We’ve all got goals. It might be for better fitness, better finances, better environmental stewardship, or even something like getting yourself employed. And unless you’re typically a one-man (or one-woman) show, you tend to want help getting to the finish line, whether it’s guidance gleaned from a trainer or the occasional kudos offered by a [...]

On Monday, Loopt demonstrated to the world its native iPhone application. Many reviews were notably bullish. We too touched on the benefits of location-based networking for Apple’s mobile fan club.But realistically speaking, the iPhone has a minority stake in the smartphone world. The BlackBerry is still the industry’s benchmark as far as handset penetration is [...]

Though many avid readers might consider themselves more solitary than heavily socially networked beings, Web developments in recent years have offered the opportunity for the bookworms among us to connect with one another through favorite titles, spar over best-of lists, and even share their personal libraries virtual friends near and far. Shelfari is one such [...]

Sad news comes out of England today that yet another suicide is being attributed the deadly combination of Bebo and cyber-bullying. I first saw the news pop across the wire at News.com.au:Sam Leeson, a 13 year old student from Tredworth, Gloucestershire, hanged himself in his bedroom apparently after suffering months of bullying online.Sam’s mother Sally [...]

Just as TechDirt’s Mike Massnick, I was an editor in my high school journalism department in my youth, as well as the editor for an underground publication that served not just the highschool, but the region’s BBS community. I imagine that if you were to poll a lot of the leading members of the blogosphere, [...]

Steven Hodson is the cranky old fart as well as respected Web 2.0 and social media pundit behind WinExtra.com. His guest post today is a continuation of a short series of articles that examine alternatives for the very advertising-dependent world of Web 2.0 and social networks. The series began with Steven’s opinions on the donation [...]

Earlier this week there were a few Google Docs users that noticed added support for PDF files, and today Google has confirmed it. This has been a standing request from Google users for some time, especially as other document-sharing tools like Scribd and Docstoc have ensured that nearly all file types can be uploaded [...]

Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here.STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: Passitto20-word Description: Business networking site that creates a community of users who actively generate and reward each other for business referrals.CEO’s 100-word Pitch: “Businesses of every size interact with [...]

We’re a sponsor of this year’s Social Gaming Summit, being streamed live on UStream. This afternoon they’re bringing us a panel moderated by VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi on User Generated Games in Social Networks and Virtual Worlds:Games are one of the most popular activities on social networks and virtual worlds. Increasingly, users are taking it [...]

I had a chance to sit down with two CEOs today and have a great conversation about monetizing video and taking it to the mobile platform, under the auspices of promoting a brand new partnership between the organizations. The two CEOs were Peter Hoskins of ManiaTV and Frank Barbieri of Transpera. Between the two, they [...]

Do a web search for just about any product and there is a good chance you’ll see an eBay advertisement in the results. Microsoft Live Search had already created the cashback rewards system to make ads and search results more attractive to users, and is now working with eBay to connect shopping and the [...]

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Now that Microsoft-Yahoo has officially collapsed, speculation moves on to what the next Internet mega-deal might look like. Realistically, there are only two companies that can pull off anything resembling the scale of what Microsoft-Yahoo would have been – and those are Microsoft and Google. The two technology titans are at markedly different points [...]

This week we officially announced all of our SummerMash events and locations. Leading up to the festivities, we’ll be rounding up as many Web startups as we can find in the host cities in articles here on Mashable. In an effort to make these stories as comprehensive as possible, we’re asking you to [...]

Mashable is giving away $50 Phone Conferencing Cards free to the first 100 takers courtesy of Jaduka (Jaduka.com). With Jaduka, you can link up to 50 people on a call with free crystal clear voice quality. What could be better? Send mashable.phone@gmail.com your name and snail mail address and we’ll send you one.More information and [...]

Most of us have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. But what if there was an internet news show that delivered everything you needed to know about Facebook right to your computer screen? Well, hold on to your super pokes because there is a brand new show called Face the News.Face the News is ” the [...]

Given the huge overlap between bloggers and Twitter users, I suspect this simple new site might take off. Or, at least I’m sure we’ll be seeing its end product on a lot of blog sidebars.Twittercounter is a new service that creates a chiclet showing off your Twitter follower count. It’s styled almost exactly [...]

Through some sort of obscure chain of email forwards, in my inbox early this morning landed a bunch of graphics that are supposedly going to end up being the new design for MySpace. They didn’t come down the usual public relations channels that MySpace uses to send out updates, so I’m curious as to whether [...]

Mashable finishes the U.S. Summer Tour in the only city big enough to handle it: New York! Mashable’s back for our second time in NYC and will have a repeat performance at Touch with Pete Cashmore, Adam Hirsch, Adam Ostrow, Brett Petersel, Tamar Weinberg and Karen Hartline. Tickets are available now on Eventbrite, with the [...]

Mashable is heading out to Boston as part of the U.S. Summer Tour. So far I’ve had a funny little anecdote about each of the towns here on the list, but regrettably, the only connection I have to Boston are a couple of web-designing neighbors of mine that once lived there.  If I had to [...]

Steven Hodson is the cranky old fart as well as respected Web 2.0 and social media pundit behind WinExtra.com. He doesn’t suffer from the illusion that his tweets are making a positive difference for the oppressed and impoverished, but still doesn’t let that stop him.As human beings we love nothing better than to think that [...]

Feel a burning need to know the latest happenings in Lindsay Lohan’s life? Can’t wait to find out about the latest addition to the Brangelina family? If so, this list is definitely for you.Gossip has been a huge business for years, and blogs have made it more accessible than ever. No longer [...]

Yahoo has signed a non-exclusive deal to include Google advertising on selected search terms. This means that Yahoo search advertising will now be a mix of ads served by its own Panama system, Google’s AdSense for Search, and potentially other third-parties. Yahoo believes that the move can bring in up to $800 million [...]

Bleacher Report is a recently launched sports fans network that features original content from citizen journalists around the nation. When Bleacher Report was first mentioned on Mashable earlier this year, Adam O. noted that competition would be disadvantageous if the larger networks rolled out an aggressive citizen journalism strategy. And as we’ve seen [...]

Not to be outdone by Flixwagon, who announced their own iPhone video streaming service this morning, Qik sent us a video demonstration of their own upcoming product for doing exactly the same thing. The feature isn’t available yet, but as you can see in the demo, it will essentially allow you to use Qik [...]

Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here.STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: mEgo20-word Description: mEgo delivers multimedia avatar widgets, enhancing social networks with interactive, synchronized multimedia badges embeddable into all kinds of web content.CEO’s 100-word Pitch: A mEgo is a first-of-its-kind [...]

We’d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who attended MashBash Tel Aviv this past Wednesday. Over 800 people celebrated Mashable’s first event outside of the United States—and we had a great time meeting you! We learned a lot about the amazing web and technology culture and are looking forward to sharing [...]

“We’re so over!” That seems to be what Yahoo is saying in a short statement released this afternoon regarding any sort of Microsoft acquisition. The company writes:“… discussions with Microsoft regarding a potential transaction — whether for an acquisition of all of Yahoo! or a partial acquisition — have concluded. The conclusion of [...]

Many students and freshly ranked alumni have finished their semesters, and are well on their way to familiarizing themselves with summertime occupations, a good number of which can presumably be classified as internships. And as with all things that fall under the title of “job,” the worker is bound to have a few thoughts about [...]

With all these celebrities flocking to the web launching or slapping their names on various social networks, there’s bound to be some reaction from the media. Maybe even the blogosphere. Comment-tracking tool coComment has decided to take advantage of the growing celebrity interest in online publications by promoting its service [...]