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January 29 2012

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10 Hysterical Political Parodies on Twitter

There are countless parody accounts on Twitter — musicians, celebrities, cartoon characters and religious figures can all grace your feed with their presence. The most entertaining parodies, however, may be those of politicians around the world.

For some people, real politicians who utilize Twitter can be overwhelming with constant campaigning and diehard opinions, especially during an election year. But their parodies — which sometimes boast more followers than the verified accounts — offer a momentary break from all that.

Check out the gallery for 10 hilarious political parody accounts that are still relevant, providing you with amusing 140-character insights that may, in a weird way, even highlight some truth in politics (or at the very least make you laugh).

Which political parodies on Twitter did we miss? Let us know in the comments.


1. @GingrichIdeas





This clever parody reads like Newt Gingrich's secret to-do list. He has quite the vision for the United States if he gets elected president (hint: there's a lot of space talk).

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Remarkable ‘Joy of Books’ Animation Brings Books to Life [VIRAL VIDEO]


Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

Relax and enjoy the magic that ensues when you combine a bookstore full of books, skillful stop-motion animation, haunting music, a boatload of creativity and 28 volunteers: The Joy of Books is a brilliant video by Sean Ohlenkamp.

Just when we were thinking books were dead, along comes this video that’s so impressed the denizens of YouTube, 2.5 million people have viewed it since its debut earlier this month.

Those books didn’t just jump and dance around the bookshelves by themselves, either. Ohlenkamp wasn’t specific about how long it took for him and his 27 volunteers to create this masterpiece, but he did thank “all the volunteer hands who shelved and re-shelved books all night, every night.” He also thanked Composer Grayson Matthews for the beautiful custom music you hear.

“We spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto,” Ohlenkamp says, adding that he got the idea for this carefully choreographed bookstore extravaganza when he and his wife were organizing their own bookshelf a year ago.

By the way, don’t miss the clever part where the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers books dance with each other.

Watching this video made me think about the importance of old-fashioned books even in my environment that’s been almost taken over by digital content. Even though I enjoy reading books using Amazon Kindle software on an iPad 2, I still enjoy the tactile feeling of reading a real book, the smell of fresh newsprint or musty book dust, and the ability to see how much of the book I’ve read at a glance as it’s sitting on my nightstand.

How about you? Are you a gadget geek who’s abandoned all paper reading material altogether, or have you hesitated to make the jump to the world of digital books? Or are you in between (as I am), reading lots of books and tons of Internet text on screens, but diving into old-fashioned paper books from time to time as well?

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Can You Name the 20 Viral Topics in This Illustration? [CONTEST]


Instead of sending holiday cards to clients and friends in December, London-based digital agency Syzygy recently whipped up a creative illustration that depicts 20 notable events from the past 12 months.

Syzygy then asked people to name the 20 viral topics, which has spurred a flurry of online activity to the tune of 2 million Twitter impressions and 500,000 Facebook impressions. As a reward to participants, Syzygy gave away 150 posters of the illustration to people who correctly guessed some of the events.

“We decided to try something different, something that celebrated the stuff we love — the weird, the epic, the stupid, the surprising — and did it in a way that was beautiful to look at, a piece of digital art,” Syzygy engagement manager Mille Clausen told Mashable.

The illustration highlights memes, deaths, important news, popular ads and other viral topics.

How You Can Participate

Syzygy, which plans to reveal the answers on Monday, sent Mashable one of the poster-sized illustrations, which we want to give away to one of our readers.

So put your thinking cap on and try to guess the events drawn in the illustration. The reader who names the most events will win the illustration in addition to a few Mashable goodies.

Submit your list of answers by Jan. 30 at 1 p.m. ET to BrianH@Mashable.com with this subject line: “20 Things Answers.” For clues, go here and click “Show Clues.” Be sure to name the events and not just the objects or people. We’ll update this post with the answers on Jan. 31.

“As a single image with no text, it is also incredibly easy to share, regardless of where you live and what language you speak,” Clausen says. “Perfect for the social web.”

