| Ebooks Now 23% of U.S. Publisher Sales | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:51 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Big, bigger, but not yet biggest: According to the Association of American Publishers's StatShot study released Thursday, ebooks made up nearly a quarter (22.55%, to be precise) of U.S. trade publishers' book sales last year. That's up from 17% in 2011 and just 3% in 2009. The financial outlook for books is good. Total industry revenues increased 6.2% to $7.1 billion, of which $1.54 billion came from ebooks.
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| Twitter Music App is Launching Friday | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:15 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Get ready to rock. Twitter is about to launch its long-rumored standalone music app Friday, according to a report. The app's existence was rapidly becoming one of the worst-kept secrets in social media, especially after American Idol host Ryan Seacrest randomly tweeted about its existence earlier Thursday.
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| Where the Happiest Employees in Tech Work | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:35 PM | BusinessNewsDaily |
| Tech companies are already well known for some of the extra benefits they offer their employees, but several companies stand head and shoulders above others in keeping their workers happy, a new poll has found. The survey, based on reviews on the site CareerBliss, ranked and rated the happiest tech companies in the United States. Overall, workers at Intuit were found to be the happiest employees in tech.
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| Workplace Bathroom Monitor Tells You When It's Free to Pee | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 9:56 PM | Camille Bautista |
| When you gotta go, you gotta go. There's no stopping nature's call. But if you're working in an office and sharing a bathroom, timing is everything. The frustration of getting to the door, only to have it occupied, can be a big waste of time. Enter BUM, the bathroom usage monitor. The system, developed by employees at Sanborn Media Factory, lets office workers know when a restroom is free — via a desktop app that watches the throne.
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| We've Taken 1 Million Photos of Earth From the Space Station | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 9:23 PM | The Atlantic |
| The official purpose of the International Space Station is Science: Astronauts living on the orbital laboratory spend the majority of their time in space testing microgravity's effect on physical objects, fellow animals and themselves. The less-official purpose of the International Space Station, however, is Wonder.
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| Stolen Laptop Sends Mystery Pictures from Iran | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 8:42 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Laptops, sadly, get stolen every day (at a rate of one every 53 seconds, according to an oft-quoted Gartner study). But not all of those bereft owners get to see the thieves using their machine from 3,000 miles away. Fewer still make a Tumblr out of the situation. That's apparently what happened to Dom Deltorto, a London-based animator who had his Macbook Pro taken from his flat on February 4.
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| Ryan Seacrest: Twitter's Music App Is Real | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 8:23 PM | Emily Price |
| Ryan Seacrest claims he's using Twitter's much-rumored music app — and is loving it. The American Idol host posted a tweet Wednesday evening indicating that he was playing with the unreleased app, confirming its existence. According to Seacrest, Twitter’s entre into the music scene shows what artists are currently trending, and includes popular as well as up and coming artists.
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| To Fund Longform Journalism, 'Toronto Star' Tests Ebook Subscriptions | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 7:33 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Seeking new ways to fund longform journalism, newspaper and magazine publishers have lately released a range of short, inexpensive ebooks, featuring repackaged feature articles (see The Atlantic's The Obama Presidency, Explained) and archival material (Vanity Fair's The Best of Vanity Fair: Elizabeth Taylor), through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other ebook sellers.
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| Watch Tiger Woods Drop a Masters F-Bomb | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 7:09 PM | Sam Laird |
| Tiger Woods became the talk of the web for dropping an f-bomb at the Masters on the Thursday. The funniest part? He'd actually hit a pretty good shot!
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| Honeywell Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat Adjusts to Your Decor Like a Chameleon | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 7:00 PM | Charlie White |
| There are plenty of smart thermostats available, but the Honeywell Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat can match its touchscreen display's background color to the wall behind it, or any other color. And that's just its most obvious trick. How smart is it? Show it what your temperature and humidity extremes are, and it will send you an email if your home exceeds them.
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| 'American Idol' Chooses Top 5 Themes From Twitter Submissions | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 6:30 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| American Idol producers last week asked viewers to use Twitter to submit suggestions for a musical theme for the April 24 episode, marking the first time the show is letting the public influence contestants' song choices. Mashable exclusively has its hands on the results.
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| Can a Hacker Hijack a Plane With an Android App? | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 5:48 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Imagine the kind of havoc a malicious hacker could cause if he or she were able to take over an airplane simply using his Android phone. With a tap of his or her fingers, the hacker could arbitrarily control the plane remotely and redirect its path.
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| Google: Tell Us What to Do With Your Account After You Die | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 5:40 PM | Chris Taylor |
| You've written your will. You've talked to your family about end-of-life care. But have you told Google what you want to happen to your Gmail or YouTube accounts? That's the stated purpose behind a tool the search giant announced Thursday: Inactive Account Manager. (In a blog post, the company admitted it was "not a great name.") It covers all Google accounts, including Blogger, Drive, Google+ and Picasa.
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| 39 Unforgettable Moments in Tech Startup History | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 5:09 PM | Lauren Drell |
| Ask any startup founder for advice, and he or she will probably tell you that it's important to celebrate the milestones large and small. Startup life is a rollercoaster, and if you get caught up in the madness, you might quickly burn out. The little things matter, and they keep you going — when your app launches, when you have a successful investor meeting, when you finally have a customer who isn't a relative, when you get acquired.
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| Pranksters Hijack Strangers' Food for Instagram | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 5:08 PM | Neha Prakash |
| The entire food porn industry has blossomed out of the filtered haven that Instagram provides, but the field is still too new for etiquette rules.
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| LinkedIn Acquires Pulse Newsreader for $90 Million | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:48 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| LinkedIn on Thursday confirmed a previous report, that it acquired 3-year-old newsreading app Pulse. The news was announced jointly on the companies' respective websites Thursday afternoon. AllThingsD reports that the acquisition cost LinkedIn $90 million. Reps from LinkedIn could not be reached for comment. Update: LinkedIn confirmed the deal is valued at approximately $90 million, 90% in the form of company stock and 10% in cash.
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| Get a First Look at NBA's Emotional New LeBron Ad | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:35 PM | Sam Laird |
| To the delight of basketball fans the world over, it's almost NBA playoff time. A new ad, above, hypes the postseason by taking a look back at LeBron James' epic Game 7 performance against the mighty Boston Celtics in last year's Eastern Conference Finals. It'll debut Thursday night on TNT, but right here on Mashable is one of the only places you can find it online until then.
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| Share Your Most Enchanting Light-Filled Photos | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:29 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| Sometimes the most stunning photos are the least manipulated. In a world dominated by photo-editing tools, scenes captured in natural light can feel like a breath of fresh air. For this week's Mashable Photo Challenge Guest Series, we're asking for your best photos taken using natural light. Send us your picture and a guest curator will pick some of the most creative submissions to feature on Mashable.
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| 'Unnecessary Quotes' Mocks the Best Punctuation Fails | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:58 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Punctuation is hard, we get it. There are commas, and semi-colons and colons — sometimes there are even brackets, slashes and parentheses. It's a lot to wrap your head around, but sadly, punctuation is here to stay. There seems to be one particular form of punctuation that is plaguing sign-makers worldwide: the elusive quotation marks.
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| U.S. Social Ad Revenue to Hit $11 Billion by 2017 | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:58 PM | ClickZ |
| Annual U.S. social ad revenue is expected to reach $11 billion by 2017, according to a recent study by BIA/Kelsey. The jump would represent a growth rate of more than 18% over the next five years. BIA/Kelsey projects that video and mobile social ads will be the prime motivators for the future growth.
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| Father of Teen Suicide Victim Issues Emotional Plea | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:43 PM | Andrea Smith |
| The father of the teen who committed suicide after a photo of her alleged rape went viral says he can't understand how there can be a digital trail of a crime and the police do nothing. Writing on his website, Glen Canning, Rehtaeh Parsons’ father, said his daughter was "disappointed to death" in the handling of her rape case and the lack of support from her school.
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| 5 Fascinating Facts We Learned From Reddit This Week | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:42 PM | Matt Silverman |
| The latest episode of Reddit Facts is upon you, and we've got some delicious tidbits about Middle-Earth fan fiction, shark fetuses, and a horrifying but totally real product called The Baby Cage. MORE VIDEO: The Best of the Internet in 2 Minutes Hungry for more knowledge? Subscribe to Mashable's YouTube channel and catch every episode.
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| NYC vs. San Francisco: A Comparison of Dispositions | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:21 PM | Annie Colbert |
| New Yorkers and San Franciscans probably have a few things in common: Proximity to an ocean? A poppin' tech scene? But the opposite coasts don't share a lot when it comes to disposition. Well, at least according to artist Teddy Hose, who illustrates the differences in the city-dwellers' mentalities.
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| Facebook Employees Share Their Favorite Graph Searches | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:13 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| There's a good chance that you don't even have Facebook's Graph Search yet, but even for those who have it, it's safe to stay few have gotten past the "getting to know you" stage. If anyone is to be considered a pro user at this point, it would have to be the Facebook employees who actually work on Graph Search. At Mashable's request, 10 of those Facebookers have shared their favorite Graph Searches, so far at least.
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| Socially Awkward: The Best of the Internet in 2 Minutes | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 2:49 PM | Matt Silverman |
| Do you love rumors about Cher and pictures of adorable chihuahuas? Then you'll want to watch the first episode of Mashable's newest YouTube show, Socially Awkward, with your intrepid host Kevin Gisi. MORE VIDEO: 5 Fascinating Facts We Learned From Reddit This Week Every week, Kevin rounds up the strangest, funniest, coolest stuff from a little ol' place called THE INTERNET and serves it up on television.
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| Digital Textbooks Know When You Haven't Been Studying | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 2:38 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Students often come up with excuses for not doing homework — the dog ate it, the printer's broken, the Internet was down. While teachers still can't guess the real reason why a paper's late, they can now figure out when students haven't opened their textbooks. CourseSmart, a digital course materials provider, allows teachers to track students' ebook progress.
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| Sun Unleashes Biggest Solar Flare Yet | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 2:29 PM | Space.com |
| The most powerful solar flare of the year erupted from the sun on April 11, sparking a temporary radio blackout on Earth, NASA officials say. The solar flare occurred at 3:16 a.m. EDT (0716 GMT) and registered as a M6.5-class sun storm, a relatively mid-level flare on the scale of solar tempests. It coincided with an eruption of super-hot solar plasma known as a coronal mass ejection.
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