Popular on Twitter!

One of our followers on Twitter decided to ask the Twittersphere: “What is your favorite gadget under $100″?
We’re of course proud to announce that we got #1!! Wohooooo! Thank you for all our fans, and for taking the time to vote for us!

Taking advantage of the Web 2.0: a video

Someone won an Ipod Nano for the following tip:

How do you put social networking tools to the service of your business? Tell us on Twitter!

When Blockles builds teams!

So it’s Friday, and we thought we’d share what our office is doing for the Christmas party (and hopefully we’ll be sharing photos soon!).
Ipevo is not unlike other companies in the Silicon Valley: today, we’re setting up a Christmas tree, having a social late afternoon meeting, and I’ve heard rumors of a secret santa playing [...]

Starting a new business in this economy

Every week, Ipevo tries to highlights special Skype users met on Twitter, on Flickr, customer service, or wherever online life takes us!
This week, we’d like to highlight a special entrepreneur, Jeff Smith, whom we met through Twitter. How did we come to be so intrigued with Jeff’s new consulting business? Well, Mr. Smith started consulting [...]

The election classroom: a tale of 2 cities

This year, the Obama campaign made blog waves with their extraordinary leverage of social media tools - but inspiring uses of Twitter and Skype can be found away from the national media spotlight as well. Today, we’re handing out extra kudos to two teachers using Twitter and Skype to pique the interest of their high [...]

Monetizing Mobile Applications: Turning Mobile Audiences into Revenue

A person with money; a person who spends it; a person who is easily influenced: an Advertiser’s dream is to reach those individuals with targeted messages on the go. Mobile application advertising is extending the mobile advertising paradigm with new inventory, larger audiences, and more advertiser budgets to reach exactly those users.
Within the social media [...]

Cool Gadget Trends

(Tail end of Mashable’s 2008 Predictions written back towards the end of 2007 its right up our alley…)

At some point over the next year, I predict we’ll have to allocate staff here at Mashable to start covering more of the gadget space. Gadgets are already becoming more integrated with our online software (think: [...]

Social Networking Wars


SIG (web2.0, social net, mapping) Observations

-Ed
Last night a couple of us attended a small SIG of professionals, investors and entrepreneurs interested in Web 2.0, Social networks and Mapping. I’d say about 30 peeps. Henri was the speaker for the event.
• There were several suggestions from the audience pointing to the challenges of doing a start-up involving hardware. People think integrating [...]

Streaming Your Life Reputation

Rivers of Reputation
Daphne Ben Shachar | 16 December 2007, 5:21 pm | tags: Data Stream, Lifestream, Social Aggregators, social networks, tools, web 2.0
It all started in 1997 with a Yale project called Yale Lifestreams and was invented by Eric Freeman and David Gelernter. The original work, Lifestreams dissertation, you can read here.
Many people have been [...]