Illustration by Syzygy’s Peter Jaworowski and Ars Thanea’s Michal Lisowski

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Tech Hiring Trends 2012: What You Need to Know [INFOGRAPHIC]

Job trend reports are pointing to big things for the tech industry, including lots of openings and opportunities for growth. Here’s the lowdown on tech hiring trends.

In 2012, there will be increased demand for mobile app developers, data warehouse analysts and user experience designers.

Consider the number of people companies will need to hire to build mobile applications across platforms for Apple products, Android and other smartphones. We have previously reported that the smartphone app downloads are projected to grow from 10.9 billion in 2010 to 76.9 billion in 2014.

SEE ALSO: Are Cover Letters Still Relevant For Social Media and Tech Jobs?

Executive vice president of Acquity Group Jim Newman, whose team created the infographic below, believes the current tech hiring trends shows that top tech companies including Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft are hiring like crazy despite the global economic downturn.

“Whether the students choose business or technology disciplines, getting experience with Internet-enabled solutions will give them a huge head start when it comes to career opportunities once they graduate,” Newman said.

The infographic shows that the biggest tech job markets of 2012 lie in New York, Baltimore, Seattle, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, St. Louis, San Antonio and Greensboro.

Newman told Mashable that there are huge shortages of qualified professionals in the digital and technology space. As an alternative, American companies have hired international employees that are qualified for these U.S. tech jobs because of the lack of help.

“Unfortunately, the bubble-burst of the early 2000s swayed many high school and college students away from these areas,” he said. “As an employer, I am experiencing significant challenges in finding enough qualified professionals.”

Newman hopes this encourages students and young professionals to consider high-tech jobs as U.S. demand grows for better research and development of products.

Infographic by Acuity Group.

Tech Hiring Trends

Thumbnail image courtesy of Flickr, Fotinakis.

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21 Must-Follow Pinterest Users


1. Luce de Luce




Focus: Photography/Art

Boards: 49

Our Favorite Board: photography

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Looking to save some search time and launch into a rich Pinterest experience? We’ve scouted out some of the best Pinners the service has to offer.

Although the site has a reputation for girly, wedding-themed content, we’re here to present a variety of inspiring perspectives, from photography themes to gadget wish lists. So, scoot through our gallery to discover some of the most popular curators on the web’s hottest social circuit.

SEE ALSO: Pinterest: 13 Tips and Tricks for Cutting Edge Users

Which categories and themes do you think Pinterest does best? Where could it use some work? Tell us what you think and let us know your favorites in the comments below.

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39 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

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Been away from Mashable for a few days? Here’s something that’ll get you caught up in a flash: it’s our weekly roundup of Mashable features.

Look at all the coolness you missed: We have tips for the transition into Facebook Timeline, tricks for improving your productivity via Google Calendar and Safari and links to the most popular memes. We’ve covered social networking in the workplace, using networks for social good and even using plugins to help you get the old Facebook back.

So if you wanted to catch up on the best of our digital media resources, you’ve come to the right place:

Editor’s Picks

Social Media

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

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

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

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Tweet Your Best Shot to Make NBA’s Curry Your Voicemail Assistant


How would you like to put an NBA star to work as your own personal phone operator?

That’s more or less the idea behind a Twitter-driven contest by Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry. Curry has called for fans to tweet him video clips their best moves from the game H-O-R-S-E, where players try to best one another with trick shots.

Fans have until midnight on Sunday to send their videos to his @StephenCurry30 account with the hashtag #SC30. His top 5 picks will then be entered into a poll on his Facebook page, where fans will vote the ultimate winner.

And what do you get if you win? Curry will record a personalized outgoing voicemail message for you to use. So whenever a friend calls, there will be one of pro basketball’s brightest young stars saying that you’re unavailable but to please leave a message.

“They can give me a script if they want, or leave it up to me to be creative and use my personality a little bit, but we’ll probably end up doing a blend of both,” Curry told Mashable.

Curry, who wears jersey number 30, is one of the NBA’s most active and personable players on Twitter and other social platforms. The H-O-R-S-E contest is the latest in a series of #SC30 promotions he has done in recent months with the help of marketing firm Spiracle Buzz. In November, fans submitted videos of themselves singing Christmas carols to win a personal Skype conversation with Curry. In December, he was touched by a fan’s winning entry in a call for New Year’s resolutions and met with her before a home game.

