Mashable: Latest 29 News Updates - including “Interactive Google Doodle Celebrates Grimm Fairy Tales” |
- Interactive Google Doodle Celebrates Grimm Fairy Tales
- Tumblr Launches New iPad App
- App Stores All Your Gift Cards in One Place
- ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 2′ Dominates YouTube’s Top Trailers List of 2012
- Emotional Viral Video Looks Back at ‘What Brought Us Together’ in 2012
- A Facebook Ad Network? Not So Fast
- Conduct Your Most Epic Brainstorm Sessions on MindMeister
- Twitter Appoints New COO and CFO
- This $5 Lamp Is Powered Solely by Gravity
- Mark Sanchez Twitter Death Threats Prompt NFL Follow-Up
- How to Build Your Family Tree on the Web
- ESPN Columnist Apologizes on Twitter for Race-Baiting Comments
- Apple Maps: 3 Times More Likely to Get You Lost Than Google
- Diaspora Co-Founder Helps Startups Keep Kickstarter Backers Happy
- Get Your De-Meow-Cracy on With IR Cats
- NFL to Stream Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, Playoff Games Online
- 5 Lessons From the Instagram Debacle
- This Mistletoe Prank Brings Awkwardness to the Holidays
- Data.gov Moving to an Open Source Platform
- Photo: A Lonely Launchpad Misses Its Space Shuttle
- PS22 Kids’ Choir Sings Tribute to Newtown Shooting Victims
- ‘Demand a Plan’ Campaign Calls for Gun Reform in Wake of Newtown
- How to Keep Up With Generation Y Women
- New Web App Recommends Books Based on Your Tweets
- Who Interviewed This Crawfish? And Why?
- Online Billionaire Shop Lets You Buy Jets, Yachts in One Click
- COPPA Updates Show an FTC Focused on Mobile Privacy
- Announcing a Live Chat With TerraCycle Founder Tom Szaky
- Microsoft Veteran Steven Sinofsky’s Next Gig: Harvard Professor
- Truck Flips on Highway, Spills Tons of … Cows?
| Interactive Google Doodle Celebrates Grimm Fairy Tales Posted: 20 Dec 2012 03:31 AM PST  
Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) were German authors and researchers, known for collecting and popularizing European folk tales, including Cinderella, The Frog Prince, Hansel and Gretel. As for the Doodle itself, it's one of the most elaborate we've seen, telling the entire story of the Red Riding Hood in a series of drawings. BONUS: The 10 Most Popular Google Doodles of 2012 How do you like today's Doodle? Share your thoughts in the comments. More About: Brothers Grimm, google doodle  |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2012 02:18 AM PST Tumblr's New iPad App
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Version 3.2.3 of the iOS app is now compatible with both the iPad and iPad mini, and features markdown support as well as a new "Explore" tab. Bloggers can also access a sidebar navigation menu and a circular menu for composing posts. Like its iPhone counterpart, the long-awaited iPad app lets users manage all their blogs, view and reply to messages, access the camera by swiping the compose button up, and share photos, videos, links and text. It also offers offline support, such as the ability to reblog even when not connected to the Interne… More About: Apple Store, Apple iPad, apple, apps, ipad, tumblr, vtap  |
| App Stores All Your Gift Cards in One Place Posted: 20 Dec 2012 01:56 AM PST
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| ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 2′ Dominates YouTube’s Top Trailers List of 2012 Posted: 20 Dec 2012 12:59 AM PST
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. Two highly anticipated 2012 movies, The Dark Knight Rises and Skyfall, sit at third and fourth place, with another Skyfall trailer taking the ninth position. Three other movie trailers that made the list are for Ted, The Hunger Games and Revolution. YouTube isn't clear about…  |
| Emotional Viral Video Looks Back at ‘What Brought Us Together’ in 2012 Posted: 19 Dec 2012 11:55 PM PST 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. Although the video starts on a melancholy note, its latter half features more lighthearted fare such as NASA's Mars rover landing, the London Olympics and Grumpy Cat. SEE ALSO: More About: 2012, viral videos  |
| A Facebook Ad Network? Not So Fast Posted: 19 Dec 2012 11:00 PM PST
