Was feeling blue, so I took a couple of buses to get away for a few days, first from East Hampton, NY to Montvale, NJ, to Manhattan back to East Hampton, NY in the course of three days. Decided to film it, star in it and and share it. Although it seems that I look [...]

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Eco sustainable homes and sustainable urban architectural design are at the forefront of the Batimat show in Paris. The aptly named Be-Green Houses prove it really is easy being Green, and it can be done in total comfort and style. This pair of contemporary house plans incorporates all the essentials into a colorful, bright design. [...]

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I was not-so-pleasantly surprised that AT&T yet again raped me by charging me extra for using my MSN IM and Yahoo IM for business… which is supposed to be covered in the $99 I pay every month for UNLIMITED DATA… not so… the douchebags at AT&T decided to go for the de rigeur [...]

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Web-based phone service JAJAH has just released their Twitter calling feature JAJAH@Call in beta, giving participating members the ability to call each other, free of charge, by way of Twitter.
The calling service works when a member tweets “@call @twittername.” The tweet will cause both phones to ring, and the Twitterers will be connected [...]

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Just when you think this story is over … there’s now video of President Obama calling Kanye West a “jackass.” The clip first appeared earlier today on Politico, who then pulled it, writing that they “felt upon reflection that it was more respectful to a fellow news-gathering operation to take it down.”
CNN, however, [...]

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According to a Nielsen report this week, Microsoft’s new Bing search engine is growing faster than any of its search competitors in the top 10.
Last time we looked, Bing was sitting at around 9.4% of the search market in July, but Nielsen’s new numbers confirm the search engine’s continued growth through the month of [...]

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Twitter’s trending topics play an important role in the Twitter ecosystem by highlighting the most popular subjects that people are tweeting about in real-time. We’ve seen plenty of different real-time search engines play with and tweak this concept, but we’ve yet to see trending tracks. Until now.
Vodafone has just launched Real-Time Top 40, to [...]

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Exactly two weeks from today, Google Wave will make its debut on the world stage. It hasn’t even been four months since Google Wave was announced, but it has already captured the hearts and minds of communication, tech, and social media enthusiasts.
While we have explored whether the world is ready for Google [...]

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eBay may have sold the majority of Skype earlier this month, but that may not matter if the two original founders of Skype get their way. They have just sued eBay and Skype’s new investors for damages that they estimate total “a rate of more than $75 million daily.”
The case pits eBay against [...]

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Last night something with the potential to go insanely viral happened at a Philadelphia Phillies baseball game. Big time Phillies fan, Steve Monforto, caught his first foul ball, promptly handed it over to his 3-year-old daughter, Emily, who then immediately threw it back onto the field. After initial shock, the dad embraced his daughter [...]

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This news should come as no surprise: Kanye West’s outburst at the VMAs resulted in all sorts of digital records over at MTV.com. The company shared some stats with us this afternoon:
2.7 million unique visitors hit MTV.com on Sunday – it’s highest VMA performance ever
5.5 million unique visitors hit MTV.com on Monday – [...]

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Newspapers are finding themselves in tough economic circumstances, so it’s no surprise that News Corp is dead set on monetizing their digital content, with CEO Rupert Murdoch recently saying that his company is planning to “charge for all our news websites.”
In a somewhat surprising move, it turns out the monetization strategy is being applied [...]

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It took five years for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to go from idea to finished manuscript, but the results have very clearly been nothing short of spectacular. Perhaps you also have an idea for a novel kicking around in your head. Maybe it came to you in the shower one [...]

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In the wake of the Watergate scandal, the US Congress passed the Presidential Records Act (PRA) in 1978. This act changed the legal ownership of official records from the Executive Office of the President (EOP) from private to public and mandated that these records be filed with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
Although [...]

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Facebook has had its share of privacy issues, ranging from the controversy surrounding the Beacon advertising system to the more recent changes the company made to its policies to comply with Canadian law.
Nonetheless, the company has seemingly been able to earn the trust of the American population on the whole, as TRUSTe [...]

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Fresh off the news that Google is buying reCAPTCHA, another major acquisition rumor has emerged. According to a tweet from Mark Glaser, Executive Editor of PBS MediaShift, “Brightcove in talks with Google about buyout in $500m to $700m range.”
Brightcove, for those unfamiliar, is essentially the YouTube of b2b video, powering video streaming on [...]