Curry said it’s not always easy to stay active on social media channels during the busy NBA season, but that the extra effort is worthwhile.

“I just think it’s a lot of fun to go back and forth with people that pay attention to what I’m doing, and it’s a big part of just enjoying this whole NBA process,” he said.

Curry said that he may try to replicate some of the best submitted shots to post back for fans if he gets time between games, workouts and sleep.

One young fan has already set a high bar for the contest with this trick-shot video:


Looks like that kid’s family could be getting a new outgoing voicemail soon courtesy of Stephen Curry.

But who would Curry himself pick to tell people he’s not available? When asked, he chose Cam Newton, the quarterback for his hometown Carolina Panthers NFL team.

“I would get him to guarantee a Panther playoff appearance next year for everyone who called me,” Curry said.

Who would you choose to record your outgoing voicemail message and what would you have them say? Let us know in the comments.

Image courtesy of nba.com/warriors

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Data Privacy: What Bill Gates Said 10 Years Ago

DataPrivacyDayLogo.jpgToday is International Data Privacy Day, an event backed by companies like Intel, Ebay, Facebook and Microsoft, and dedicated to educating data owners about best practices in protecting the privacy of consumer data.

The need to keep people from being exploited on account of violations of their privacy is clear, well-known, intuitive and amply articulated by highly capable people. The up-side of making use of peoples' data is far less so. The two concerns are closely tied together. That's something Bill Gates is likely very aware of, if his comments 10 years ago are any indication.

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The forthcoming era of computing is all about data. In as much as that data is associated with people, it's essential that data owners feel secure in the belief that they can make use of their data in computing without concern it will be misused.

Bill Gates got this about the last era of computing, the first instances of e-commerce and the web. He wrote a famous company-wide memo ten years ago this month all about the importance of what a controversial hardware-based security paradigm called Trusted Computing.

"If we don't do this, people simply won't be willing -- or able -- to take advantage of all the other great work we do. Trustworthy Computing is the highest priority for all the work we are doing. We must lead the industry to a whole new level of Trustworthiness in computing."

Regarding Privacy in particular, the Gates memo put some things in ways we can relate to today, but other things seem antiquated.

"Users should be in control of how their data is used. Policies for information use should be clear to the user. Users should be in control of when and if they receive information to make best use of their time. It should be easy for users to specify appropriate use of their information including controlling the use of email they send."

Users should be in control of when and if they receive information to make best use of their time! Can you imagine that? Info overload as privacy violation. It makes sense, yet it seems hopelessly antiquated too.

"In the past, we've made our software and services more compelling for users by adding new features and functionality, and by making our platform richly extensible," he wrote.

"We've done a terrific job at that, but all those great features won't matter unless customers trust our software.

"So now, when we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security. Our products should emphasize security right out of the box, and we must constantly refine and improve that security as threats evolve."

Here's how the International Data Privacy Day organization puts it today.

"In this networked world, in which we are thoroughly digitized, with our identities, locations, actions, purchases, associations, movements, and histories stored as so many bits and bytes, we have to ask - who is collecting all of this data - what are they doing with it - with whom are they sharing it? Most of all, individuals are asking 'How can I protect my information from being misused?' These are reasonable questions to ask - we should all want to know the answers.

"Data Privacy Day promotes awareness about the many ways personal information is collected, stored, used, and shared, and education about privacy practices that will enable individuals to protect their personal information.

Robert Siciliano, an Online Security Evangelist at McAfee, paints a much more negative picture in a blog post yesterday - probably even about the companies participating in International Data Privacy Day. McAfee is owned by the primary sponsor of the event, though, Intel. Siciliano speaks for many people when he says:

"Lately, it seems that barely a day goes by when we don't learn about a major Internet presence taking steps to further erode users' privacy. The companies with access to our data are tracking us in ways that make Big Brother look like a sweet little baby sister.

