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- Top 8 Comments on Mashable This Week
- Engine Advocacy Turns Tech Nerds Into Political Experts
- Top 10 Tech This Week [PICS]
- Photoshop CS6 Turns to The Dark Side [VIDEO]
- Top 10 Twitter Pics of the Week [PICS]
- Tech Companies Ramping Up the Green Jobs [INFOGRAPHIC]
- What Apple Could Do With Its $100 Billion Cash Hoard [COMIC]
- 6 Standout Apps Worth Downloading This Week
- Before IPO, Facebook Takes the Fight Against Clickjacking to the Courts
- Google Doodle Celebrates World’s Largest Snowflake [VIDEO]
- 10 Hilarious Animated GIFs that Took the Web by Storm
| Top 8 Comments on Mashable This Week Posted: 28 Jan 2012 02:43 PM PST      We’re back again with another roundup of the top Mashable comments of the week. In this weekly segment, we showcase the week’s best comments on our site. We’re always looking for thoughtful comments that engage the community and drive more conversation, as well as those that make us laugh. This week, the Mashable community took an interest in the recent announcement of Facebook Timeline and coverage on the Presidential Campaign. This week’s comments truly made the Mashable team laugh and were loaded with plenty of different opinions. Take a look at this week’s top comments on Mashable: iPhone 5 Rumors Brennan Stehling feels the iPhone 5 should not have a bigger screen. Earlier this week 9to5 Mac reported a rumor that the next iPhone will have a 4-inch screen. Comment originally posted on: iPhone 5 Will Have 4-Inch Screen, Launch in Summer [RUMOR] Click here to view this gallery. If you haven’t commented on a Mashable article before, check out Mashable Follow, our content curation and social tool, as well as our comment guidelines to learn more. We’d love for you to join the conversation. Remember to comment on next week’s articles for a chance to be in the top comments roundup. More About: comments, community, mashable follow, top comments For more Social Media coverage:
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| Engine Advocacy Turns Tech Nerds Into Political Experts Posted: 28 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST   How do you turn technology nerds into political experts? That’s the question being asked by Engine Advocacy, a group dedicated to getting “tech startups, entrepreneurs and technologists” involved in shaping public policy. The goal of Engine Advocacy is “to give entrepreneurial people and businesses a voice in the Washington policy arena that they haven't before,” according to co-founder Michael McGeary. The group has a stake in a variety of issues, including an open Internet, intellectual property rights, privacy laws, broadband access, spectrum reform and immigration reform. (Why immigration? Engine Advocacy wants a “startup visa” to make it easer for people to come to the U.S. to innovate.) Engine Advocacy has no registered lobbyists working for it. Instead, the organization seeks to teach Silicon Valley about Washington, D.C and to give technological innovators “action tools” for getting involved with public policy. “Most people realize it's not good enough as an entrepreneur or startup CEO to take the feeling of ‘let me do my job,’” says McGeary. “I come from the political world, I’ve worked on a couple of campaigns and I've come to Silicon Valley and I've been heartened to talk to so many smart people that are saying ‘ok, let's figure out how to do this so we don't have to be passive all the time.’” McGeary says his organization is a “loosely formed coalition” that’s growing “quickly by the day.” The idea to start the organization came before SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act) became the hot-button issues of the day, but according to McGeary, they were the sparks that “set the building on fire,” so to speak. “What we thought was a good idea in the Fall turned into ‘we have to do this right now.” “What we thought was a good idea in the fall turned into ‘we have to do this right now,’” says McGeary. “[SOPA and PIPA] were a galvanizing moment.” Engine Advocacy isn’t just trying to educate tech innovators about Washington, it’s also doing the reverse. The organization is making an effort to educate politicians on technology and Internet issues. “We've met with several members of congressional staff,” says McGeary, singling out Sen. Moran of Kansas. “(Sen. Moran) and his staff are really committed to tech issues and wanting to get more education about them and trying to find ways to legislate in more productive ways. We're young in the Senate, but together there's power in injecting these two communities and I've been glad about that.” With SOPA and PIPA gone, what’s the next big fight for Engine Advocacy? We asked McGeary if ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) was on Engine Advocacy’s radar. “Yes, but it appears to be mostly complete at this point. We’ll keep our eye on it as it rolls out, however, to see what implications there are for tech business going forward,” he said. “We’re keeping our eyes on (SOPA and PIPA), of course, just in case they make a stunning, election-year comeback from being mortally wounded,” says McGeary. “Beyond that, we’re now taking some time to build and strengthen our organization and begin rolling out our legislative priorities for 2012, as well as beginning to develop campaign strategies looking toward the Fall. We’re looking at things like Startup Act and spectrum coming down the pike fairly quickly, but also beginning to beef up our web presence and policy research to be ready for the next fights as they come along.” Do you think it’s a good idea to get tech experts and innovators involved with the public policy process? Sound off in the comments below. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, PashaIgnatov More About: Politics, technology
