There’s no doubt Google has a sense of humor — its excellent April Fools jokes are a testament to that. But there’s a wealth of funnies that can found any time of the year too. Here we pull together... (Continue reading)
Here in Austin, I just finished introducing SparkHelp , the project Mashable has decided to support for the Pepsi Refresh SxSW Challenge. We’re competing against two other teams over the next few days to help get our idea $50,000... (Continue reading)
If you had to pick the one buzzword that’s dominating social media chatter today, it would have to be location . Just over a year ago, Foursquare burst onto the scene at the SXSW conference in Austin, TX. Since... (Continue reading)
Amybeth Hale is a Talent Attraction Manager with AT&T’s Interactive Staffing team. She uses social technology to help drive awareness of job opportunities as well as interact with candidates. Connect with her on Twitter at @researchgoddess . ... (Continue reading)
Foursquare is battling for your SXSW check-ins with a musical scavenger hunt . Rival Gowalla is going to go after them with free gadgets – specifically free Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus devices as part of a... (Continue reading)
For complete SXSW coverage, check out Mashable’s SXSW channel . Popular music magazine SPIN is going geeky for South by Southwest’s music festival, integrating custom Foursquare badges into its event presence and rewarding the most adventurous users of the... (Continue reading)
I know what you may be thinking: Twitter location API already supports places; that’s why they call it the location API, right? Well, yes and no. Currently, it supports latitude and longitude, which tells the world where, exactly, you... (Continue reading)
It's been a long time comin', but the little startup-that-could has just gone official with its first major consumer electronics peripheral, the IUM . First introduced at CES , this ad hoc streaming stick creates a local WiFi network... (Continue reading)
Google has just added a new “Nearby” tool to the Search Options panel that lets users refine results for a custom search experience centered around location. The new location-based search option is now available to English users of Google.com.... (Continue reading)
There’s an interesting post today at Facebook’s engineering blog , detailing how Facebook’s engineers managed to make the site two times faster in a six-month period — from June of 2009 till the beginning of 2010. It’s an interesting... (Continue reading)