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. We have learned a lot from this test that will be useful in the future," the spokesperson said. In September, Facebook began working with a number of ad exchanges to serve ads on third-party mobile apps. A mobile ad network -- what could be the social network's equivalent of Google's AdSense -- looked to help Facebook b… More About: Facebook, mobile advertising  |
| Conduct Your Most Epic Brainstorm Sessions on MindMeister Posted: 19 Dec 2012 09:54 PM PST
After brainstorming comes extensive research, planning and ceaseless decision making. Further down the line comes the execution of your business plan. Organizational and collaboration tool MindMeister has been a huge lifesaver for nearly 1.5 million users since its launch in 2007. The collaborative online mind mapping software was voted the winner in the productivity category in Mashable's Innovation Index this year -- a new program that celebra… More About: Innovation Index, features, mashable, organization, team collaboration, work  |
| Twitter Appoints New COO and CFO Posted: 19 Dec 2012 09:06 PM PST
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. Twitter also brought in Mike Gupta to fill Rowghani's former role as CFO. Previously the treasurer and senior vice-president of finance at Zynga, Gupta left after spending one-and-a-half years with the embattled game maker. He also spent eight years as chief treasury officer and senior vice… More About: Twitter  |
| This $5 Lamp Is Powered Solely by Gravity Posted: 19 Dec 2012 07:59 PM PST
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. For the 1.5 billion people in the world who live off the electric grid, homemade kerosene lamps are the norm. But, the kerosene can eat up 10% to 20% of a family's household income, according to the designers. Fueling these lamps with kerosene is also extremely dangerous. Men, women and children are regularly exp… More About: Social Good, developing countries, indiegogo  |
| Mark Sanchez Twitter Death Threats Prompt NFL Follow-Up Posted: 19 Dec 2012 06:59 PM PST |
| How to Build Your Family Tree on the Web Posted: 19 Dec 2012 05:53 PM PST
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. MyHeritage and Archives.com are two useful sites that have great layouts and access to plenty of documents. On these sites you can find census records, scanned birth, marriage and death certificates, family photos and newspaper clippings, and compile these into a beautiful, digital tree. More About: Ancestry.com, genealogy, history  |
| ESPN Columnist Apologizes on Twitter for Race-Baiting Comments Posted: 19 Dec 2012 05:30 PM PST |
| Apple Maps: 3 Times More Likely to Get You Lost Than Google Posted: 19 Dec 2012 05:18 PM PST
But just how much of a hill does Apple still have to climb in order to compete? Quite a steep one. It is three times more likely to lead you on a wild goose chase than its rival, according to a study provided exclusively to Mashable. To test how Maps stacks up against Google's (and Bing's) offerings, the online workforce company CrowdFlower picked a random 1,000 business listings in the U.S., and anothe… More About: Google Maps, apple maps, bing  |
| Diaspora Co-Founder Helps Startups Keep Kickstarter Backers Happy Posted: 19 Dec 2012 04:46 PM PST
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| Get Your De-Meow-Cracy on With IR Cats Posted: 19 Dec 2012 04:05 PM PST Seems About Right
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| NFL to Stream Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, Playoff Games Online Posted: 19 Dec 2012 03:30 PM PST |
| 5 Lessons From the Instagram Debacle Posted: 19 Dec 2012 03:04 PM PST 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. Systrom's promised rewording of the agreement has yet to arrive, and prominent users are still skeptical. In the meantime, the story so far reads like a textbook case of what startups shouldn't do to get ahead. Here's what we learned: Turns Out, There Is Some Scrutiny of Your TOS Nobody reads the Terms of Se… More About: instagram, terms of service  |
| This Mistletoe Prank Brings Awkwardness to the Holidays Posted: 19 Dec 2012 02:15 PM PST
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| Data.gov Moving to an Open Source Platform Posted: 19 Dec 2012 01:46 PM PST
