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The 10 Most Innovative Viral Video Ads of 2011Josh Warner is president and founder of Feed Company, which promotes and distributes brand videos, including campaigns such as Levi’s “Backflip,” Ray-Ban’s “Catch” and Activision’s “Bike Hero.” In five years, Feed Company has seeded more than 300 videos across the social web. T... Hands on With the New Twitter.com [PICS]Have you got the new Twitter.com yet? That was the question of the day at Mashable HQ Thursday, as the rollout of the service’s redesigned homepage seemed to defy rhyme or reason. Ostensibly, according to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo at Thursday’s unveiling in San Francisco, you would g... H&M Under Fire for Using Fake, Computer-Generated ModelsRecently, Swedish fashion chain H&M admitted to using computer-generated models to showcase a range of collections on its website. The virtual models look completely human, but if you look closely, they all have the same body shape and pose. The real model’s head has been superimpose... SETI Resumes Search for Alien LifeAfter hibernating its Allen Telescope Array back in April due to lack of funding, the SETI institute has announced it has now secured the funding to restart the ATA and resume search for extraterrestrial life. The telescope array consists of 42 20-foot-wide telescopes located some 300 miles nort... Apple Reveals More Details on Spaceship Campus [PICS]Apple has updated its plans for a cutting-edge “spaceship”-like campus that resembles something you might find in an episode of The Jetsons. More details about the construction of the eco-friendly Apple Campus 2 were posted online this week by the Cupertino, Calif. city council. The ... 5 Key Digital Media and Advertising Trends for 2012 [VIDEO]The past year didn’t see the emergence of the next Facebook or Twitter. Rather, it saw social and digital spread to new places and along the way enabled a wave of new opportunities for content creators and marketers. Recently, I had an opportunity to speak about those opportunities ... What Do You Think of Twitter’s New Look? [POLL]Twitter just unveiled a major redesign, aimed at simplifying the interface and attracting new users to the popular social network. It’s a top-top-bottom change, revamping the website, mobile apps, and even TweetDeck, the company’s social-network integrator software. The new look for t... Shooting at Virginia Tech Campus; News Spreads on Social MediaThe Virginia Tech campus, scene of a horrific shooting back in 2007, reported that shots were fired on campus again Thursday at 1 p.m. ET. USA Today was the first major outlet to tweet the story to its nearly 205,200 followers. Other media quickly followed suit, and news about the shooting has b... Pope Uses Android Tablet to Light Christmas Tree [VIDEO]Pope Benedict XVI used a Sony tablet to illuminate a Christmas tree in central Italy during a lighting ceremony Wednesday. His Holiness seems fairly comfortable using tablet computers — and platform agnostic. In fact, he sent his first tweet from an iPad in June. Check out the vi... Sony’s SimulView Could End Split-Screen Gaming for GoodRemember having to cover part of the television when playing a split-screen video game so your friends wouldn’t cheat by looking at your screen? Well no more we say! Sony has tapped the miracle of 3D technology to let you play your favorite split-screen games in the privacy of a pair of 3D ... |