8 Essential Apps For SXSWi Attendees | | SXSW kicks off Friday in Austin. A great place to learn about new companies, make new friends, and network with interesting people –- the experience can get a bit overwhelming if you’re not prepared. To help along with the process we gathered together a collection of apps that are bound to make your SXSW experience run a little more smoothly.
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YouTube One Channel Now Open for Everyone | | YouTube has opened up its new design for channels, so far available only as limited beta, to all users. The YouTube One Channel, as it's called, gives users the ability to slap a big header (called Channel Art) on the top of their channels and to have a video trailer which starts playing for all visitors who aren't yet subscribed to the channel.
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Google to Cut 10% of Motorola's Workforce | | Google's Motorola is planning to cut 10% of its global workforce, the Wall Street Journal reports. The news comes from an internal company email which explains the reasoning behind the job cuts. "While we're very optimistic about the new products in our pipeline, we still face challenges," it says. "These cuts are a continuation of the reductions we announced last summer.
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Dyson’s New Fan Heater Works For All Seasons | 2:17:15 AM | Camille Bautista |
| Dyson, the company that re-invented the vacuum and made fans cool again, introduced a new product for all four seasons. The Dyson Hot + Cool bladeless heater fan can keep you warm in the winter and provide cool air in the summer. The AM05 model is an upgrade from the previous Dyson Hot and increases the velocity of the cool air by 33%.
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4 Work Mistakes You Don't Realize You're Making | Thursday, March 07, 2013 11:45 PM | The Daily Muse |
| Feeling like you're falling behind at work? It's simple: You forgot the basics. Here's how to get back on track to being a promotion-worthy employee.
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Make Better Presentations With the Instagram for Pitch Decks | Thursday, March 07, 2013 10:56 PM | Dani Fankhauser |
| The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Haiku Deck One-Liner Pitch: With Haiku Deck, you can create simple and effective presentations on your iPad.
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What's the Secret Behind Amazon's Super Smooth Drop-Down Menu? | Thursday, March 07, 2013 9:34 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Some say good web design is supposed to go unnoticed. But when it's as clever as Amazon's smooth drop-down menu, people take a closer look. You may not have spent too much time thinking about Amazon.com's mega drop-down menu the last time your reordered socks, but Ben Kamens, who is lead developer at Khan Academy, broke down the principles behind the design in a post on his site.
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Hands On With the New Facebook | Thursday, March 07, 2013 8:26 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Still in line for the new Facebook News Feed? Want to take a look at the menu while you're waiting for a table? We've got you covered. Check out the gallery above. The News Feed changes, which start kicking in for users Thursday, aren't just about making the site look cleaner (and more Google+ like) or increasing the size of photos. It's about giving you more options than you could possibly want for how to view content on Facebook.
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4 Ways Publishers Can Optimize for Facebook's New News Feed | Thursday, March 07, 2013 7:01 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Facebook unveiled its "new" News Feed Thursday, and while we won't know the full range of effects it will have on the pages of brands and publishers for some time, Facebook has provided a few clues to help administrators optimize their pages ahead of its rollout. First, let's take a look at the changes. The new News Feed is cleaner, more visual and has more filtering controls.
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What Facebook's New News Feed Means for Marketers | Thursday, March 07, 2013 4:33 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Facebook on Thursday unveiled its first major redesign of the News Feed since 2009, making the page more visually rich, and giving users new options to filter what they see by different feed categories like Music, Photos, Games and Close Friends. At first glance, the changes appear to be a win-win for users who want more control over their Facebook homepage, but the redesign may prove to be more of a mixed bag for marketers.
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The Wolfpack Is Back in 'The Hangover 3' Trailer | Thursday, March 07, 2013 4:09 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Bless the comedy gods, because the wolfpack is back and up to more hilarious antics in The Hangover 3. The official trailer, which dropped Thursday, features the boys out of Thailand — the setting for the second movie — and returning to their original stomping grounds in Vegas. Even Mr. Chow has made a comeback (this time with clothes, it seems) and beloved Melissa McCarthy seems to be stopping by the Strip.
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Is Facebook the New Google+? | Thursday, March 07, 2013 4:05 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| It was a big day for Facebook, which unveiled a radical new look for the news feed, but many believe the updates look at a lot like Google+'s design.
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Facebook Gets Simpler, More Complicated | Thursday, March 07, 2013 3:25 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Here's the first thing you may notice about the new Facebook — the word "Facebook" doesn't appear anywhere on it. Just one blue-on-white, lowercase "f." It's indicative of a couple of things — first of all, Facebook is so famous it doesn't need to use its full name any more. Secondly, the company has a new religion: make the design as clean as possible.
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All of the NBA's Amazingness in One Circus Dunk | Thursday, March 07, 2013 1:54 PM | Sam Laird |
| The sheer beauty of world-class athletes working in unspoken, telepathic harmony to achieve an awe-inducing feat of gracefully expressive NBA accomplishment.
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Facebook Unveils a Radically Redesigned News Feed | Thursday, March 07, 2013 1:19 PM | Christina Warren |
| Facebook announced Thursday it is giving its venerable news feed a new look and feel. The new news feed represents the first major overhaul of Facebook's core service since the launch of Facebook Timeline at the end of 2011. "The news feed is one of the most important things we've built," Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the press event.
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Rand Paul's Filibuster Got Him Almost 3,500 Twitter Followers an Hour | Thursday, March 07, 2013 12:23 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) had approximately 96,000 Twitter followers when he began his filibuster just before noon Wednesday. When he finally finished speaking almost 13 hours later, his follower count was sitting pretty at slightly more than 141,000 — a total gain of approximately 40,000 followers, or a bit less than 3,500 an hour.
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Live From Facebook: Your News Feed Changes | Thursday, March 07, 2013 12:01 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Greetings from Willow Road and Hacker Way in Menlo Park, Calif. on a grey Thursday morning — the unassuming setting for what looks set to be the most significant change to Facebook in more than a year. "Come see a new look for News Feed," read the invites that went out last week.
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TED Needs a Devil's Advocate | Thursday, March 07, 2013 11:47 AM | Chris Taylor |
| If you like a hefty side order of creature comforts with your inspirational talks, there is no better place in the world than the annual TED conference, the grandaddy of all those TEDx conferences. The one that wrapped up in Long Beach last week left attendees wanting for less than the average 18th century aristocrat. The opulence began before you entered the main hall.
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