Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. Between current economic conditions and the technological evolution of the Internet, the traditional approa...

As an aficionado of great literature - I was an English major in college - I’m always on the look out for a great read. My current strategy for discovering novels and novelties is to park myself in a bookstore aisle and scour through classics I...

So how did the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Facebook, and others get broken into and littered with inappropriate messages earlier today? It wasn’t residue from this weekend’s phishing problems, but rather, a breach of Twitte...

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Here’s Mashable’s latest round-up of upcoming Web 2.0 events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section. Not on this list? Contact us and let’s establish a media partnership. January...

Twitter is being blindsided today by a new wave of attacks, this time involving the takeover of the accounts of prominent users. Barack Obama, Britney Spears, CNN’s Rick Sanchez, Fox News, and Facebook’s official accounts are amongst those t...

BlogTalkRadio, which lets anyone setup their own online radio show, is getting a laundry list of new features today. Poking around the redesign, the focus is clearly to get visitors listening to more shows. Take for example the new search results l...

A recent launch suggests that the web’s love affair with paid dating sites may be coming to an end. DowntoEarth is a new, completely free dating site with an interesting pedigree. According to DowntoEarth’s Privacy Policy, this new, fre...

It seems like every day there’s at least five new Twitter apps popping up. The news of a shiny new Twitter toy gets dispersed through Twitter streams everywhere, hits critical mass, news dries up a bit, and then, if you’re like me, you fo...

As the conflict continues in Gaza, where do you turn for up to the minute information? If you’re like us, you want a mix of information from traditional media outlets and social media sites alike. You probably already know about Twitter Search,...

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Is Apple getting into the glove making business? A patent filed by the tech company proposes special gloves for iPhone users that have an extra inner layer which would enable the screen to recognize the touch of a gloved finger. Finally, our frost bi...

If you get a Twitter direct message today reading: “check out this funny blog about you”, we advise you don’t. The link leads to a fake Twitter login page that attempts to steal your Twitter login. Particularly susceptible to this...

Twitter’s ability to virally spread ideas has given rise to many fads. The latest to set Twitter abuzz: gauging your “Twitemperature“, a mysterious measure of your engagement in the community. Who then, is the world’s hottes...

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I don’t know about you, but I absolutely hate getting an automatic direct message right after following someone on Twitter. It just seems tacky and a little disrespectful of my time (I received three such messages in the brief writing of this p...

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Friendfeed already has its own optimized interface for iPhone and iPod Touch, but so far hasn’t released its own native application. A third-party developer has beaten them to the punch, launching Webfeedr, available for 99c in the app store. Webf...

WhosTalkin, a new entrant into the social search space, is another free web-based tool, much like Social Mention, designed to help users track and monitor buzz around the Web. Ironically, the WhosTalkin.com URL could easily be mistaken for “who...

This post is part of Mashable’s Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials. Company Name PrintingChoice 20-Word Description PrintingChoice is a price search tool, simila...

Eric Ries serves as a venture advisor for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and is the author of the blog Lessons Learned. Raising money is never easy, but in a recession it gets even harder. With so many bargains out there, a traditional pitch a...

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One trend that I highlighted in my 2009 predictions was the continued rise of startup incubators of the YCombinator and TechStars variety. Sure enough, today sees the launch of a new fund focused on apps for iPhone, Twitter, and several other platfo...

Sometimes life can get even the best of us down, but the Gratitude Journal iPhone app [iTunes link], from HappyTapper is designed to keep you inspired and motivated even when things seem bleak. The app aims to help you capture the five things that yo...

Feed Chronicle is a new site that lets you transform those RSS feeds into your very own online newspaper. It’s simple to use and setup. Just create an account, select the feeds (from drop-down menus) you want for each newspaper-like section, an...

Twply, the Twitter site that promised to email your replies to your inbox while protecting your password, appears to have tweeted a promotional message for the service on your account even if you opted out of this option. To add insult to injury, th...

Just Tweet It is like an online phone book for Twitter users. With Just Tweet It, you can either view Twitter users by directory, or add yourself to a category that you see fit. The site, which is just a custom tweak of Wordpress and similar in funct...

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If iPhone apps like iFart and iBeer strike your fancy, then you might want to check out iSteam, the app that makes your photos all steamy - literally. With iSteam just select a photo from your library and blow into the microphone to create steamy pho...