"Typically when we hear an outcry about privacy violations, these perceived violations involve some apparently omnipotent corporation recording the websites we visit, the applications we download, the social networks we join, the mobile phones we carry, the text messages we send and receive, the places we go, the people we're with, the things we like and dislike, and so on.

"How do they do this? By offering us free stuff to consume online and infrastructure for the online communities that tie us together. We gobble up their technologies, download their programs, use their services, and mindlessly click 'I Agree' to terms and conditions we haven't bothered to read."

It's a cynical perspective that refers to all the glory of the Interwebs as simply free stuff to consume with mindless clicks.

I think I prefer the description Gates might have offered. The global computer is now rich with features and opportunities, but those will be put at risk if people don't trust the network. Please, Mr. Zuckerberg, don't spoil this opportunity.

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January 28 2012

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New Brainshark Team Edition

SlideShark_Logo-150.jpgWe've written before about Brainshark's iPad slide show app and today they have announced the availability of SlideShark Team Edition. It adds admin controls, team-wide content sharing, and usage analytics to the individual features found previously.

With Team Edition, sales teams for example can share their slide decks as they tote about their iPads around the countryside. Individuals can still upload PowerPoint slides for their own use too.

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It's priced at $149 per user per year.

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As you can see above, account administrators can access info on which presentations and users are most active. They can also download usage reports.

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Top 8 Comments on Mashable This Week


We’re back again with another roundup of the top Mashable comments of the week.

In this weekly segment, we showcase the week’s best comments on our site. We’re always looking for thoughtful comments that engage the community and drive more conversation, as well as those that make us laugh.

This week, the Mashable community took an interest in the recent announcement of Facebook Timeline and coverage on the Presidential Campaign. This week’s comments truly made the Mashable team laugh and were loaded with plenty of different opinions.

Take a look at this week’s top comments on Mashable:


iPhone 5 Rumors




Brennan Stehling feels the iPhone 5 should not have a bigger screen. Earlier this week 9to5 Mac reported a rumor that the next iPhone will have a 4-inch screen.

Comment originally posted on: iPhone 5 Will Have 4-Inch Screen, Launch in Summer [RUMOR]

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If you haven’t commented on a Mashable article before, check out Mashable Follow, our content curation and social tool, as well as our comment guidelines to learn more. We’d love for you to join the conversation.

Remember to comment on next week’s articles for a chance to be in the top comments roundup.

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Engine Advocacy Turns Tech Nerds Into Political Experts


How do you turn technology nerds into political experts? That’s the question being asked by Engine Advocacy, a group dedicated to getting “tech startups, entrepreneurs and technologists” involved in shaping public policy.

The goal of Engine Advocacy is “to give entrepreneurial people and businesses a voice in the Washington policy arena that they haven’t before,” according to co-founder Michael McGeary.

The group has a stake in a variety of issues, including an open Internet, intellectual property rights, privacy laws, broadband access, spectrum reform and immigration reform. (Why immigration? Engine Advocacy wants a “startup visa” to make it easer for people to come to the U.S. to innovate.)

Engine Advocacy has no registered lobbyists working for it. Instead, the organization seeks to teach Silicon Valley about Washington, D.C and to give technological innovators “action tools” for getting involved with public policy.

“Most people realize it’s not good enough as an entrepreneur or startup CEO to take the feeling of ‘let me do my job,’” says McGeary. “I come from the political world, I’ve worked on a couple of campaigns and I’ve come to Silicon Valley and I’ve been heartened to talk to so many smart people that are saying ‘ok, let’s figure out how to do this so we don’t have to be passive all the time.’”

McGeary says his organization is a “loosely formed coalition” that’s growing “quickly by the day.” The idea to start the organization came before SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act) became the hot-button issues of the day, but according to McGeary, they were the sparks that “set the building on fire,” so to speak.

“What we thought was a good idea in the Fall turned into ‘we have to do this right now.”

“What we thought was a good idea in the fall turned into ‘we have to do this right now,’” says McGeary. “[SOPA and PIPA] were a galvanizing moment.”

Engine Advocacy isn’t just trying to educate tech innovators about Washington, it’s also doing the reverse. The organization is making an effort to educate politicians on technology and Internet issues.

