Facebook social travel app Gogobot announced on Wednesday that it has reached the 1 million registered users mark. The app launched on Facebook in January, when the social network unveiled a slew of integrated apps, including Gogobot. Gogobot was in use before that time, launching in private beta 18 month ago. Now the app is exploding in popularity: A new user joins every 15 seconds, more than 5 million places have been shared on Gogobot and overall membership has grown 65x year-on-year. The so...  show all text

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German designers placed a high-tech, sensor-equipped chair in the middle of a palazzo in Milan last month to record stress points on the backsides of thousands of people. The goal? To determine how to design a lightweight and efficient chair that’s sturdy enough to support a wide variety of users. When someone sat in the chair, monitors recorded data and processed it with an “algorithm that determines the most structurally efficient version of the chair,” according to the blog Co.Design. The en...  show all text

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Twitter revealed there are 10 million active users tweeting regularly in the United Kingdom. This makes it the fourth largest tweeting nation — with about one in six Brits signed on to the social network. About 80% of U.K. tweeters view Twitter on their mobile devices, more than in any other country. The global average of mobile Twitter users is about 55%. The official @TwitterUK sent this tweet out on Tuesday: Snapshot of Twitter in the UK: 10m active users, 80% of which are also active on mob...  show all text

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Eight years ago Facebook was nearly non-existent and today it’s the world’s largest social network. Facebook is certainly much more than a one-man operation, but the efforts of Mark Zuckerberg cannot be understated. With the success of Facebook, and the company’s IPO occurring later this week, one question many have asked is whether the success of Facebook came from Mark Zuckerberg’s skill or from being in the right place at the right time. When Zuckerberg created Facebook in a college dorm in ...  show all text

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It’s no secret that Facebook has decided the best way to spur more advertising on the platform is to encourage marketers to use their brand Pages more effectively. With that goal in mind, Facebook looked at postings on 23 brand Pages over one month to see which posts did the best. The upshot: When you talk about things related to your brand, you’ll get more engagement. For example, a post by a cruise line marketer (Facebook did not disclose which brands exactly were involved in the study) stati...  show all text

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You're just a shiver looking for a spine. one hundrend forty thousand twenty nine Love watching tennis on a rainy day Do feelings ever really go away? Click here to view this gallery. Meet Pentametron, a website and Twitter account that is a literature nerd’s dream. It is a bot that uses an algorithm to find and retweet rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter. The bot retweets sequential tweets that fit into the ten-syllable alternating-stress meter commonly used in Shakespeare’s plays and sonnet...  show all text

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Forget old clothing and canned food — you can now donate your unused Twitter characters to a good cause. A new application called Hashtags4Heroes auto-populates the unused characters in your tweets with messages raising awareness for the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP), an organization seeking to honor and empower veterans wounded since 9/11. The Twitter application, launched by WWP supporter Raytheon for Military Appreciation Month, aims to increase visibility of the work being done for injured ...  show all text

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Facebook is updating its mobile app to make photos appear more prominently in users’ News Feeds. The social network, on the verge of becoming the most valuable U.S. tech company after its IPO this week, announced the redesign Monday via the Facebook Mobile Page. The changes, which will gradually roll out to users, come on the heels of Facebook acquiring Instagram for $1 billion in April. Just last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that mobile is the company’s top priority. Faceb...  show all text

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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

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America's Got Talent Premieres: May 14 on NBC Social media: America's Got Talent ushers in a new judge this season: shock jock Howard Stern, who's already igniting buzz across social networks with his recent jabs at the American Idol's too-soft judging panel. Anticipate his critical judging style to incite significant social chatter. Meanwhile, AGT's Facebook Page has been pushing multimedia, including Spotify playlists from Stern and fellow judge Sharon Osbourne. Photo courtesy of Mark Sel...  show all text

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It’s Mother’s Day, which means its time to buy Mom a card to tell her how great she is. If you forgot today was the big day — or waited until today to pick up a card — you’re not alone. Searches for free ecards ranked third on Google this morning, peaking around 9am – right about the time most people were getting their day started. While there are tons of sites out there that offer electronic cards you can send Mom’s way, finding a free e-card is a little more difficult. Popular card maker Hall...  show all text

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He rejected the argument that his initiatives to curb collective bargaining powers of most public employees particularly hurt women. There are plenty of Gay men, and male union and construction workers that I also got fired give me a break I hate all those losers just as much. The video shows Walker sucking up to Beloit billionaire Diane Hendricks, to a top campaign donor, who asked Walker whether he could make Wisconsin a "completely red state, and work on these unions, and become a right...  show all text

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Food Wishes Chef John’s YouTube channel makes recipe wishes come to life. This former teacher offers basics like how to perfectly reheat leftover pizza. He can also teach you how to make the perfect prime rib. With almost 200,000 subscribers and more than 700 videos, this cook has no shortage of ideas. Click here to view this gallery. Put away those frozen meals and start cooking like an Iron Chef with these cooking channels available free on YouTube. You can learn simple recipes, like how to ...  show all text

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In our social entrepreneurship series, The World at Work, Mashable interviews the faces behind the startups and projects that are working to make a global impact. By harnessing the power of the web and digital technology, these companies have built a way for companies to commit to charity, made electric cars affordable and offered a new way for people to rally around political issues. While the companies are diverse, they are all on a mission to change our lives for the better and improve socie...  show all text

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Out of the 55 million plus blogs that Tumblr is home to, more than 100 per day are part of the “Fuck Yeah” trend. Basically, if you like something — say, cats or Jason Schwartzman — there is an entire blog dedicated to photos, GIFs and other multimedia of that one thing. (Note: there is no Fuck Yeah Cats and Jason Schwartzman as of this writing.) Like other viral web phenomenons (“Sh*t Girls Say,” or What Should We Call Me, for example), one idea sparked a million different versions of the same...  show all text

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Sometimes you just can't get a girl to like you in the way you like her. The toddler in this video is finding that out at an early age.

