Archive for December, 2011

Gerrit Hall is CEO and co-founder of RezScore, a free web application that reads, analyzes and grades resumes instantly to help job seekers write the best resume possible. Connect with Gerrit and RezScore on Facebook and Twitter. For those of you who don’t know (have you been living under a rock?), Facebook is slowly... More»

It has proven to be a monumental banner year for Google. It’s hard to believe that one year ago, things such as Google+ and the now all-familiar +1 button were nonexistent. The company has come far from being just a search engine. For some, it is an office suite, email service, music player, social... More»

For one last time this year, we are sharing the top comments posted on Mashable this week from our community. In this weekly post, we showcase the best comments on our site posted during the previous seven days. We always keep an eye out for thoughtful comments that engage our community, inspire great conversation,... More»

2011 was a year of big news. Political revolutions, natural disasters, astounding innovations, stories of inspiration, hope and loss — all of it was captured and disseminated in real time on Twitter. The information network came of age in 2011, with more mainstream adoption, a couple of redesigns and new traffic records. What was... More»

Twitter users were hit with a 90 minute outage on Saturday morning (New Year’s Eve 2011) that appeared to affect most, if not all of the company’s user base. Shortly after recovering and allowing access the site them briefly went down a second time with a graphic claiming the site was “over capacity” something... More»

Seems like every year, there’s a new high-tech addition to the ball-dropping ritual in New York’s Times Square. Always on the lookout for the latest technology, our editor-in-chief and cartoonist Lance Ulanoff might have discovered yet another innovation: Here’s an efficient way to keep people’s heads from being buried in their smartphones as they... More»

Thicket We know there are a lot of apps that let you create sounds and pictures using a touch interface. But we can't stop playing with Thicket: Classic for iOS ($.99) or the new Thicket for iPad (free), which shift modes when you rotate your device. This video gives a decent demonstration of the... More»

If you’re looking for the photos that were re-tweeted the most this week, you’ve come to the right place. Between December 23-29, there were more than 30 million images bandied about on Twitter, and we found the most popular 10 for your enjoyment in the gallery below. Our researchers at real-time photo search engine... More»

Maybe you’re one of those folks not “into making resolutions” as a New Year’s rite. Maybe you’re also one of those folks that don’t like Barry Manilow, but you know all the words to his songs. Maybe at the last minute you’ll make a resolution, and in the first minute next year – break... More»

1. GoDaddy CEO Shoots Elephant The web was in shock after GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons released a video of him shooting a "problem elephant" in Zimbabwe. PETA responded by shutting down its GoDaddy account and asking others to do the same. When GoDaddy initially announced that it supported the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act,... More»

What are Android users like? Are those who use Google‘s smartphone operating system and its associated gadgetry male or female? What sort of clothes do they wear? Are they married? Do they wear watches? Get your answers to those questions and lots more in this infographic from the people at Bluestacks, makers of an... More»

Jonathan Ive, designer of Apple’s best products over the past 19 years, has been knighted. Whether you call him Jonathan Ive or Jony, you’ll have to put a “Sir” before it, because now he’s officially a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE), giving him the right to be called Sir Jonathan. According to... More»

As you might have noticed, Twitter was down for about 90 minutes Saturday morning, with the service disruption affecting the entire Twitter site for the past hour. Update: Soon after we published this post, the Twitter site recovered, and now it’s available again. We’re trying to find out why the outage occurred, and will... More»

Can you believe that 2012 is just hours away? In some time zones, it may even be minutes away. As a special thank you to all of our faithful readers here at BloggingTips.com, we present to you a list of the top 20 posts for 2011. These posts have been listed in order of... More»

1. Damn You Autocorrect Damn You Autocorrect blog released its nine funniest texts from the year, each of which featured a hilarious autocorrect misspelling.Click here to view this gallery.Curious which Mashable stories topped the charts this year? We’re here to share our 10 biggest stories of 2011, all thanks to our readers! We calculated... More»

This is a guest post by Gregory Ciotti of Sparring Mind. As 2011 comes to a close, now is a better time than ever to evaluate your blog, its performance, and most importantly, what you can do to improve your blog in 2012! A point I always like to drive home is that you... More»

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If laughter is the best medicine, Twitter certainly kept us in tip-top shape this year with its crop of spoof accounts. We’ve rounded up 10 of the best spoof accounts for you to follow to ensure your healthy merriment doesn’t cease in 2012. Below, check out the embedded tweets from each of our top... More»

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: V.I.K.T.O.R. Quick Pitch: V.I.K.T.O.R. is an automatic video-editing app. Genius Idea: The free iPhone app makes movie making and... More»