It's Not Twitter or Facebook, It's the Power of the Network
Just as it was during the recent uprisings in Tunisia, the role of social media in the recent upheaval in Egypt has been the subject of much debate since the unrest began on Thursday. Daily Show host...
PayPal in India is ‘Close to Dead’
If you are based in India and have been using the PayPal service to receive payment from foreign clients and advertisers, here's some disheartening news for you. — Starting March 1st, you'll not be ...
So How Much Is Quora Worth?
For the rest of the world, it may have been a very cold winter, but for Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup Quora, it has been a scorching hot few weeks. Thanks to relentless media attention, the company...
Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer EVERY New Y Combinator Startup $150k
Everything just changed in the angel investing world. — Two years ago Yuri Milner, through his investment firm DST, disrupted the traditional Silicon Valley venture capital model when he began inves...
The Problems of Scaling and Scoble at Quora
You knew it was a new era for Quora when Mashable made a list - “9 Ways to Get More Out of Quora.” The writer in question, a public relations blogger named Heather Whaling, informed the Cashmore cons...
SourceForge attacked, resets 2 million account passwords to protect users
Over the past three days, open-source community and project hosting network SourceForge was attacked, its operations team detecting a targetted attack at the sites developer infrasctructure.
Amazon rolling out Netflix-like unlimited video streaming for Prime subscribers?
Rumors of Amazon either purchasing Netflix or launching a competing option have been circling and now one of our readers says he's seeing an unlimited video streaming section to complement the current...
Verizon turns on iPhone 4 pre-order countdown, existing customers can order on February 3rd at 3AM
The grapevine did already hint at the timing of the Verizon iPhone 4 pre-orders, but now, to be absolutely sure nobody misses them, we have a countdown! Verizon's seriously pushing Apple's phone …
BlackBerry service reportedly down across North America [Updated - Fixed]
If you've been trying to check your BlackBerry messages today and aren't getting anything, you're apparently not alone. According to widespread reports, it seems that RIM's BlackBerry network is havi...
Google Finds It Hard to Reinvent Philanthropy
JUST before Google first sold its shares to the public in 2004, Larry Page, one of its founders, excited the nonprofit world with a bold commitment to philanthropy. — He vowed to dedicate about 1 pe...
We Fear for Our Online Privacy, But Do Little to Protect It
We are all concerned about online privacy, but not enough to do much about it, apparently. Americans are more afraid of having their online privacy violated in some way than they are about declaring ...
OPENMESH Is Seeking Alternatives To Egypt-Style Internet Blackouts
Galvanized by the unprecedented Internet shutdown in Egypt, angel investor Shervin Pishevar has launched OPENMESH a forum for people who want to discuss ways of preventing governments from blocking co...
China Blocks ‘Egypt’ on Top Twitter-Like Service
Search for “Egypt” on the Sina Microblogging Service Brings Up Message Saying “...Search Results Are not Shown” — (AP) BEIJING - China has blocked the word “Egypt” from the country's wildly popular ...
Amazon.com Security Flaw Accepts Passwords That Are Close, But Not Exact
An Amazon.com security flaw allows some customers to log in with variations of their actual password that are close to, but not exactly, their real password. — The flaw lets Amazon accept as valid s...
Announcing the winners of the Kinect contest
When the Kinect launched, Adafruit Industries ran a contest for the first person who released open-source code to extract video and depth from the Kinect. Adafruit also ended up donating to the EFF a...
Exclusive: The next generation of WikiLeaks
(Reuters) - All across Europe, from Brussels to the Balkans, a new generation of WikiLeaks-style websites is sprouting. — Like their forerunner, the fledgling whistle-blowing sites are a chaotic mix...
Seesmic Web 1.0 - Schedule Posts, Autocomplete Usernames, Multiple Facebook accounts and so much more!
The newest version of Seesmic Web comes with some major features to manage your online social presence. From the ability to schedule your posts to adding unlimited Facebooks accounts …