Every new car has a manual in its glove compartment. Software applications have a help link when you get stuck or want to learn more about a feature. User assistance is part of our web and so is Twitter. How can Twitter can be useful for technical writers, trainers, or web publishers who provide customer [...]
As with many bloggers, we’ve been using royalty free images for many years. Many bloggers make use of images from Flickr and we have too but you can’t always find the right image there. I’ve even made a point to take more photos of people, places and things while traveling for later use in blog [...]
College Humor is out with a video that gives new meaning to that super annoying superlative: Snacky. In a truly inspired mashup, CH equates the iPad with Doritos, creating a commercial parody for something called Spice 2.0. Although the parodies have yet to start pumping out in the wake of last night’s iPad [...]
Google has just launched Google Public Data Explorer. The new Google Labs tool offers a visual way to look at and analyze large public data sets on a variety of popular search topics.
The tool is specifically designed for avid data crunchers like students, journalists, policy makers, and could be seen as Google’s prettified approach [...]
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One of the men responsible for The Cove — 2010 Oscar winner for best documentary — used the Academy Awards stage to promote a web and mobile-based activism campaign tied to the film’s save-the-dolphins subject matter.
During the acceptance speech, dolphin activist Ric O’Barry held up a sign saying, “Text DOLPHIN to 44144.” The cameras [...]
MashBash SXSWi 2010, Mashable’s annual event at the SXSW festival in Austin, is less than 1 week away! Here’s a checklist for those wishing to attend:
1. RSVP on Eventbrite and the Facebook event page so your friends know you’re coming.
2. Add yourself to Austin Realtime, our growing directory of attendees and their social [...]
Massively popular online games distribution platform Steam is headed for computers running Apple’s Mac OS X in the near future. Developer Valve Software plans to release native Mac versions of all of its games, including the upcoming and highly anticipated Portal 2, which it will release for Mac and PC computers simultaneously.
Valve’s first-person shooter [...]
The 82nd Academy Awards were last night, and it wasn’t just about iPad commercials and pissing matches between media conglomerates; actual awards were given out, too.
Although The Hurt Locker might have taken home the most gold statues (six wins out of nine nominations), one of the most talked-about moments of the night was Sandra [...]
Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com.
Remember Google Wave? Clearly, Google Buzz has recently overshadowed Google’s other hotly anticipated social communication platform, but before you ditch your Wave account, give it a second try. [...]
