How the Social Media World Reacted to Super Bowl Ads
video It was a good year for Super Bowl commercials all around, according to data released the day after the big game.Online discussion about Super Bowl commercials increased 9% in the 12-hour period following the game’s start, compared to last year, according to marketing agency Zeta Interactive. Most discussion focused on the game itself, followed by ads, Christina Aguilera’s rendition of the natio
Nokia Strikes Deals With Tencent, SINA To Bring Location-based Services To Ovi Maps
Nokia this morning announced two deals with leading Chinese Internet companies SINA and Tencent, who will be integrating with Nokia's Ovi Maps in China. Millions of users of SINA's microbloging service and Tencent's massively popular online community QQ (636 million users and counting) will be able to share their location through Nokia mobile devices, check-in to locations and upload content ti
Amazon Acquires European Movie Rental Service Lovefilm
Amazon.com has acquired the remaining shares in European home entertainment subscription service Lovefilm, the company has announced. Amazon already had a 42% share in Lovefilm, and now it acquired the rest for an undisclosed amount, with the rumored price being around £200 million ($312 million). Lovefilm does both online DVD and game rentals and streaming movies and TV shows over the Intern
Boxee Adds HD Movie Rentals From Vudu
Good news Boxee Box fans, support for the high-def movie rental service Vudu is coming in the next firmware update. The update is going out over the wires now so users can either manually update now (Settings > System > Update) or the Boxee Box will do it in the next 24 hours. Vudu has already been available to users who use Boxee on a Mac, Windows or Linux PC via the Vudu app. The servic
‘The Social Network’ Wins Golden Globe Awards For Best Picture, Screenplay, Director, Score
After being nominated for a number of awards at this year’s Golden Globe awards ceremony, ‘The Social Network’ nabbed Best Picture (in the drama category), Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin), Score (Trent Reznor), and Director (David Fincher). Those are all significant categories for the awards ceremony, with the movie garnering more awards from the Hollywood Foreign Press than most of the films nominated
“The Social Network” Wins Big at Golden Globes
The Social Network was one of the big winners at the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night, taking home four trophies, including those for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Globes is often viewed as a predictor for the Academy Awards. The film, which was nominated for six awards, has had a stellar award season, w
45 New Social Media Resources You May Have Missed
Wow, what a week. Last weekend the whole team was busy preparing for both the Mashable Awards Gala in Las Vegas and CES 2011 happening just next door. We’ve crowned your favorite picks from the past year and also previewed all the fancy new technology from the CES showroom. Take a look through our roundup of tools and resources from the past week or so, including the future of the social media
Inside the Social Media Campaign for the 2011 Grammy Awards
video Co-written by Christina Warren The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards are just around the proverbial corner, and to herald their arrival, the Recording Academy is busting out with an innovative social media campaign involving geolocation, mobile, web, social media and even augmented reality. This year’s campaign, dubbed Music Is Life Is Music — a joint effort between the Academy and the creative team a
Who Owns Your Data?
Alistair Croll is the co-chair of O’Reilly’s Strata conference, which tackles the convergence of Big Data, ubiquitous computing, and new interfaces. The next Strata event happens in Santa Clara, CA from February 1 to 3.Karl Marx said that the industrial revolution polarized the world into two groups: those who own the means of production and those who work on them. Today’s means of production a
Samsung Vibrant Plus To Be the Fastest Device on T-Mobile’s Network
A leaked document about an upcoming smartphone, the Samsung Vibrant Plus, shows that it will be the first device on T-Mobile’s network to support HSPA 21+ Mbps data transfer speeds.The rest of the specifications are quite similar to the original Samsung Vibrant, which is itself a variant of Samsung’s Galaxy S: a 4-inch super AMOLED touch screen, a 1 GHz processor, a 5-megapixel camera and 16 GB
Lego Unleashes Ninjas on Multiple Gaming Platforms
Can you go wrong combining Legos and ninjas?Probably not, which is why Lego is making a big production out of a new property called Ninjago. Think “production” as in movie production. The company has enlisted writers Kevin and Dan Hageman, who wrote the Sony Animation pic Hotel Transylvania, to create a backstory for the line, which centers around four young ninjas who train under the watchful
5 Reasons Connected TV Could Flop in 2011
Jeremy Toeman has worked in the field of convergence between computers, the Internet and TV for more than 10 years. He is a founding partner of Stage Two, a consumer technology product experience firm in San Francisco, and can be found blogging at livedigitally.com.Forget Google TV scrapping CES, the biggest challenge smart televisions face in 2011 is overcoming customers’ FUD (fear, uncertaint
Why Filesharing Companies Are Starting to Lobby Washington
Maury Litwack is a lobbyist, former Hill staffer, opinion writer, and founder of Capitol Plan – A Comprehensive Washington Advocacy Strategy.RapidShare, the file-hosting giant, recently hired a Washington lobbying firm to combat legislative attempts to place penalties on companies that don’t adequately protect domestic copyright. This is its first attempt at adding U.S. legislative muscle to it
Mashable Awards Gala Recap & Photos
