Social Media
Bing Maps Takes on Google With New Location Features
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has just dropped the beta tag, a month and a half after Bing Maps was released . Not only that, but Bing Maps is now sporting a few additional nifty and useful applications. Microsoft’s been looking for any edge it could get in its race to beat Google’s Google dominant search engine. The tech giant ...
Bill Gates Joins Twitter
Microsoft’s founder and the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, has just jointed Twitter. You can start following him at @BillGates . The account is indeed real: it is officially a verified account and is confirmed by Twitter’s Twitter Caroline Mizumoto . So far, he’s only tweeted twice and retweeted two tweets, but he’s already rapidly growing in followers (it ...
Google and China in Talks Over Search Engine [Report]
Google and the Chinese government have entered talks to discuss the future of Google’s search engine in China, according to Bloomberg . Google’s recent threat to pull out of China unless it could serve search results uncensored has made front page news, elicited questions from the U.S. , and affected the censorship debate . Now according to an email ...
Local Faceoff: Yelp vs. Foursquare vs. Gowalla
So that whole mobile local, “check in when you go out” space? It’s so on . This week we pit three of the top local check-in services against each other for the title of Check-in Champion: Foursquare, Gowalla, and Yelp. As you may know, we’ve been doing a long-running Faceoff Series here at Mashable Mashable where we pit similar ...
Conan Rally Moves from Facebook to the Streets
The Facebook group I’m With COCO (the same one that we wrote about last week) organized rallies to support The Tonight Show ’s Conan O’Brien in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Seattle today. Artist Mike Mitchell, who designed the now almost iconic group image, is tweeting the I’m With COCO rally right now, TwitPics and all. The L.A. ...
Why Social Media Isn’t for Everyone
Joshua-Michéle Ross is SVP of Digital Strategy with Fleishman Hillard. He blogs at opposableplanets.com . Social media has a loyal tribe of disciples. We follow each other on Twitter Twitter , connect on Facebook Facebook , read each other’s blogs and listen to each other at conferences. We provide each other moral support and though we are a minority, ...
Obama’s First Real Tweet!
Although social media played a significant role in the election of Barack Obama, the President has admitted that he’s never actually used Twitter . That changed this afternoon though, as Obama “pushed the button” on a tweet for the American Red Cross, whose Twitter account and use of text messaging donations to the tune of more than $20 million ...
7 Lessons for Better Networking with Social Media
Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference , which brings together staff from Google, Facebook, and Twitter with others to explore living wisely in our modern age. Mashable readers can use code ‘ Mashable ‘ for a discount when registering . Social media allows us to discover, connect, and engage with new people of interest. While ...
Twitter + Airport + Bomb Joke = Go Directly to Jail
You know that old adage about not saying “bomb” on an airplane? It turns out that it extends to Twitter as well. The Telegraph reports that a South Yorkshire man was arrested last week after joking on Twitter that he would blow an airport “sky high” if his flight was delayed. When the Robin Hood airport closed due to ...
How Non-Profits and Activists Can Leverage Location Based Services
What started as a highly addictive pastime for early adopters to alert their friends of their whereabouts and compete for virtual mayorship of their corner coffee shop, is steadily evolving into a global vehicle for individuals and businesses to garner social capital. With tech evangelists and small businesses exploring the potential power of Foursquare and other location enabled services, ...
