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Monday, December 3rd, 2007Python SetsFoodieBytes Helps You Fill Your Cravings
Monday, December 3rd, 2007Have you ever said to yourself “I’m in the mood for a chicken souvlaki sandwich but not sure where I can get one”? That’s the problem FoodieBytes tries to solve through a new restaurant search engine launching a public beta in 5 different metro areas. The site has indexed more ...
Universal Music Test DRM-Free Music With Subsidiary
Monday, December 3rd, 2007Universal Music is going to test out the concept of DRM-free music, but not with their big gun artists… yet. Now available through the DG Web Shop, Universal is using their classical music division Deutsche Grammophon to test out how sales of a DRM-free music will work out for them. ...
RockYou Gets Top Facebook Application. Slide Going Down?
Monday, December 3rd, 2007RockYou has pushed ahead with a top Facebook App yet again with a 112% increase in the last three months, coming out on top, over Slide and all the others. Thanks to its chart-topping Super Wall application, RockYou has maintained its reign over Facebook applications since their inception. ...
Sony Buys Into Virtual Movie Theaters; Invests in Gaia
Monday, December 3rd, 2007Gaia, the avatar-filled virtual world, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Sony Pictures. You may be wondering why. It appears to be, in part, for building out Gaia theaters, where users can congregate in virtual rooms for the purpose of viewing video clips. This ...
Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for December 2nd, 2007
Monday, December 3rd, 2007The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and “New Media” websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more. Share This Can't see the video? Click here
Best of Mashable: Gmail
Monday, December 3rd, 2007Yes, there are tons of email options out there beyond Gmail; some are even bigger in terms of user numbers, but let’s be honest: Gmail is the leader here, and everyone else just follows suit. This is our coverage of some important Gmail milestones, as well as a selection of ...
Beautiful Digg Tool Provides Wealth Of Interesting Data
Monday, December 3rd, 2007Digg Explorer is not a completely new tool - it’s recently reached version 1.1 - but it has somehow slipped under the radar. It offers a visual representation of various Digg-related statistics: most popular Digg sections and subsections, often used words, most popular submitted domains and the like. It even ...
Asterpix Hypervideos Officially Launch
Monday, December 3rd, 2007Asterpix is officially launching its site to the public today. Though already live, the site has been operating in public beta for the past three months. We first checked out Asterpix’s video hyperlinking tools back in September, and immediately noticed its unique approach to this emerging hypervideo concept. ...
SixApart Unloads LiveJournal on Russian Media Company SUP
Monday, December 3rd, 2007Six Apart, the blogging software and services company, has sold its network of topic-based blogging communities LiveJournal, Inc. to SUP, an international media company based in Russia. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Having acquired LiveJournal in 2005, Six Apart will remain involved with LiveJournal ...
The United Nations Goes Green–Streams Climate Summit Online
Monday, December 3rd, 2007The United Nations is going green in an appropriate manner for its Climate Summit, which is being nicknamed the Virtual Bali Conference due to its green efforts–the organization will be streaming the Climate Summit live, beginning tomorrow and through December 14th. This is part of the United Nations’ efforts ...
Wikipedia Now Uses Creative Commons
Monday, December 3rd, 2007All you Wikipedia users out there will be happy to know that you can now legally mix your Wikipedia content with Creative Commons content. The two have penned a deal with the Free Software Foundation in order to extend a common manner in which the three can offer compatibility ...
Can NASA Attract a Younger Crowd with Social Networking Tools?
Monday, December 3rd, 2007NASA is the latest to take on additional social networking tools for the purpose of attracting more users. With about 1 million unique views per month, NASA is catering directly towards the Facebook crowd, in so many words–the 18 to 25 year olds. This marks the first major ...
Facebook’s Zuckerburg Loses Court Case Over Documents
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007As we discussed the other day, Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, was going after 02138mag.com for publishing documents from his time at Harvard. The social network founder was requesting the documents be pulled due to them violating his privacy. According to the judge, the documents were part of the ...
Security Experts Expose Costly Vulnerability in Second Life
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007Second Life users need to be cautious with Quicktime embedded videos in the game as it may be used to pick your pocket of Linden Dollars. Charles Miller and Dino Dai Zovi, of Independent Security Evaluators, have found that by using a flaw in Quicktime, they can not only pick the ...
Silverlight Powered T5M Covers World AIDS Day
Saturday, December 1st, 2007The staff of the new Silverlight-powered media site, t5m, is off in Johannesburg, South Africa to cover the World AIDS Day concert. Sadly, they didn’t think to put any effort in to their site before leaving. While it’s commendable that any site brings attention to the plight of AIDS in ...
IMDb Launching a Database and Social Network for Music?
Saturday, December 1st, 2007Amazon-owned Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has filed a trademark application for the term “SoundUnwound.” According to the filing, the trademark would cover: “Providing information regarding, and in the nature of, social networking services; online social networking services designed for people with a common desire to meet other people with similar ...
Plagiarize Mashable Stories and Make Money with Associated Content
Saturday, December 1st, 2007This afternoon one of our readers alerted us to some plagiarism of Mashable content. While seeing Mashable stories re-printed word-for-word on splogs is nothing new, the source here was somewhat surprising: Associated Content. The company has raised $10 million in funding, and counts industry heavyweights like Google VP ...
AOL And Amazon Join Up For Video Sales
Saturday, December 1st, 2007It was announced on Friday that AOL, formerly America Online, has stopped selling online videos, and, instead, have teamed up with Amazon’s Unbox service. Just over a year old, it seems that AOL wants to shift all of its focus to the advertising business model, so has decided to remove its ...
Did Facebook Lie About Beacon to Gain Advertisers?
Saturday, December 1st, 2007A report from the New York Times implies that Facebook mislead advertisers who signed on to be “Landmark Partners” when the company announced its Beacon platform on November 6th. According to Coca-Cola’s vice president of global interactive marketing: “I … certainly understood that it would be opt-in. That’s what I ...
Microsoft Acquires Photo Sharing Site WebFives
Saturday, December 1st, 2007Ah, Microsoft. Always late to the game. Maybe it’s a part of their strategy: wait until Google (Picasa Web Albums) and Yahoo (Flickr) establish solid market positions, and then develop or buy an (usually inferior) product of their own and try to corner those remaining 10% of users. This time, ...
Google Street Views Hides Your Face. What Took So Long?
Saturday, December 1st, 2007Finally, Google’s thinking about making its Street Views map completely anonymous, to protect the privacy of people that show up in the photographs. For its Europe Street Views version, Google will be modifying all photos to ensure that faces and license plates are not visible. It may ...
Deck the Trolls: Second Winner
Saturday, December 1st, 2007The trolls really stepped up their game this week as Mark decided to really piss off a few Mashable readers with a couple posts that dove mildly into the political realm. We’re not sure if he was trolling or being serious, but Andrew takes this week’s title with this ...
Pepsi Leaving iTunes for Amazon, Too
Friday, November 30th, 2007Another company leaves the grip of Apple’s iTunes, though this time it’s not a record label. It’s Pepsi. After running a Super Bowl promotion for free iTunes downloads in 2004, Pepsi is gearing up to dole out more free music next year–with Amazon. Another promo that ...
