The Global Innovation Series is supported by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment. It delivers more than purpose-built electric vehicles -- it delivers smart mobility services. Visit bmw-i.com or follow @BMWi on Twi...

The Content Exploration Series is presented by Mashable Explore, a new way to discover resources and information on your favorite Mashable topics. Mashable Explore is brought to you by the all-new, 100% reinvented 2011 Ford Explorer. Drive One. Whether it's throug...

Building on the highly successful campaign from Toy Story 3, the marketers at Disney Pixar have crafted this hilarious and well-produced faux used car advertisement in honor of Cars 2. Cars 2 hits theaters on June 24, 2011, which means this is the perfect ...

The New York Public Library, which became the first public library to launch a Foursquare badge this week, is going one step further in mobile innovation by inviting 500 people to compete in a smartphone-based challenge for a library game night. "Find the Future: ...

The media has evolved a lot in the 5+ years since Mashable started. More people now get their news from the Internet than from newspapers. News is now often broken through citizen journalists on social media sites. And bloggers, once paid in energy drinks and drea...

The New York Public Library announced a new partnership with Foursquare Wednesday that gives patrons a special "Find the Future Centennial" badge. The new badge celebrates the hundredth birthday of the library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street. To ea...

Google is making a big new push into social with a new feature called “+1” that is similar in purpose to the Facebook “Like” button but integrated directly into the world’s biggest search engine. Starting Wednesday, users that opt into the +1 button experi...

If only your high school prom king and queen could see you now - 125 Mashable followers! It’s like you’re the most popular kid in...on second thought, let’s just keep this between us.

Last week, Zynga started rolling out access to an extension of its hugely popular game FarmVille, dubbed FarmVille English Countryside, which promises newer crops, faster mastery times and sheep breeding. However, in light of the release, some of the new terms an...

You’ve acquired your 75th follower but there’s no need to get all smug about it. Stay cool and keep sharing, lest any of your crew find the “Unfollow” button...

Time is running out for you to sign up for Mashable Connect 2011, a unique event at Disney World in May that will bring together heavyweights in social media and digital. At Connect, these influential leaders and you will get the chance to discuss and lear...

The Facebook Marketing Series is supported by Buddy Media, Power Tools for Facebook. Have something new to tell 500 million people? Learn the best way to manage multiple brands on Facebook with this webinar. Like death and taxes, spam is one of life's inevitabilit...

This post is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark as a new part of the Spark of Genius series that focuses on a new and innovative startup each day. Every Thursday, the program focuses on startups within the BizSpark program and what they're doing to grow. Launced...

Brian Casel is a web designer and co-host of Freelance Jam, the live web show for independent professionals who build the web. Connect with Brian on Twitter @CasJam. Podcasts are among the oldest types of syndicated content on the web. Yet the format remains a po...

Mozilla's Firefox 4 was released early Tuesday. The release comes nearly two years after Firefox 3.5 and three years after Firefox 3. The web browsing landscape has changed significantly since then, with Google's Chrome browser winning converts left and right, whi...

In the wake of AT&T's announcement that it plans to purchase T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for a whopping $39 billion, U.S. wireless customers want to know how the deal will affect them and what impact it will have on the industry as a whole. Assuming regula...

Founded in 2001 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, the Tribeca Film Festival is now celebrating its 10th anniversary. For 2011, the festival is ramping up its digital efforts and introducing the Tribeca (Online) Film Festival. The Tribeca (Onlin...

Now that SXSWi has come and gone, the digital world will be looking for the next great event to learn from, be inspired by and meet people doing interesting things in the space. We've got good news - there are still a few spots left for Mashable Connect 2011, o...

The AP Stylebook, the de facto style and usage guide for much of the news media, announced on Friday that the abbreviated term for “electronic mail” is losing a hyphen, and with it, a relic of a simpler time when Internet technology needed to be explained very carefu...

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. For the past few years, CSS grid systems have become increasingly popular with web designers. Thanks to efforts like Nathan Smi...

In the summer of 2009, LinkedIn approached widget maker Widgetbox with an idea. The professional social network, already jimmy-rigging Widgetbox widgets to create dynamic ads on its site, was anxious to create its own independent ad platform and turned to Widgetbox f...

Delta Airlines customers can now check in to flights on the company's Facebook app. From the Facebook app, Delta customers starting Thursday can check SkyMiles and preview what amenities are available for various flights, too. Delta launched its Ticket Counter Fac...

The iPad for Business Series is supported by LogMeIn Ignition, the #1 third-party Productivity app for iPad and iPhones in 2010. Get one-touch access to all your applications and files, on all your remote computers with LogMeIn Ignition for iPad/iPhone. The iPad i...

On Thursday, The New York Times officially released the details of its long-awaited paywall digital subscription offerings. The new access policies -- which go into effect March 17 in Canada and March 28 in the United States -- will require frequent readers to pay at...

The Future Web Series is supported by Elsevier's SciVerse Application Marketplace and Developer Network. The SciVerse applications platform enables developers to build apps based on trusted scientific content. Learn more. HTML5 is no longer just a buzz word. It --...

If everything goes according to plan (i.e. if developers don't find any particularly problematic bugs), the final version of Firefox 4 should be released March 22, according to a message posted on Firefox's official forum. "As of now, there are no known issues th...

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. On the 20th floor of a San Francisco skyscraper, a handful of developers are working on a new technology that's changing the wa...

The World Economic Forum Wednesday named its Young Global Leader honorees of 2011, and we're excited to share that Mashable CEO and founder Pete Cashmore has been named one of the Young Global Leaders. The distinction is given each year to a handful of people youn...

Sup? Look at you strutting your stuff! You’ve now shared 25 stories. That’s quite the swagger you got there. Keep on struttin’!

Foursquare, the location-based mobile game startup that pioneered the checkin, will introduce version 3.0 Tuesday evening. The new release turns on the power of every checkin accumulated over the course of its two-year history and transforms that data into recommenda...

Facebook Live is taking its show on the road to SXSW in Austin, Texas, where the company will host its first Facebook Live interview sessions in front of a live audience. Mashable is excited to announce that we’ll be teaming up with Facebook for live interviews du...

The iPad 2 hits U.S. stores on Friday March 11, 2011. On Friday March 11, 2011, Apple's iPad 2 will become available for purchase online and in retail stores. Early trade-in activity surrounding the original iPad suggests that that the iPad 2 will be in high dema...

Subscription music service Rdio released a brand new native app for Mac OS X on Monday. The app brings the full Rdio experience -- including music playback, playlist creation, sharing and mobile syncing -- to Mac OS X without the need for the web browser. The app,...

We've noticed a lot of excitement around Mashable Connect 2011, our invite-only event at Walt Disney World® in Florida this coming May. After producing more than 50 events for Mashable, we felt that it was time to put all of our experiences together in one ev...

Clicker, the site that bills itself as the TV guide for Internet content, has been acquired by CBS Interactive. Clicker's co-founder and CEO Jim Lanzone has also been named the new president of CBS Interactive. Earlier this year, Mashable named Clicker as one of t...