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Italian Cruise Ship’s Dangerous Path Posted to Facebook Before CrashBefore Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia’s tragic disaster Friday, some citizens of the island Giglio looked towards the sea to get a glimpse of the boat, following a Facebook prompt from a ship worker’s sister. While head waiter Antonello Tievolli reportedly did not ask the capta... Quora Now Has an Off-Site Follow Button, Just Like TwitterMuch like Twitter, you can now follow your favorite bloggers and websites on Quora. And now, also much like Twitter, you can paste a follow button onto your own website. The content-sharing and expert-questioning site allows users to comment on follow topics or pose questions to other users R... Which Super Bowl Ads Get Shared the Most? [INFOGRAPHIC]Believe it or not, the Super Bowl is only two weeks from this coming Sunday. That means that over the next fortnight we can expect a barrage of PR from advertisers in the big game looking to maximize their $3.5 million-per-30-second-ad spend by creating some online buzz. As this infographic from Sha... CES Unveils 8 New Tablets: Which Will You Choose?This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. The tablet market continues to expand this year, and many new versions were introduced at 2012 Consumer Electronics Show ... Google Contractors Vandalize OpenStreetMap Project [VIDEO]Two contractors working for Google have vandalized one of the biggest group online projects on the Internet, Open Street Map. The project’s blog reported that someone from a range of IP addresses that belong to Google edited the map to give false information, like a one-way street ... Meme Machine: SOPA EditionThe Mashable Meme Machine is a daily look at five hilarious viral topics spreading across the web right now. Today’s Meme Machine is going to try to bring light to a dark situation — a number of sites will undergo a blackout on Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act. Critics... Gmail Experiments With QR Code Login [VIDEO]Google has been testing more secure ways for users to access their Gmail accounts from public computers, and one experiment included QR codes. The test is no longer available, but Google says there’s more to come. A PCWorld writer was able to successfully access his Gmail account ... Today’s Top Stories: SOPA Blackouts, Jerry Yang Resigns From YahooWelcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Internet Goes Dark in Protest of SOPA Major web services such as Wikipedia and Reddit... Wikipedia Blackout: Survive with These 12 AlternativesThe Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) are landing in the U.S. Senate next week and a whirlpool of online protest has fired up again. The two bills intend to stop online piracy and protect copyright holders, however, critics claim they infringe upon creativity, Internet secur... Top 7 CES Gadgets for Your Small BusinessThis post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. CES 2012 saw the launch of a slew of new gadgets, many of which could be useful for your small business. Here’s a r... |