Congratulations to all the nominees and winners of the Mashable Awards. It was great to celebrate a night with you and our esteemed guests, partners, sponsors and attendees, as well as those who watched the live stream, at the Mashable Awards Gala at CES in Las Vegas.The sold out show began in true tech fashion, first with a musical set from remix masters Eclectic Method, then with host Baratunde
Foursquare Bolsters Local Content With New Partnership
Examiner.com, the content farm that claims more than 22 million monthly uniques, has inked a deal with Foursquare to offer ratings and other extras on the location-based service.Starting Monday, consumers who log on to Foursquare will get access to content from 68,000 “examiners” around the country who contribute to Examiner.com. For instance, someone who checks in while in Manhattan will get a
Mashable Awards 2010: Announcing The Winners
With more than 1.3 million nominations and votes, we’re pleased to announce the 2010 Mashable Awards winners.The Mashable Awards, our annual contest highlighting the very best of tech and the web, received a record number of votes this year. After entering the final round, we narrowed the list to the top five nominees in each category based on your votes. The winners received the most votes fro
“Mafia Wars” Tie-in Builds Buzz for “The Green Hornet”
Aiming to build a little buzz, Zynga’s Mafia Wars today began featuring items in the game designed to promote the Sony Pictures movie The Green Hornet.Prepping for the film’s January 14 release, Mafia Wars players can collect eight Green Hornet loot items including a mask, motorcycle, gas gun, double barrel gun, gas mask, hood gun and Hornet crest. Those who collect those seven items will be re
Intel Unveils Its Next-Generation Core Processors
Intel is set to unveil its next-generation of Core processors. Not only that, the chipmaker is set to launch a movie and TV streaming video service.We’re here live at Intel’s press conference at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, where we await the Intel team to take the stage and unveil its Sandy Bridge processors. Sandy Bridge is the codename Intel has designated for its new processor microarc
Loopt Partners With Fatburger & Fox
In a promotion that combines reverse product placement and mobile, location-based service Loopt has partnered with Fox to promote its animated show Bob’s Burgers at Fatburger.While traditional product placement means putting a real product in a movie, in this case, a fake product — Bob’s Burgers — will appear at Fatburger, at least from January 4 to January 31.The chain is overhauling 64 of its
Vudu to Start Offering 3D Movies
Movie streaming service Vudu has announced at CES it will start offering 3D movies in its catalog starting next week.3D titles will be available at 480p, 720p and 1080p resolutions, with the minimum bandwidth requirements for 3D viewing being the same as for 2D.To be able to watch the 3-D content you’ll need a compatible HDTV/Blu-ray player, which includes Sony’s PlayStation 3 as well as device
Why Every Brand Needs an Open API for Developers
Adam Kleinberg is co-founder and CEO at Traction, an interactive agency that aligns psychology with technology to create ideas that work. Catch him tweeting at @adamkleinberg and blogging at tractionco.com/blog.The most effective ads today are experiences that provide value to customers. The biggest challenge is providing that value at scale in a world where people are empowered to consume medi
The Muppets Do Kanye West’s “Monster” — Again
video I know, I know, we posted a video to this effect yesterday, but the above vid is truly worth a mention. Created by a dedicated (and perhaps foolhardy) team at content creation site The Galaxy World, this is Muppified “Monster” as it was meant to be (whatever that means).Note: As always with this song, this video has NSFW language.According to Michael DiSalvo, the team’s “ideas man,” the video’s cr
Pandora Radio Coming to Toyota Connected Cars
Ford isn’t the only auto company pursuing the connected car experience — Toyota also wants in on this emerging space. At CES in Las Vegas Tuesday, Toyota announced that it will be bringing Pandora to the Toyota Entune multimedia system.Toyota’s Entune platform is similar to the Microsoft Auto platform that Ford uses for SYNC, but is built on a platform from Nuance. This platform allows users to
Support a Charity Just by Watching YouTube
video BroadbandTV Corp. recently launched a YouTube destination to get your social good on. The site, named VISO Give, aggregates pre-existing video content from non-profits, sorts it by company name and type of cause, and lets you watch or search for your favorites.VISO Give features videos from celebrities like the cast members of Community asking you not to text while driving, Usher speaking about ge
Prediction No. 4 (Mobile Wallets) Already Coming True
Okay, that was fast. This weekend I put up my annual prediction post, Seven Technologies That Will Rock 2011. Already, one of them is already looking pretty solid: Prediction No. 4 on the rise of mobile wallets. Let’s revisit that prediction: 4. Mobile Wallets: If you could use your cell phone as a credit card, would you? Everyone from Apple and Google to Nokia want to make that a reality an
“Craigslist Killer” Story Dramatized in New TV Movie
Lifetime, the network renowned for made-for-TV movies featuring “women in jeopardy,” will broadcast the story of the infamous “Craigslist Killer” Monday at 9 p.m. ET. The film is airing just less than five months after the alleged killer, Philip Markoff, committed suicide in his Boston jail cell.Markoff was a Boston University medical student charged with the 2009 murder of Julissa Brisman, a m
Sears Enlists Bloggers to Build Consumer Electronics Buzz
In an attempt to earn some credibility in the consumer electronics category, Sears has enlisted some top CE bloggers for the Sears Blue Blogger Crew, which is making its debut by chronicling CES on behalf of the retailer.The lineup, which includes Andru Edwards of GearLive.com, Kris Cain of LittleTechGirl.com, veteran blogger Kelly Clay of Lockergnome, WiredPRWorks.com blogger Barara Rozgonyi a