Posts Tagged ‘time’

Friday Poll: Do Location Check-In Services Freak You Out?

Yes, it’s that time once again, folks — time for the Friday Poll ! This week we want to get a sense of how Mashable readers are reacting to all the services and features coming online that allow us to share our location information, from Foursquare, Gowalla, and Loopt to geolocation features in services like Twitter and Google Buzz. With sites like Please Rob Me springing up to remind us all of the potential perils that might befall us as we start broadcasting our locations publicly and semi-publicly, it’s a good time to take stock of where Mashable readers fall on the spectrum


New Seesmic for BlackBerry App First to Support Ping.fm

In January Twitter application maker Seesmic acquired Ping.fm . Today the updated Seesmic for BlackBerry application is the first to integrate the Ping.fm service into the fold, which means Twitter users can now use the BlackBerry app to simultaneously update 50 different social sites


10 Tips for Successful Twitter Fundraising

Twitter fundraising has steadily been on the rise in the last two years. Twitter has been used to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for charities and charitable causes, and has been used to spread awareness about social issues


Mashable Giveaway: Win a Sony Bloggie HD Camera

Coming to the MashBash party in Austin next month? Every week until the event, we’ll be giving away 2 Sony Bloggie HD Cameras to attendees. Winners will receive their cameras upon arrival in Austin, and you’re invited to capture video clips of your time there — your videos will be shown on the big screen during our MashBash party .


Reebok Ups the Sexual Ante With Nude Workout Video of Chuck Liddell

Reebok is once again looking to stir up the Internet with a racy viral video, this time around featuring Chuck Liddell – of UFC fame – and girlfriend Heidi Northcott working out in the nude. The video, which appears to have been first leaked to TMZ , has the look and feel of being shot without Liddell or Northcott’s knowledge. However, it’s now being confirmed by a variety of outlets that the stars are in on it and are actually wearing Reebok ZigTech shoes as part of an ad campaign


Power Users Drive the Vast Majority of Twitter Usage [STATS]

Marketing research firm Nielsen has some stats on the habits of UK social networking users , and it once again shows that social networks, for the most part, adhere to the Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule).