| 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 2' Dominates YouTube's Top Trailers List of 2012 | | YouTube has revealed the most popular trailers of 2012, and video games have come out on top of movies and television. The two most popular trailers of the year, with 35.2 and 29.6 million views, respectively, are trailers for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Two other trailers for the same game hold the eight and tenth positions on the list. Collectively, the four trailers have a whopping 82 million views.
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| Emotional Viral Video Looks Back at 'What Brought Us Together' in 2012 | | A tear-jerking viral video, called "2012: What Brought Us Together," is making the rounds online. Posted to YouTube on Tuesday, the six-minute video is a montage of major moments over the past year, from silly to serious. Set to the music of This Will Destroy You's "The Mighty Rio Grande," It includes clips about Hurricane Sandy, KONY 2012, the Costa Concordia disaster and the suicide of Amanda Todd.
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| A Facebook Ad Network? Not So Fast | | Marketers will have to wait a little longer to advertise on Facebook's third-party ad network. A company spokesperson confirmed to Mashable Wednesday that it is halting its mobile-ads test on third-party apps. "While the results we have seen and the feedback from partners has been positive, our focus is on scaling ads in mobile news feed before ads off of Facebook.
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| Conduct Your Most Epic Brainstorm Sessions on MindMeister | | Starting a business can feel like you're speeding down a winding road without breaks, that is, if you don't have a detailed blueprint. For startup founders and entrepreneurs, brewing up a brilliant idea is just the beginning of a long journey. After brainstorming comes extensive research, planning and ceaseless decision making. Further down the line comes the execution of your business plan.
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| Twitter Appoints New COO and CFO | | Twitter has shaken up its executive ranks, appointing a new chief operating officer and chief financial officer. The microblogging site named Ali Rowghani its COO, a new role he quietly announced by changing his Twitter profile. Rowghani's LinkedIn profile, however, still lists him as the company's CFO. Before joining Twitter in 2010, he worked at Pixar (including a stint as CFO) for eight years.
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| This $5 Lamp Is Powered Solely by Gravity | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:59 PM | Joann Pan |
| There aren't any batteries or fuel in the $5 revolutionary lamp called the GravityLight. The ultra-cheap lamp was created as a replacement for expensive and highly polluting kerosene-powered lanterns, which are widely used in developing countries. London-based designers Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves have been working on the GravityLight as a side project for the four years.
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| How to Build Your Family Tree on the Web | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 8:53 PM | Kate Freeman |
| Researching your family tree seems as easy as conducting a Google search, but there's actually much more work and fact-checking involved, if you want to do it right. Ancestry.com is no longer the only option when it comes to searching digital archives, connecting with others and compiling a family tree. A new crop of geneaology sites popping up on the Internet are providing some alternatives.
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| Apple Maps: 3 Times More Likely to Get You Lost Than Google | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 8:18 PM | Chris Taylor |
| For iPhone users, Google Maps is back. The revamped app, launched last week, is being downloaded in the tens of millions. As a result, iOS6 activations are on the rise. And Apple finally has the breathing room it needs to overhaul its much maligned Maps app, the default on the platform. But just how much of a hill does Apple still have to climb in order to compete? Quite a steep one.
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| Get Your De-Meow-Cracy on With IR Cats | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 7:05 PM | Eric Larson |
| Like cats? Of course you do, you're on the Internet. How about international politics? If so, the Tumblr page IR Cats is just the ticket.
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| 5 Lessons From the Instagram Debacle | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 6:04 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Remember all the way back on Tuesday, when everyone and their artistically-filtered dog was freaking out about Instagram's new privacy policy? How long ago that seems, now that co-founder Kevin Systrom (above) has walked back the notion that your photos are potentially going to be used in ads. We're cool now, right? Actually, the jury is still out on this one.
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| Data.gov Moving to an Open Source Platform | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:46 PM | Nextgov |
| The team that manages Data.gov is well on its way to making the government data repository open source using a new back-end called the Open Government Platform, officials said during a web discussion Wednesday. The governments of India and Ghana have already launched beta versions of their data catalogues on the open source platform, said Jeanne Holm who heads the Data.gov team.
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| Photo: A Lonely Launchpad Misses Its Space Shuttle | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:31 PM | Amanda Wills |
| Former space shuttle technician Andrew Scheer snapped this photo as he said goodbye to launch complex 39 yesterday at Kennedy Space Center. Home to the Apollo program, it was here that some of America's biggest moments in space started. "I worked as a pad technician for 11 years. When I started, my home was on pad B. It was hard seeing it be torn down," he told Mashable via email.
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| How to Keep Up With Generation Y Women | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 3:56 PM | Jesse Draper |
| The Levo League is the first professional network designed to inspire and enable Generation Y women to build amazing careers.
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| New Web App Recommends Books Based on Your Tweets | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 3:44 PM | Fran Berkman |
| Reading a book is a significant investment of time. That's why it's common to ask friends for recommendations when looking for interesting literature. If you haven't said it yourself, you've probably heard someone say the common refrain: "Read any good books lately?" That method has worked fairly well thus far, but an innovative new web app sources recommendations from the person who knows you best — you.
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| Who Interviewed This Crawfish? And Why? | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 3:41 PM | Christine Erickson |
| A photo of a crustacean mid-interview with a reporter's microphone has caught the attention of the Internet.
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| COPPA Updates Show an FTC Focused on Mobile Privacy | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 3:19 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| With a strong focus on updating privacy rules governing mobile apps, the updates to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act announced Wednesday tell the story of an agency that views itself as a protector of smartphone and tablet users across the country. Children are increasingly being born and raised smartphone-or-tablet-in-hand. About 23% of teens own a smartphone, and almost all of them use their device to access the Internet.
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| Announcing a Live Chat With TerraCycle Founder Tom Szaky | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 3:10 PM | Scott Gerber |
| Streaming live on Mashable, TerraCycle Inc. founder Tom Szaky will answer questions from readers at 3 p.m. EST (12 p.m. PST) Thursday, Dec. 12. As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council’s #StartupLab initiative, a virtual mentorship program, Szaky will appear live via video chat broadcast on this site. Tom Szaky, 30, is the founder and CEO of TerraCycle, Inc., one of the world’s foremost leaders in eco-capitalism, recycling and upcycling.
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| Microsoft Veteran Steven Sinofsky's Next Gig: Harvard Professor | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:55 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Steven Sinofsky, the Microsoft veteran who led the team to create both Windows 7 and Windows 8 and abruptly left the company in November, will begin teaching classes at Harvard Business School in spring 2013. Sinofsky revealed his new position on Twitter. He said he was excited to return to Harvard, apparently referring to classes he taught in 1999 -- links to which he provided in a subsequent tweet.
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| Truck Flips on Highway, Spills Tons of ... Cows? | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:37 PM | Sam Laird |
| When this big rig flips over in, it deposits a payload not of vegetables or canned goods but...cows! Yup; real life, bonafide bovines. A can't miss video.
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| 7 Ways Augmented Reality Will Improve Your Life | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:20 PM | Lauren Drell |
| You might think augmented reality is the way of the future, but really, it has its roots in the 20th century. Morton Heilig, the "Father of Virtual Reality," patented the Sensorama Stimulator, which he called an "experience theater," on Aug. 28, 1962. Over time, the idea of using technology to create a layer over the real world has been honed and refined and put in our palms, thanks to the proliferation of smartphones.
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| Show Us Your Best Holiday Gift Reactions | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:20 PM | Ryan Lytle |
| There is almost nothing better than getting someone the perfect holiday present -- proving that you've been listening to all those subtle (or not-so-subtle) hints he or she has been dropping for months. But it's also a pretty good feeling when you receive that smartphone or tablet you put on your wish list but didn't expect to unwrap. So good, if fact, that sometimes you just have to celebrate.
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