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| Posted: 28 Jan 2012 01:33 PM PST 1. Northrop X-47B Stealth Drone This stealthy X-47B unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is the size of a fighter jet, and will be taking off and landing from the deck of an aircraft carrier. This is an unusual overhead view of the scary looking plane, which was mistaken for a UFO last month. When will it be ready for battle? Unknown. It's a concept plane so far, but as you can see, it's in the midst of flight testing. [via Gizmodo] Click here to view this gallery. If you scanned across the tech and gadget world this week, you’d think the future had already arrived. We found so many great products and devices, it was difficult to narrow them down to our Top 10 Tech This Week. But we persevered, finding conveyances that roll on the ground and fly through the air, a gaming mouse that looks like it might take off at any moment, new software from Google that makes us feel like were flying in space and a bulbous car that was once fiction that’s now reality. We even found a brand new view of a scary, lethal and stealthy weapon for your perusal. Even everyday objects didn’t escape the futuristic treatment, including a USB cable that shows you which direction its data is flowing, a 55-inch OLED TV that seemed like a fantasy just a couple of weeks ago but now has a more well-defined arrival date, and then there’s the craziest-looking lamp we’ve ever seen — built by a printer, of all things. So strap yourself in and prepare to be impressed, amused, amazed and perhaps even filled with want — as we bring you the latest edition of our Top 10 Tech This Week. Here’s last week’s Top 10 Tech. More About: aircraft, android, Google, OLED, Star Wars, Top 10 Tech, trending
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| Photoshop CS6 Turns to The Dark Side [VIDEO] Posted: 28 Jan 2012 01:11 PM PST   Attention, Photoshop lovers: Adobe is treating us all to a sneak preview of Photoshop CS6, and from what we can see, it looks amazing. Adobe posted a YouTube video named “Sneak Peek #1″ on Photoshop’s official channel last week. In the video, senior product manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes gives viewers a glimpse of CS6′s Camera Raw 7. In the video, Hughes loads a typical, not-very-high resolution picture he took of the Eiffel Tower at dusk with his cameraphone. He then goes to work with CS6′s Camera Raw, boosting highlights and shadows, sharpening and introducing new tools that Photoshop users haven’t previously enjoyed. By the time Hughes is done editing, the originally unremarkable photograph looks stunning. After Hughes’ Camera Raw demo, he opens up CS6 itself and introduces viewers to a very new Photoshop. What’s different? For starters, it’s darker. Much darker. “We have a darker interface that allows for a more immersive experience,” says Hughes. “We’re able to focus on the image and not on the interface itself. Although, fear not, if you want to change the interface to look as it did before, you can do that.” Hughes also says the darker interface comes from a desire to appear more uniform alongside other Adobe software, such as Lightroom. At the end of the video, Hughes shows off a new feature called “rich cursor support,” which gives instant information about a brush’s diameter, hardness and opacity. The video is titled “Sneak Peek #1″ and is the sole member of a “Sneak Peeks” YouTube playlist, perhaps a signal that more of these previews are on the way: What do you think about the Photoshop CS6 Sneak Peek? Sound off in the comments below. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, bizoo_n More About: adobe, Photoshop, Video
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| Top 10 Twitter Pics of the Week [PICS] Posted: 28 Jan 2012 12:33 PM PST   Out of the millions of pictures posted on Twitter last week, 10 of them stood above the rest, and we have the Top 10 Twitter Pics gathered right here in a cozy, clickable group. And a cozy week it was, with snow falling in New York, big-time NFL football games underway and nostalgia galore as people looked back to previous decades and reminisced about their childhoods. Meanwhile, political events were going on, including the State of the Union Address, where the United States Congress paid an emotional farewell to one of its colleagues. Meanwhile, Jan. 25 marked the anniversary of a protest half a world away in Egypt. With help from a special algorithm developed by our partners at social media search engine Skylines, we’ve plucked these pics from more than 30 million submitted to Twitter during the week. With our technique, we make a special effort to show you the most popular topics or pics, highlighting the most important trends that occurred during the week rather than concentrating on celebrities. We’ve also placed links on hashtags, allowing you to go to the Skylines site and see a tremendous number of pictures dealing with that hashtag’s topic. So click away and enjoy the top 10 pics! Let us know in the comments which ones were your favorites. 1. School memories @Eric_Cartman (1000+ followers) describes the TV setup (which most of us probably recognize) displayed in this image as "the best memory ever." During last week, #middleschoolmemories and #highschoolmemories were popular subjects for Twitter photos, making Twitter users indulge in the memories of their teenage years. Do they look familiar? Click here to view this gallery. If you missed them, here are last week’s Top 10 Twitter Pics. More About: Photos, Skylines, Top 10 Twitter Pics, trending, Twitter For more Social Media coverage:
