Before this week I’d never really heard much about DailyLit, a site that Emails you books in short, easily-consumable chunks. But after a few days of receiving The Count of Monte Cristo in my Email inbox every morning, I think I may be hooked - these serialized novels couldn’t be more perfect for a [...]

I can only imagine the angst that Jessica Vascellero at the Wall Street Journal inserted into countless minds this evening with her article about the difficulties people are having defining what is and isn’t a “friend” for online social networking purposes.
Most Americans who aren’t teenagers or a little older are just getting used to the [...]

Looking to spruce up your Twitter profile for the New Year? MyTweetSpace, which launched on Christmas Eve, is one of the slickest ways to create a custom Twitter background: choose a theme, enter as much or as little information as you like, and generate a new, hot looking Twitter background.
Almost puts our Mashable profile [...]

Mark Ghuneim is the Founder/CEO of digital marketing agency and technology incubator Wiredset and social media tracking service Trendrr.
It’s the time of year when people from many parts of the earth take time off to eat, drink and be merry, or something like it. But just how excited is the social media universe about the [...]

On December 25th, the now famous Shiba Inu Puppies will take their final bow and vanish from the Internet. I know that there will be collective weeping over this devastating loss to the Internet, especially as we try to find ways to fill in large, tedious chunks of holiday time.
But never fear! Mashable’s [...]

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. [...]

Hamburg, Germany based XING, a global professional social network that’s strong in Europe, has acquired New York based socialmedian for an undisclosed amount approximately $7.5 million in total, a mix of $4 million in cash up front and an earn-out valued at between €0.5-2.5 million payable over three years. Socialmedian’s founding CEO Jason Goldberg is [...]

KillerStartups, or rather its overarching company Startups.com Networks, has been in the news lately. First, they picked up Startups.com in a killer deal, next thing you know they’re launching their own web applications (Twingr). Now, they’re introducing the strangely named but quite useful Dataopedia, which is meant to serve as an information resource for websites.
It’s [...]

It seems that everywhere I look, there’s someone telling us why corporate blogs are not only a waste of time if you’re looking for something to read, but they offer no value and should be taken down as soon as possible.
The detractors claim corporate blogs lack transparency, fail to adapt to the changing times, [...]