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How Social Media Is Changing Sports [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Friday, April 27, 2012

How Social Media Is Changing Sports [INFOGRAPHIC]
4:00:50 AM
Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms are having a tremendous impact on the sports world for fans, players, teams and sponsors alike. We try to stay on top of that here at Mashable, bringing you stories on great sports memes, moments...



This $20 Trillion Rock Could Turn a Startup Into Earth's Richest Company
Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:42 PM
Meet Amun 3554. Doesn't look like much, right? Little more than a mile wide, it's one of the smallest M-class (metal-bearing) asteroids yet discovered. Unless it ever decides to smash into us -- a theoretical possibility, but extremely unlikely...



Meet the 80-Year-Old Grandma on a Quest for 80,000 Twitter Followers
Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:21 PM
When the poet Dylan Thomas wrote of growing old, "do not go gently into that good night," it's a safe bet he didn't have Twitter in mind. But Josephine Lamberti does. The 80-year-old Staten Island grandma is, as her @J_DIMPS Twitter bio puts it,...



Major Video Game Villains to Appear in a Disney Movie
Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:00 PM
Wreck-It Ralph, a 3D computer-animated Disney movie due out Nov. 2, will feature cameos from the gaming world's most-beloved bad guys. Although the star-studded comedic film stars the 9-foot, 643-pound video game character Ralph, be on the...



How to Develop Customer Evangelists
Thursday, April 26, 2012 10:34 PM
. When you have evangelists for your product or service, you have the best possible kind of customer. Your evangelists are passionate, loyal, and thrilled to recommend you. They are communicators -- when it matters. They are your public defenders...



Airbnb Launches Match: A Booking Service that Makes More Sense
Thursday, April 26, 2012 10:04 PM
Airbnb users may have booked 4 million nights of accommodation in 2011, but the room-renting startup didn't make it easy until now. The company launched a new booking process on Thursday called "Match" that aims to make searching and booking...



7 Major Apple Products Revealed at WWDC
Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:40 PM
Apple announced its 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference on Wednesday, to be held at San Francisco's Moscone West from June 11 to 15. The company often uses the conference to announce key products, and if years past are any guide, there's a...



Adapter Could Let Any Smartphone Camera Shoot in 3D [VIDEO]
Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:13 PM
You may soon be able to shoot 3D video with your cellphone -- even if that phone doesn't have a 3D camera. Fujitsu is working on a new way for phones that just have one rear camera to shoot three-dimensional videos -- a process that traditionally...



Text Message Alerts Mean More Kids Get Flu Vaccines
Thursday, April 26, 2012 8:47 PM
Text messaging may be the best approach to encourage people -- especially in low-income communities -- to get flu vaccines. A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) says a pilot program that asked parents in low-income...



4 Hot New Events in Business, Dev, Social Media and PR
Thursday, April 26, 2012 8:21 PM
From digital advertising conferences to programming hackathons and everything in between, you'll definitely find a swanky locale to suit your professional and personal interests on Mashable's new Events Board. Whether you're an event organizer or...



Why Apple's CEO Is Right About 'Refrigerator-Toasters' -- and Laptop-Tablets
Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:59 PM
Few people have the kind of clout that their off-the-cuff asides qualify as world news. Apple CEO Tim Cook is such a person. His ad-libbed comment during this week's company earnings call about "convergence" devices has inspired more online buzz...



How a Distasteful Meme Sparked a Web Culture War
Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:31 PM
When does an Internet joke go too far? Years ago, a photo of a baby with down syndrome was taken from a support group website and turned into a controversial Internet meme. That child -- now 16 years old -- is Heidi Crowter, and Heidi just...



CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Passes House, With Some Amendments
Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:05 PM
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as CISPA, cleared the House of Representatives on a 248-168 vote late Thursday afternoon after several hours of debate and amending. CISPA's intention is to allow private companies...



StumbleUpon Hits 25 Million Users -- And is Gaining 1 Million a Month
Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:56 PM
StumbleUpon passed the 25 million user mark earlier this week -- that's about one million users every month since it announced it had reached 20 million users in October. The discovery service has existed in some form since 2001. It accepted its...



Google Probe: Meet the FTC's Secret Weapon
Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:26 PM
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Federal Trade Commission has hired an outside litigator to lead its antitrust probe of Google, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said Thursday during a visit to the agency's's Western Region office here. The search giant is getting...



 
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