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Sunday, February 26, 2012
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34 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed
Saturday, February 25, 2012 3:30 PMMatt Petronzio

This year's Mobile World Congress is fast approaching -- are you caught up on all of Mashable's digital media resources? If not, don't fret. Here's our convenient and comprehensive weekly features roundup.

This week we have a list of free Android apps you'll use every day, tips for reaching voters successfully via social media and how to get your Facebook friends' birthdays onto your Google calendar. We've also covered everything you need to know about the new PlayStation Vita, tips for small business marketing on Facebook and an explanation of how Google's +1 button affects SEO. You'll even find an interview with Zooey Deschanel and Sophia Rossi as two of the three co-founders of HelloGiggles, a new website for empowering young women.

If you're looking for the best social media, business and technology resources, you've come to the right place:

Editor's Picks

Pinterest or Porn-terest? What the Social Network Is Doing to Keep It Clean

If you've browsed Pinterest, you may have seen a nude photo or two. Here is Pinterest's policy and what its team is doing about it.

5 Tips for Reaching Voters in the Social Stream

2012 might be the year where social media marketing can make or break a political campaign. Here are tips to drive political awareness using new media channels.

How HelloGiggles Creates a Positive Online Community for Young Women

HelloGiggles is warming up the cold, often critical world of the web, with fun and empowering, lady-friendly content.

How Google's +1 Button Affects SEO

Google's +1 button doesn't share content to the stream the way the Facebook "Like" does, but there must be a connection to search. Here's what we know so far.

The 10 Most-Followed Brands on Pinterest

Zoomsphere has compiled a list of the 10 most-followed brands on Pinterest.

10 Free Android Apps You'll Use Every Day

We have rounded up 10 solid apps that will make your daily routine, and life in general, much easier.

Social Media

5 Tips for Using LinkedIn's Mobile Site

Not interested in tacking on another app to your smart phone? Check out these tips for using LinkedIn's mobile site.

10 Creative Pinterest Board Hacks by Mashable Readers

Last week, we shared tips to trick out your Pinterest Boards with a simple hack. Then, we asked you to share your own creations!

10 Awesome Animated Google+ Profiles/a>

We've seen some great Google+ profile hacks in the past, but there's a new breed of design in town -- the animated Google+ profile.

How to See Facebook Birthdays in Google Calendar

One of Facebook's most useful features is the way it alerts you to the birthdays of all your buddies. Did you know that you can export this valuable data to other calendar applications?

8 Ways Pinterest Is Inspiring Projects

Mashable and CNN iReport asked how you were using Pinterest for project inspiration. Here are the results you sent us.

10 Non-Profits Leveraging Pinterest for Social Good

Non-profits are flocking to Pinterest and utilizing its features to gain exposure and build support.

How to Hide From Annoying Friends on Facebook Chat

Whether you want to chat in secret from the boss, hide from your annoyingly talkative cousin or only appear as online to one special person, we can help you out.

For more social media news and resources, you can follow Mashable's social media channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.

Business & Marketing

9 Hot Tips for Small Business Marketing on Facebook

Think you need a large budget and a whole army to maintain a marketing campaign on Facebook? Think again. Here are a few time-saving tricks.

Is YouTube Too Big to Fail?

YouTube won't be getting government money anytime soon, but as it fights copyright lawsuits, court decisions could be setting precedent for a "judicial bailout."

Yelp: From Scrappy Startup to $100 Million IPO/a>

Yelp will hit the stock market on March 2. Here's a look at how far they've come in terms of user growth and revenue.

What Marketers Can Learn From Whole Foods' Organic Approach to Pinterest

Take a look at just how the organic grocery company is targeting users of Pinterest in a winning way.

How to Fix Microsoft With Marketing

A company cannot be truly effective unless it markets life-improving products, but Microsoft sees itself as a product engineering organization.

3 Things Retailers Can Learn from Mom and Pop Facebook Stores

Social commerce is thriving. Here are three things small sellers can teach large retailers about Facebook commerce.

For more business news and resources, you can follow Mashable's business channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.

Tech & Mobile

5 Places to Get Digital Textbooks

The days of shuffling that 10-pound textbook to class or those countless fiction novels in your backpack are over. Check out these five digital text services.

The Evolution of Online Travel/a>

From the very first electronic system to the hottest travel websites on the Internet, here's how we've changed the ways to get away.

5 Ground-Breaking Competitions for Innovative Youth

Hosted by major companies and organizations, these five STEM competitions are giving young people a chance to innovate.

5 Key Components of a Successful Interest Graph

What's involved when building a complete and expressive interest graph platform? How can the resulting graph effectively optimize data?

Everything You Need to Know About Wireless Spectrum/a>

Want to know more about spectrum, the invisible signals that wireless devices such as cell phones rely upon? Look no further.

PlayStation Vita: 15 Games You Can Play at Launch

On Feb. 22, the PlayStation Vita and its games were released in the U.S. Find out what games you can play.

How Mobile Payments Are Revolutionizing Public Transit

Various countries worldwide are experimenting with new ways to reach out to travelers and make the payments process a lot easier.

Snow Day: 10 Wonderful Wintery iPhone Photographs

From the first frost through to adventures in sledding via some beautiful nature scenes, our gallery captures many aspects of wintery weather.

PlayStation Vita: Everything You Need to Know

Mashable answers all your questions about PlayStation's new mobile gaming device, Vita.

Nostalgia Overload: New Tumblr Challenges You to Draw Classic Video Game Maps From Memory

"Mapstalgia" is a Tumblr blog where readers submit video game maps they've drawn from memory. What is it about game worlds that make them so memorable?