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You know those boxes with funky looking letters that are becoming increasingly common on website registration forms, or on Facebook Pages when you want to post an update? They’re called captchas and they’re used primarily to deter spammers and bots.
One of the biggest providers of the technology is a company called reCAPTCHA, and [...]

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Aviary is already well-established as an online image editing suite, but today the company is expanding its creative reach and bringing multi-track audio editing to the cloud.
The service, called Myna, is sort of like Garage Band in your web browser. You can import audio directly into it, record a track into the application, or [...]

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On Tuesday, Microsoft launched its answer to Apple’s iPod touch with the Zune HD. And while the Zune Marketplace will be offering plenty of content in the way of music and movies, what it won’t be offering is an App Store to compete with the Apple iTunes model.
Market analysts appear to be lining up [...]

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Newsflash: the iPhone doesn’t have a physical keyboard. Does this mean one has to crammed into (or onto) it at all costs? If you’re a former BlackBerry addict, perhaps it does.
Enter the oddly named iTwinge, an iPhone sleeve that does the trick in the simplest of fashions: it merely covers the software keys [...]

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If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage Social Media for Career [...]

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Recently we profiled a number of great gadgets for social media lovers, and Pogoplug made the list for its ease of socially sharing local files on your hard drive.
Today the device takes sharing a step further, by adding quick and easy sharing of files from your local hard drive right to Twitter, Facebook, and [...]

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…if you enjoy the little things in life, that is. Yesterday we wrote about Facebook prototypes, a new Facebook feature which lets you try out beta versions of new features. Click on “Applications” at the bottom left of your screen, then “Browse More Applications”, and then on “Prototypes”.
One of the new features that [...]

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Opera Mini, the Java-based mobile browser from Opera (which means it can run on any phone, regardless of platform, that runs Java ME), has a new version out: Opera Mini 5 Beta.
It brings a number of improvements compared to the previous major version, Opera Mini 4.2; if your phone is not an iPhone [...]

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There is nothing like The Onion in print, on the web, or anywhere else. “America’s Finest News Source” has provided us with constant laughs from its satirical writing, witty headlines, and of course, hilarious video shorts.
Until now, The Onion was limited to print and that square rectangle you call a computer screen. [...]

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock that doesn’t have Wi-Fi or a 3G signal, you’ve probably heard about Kanye West’s outburst at the Video Music Awards.
Being the bizarre and wonderfully creative place that it is, The Internets quickly came to the rescue with a slew of parodies, mashups and Photochops of even [...]

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First we had the race to 1 million followers on Twitter (let the history books show that Ashton won). But did you know that a similar battle is brewing over the most Facebook fans?
YouTube thinks they can take the title, and to make things more interesting they’re also allowing their Facebook fans to [...]

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Facebook made waves last week when it released the code behind Tornado Web Server, the framework that powers some of the functionality behind FriendFeed, which Facebook acquired last month.
While the move was a nice gesture to the development community, it’s not as if Facebook did this without a purpose. Specifically, they [...]

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If you spent your entire discretionary income on a new iPhone 3GS, or any iPhone for that matter, and don’t have enough funds left over for a spiffy protective case, then Case-Mate has the perfect solution — the iPhone recession case.
The cardboard case is totally legit, getting rave reviews (okay there’re only 3), and [...]

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We wrote recently about why we think an Apple Tablet is coming and how it might impact the marketplace. Some recent new information suggests some of the companies who will play a role in manufacturing components for the device.
Citing a report from Taiwan Economic News, Ars Technica reports several Taiwanese manufacturers have won contracts [...]

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Last month we reported on the relative popularity of the iPhone on popular photo-sharing site Flickr: popular enough to vie for and reach the #1 spot.
That a camera phone could eclipse popular photographer mainstays like the Canon EOS Digital Rebel, Nikon’s D-Series and others spoke highly of how much people value taking images [...]

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Yesterday Facebook launched its @mentions feature. As we’ve previously noted, this has the potential to take on some of Twitter’s heart and soul head-to-head. But what about users who often use their Twitter and Facebook accounts in tandem?
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the new SocialToo Status addition to the SocialToo Facebook app [...]

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This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.
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