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. Government developers from the U.S. and India built the OGPL jointly. They posted it to the code sharing site GitHub where other nations and developers can adopt it as is or amend it to meet their specific needs. The Obama administration launched Data.gov in 2009 as part of a slate of open government commitm… More About: U.S. government, big data, open source  |
| Photo: A Lonely Launchpad Misses Its Space Shuttle Posted: 19 Dec 2012 01:31 PM PST
"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. "I always worked on both pads, but pad A became my permanent home in 2007." SEE ALSO: NASA Employees Share Inspiring Stories You've Never Heard The lonely launchpad is poetic in a way -- a symbol of the end of an era for NASA. Complex 39A's final mission was on July 8, 2011 with the launch of Atlantis. NA… More About: NASA, Space Shuttle Atlantis, SpaceX, space  |
| PS22 Kids’ Choir Sings Tribute to Newtown Shooting Victims Posted: 19 Dec 2012 01:24 PM PST |
| ‘Demand a Plan’ Campaign Calls for Gun Reform in Wake of Newtown Posted: 19 Dec 2012 01:00 PM PST |
| How to Keep Up With Generation Y Women Posted: 19 Dec 2012 12:56 PM PST
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| New Web App Recommends Books Based on Your Tweets Posted: 19 Dec 2012 12:44 PM PST
That method has worked fairly well thus far, but an innovative new web app sources recommendations from the person who knows you best — you. Simply insert your Twitter handle into BookRx, and seconds later the app produces a list of categories and specific books you might enjoy. The app, which was launched yesterday, is a product of Northwestern University's Knight Lab. Shawn O'Banion, a third-year PhD student, worked wi… More About: Entertainment, Social Media, Twitter, apps, books, features  |
| Who Interviewed This Crawfish? And Why? Posted: 19 Dec 2012 12:41 PM PST
Were they talking about the fish-cal cliff? (Sorry.) An outcry over the lack of claw-friendly mobile devices on the market right now? Is it for or against Instagram -- and what filter is the best for underwater photos? Did it get the new Myspace? Who is in its top eight? None of those will ever be answered, but you can pretend like they are in a caption contest. The image is from San Diego's local news station, NBC 7. "One of our reporters snapped the photo and emailed it to the newsroom while she was out in the field," says Michelle Wayland, social media manager at NBC 7.… More About: Watercooler, humor, pics  |
| Online Billionaire Shop Lets You Buy Jets, Yachts in One Click Posted: 19 Dec 2012 12:32 PM PST
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| COPPA Updates Show an FTC Focused on Mobile Privacy Posted: 19 Dec 2012 12:19 PM PST
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. There's a wealth of children's apps available for myriad devices and platforms. The new Windows Phones have a "kid's corner" setting to protect sensitive data from tiny, wandering fingers. It's a safe bet that a child younger than, say, five years old is mo… More About: COPPA, Mobile, Politics, US  |
| Announcing a Live Chat With TerraCycle Founder Tom Szaky Posted: 19 Dec 2012 12:10 PM PST
Tom Szaky, 30, is the founder and CEO of TerraCycle, Inc., one of the world's foremost leaders in eco-capitalism, recycling and upcycling. In 2006, Inc Magazine named TerraCycle "The Coolest Little Startup in America." That same year Szaky was named the "Number-One CEO in America Under 30." Szaky came to the U.S. in 2001 when he matriculated as a Princeton University freshm… More About: Business, Live Chat, Startups, yec  |
| Microsoft Veteran Steven Sinofsky’s Next Gig: Harvard Professor Posted: 19 Dec 2012 11:55 AM PST
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. He also said his title would be "executive in residence" and his duties would include research, writing, teaching classes on product development, planning, collaboration and more. Excited to return to @harvardhbs to teach again this spring!New perspectives, recharge, share experiences, wri… More About: Steve Sinofsky, Windows 8, microsoft  |
| Truck Flips on Highway, Spills Tons of … Cows? Posted: 19 Dec 2012 11:37 AM PST
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