What You Need to Know About Building a Mobile App for Your Brand

So, you're interested in a customized mobile app for your business. Here are some major points to consider before you start your project.

5 Essential Mobile Apps for Keeping Up With U.S. Politics

Use these five politically-minded apps for your smartphone or tablet to stay on top of the latest U.S. election and government news.

10 Best Strategy Games for Android

Looking for a mobile gaming fix that's a bit more cerebral? We've plucked out the 10 best strategy games from the Android market.

8 Free Apps for Planning Your Perfect Night Out

The weekend is finally here and you're ready for a great time with your friends. We've assembled a list of free apps to plan your perfect night out.

Happy Birthday, Steve Jobs: A Look Back at the Man Who Changed Tech

Feb. 24, 2012, would have been Steve Jobs's 57th birthday. We'd like to wish the man who changed the face of technology a happy birthday with some of our favorite coverage of him throughout the years.

For more tech news and resources, you can follow Mashable's tech channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, akinbostanci.



Top 10 Tech This Week [PICS]
Saturday, February 25, 2012 2:35 PMCharlie White

With feet planted firmly on the ground (wearing a new kind of ultralight Nike shoe), we reach into space once again in this edition of Top 10 Tech This Week.

In our picture gallery, you'll see accessories, technical marvels, conveniences and innovations you've never dreamed of come to life. And yes, there is one unusual innovation that some Americans might consider unnecessary -- even shocking.

SEE ALSO: Previous editions of Top 10 Tech This Week

Along the way, we'll get a close-up look at a spectacular new concept car, accompanied by two bonus pics we're sure you'll enjoy. So figuratively strap yourself into our fast-moving bullet train, as we take you from inner space to outer space and beyond.

Here's last week's Top 10 Tech.



QR Codes Connect Art on the Wall With Music on Your iPhone
Saturday, February 25, 2012 11:20 AMJoann Pan

Portuguese artist Nuno Serrão wants to make art viewing more stimulating by incorporating music through an iPhone app and QR codes.

The artist's photography exhibit called Project Paperclip is currently housed at the Centro das Artes in Madeira Island, Portugal. People can walk in and do something usually discouraged at galleries -- wear headphones and listen to music while taking in the images.

"It can carry you to a different interpretation of that moment in the frame," Serrão, who has a background in programming, design and music, told Mashable. "All the pictures are inspired by science, curiosity and imagination."

People can experience it by downloading the free Project Paperclip app. The app developed especially for this exhibit scans the QR scans very easily, connecting to musical airwaves. Try it online, where a few images from the Project Paperclip are viewable.

"The QR codes are used to unlock the soundscapes so that the viewer has access to the reactive soundscapes designed for that photo," he said as he explained how the idea evolved.

The experience at the gallery or using the app outside the exhibit will be different for everyone. The soundtracks will change depending on when and where you open the application. Your voice, level of noise in the room, movement, and location will set off different sounds, according to the artist.

This gallery is the first augmented reality art exhibit, revolving around a Cold War theme -- chosen because it is interesting from a cultural, scientific and political standpoint.

SEE ALSO: Rooftop QR Codes Aim to Infiltrate Google Maps

"There has been an incredible wave of great feedback, I've been following mostly on Twitter," said Serrão, who hopes to bring the augmented reality art experience to international audiences.

The photos are surreal, especially with the pairing of soundtracks. The artist captured natural sound where photos were taken, plus sounds captured later and mixed in.

"I think I feel in love with the concept of joining art forms when I read a bookArthur C. Clark called The Songs of Distant Earth," he said, mentioning the 1986 science fiction novel that eventually was sold with a CD based on the book after 1994.

The 16-photograph exhibit opened Feb. 11 and will be available until April 29. The app is currently only available for iPhone 3 and later.

Image courtesy of DiscloseProjectPaperclip.com



How Dyson Created a Vacuum That Doesn't Topple [VIDEO]
Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:24 AMPete Pachal

Dyson, the company that makes all those expensive and attractive vacuums and fans, has done it again. That is, it's rolled out another vacuum cleaner you might not buy but sucks up dirt in novel ways.

The Dyson DC39, unveiled today, looks similar to the company's previous compact cylinder vacuums, but it's actually quite different. The DC39 reinvents the Dyson Ball design that's in some of Dyson's stand-up models and modifies it for the small form factor of a canister vacuum. Dyson says its engineers spent three years creating the design, a good chunk of which was spent modifying and miniaturizing components of the Ball.

The result of those labors is a cylinder vacuum that Dyson says is its most maneuverable yet. If you've ever had the experience of getting your vacuum cleaner caught -- or worse, toppled over -- because you've rounded a corner, the DC39 is designed to stay upright even when you get rambunctious with it.

SEE ALSO: Dyson's New Space Heater Is Stylish, but Expensive/a>

The whole vacuum mechanism is contained in a sphere-shaped canister that measures about a foot in diameter. Inside is everything from the motor to the storage cavity for the power cable. Of course, it features Dyson's patented suction tech that you always hear about in the commercials, which is said to move air a centrifugal force that's 100,000 times the force of gravity.

How does Dyson build such a powerful vacuum in such a small space? Check out our in-depth look at a cutaway sample of the brand-new Dyson Ball in the gallery below.

They Dyson DC39 will go on sale in mid-March for the tidy sum of $450. There's also a variant called the DC39 Animal that's purple-colored, comes with an attachment for picking up cat hair and costs $500.

How do you like Dyson's new vacuum? Is it something you're interested in, or are you holding out for the Dyson version of the Roomba? Sound off in the comments.



 
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