| Google Celebrates Charles Dickens's 200th Birthday | |  | Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 200th birthday of writer Charles Dickens. Born on Feb. 7 1812 in Landport, England, Charles John Huffam Dickens grew in tough, working-class conditions. At age 12, after his father was thrown into a debtors'...
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| Press Page Generator Hopes to Solve Startups' Media Problems | |  | The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Totem Quick Pitch: Totem -- a press...
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| The Top 15 Tweets-Per-Second Records | | Monday, February 06, 2012 11:33 PM | |
|  | Twitter records continue to fall left and right as more and more people -- 100 million active users at last count -- continue to flock onto the microblogging service every month. Half of those users log in every day to get their...
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| Brand or Celeb? Social Media Shows Who Super Bowl Ads Helped Most | | Monday, February 06, 2012 9:34 PM | |
|  | Social media analytics provided to Mashable show which endorsers -- and endorsees -- won biggest on Super Bowl Sunday. Getting a celebrity to shill products during the game's valuable advertising time can do wonders to imprint a brand in consumer...
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| Facebook Is Bringing Ads to Mobile Apps [REPORT] | | Monday, February 06, 2012 8:05 PM | |
|  | Users of Facebook's apps -- for Android, iPad and iPhone -- may begin seeing ads as soon as early March, as the company looks to gain an addition revenue source before it goes public. Sources close to the matter say Facebook has already discussed...
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| Galaxy Note Super Bowl Ad Inspires Twitter Backlash | | Monday, February 06, 2012 5:26 PM | |
|  | Samsung has been hyping its campaign for its Galaxy Note smartphone/tablet hybrid for the past few weeks, culminating in an ad shown toward the end of Sunday night's Super Bowl. Whether or not you thought the ad was clever, you couldn't miss the...
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| Super Bowl Breaks Social TV and Broadcast Records | | Monday, February 06, 2012 5:00 PM | |
|  | Super Bowl XLVI was not only a big hit with broadcast viewers, it also excelled in the social TV space. Hollywood news site Deadline reports that 111.3 million Americans tuned in to watch the New York Giants defeat the New England Patriots. That...
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| How New York City Went Digital in 2011 | | Monday, February 06, 2012 4:15 PM | |
|  | Since 2010, New York City has strived to become a global digital leader. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and commissioner Katherine Oliver announced NYC Digital last July, with the mission to create a better civil society and stronger democracy with the...
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| How Social Media Could Improve Public Safety | | Monday, February 06, 2012 3:04 PM | |
|  | When it comes to public safety, forward-thinking government agencies are beginning to look at social media as a support tool for improved situational awareness. The very nature of social media's open communication and crowdsourced information...
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| Deleted Facebook Pictures May Still Lurk on the Internet [VIDEO] | | Monday, February 06, 2012 2:47 PM | |
|  | Pictures users have deleted from Facebook months or even years ago may still exist, it has been revealed. Facebook says it's working to fix flaws allowing deleted photos to hibernate on various data servers. "We have been working with our content...
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| Woman Gets Jawbone Made by 3D Printer | | Monday, February 06, 2012 2:09 PM | |
|  | Need a new jawbone? Now you can print one. An 83-year-old British woman recently underwent the first-ever custom transplant of a lower jaw made by a 3D printer. According to 3Ders.org, the Biomedical Research Institute at Hasselt University in...
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| Fed Up With Facebook Changes? Try Friendio [VIDEO] | | Monday, February 06, 2012 1:42 PM | |
|  | A group of former Facebook users based in Orland Park, Ill., fed up with the mandatory changes that came with Facebook's network-wide switch to Timeline, has created Friendio for Facebook defectors. Friendio is an alternative social network to...
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers' Interactive Music Video Lets You 'Look Around' | | Monday, February 06, 2012 1:26 PM | |
|  | The Red Hot Chili Peppers just released an interactive version of the music video for the band's latest single, "Look Around." The non-interactive version of the video was released on Jan. 26 and features each band member doing a full performance...
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| LeVar Burton to Bring Reading Rainbow Back ... in an App | | Monday, February 06, 2012 1:15 PM | |
|  | When Reading Rainbow ended its 26-year run in 2009, it left behind decades of preschoolers for whom its theme song will forever surface nostalgia: Take a look, it's in a book, a reading rainbow. The PBS program was cut because nobody would fund...
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| Amazon to Open Retail Store [RUMOR] | | Monday, February 06, 2012 1:04 PM | |
|  | In what may be a sign that 2012 really is the year of the apocalypse, revered online retailer Amazon is rumored to be opening a brick-and-mortar retail store. The site Good Ereader reports that sources "close to the situation" say Amazon will...
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