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Facebook just got a little bit more like Apple and Google. The company announced on Wednesday that it is building its own app center. It will also enable paid Facebook apps for the first time. Users currently search for apps on Facebook using the same search bar they use to find people, groups and events. In the coming weeks, they’ll be able to search from a dashboard that looks much like Apple’s App Store or Google Play — complete with details and ratings for each app. Facebook will build acce...  show all text

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NEW ORLEANS – Speaking during a keynote session at CTIA Wireless on Tuesday, AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega said Facebook is good for his company’s business. “I think that social networking is going to be a major force in this industry for years to come,” says Vega. “I think it helps people communicate. That’s what we do.” T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm agreed, adding that Facebook’s social networking app was his company’s “number one app right now” and has customers “picking up their phone 150 times a d...  show all text

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Ask any job seeker, and he’ll tell you that looking for a job is, in and of itself, a job. It’s time-consuming to prep your cover letter, tweak your resume, follow up and plan your interview, especially when you’re applying for multiple positions. Sure, you could make an intense, color-coded spreadsheet — but most of us aren’t that Type A. That’s where Huntsy comes in — it’s like HootSuite for your job search. Huntsy’s dashboard offer’s a bird’s eye view (hence the owl logo) of your job hunt, o...  show all text

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Socialist challenger François Hollande unseated Nicolas Sarkozy in the French presidential election Sunday, making Sarkozy the first French president in 30 years to lose reelection. Twitter users circumvented an election results embargo — as they did April 22 during the first round of voting — by using code names for the two candidates. A 1977 French law prohibits the release of results before 8 p.m. on election night and fines violators up to $99,000. Discussions used the same hashtag, #radiol...  show all text

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation wants to make Facebook and other social networks easier to use for spying on suspected criminals — and it wants access ASAP. High-ranking FBI officials and other government representatives have been meeting with Internet industry leaders to ask them not to oppose a proposed law that would give federal agencies backdoor access to social networking sites, CNET reports. The FBI’s argument? As communication has shifted more and more online, previous laws allowing...  show all text

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College students today are more tech savvy than ever before. Just how important is technology to their academic lives? More than 90% use email to communicate with professors and 73% say they cannot study without technology. Seven in 10 take notes on keyboards instead of paper, virtually all students who own an ereader and most use digital tools when preparing a presentation. All that tech has caused something of a dependency too — 38% of students can’t go more than 10 minutes without checking t...  show all text

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Der amerikanische Präsident Barack Obama hat seinen Wahlkampf um ein zweites Mandat offiziell eröffnet - und grenzt sich dabei scharf von...jetzt lesen

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The Best of Instagram Series is presented by T-Mobile. Its 4G Tweet Race, a week-long campaign launching May 3, pits Twitter users against one another in a daily, frantic race for retweets. There are 7 races, and the winners of each heat win a new HTC One™ S phone with a year of T-Mobile’s Unlimited Value service, and the final winner takes home $4,000. Instagram users often get a bit of flack for oversharing their food photos. Now that the photo-sharing app is available for iOS, Android and po...  show all text

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When I leave the house in the morning, the first thing I check is that I have my phone with me. It’s not my keys nor my wallet, but my phone that I’m most worried about forgetting. My mobile device has become my lifeline in a lot of ways — and I know I’m not alone. When I walk outside, it seems hard to find someone who’s not on their phone. Whether they’re looking up directions on a maps app, checking in to their current location on Foursquare or taking a photo with Instagram, many of us rely on  show all text

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1. Obama on Skateboard Jay Leno first featured a super-imposed clip of President Obama making an entrance at the Nuclear Security Summit in South Korea by riding on a skateboard. It has since been turned into a GIF. Click here to view this gallery. A GIF of President Barack Obama making an entrance at the Nuclear Security Summit in South Korea by riding on a skateboard has been making the rounds online. The super-imposed clip — which of course didn’t actually happen — first appeared...  show all text

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From digital advertising conferences to programming hackathons and everything in between, you’ll definitely find a swanky locale to suit your professional and personal interests from the selection of more than 65 events on Mashable’s new Events Board. Whether you’re an event organizer or an event-goer, our Events Board is an essential resource for helping you build relationships, engage face-to-face and learn about new trends in the business. In addition to featuring events all over the world, ...  show all text

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1. @DeionSanders NFL legend Deion Sanders expressed disbelief when he first heard the news. Click here to view this gallery. Pro football legend Junior Seau was found dead at Southern California home on Wednesday. His girlfriend found him unconscious with a gunshot wound to the chest, according to reports. He was 43 years old. Seau was a six-time NFL All Pro and made 12-straight Pro Bowls. He led his hometown San Diego Chargers to a Super Bowl appearance in 1995, and starred in college at t...  show all text

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