Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.
Brand monitoring has become an essential task for any individual or corporation. Years ago, when people talked about our brands, it was behind our backs and we almost never found out [...]

Want to see if your friends, family, or colleagues are on Twitter? Now you can through the microblogging tool’s re-launched people search, which lets you query the service by username or first/last name to find other users. The feature had been taken down earlier this year when Twitter was experiencing significant downtime issues. [...]

Last Friday, our resident cranky fart Steven Hodson posited that Twitter wasn’t, in fact, a status micro-blogging utility but in fact a communictations tool most closely resembling instant messaging. Certainly when I’m attempting to explain Twitter to newbies, that is the easiest way to explain it, but quite a few of you Mashable readers took [...]

Think you’re an early adopter, huh? @kickbee has you beat.
Expectant father Corey Menscher wanted to “create a device that would give me a chance to be aware of our baby’s movements”. He created a waistband for his wife which sends a Tweet everytime the baby kicks, naming the project “Kickbee”. Corey writes:
The [...]

Whether you’re new to the world of authorship or a veteran trying to make the most of Web services and applications, there are a number of online tools for writers of all types. From blogging platforms to networking hotbeds, and job boards to real-world gatherings, and more, the supply of utilities is comprehensive, to say [...]

The economy is still looking grim. Not making any money and not having an identifiable business model should probably mean you’ll have to make do with what you have and not expect anyone to pour any money into your startup, at least for a while.
Some startups, however, are still making it happen. Microblogging service [...]

Are you getting the most out of your Adobe AIR installation?  Are you one of those people that installed it for one specific application and never explored what else was out there?  Well, it’s time to get more out of AIR, and here are 10 apps that will make you anxious to get AIR up [...]

…if you trust Robert Scoble, that is. He (damn him, we’re jealous) had a chance to try the device out before even the gadget blogs, and he claims (gasp!) that the Facebook experience on it is much better than on the iPhone.
His main points? N97 has got 16:9 video support, better camera than the [...]

Pownce, the microblogging service often compared to Twitter, has been acquired by Six Apart. According to the company blog, the service will be shutdown on December 15th, while the main Pownce team – Leah Culver and Mike Malone – will join Six Apart. Users will have the option to “import [their] posts to [...]

Not too long ago, Twitter was constantly lambasted for its lack of reliability. Now, at least one developer is confident enough in the microblogging tool to launch a simple service that notifies users of website uptime/downtime via Twitter replies.
Ding It’s Up is about as simple a notification service as you can find. [...]