of Twitter users to host events in aid of their favorite charities . Registration will be open from July 1st
TED, host to some of the most informative talks in technology , released a particularly timely talk today from new media expert and NYU professor Clay Shirky on “How Cellphones, Twitter, Facebook Can Make History”. While filmed in May, his points are brought into sharp focus by recent developments in Iran (see # iranelection ), as social media tools prove their power to change the world. Shirky explains: “Media is increasingly less just a source of information; it’s increasingly more a site of co-ordination, because groups that see or hear or watch or listen to something can now gather around and talk to each other as well…members of the former audience can now also be producers and not consumers.” Reviews: Twitter Tags: cellphones , facebook , TED , TED videos , twitter
TweetDeck, the popular Twitter desktop application, has been in heated battle with rival Seesmic Desktop for control of the Twitter market. Earlier today, Seesmic made significant upgrades to its desktop application.
Today has been dominated by news and excitement surrounding Google Wave , Google’s new real-time communication platform that will launch to the public later this year. In fact, there’s been so much buzz that you might just not have enough time to read the thousands of articles being released on Google’s biggest product launch in recent memory. To make sense of it all, we have compiled key information, definitions, and links related to the launch of Google Wave