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| Tech Companies Ramping Up the Green Jobs [INFOGRAPHIC] Posted: 28 Jan 2012 11:40 AM PST If you’re looking for a new job, but you’re also a friend of the environment, there could be a perfect position for you in the tech sector. More than ever before, tech companies are committed to sustainability — they’re developing greener devices, increasing the life cycle of products and developing meaningful partnerships. In fact, seven of the top 10 green companies are in the tech sector, and IBM leads the way, with a greenscore of 82.5%. This year, there will be more than 3 million green jobs in America, helping the “green economy” surge past the “regular economy.” Another benefit of going green in the job hunt? It can also bring you more green — wages are 13% higher for green jobs than for the average American job. Take a look at the green profiles of IBM, Apple, Google, Dell, Nokia, HP and Microsoft, and check out the other stats in the infographic below, produced by JobVine.   Infographic courtesy of JobVine Social Media Job ListingsEvery week we post a list of social media and web job opportunities. While we publish a huge range of job listings, we’ve selected some of the top social media job opportunities from the past two weeks to get you started. Happy hunting!
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| What Apple Could Do With Its $100 Billion Cash Hoard [COMIC] Posted: 28 Jan 2012 10:26 AM PST   Let’s face it: Apple is rich. So rich it could send a crowd of people to the moon to build a luxury hotel and hang out there for a few years. Here’s what else it could do, according to our friends at The Joy of Tech. It’s not surprising Apple is so deeply awash in cash, especially after its spectacular first-quarter earnings announced this week. You can see the details of Apple’s unbelievable numbers here, but will give you a highlight: the company’s revenues for the quarter were higher than its total revenues for all of fiscal 2009. Apple’s so rich, it could give each of its employees a check for $6,622,516. The company’s worth more than $400 billion. Here’s more about Apple’s riches. If you had $100 billion (or $97.7 billion in cash reserves, to be exact), what would you do with it? Comic illustration courtesy Geek Culture, used with permission (thanks, Bruce!) More About: apple, comic, trending
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| 6 Standout Apps Worth Downloading This Week Posted: 28 Jan 2012 09:39 AM PST Evi for Android and iPhone Evi is like the iPhone 4S for Android and other iPhone devices running iOS 4.0 or later. It does the same tricks, like showing you coffee shops nearby when you speak or type "coffee," or providing the traditional answer "42" when you ask it for the meaning of life. It's search with an artificial intelligence twist. On iPhone ($.99) or Android (free). Click here to view this gallery. Facebook hogged tech headlines this week with news that it was pushing its Timeline to all users and will IPO next week. But while the 800-million-person social network was making news, there were also worthwhile launches from great startup apps that you might have missed. You could sort through the App Store’s 500,000 apps and the Android store’s estimated 300,000 apps in order to find them. Or you could check out our recap of the best new apps in the slideshow above. We’ve done our best to sort out the overly frivolous, the ugly and the downright impractical. The apps left standing include one that accomplishes a popular Photoshop trick in two simple steps, another that will pool contact info from your phone, social accounts and email to create one list to rule them all, another that works like Siri for people who don’t have an iPhone 4S and long-awaited Android versions of two popular social service apps. Have you seen any other apps this week you’d add to the list? Let us know in the comments. More About: AirBNB, apps, Evi, formspring, GroupShot, Smartr, trending For more Mobile coverage:
