2 hours ago in Technology & Software - Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. Between current economic conditions and the technological evolution of the Internet, the traditional ...

tags: business lists, jobs lists, opinion, social media lists, web 2 0, business, web, career, job, job hunting, job search, linkedinm facebook, social media, twitter, youtube

3 days ago in Technology & Software - Eric Ries serves as a venture advisor for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and is the author of the blog Lessons Learned. Raising money is never easy, but in a recession it gets even harder. With so many bargains out there, a traditional pitch ...

tags: how to, opinion, business, web, down economy, funding, lean startup, money, recession, startup

4 days ago in Technology & Software - Granted, making predictions is easy. Being right is much harder, but I’m going to give it a try anyway. Please check back in a year and see how well I did, and feel free to share your own thoughts about what this year might bring in the ...

tags: opinion, p2p and filesharing, pirate talk, 2009, predictions

5 days ago in Technology & Software - The London Review of Books! John Lanchester questions whether the medium is "art" for the literary publication, now three decades old, and comes away conflicted, if positive about the present and future of games. Lanchester, writing in a way that ...

tags: deep thoughts, bioshock, games as art, john lanchester, opinion

6 days ago in Technology & Software - It's been a rough couple of months for Sony and the PlayStation 3, particularly in the mainstream press. Now that the two year old console has been sufficiently thrashed, we think the PSP is due. And so does Yahoo! Games, who paints a very bleak ...

tags: psp, console wars, nintendo ds, opinion, sony

6 days ago in Technology & Software - It's been a rough couple of months for Sony and the PlayStation 3, particularly in the mainstream press. Now that the two year old console has been sufficiently thrashed, we think the PSP is due. And so does Yahoo! Games, who paints a very bleak ...

tags: psp, console wars, nintendo ds, opinion, sony

7 days ago in Technology & Software - Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. Reputation management is essential to both individuals and companies. The more popular your brand is, the ...

tags: business lists, lists, opinion, social media lists, web 2 0, web, blogger, brand, branding, business, personal brand, reputation, reputation management, social media, startup

7 days ago in Technology & Software - It’s that time: predictions for the year ahead and a look back at how we did in the year past. Several of last year’s predictions proved highly accurate, as many of the topics we devote attention to – social networking, startups, and ...

tags: opinion, apple, automattic, blackberry, disqus, facebook, google, google android, iphone, microsoft, mobile 2 0, myspace, pownce, predictions 2009, six apart, social media, social networking, twitter, yahoo

7 days ago in Technology & Software - The conversation, they say, is now distributed: from microcontent networks like Twitter and Friendfeed, to conversations happening on Facebook walls, to Tumblr’s freeform content sharing, to the distribution and aggregation of comments through ...

tags: opinion, mashable, 2008, best, blogger, bloggers, blogging

12 days ago in Technology & Software - So, when you first heard about the iPhone’s application platform and how cool it was, what were your thoughts? I know what I thought: great, I can’t wait to see all the cool and useful applications we’ll see on this thing! I bet on ...

tags: news, opinion, web 2 0, iphone, web, ifart mobile, mobile 2 0

14 days ago in Technology & Software - Hot on the heels of Warner’s deal with Google going sour comes a rumor that Warner, together with Sony BMG, EMI, and Universal Music Group, are in talks to create their own video portal dedicated to music videos; something akin to a Hulu for ...

tags: news, opinion, web 2 0, social networking, web, google, hulu, music videos, warner

14 days ago in Technology & Software - Fact: Lots of Facebook friends means a lot of eyes and ears for your message. Once this became obvious, shady techniques were developed to amass a lot of Facebook friends or to get users to join a group. The questions are: how annoying this really ...

tags: opinion, web 2 0, web apps, facebook, social networking, web

17 days ago in Technology & Software - Mark Drapeau is a regular contributor to Mashable. In the last year or so, microsharing service Twitter has grown by leaps and bounds, in terms of both popularity and usefulness. Regardless of the precise companies or services that become the most ...

tags: lists, opinion, web 2 0, twitter, web, influence, relationships, social media

17 days ago in Technology & Software - First the good news: the Recording Industry Association of America claims it’ll stop the ridiculous John Doe lawsuits which have caused them an enormous amount of bad publicity and turned them into one of the most hated organizations, well, ...

tags: news, opinion, web 2 0, web, entertainment industry, john doe lawsuits, music, recording industry association of america, riaa

17 days ago in Technology & Software - There’s this widespread notion that YouTube is the future of television. The quality of the videos is getting better, the video player has been converted to widescreen format, premium content is trickling in, and YouTube has just opened an HD ...

tags: opinion, web 2 0, web apps, video, web, youtube

17 days ago in Technology & Software - One of the biggest beefs most folks have with NetFlix as an alternative to traditional forms of livingroom-based entertainment is that their on-demand selection is somewhat limited in nature (actually, recent Mashable commenter “Cody” ...

tags: los angeles, news, opinion, san francisco san jose, arnold schwarzenegger, netflix, roku

17 days ago in Technology & Software - Back in April, we had Keith Richman on Mashable Conversations to talk about the formation of the ROI council.  Keith is the CEO of Break.com, and a genuinely knowlegable person to talk to when it comes to the broad topic of the business of online ...

tags: film, news, opinion, web apps, live, break, instinct, keith richman, samsung, video

17 days ago in Technology & Software - The British lawmakers and ISPs are now seriously mulling the idea of a preemptive piracy tax; a yearly fee that would be imposed on everyone who uses the Internet - say, 30 pounds - collected by the ISPs, and given back to the artists. I’ve ...

tags: music, opinion, web 2 0, social networking, web, industry, music, music industry, music tax, tax

17 days ago in Technology & Software - When major companies emerge in the technology industry, there’s no indication of what may come of them. Will they go the way of Google and become an online powerhouse? Or will they go the way of countless other online properties that get sold ...

tags: attention, opinion, san francisco san jose, startupreview, web 2 0, web2 0 startups, facebook, social networking, web, acquisition, google, mark zuckerberg, microsoft, myspace

17 days ago in Technology & Software - When the CEO one of the most followed companies on the Web goes on stage for two hours, you can bet that the press will be listening to every word, looking to break a major piece of news for their respective organization. But yesterday, with Mark ...

tags: opinion, facebook, live blogging