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Writing content for web users has its challenges. Chief among them is the ease with which your content is read and understood by your visitors (i.e. its readability). When your content is highly readable, your audience is able to quickly digest the information you share with them — a worthy goal to have for your [...]

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Years ago, if a marketer wanted to run a contest, he’d have to run print ads and hope that people would take the time to fill out an entry form and [...]

Name: MusicTandem Quick Pitch: MusicTandem is an iPad app for creating personalized music channels and discovering new artists. Genius Idea: Endless music listening and watching on your iPad — or Apple TV via AirPlay. Scour YouTube for music and you’ll find an overwhelming collection of videos to choose from. MusicTandem, a newly-released application for iPad, [...]

The Bitcoin community faced another crisis on Sunday afternoon as the price of the currency on the most popular exchange, Mt.Gox, fell from $17 to pennies in a matter of minutes. Trading was quickly suspended and visitors to the home page were redirected to a statement blaming the crash on a compromised user account. Mt.Gox’s [...]

Front-end development is a tricky beast. It’s not difficult to learn, but it’s quite difficult to master. There are just too many things that need to be considered; too many tweaks that might be necessary here and there; too many details to make everything just right. Luckily, developers and designers out there keep releasing useful [...]

Tiny single-use site Down or Just Me is a quick way to find out whether a website is truly down, or if the problem lies somewhere on your end. The site itself is easy enough to remember with a URL like DOJ.me, but it’s also got a bookmarklet that can be used at any time [...]

It looks like iOS 5 has a new approach to notifications — and we like what we see so far. Notification Center aggregates your various app alerts and eschews the pop-ups for a decidedly Android-esque list that appears at the top of our your screen when you you get a Facebook message, or a tweet, [...]

The words “Facebook” and “Twitter” are now verboten on French TV, because France thought it'd be a good idea to follow its own laws. Last week, the country's Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA) ruled that TV networks and radio stations will no longer be able to explicitly mention Facebook or Twitter during on-air broadcasts, except [...]

Here’s a demo of an immersive motion-controlled Disneyland simulator shown at this year’s E3: using a Kinect, players can run around Disneyland, ride the rides, and even hug Mickey (which is a total show-stealer). Star Wars Kinect & Disneyland Adventures – E3 2011 (via Wonderland)

In another move that makes it clear that Google is putting a much greater focus on ‘social’, the search giant has just acquired PostRank. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed. PostRank is a service that helps measure how far content, like tweets and Facebook updates, spread across the web. PostRank’s products include ‘Analytics’, which [...]


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