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| Before IPO, Facebook Takes the Fight Against Clickjacking to the Courts Posted: 28 Jan 2012 08:47 AM PST   Facebook is turning to the courts to fight the “clickjacking” scourge which sometimes plagues the social networking site. The news comes as rumors are circulating that Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) could be happening as early as this week, with a possible offering of up to $10 billion in shares. If you’ve ever clicked on a Facebook link only to have that same link get instantly (and seemingly magically) sent out to your entire network of friends without your approval, you have been clickjacked. Facebook’s finally saying “enough is enough.” It’s accusing Washington-based marketing company Adscend Media of the unwanted spam-causing practice in a lawsuit announced Thursday. "Security is an arms race,” said Facebook general counsel Ted Ullyot said in a post on the site. “And that's why Facebook is committed to constantly improving our consumer safeguards while pursuing and supporting civil and criminal consequences for bad actors.” The Attorney General of Washington state filed a separate lawsuit, also accusing Adscend Media of clickjacking. "We don't 'like' schemes that illegally trick Facebook users into giving up personal information or paying for unwanted subscription services through spam," said Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna with a nod to one of Facebook’s most well-known features. "We applaud Facebook for devoting significant technical and legal resources to finding and stopping scams as soon as possible, and often before they even start. We're proud to join forces in order to protect Washington consumers." In a clickjacking, users are presented with some kind of enticing material, such as a too-good-to-be-true promotion. The clickjackers add code to these links that hide the “like” button in the link itself. Once a user clicks the clickjacking link, it’s too late — the material’s already been “liked” and shared to the user’s entire social network. The Washington Attorney General’s Consumer High-Tech Protection unit alleged that Adscend’s clickjacking practices netted the company up to $1.2 millon each month. Adscend Media denies the claims. “At no time did we engage in the activity alleged in the complaints,” said the ad company in a statement released Friday. “Adscend Media will provide a vigorous defense against these false claims. Adscend Media strictly complies with its legal obligations under federal and state law. We are undertaking an investigation to determine whether any of Adscend Media’s affiliates engaged in the activity alleged by the Attorney General’s office and Facebook. If they did, we are fully certain that the activity was conducted without the company’s knowledge.” Does this lawsuit have anything to do with Facebook’s maybe-soon IPO? Perhaps. After all, too much spam could cause Facebook’s value to drop. “In the run-up to IPO, we’re sure to see Facebook doing more to present itself as company that is fighting security threats like this,” Internet security firm Sophos told the BBC. In February of last year, a major clickjacking scam offered free Southwest Airlines tickets to users. Hapless individuals who clicked that link instantly spammed all their friends with the faux-promotion. According to Facebook, 4% of posts on the social network are spam. What do you think of Facebook’s efforts to fight against clickjacking? Sound off in the comments below. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, ilbusca More About: clickjacking, Facebook, spam
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| Google Doodle Celebrates World’s Largest Snowflake [VIDEO] Posted: 28 Jan 2012 08:18 AM PST   Google is at it again, creating yet another of its whimsical doodles. This time, the search giant’s Google Doodle on its main search page revels in the glories of midwinter, celebrating the 125th anniversary of the discovery of the world’s largest snowflake. How large was it? How’s 15 inches (38 centimeters) grab you? Imagine the looks on the faces of those who saw this enormous ice crystal the size of a pizza falling from the sky in Fort Keogh, Montana in 1887. Click on the Doodle, and you get results about that humongous snowflake. Even though this is a rather flaky excuse for a Google Doodle, by no means matching up with some of the other spectacular Google Doodles or that “Let It Snow” Easter egg we encountered recently, we still like the silly humor of the gigantic snowflake, functioning as the second letter “O” in the word “Google.” This Google Doodle is reportedly only visible in the U.S. and the UK, so for those of you who don’t live in either of those countries, here’s a video that’s even better, showing you the same thing, but with enhanced audio with music and a perfectly timed sound effect: Bonus Gallery: Top 10 animated Google Doodles: The Christmas Google DoodleEach package gets larger with a mouse-over, and a click on it returns search results pertinent to a specific country or the particular items featured in a scene. This one is from December 24, 2010. Click here to view this gallery. More About: Google, google doodle For more Social Media coverage:
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| 10 Hilarious Animated GIFs that Took the Web by Storm Posted: 28 Jan 2012 07:11 AM PST 1. Darth Raver Adding a Star Wars reference almost always results in a viral sensation. Click here to view this gallery. Along with all of the other weird quirks of the web, animated GIFs are extremely popular — especially on content-curating sites like Tumblr and Reddit. In terms of GIFs, we’ve seen everything from mainstream celebrities photobombing major award shows to familiar web trends like cats and Star Wars characters. But when it comes to animated GIFs, one thing is for certain: Humor always wins. Here are 10 hilarious GIFs circling the web these days. Do you have a favorite? Let us know in the comments. More About: features, GIF, humor, memes, reddit, trending, tumblr For more Entertainment coverage:
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