Google Friend Connect, the company’s identity management offering for developers, is now available for anyone to signup without waiting to be whitelisted. Similar to Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Availability, the basic premise is that you can login with your Google (or Yahoo, AIM, OpenID) credentials on third-party applications without signing up for a separate account. You can see this in action right here on the sidebar of Mashable, where you can join our community using your Google credentials. You can also invite other people to join from within the application, either by emailing them (you’ll see a list of...
The moment is here. After more than 50,000 nominations and in excess of 80,000 verified votes from the web community, we’re pleased to announce the finalists in the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest to find the web’s best sites and services. Congratulations to all the finalists! You have until midnight PST on December 14th to pick the winners. Winners receive the Open Web Awards sculpture (courtesy of Zazzle), coverage on Mashable and partner blogs and inclusion in press mentions of the contest. The winners will be announced on Tuesday, December 16th. VOTE NOW: One Vote Per Category...
CyberSynchs is a new NYC-based startup looking to help you if you should ever lose your cellphone. What they offer is a backup service that takes the data from your mobile device and moves it online so you can access it if you mobile device is lost or stolen. Mashable has a good review of the service from last month. The service is only available for Windows Mobile devices currently but they are working on iPhone and BlackBerry availability. The service costs $2.99/month during the beta period. Founder Amos Winbush sat down with Web2NewYork organizer Peter Verkooijen to discuss CyberSynchs...
This post is part of Mashable’s Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials. Company Name Dailymile 20-Word Description Dailymile is a social training site for runners, triathletes, and cyclists. CEO’s Pitch That race was great, but how do I stay in-touch with the people I just met? And how can I find people to train with in a new city? Providing an answer for these questions drove us to begin dailymile. We wanted to find a better way for athletes to sign-up for races, share workouts, and meet participants. Participating...
Here’s Mashable’s latest round-up of upcoming Web 2.0 events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section. Not on this list? Contact us and let’s establish a media partnership. December 3, 2008, San Francisco, CA: The 2008 Holiday Season is upon us and when the NYC Webgrrls Community gets together for the Holidays, it is an industry event, not only about revelry but also about the celebration of the achievements of women in technology and business. The event starts at 7PM with a 2-hour open bar followed by great Italian food, door prizes, and...
A historic Presidential election, an economic crisis, and even Hannah Montana were unable to capture the #1 spot in Yahoo’s yearly rankings of popular search terms. Instead, for the 7th time in 8 years, that title goes to Britney Spears. In the announcement, Yahoo tries to explain: “In 2008, she made a comeback with a new album, three MTV Music Awards, a sitcom guest star role and documentary on her rise, fall and career comeback.” True, Britney actually had a #1 song this year – her first in a decade. But, Yahoo’s rankings are much more a testament to our...
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Image via WikipediaYesterday I came across an article on Mashable about how to convert your blog into a Podcast on iTunes for free. This is where I have wanted to move onto for a while because I enjoy listening to them and would like to push myself into that form of content distribution.The setback so far in taking my activity to that level has been the lack of decent equipment. I don't have a microphone and neither do I have a camera of any real quality. Why a camera? Well the next level isn't just soundbytes but I want to...
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One legal case I’ve been watching unfold whilst chronicling it here at Mashable and elsewhere has been the case against Lori Drew. Drew was accused of driving a young school girl named Megan Meier to suicide through a fake MySpace profile. Cyber-bullying, as I’ve re-iterated every time the story has come up, is reprehensible, but not illegal. That’s why federal prosecutors, hungry for some way to exact legal vengeance against Drew, charged her with felony computer hacking for the creation of the fake profile. Despite the emotionally riveting case presented by prosecutors and what I saw as a fairly...
Twitter yesterday announced the acquisition of small-time Web 2.0 startup Values of N, creator of the utilities I Want Sandy and Stikkit. We’ve covered both companies here previously at Mashable, and I’ve spoken several times about my general love for I Want Sandy as a unique and valuable approach to the virtual personal assistant problem. I Want Sandy is a virtual personal assistant that’s integrated with your email so that keeping track of appointments and such is a slightly less stressful fact of every day life […] I Want Sandy works by offering you your own email address. This...
This post is part of Mashable’s Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials. Company Name Acruw 20-Word Description A free, web-based solution to track all of your frequent flyer miles and other rewards points. CEO’s Pitch The basic service that we offer is the ability to track all of your frequent flyer miles, hotel points, etc. in one location which you can access from anywhere. What makes us unique is that, aside from simply keeping tabs on your balances, we also help you really get the most out of your...
We’re pleased to announce that Mashable has partnered with photography and videography social network iStockphoto to add eye-catching imagery to our articles. We’re now able to add images from a collection of over 3.5 million stock photos, vector illustrations, video footage and Flash files, and we’ve yet to find a keyword that lacks an interesting image. In addition to improving the visual appeal of articles on Mashable, we’re also offering our readers the same opportunity for your own blog, website or project: Mashable readers get 10% off their first purchase of 50 credits or more. Just sign up for a...
Shout’Em, the microblogging platform that has been in private beta for the last couple of months, is preparing to go public at Le Web 08 conference, held in Paris on December 9th and 10th. The service lets you create your own customized Twitter-like microblogging network, with all the features you expect from Twitter and a couple of extra ones for good measure. You can see an example of a customized Shout’Em network, created exclusively for Mashable by the folks at Shout’Em, over at mashable.shoutem.com. Unregistered users can post after they enter a captcha, and registered users get access to all...