“We’ve met with several members of congressional staff,” says McGeary, singling out Sen. Moran of Kansas.

“(Sen. Moran) and his staff are really committed to tech issues and wanting to get more education about them and trying to find ways to legislate in more productive ways. We’re young in the Senate, but together there’s power in injecting these two communities and I’ve been glad about that.”

SEE ALSO: What is ACTA? Why Should You Care? | ACTA ‘Is More Dangerous Than SOPA’

With SOPA and PIPA gone, what’s the next big fight for Engine Advocacy? We asked McGeary if ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) was on Engine Advocacy’s radar.

“Yes, but it appears to be mostly complete at this point. We’ll keep our eye on it as it rolls out, however, to see what implications there are for tech business going forward,” he said.

“We’re keeping our eyes on (SOPA and PIPA), of course, just in case they make a stunning, election-year comeback from being mortally wounded,” says McGeary. “Beyond that, we’re now taking some time to build and strengthen our organization and begin rolling out our legislative priorities for 2012, as well as beginning to develop campaign strategies looking toward the Fall. We’re looking at things like Startup Act and spectrum coming down the pike fairly quickly, but also beginning to beef up our web presence and policy research to be ready for the next fights as they come along.”

Do you think it’s a good idea to get tech experts and innovators involved with the public policy process? Sound off in the comments below.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, PashaIgnatov

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Top 10 Tech This Week [PICS]


1. Northrop X-47B Stealth Drone




This stealthy X-47B unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is the size of a fighter jet, and will be taking off and landing from the deck of an aircraft carrier. This is an unusual overhead view of the scary looking plane, which was mistaken for a UFO last month. When will it be ready for battle? Unknown. It's a concept plane so far, but as you can see, it's in the midst of flight testing.

[via Gizmodo]

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If you scanned across the tech and gadget world this week, you’d think the future had already arrived. We found so many great products and devices, it was difficult to narrow them down to our Top 10 Tech This Week.

But we persevered, finding conveyances that roll on the ground and fly through the air, a gaming mouse that looks like it might take off at any moment, new software from Google that makes us feel like were flying in space and a bulbous car that was once fiction that’s now reality. We even found a brand new view of a scary, lethal and stealthy weapon for your perusal.

SEE MORE: Previous editions of Top 10 Tech This Week

Even everyday objects didn’t escape the futuristic treatment, including a USB cable that shows you which direction its data is flowing, a 55-inch OLED TV that seemed like a fantasy just a couple of weeks ago but now has a more well-defined arrival date, and then there’s the craziest-looking lamp we’ve ever seen — built by a printer, of all things.

So strap yourself in and prepare to be impressed, amused, amazed and perhaps even filled with want — as we bring you the latest edition of our Top 10 Tech This Week.

Here’s last week’s Top 10 Tech.

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Photoshop CS6 Turns to The Dark Side [VIDEO]


Attention, Photoshop lovers: Adobe is treating us all to a sneak preview of Photoshop CS6, and from what we can see, it looks amazing.

Adobe posted a YouTube video named “Sneak Peek #1″ on Photoshop’s official channel last week. In the video, senior product manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes gives viewers a glimpse of CS6′s Camera Raw 7.

In the video, Hughes loads a typical, not-very-high resolution picture he took of the Eiffel Tower at dusk with his cameraphone. He then goes to work with CS6′s Camera Raw, boosting highlights and shadows, sharpening and introducing new tools that Photoshop users haven’t previously enjoyed.

By the time Hughes is done editing, the originally unremarkable photograph looks stunning.

SEE ALSO: 10 Fantastic Photoshop Tutorials on YouTube | 8 Photoshop Tutorials for Retouching Your Profile Pic

After Hughes’ Camera Raw demo, he opens up CS6 itself and introduces viewers to a very new Photoshop. What’s different? For starters, it’s darker. Much darker.

“We have a darker interface that allows for a more immersive experience,” says Hughes. “We’re able to focus on the image and not on the interface itself. Although, fear not, if you want to change the interface to look as it did before, you can do that.”

Hughes also says the darker interface comes from a desire to appear more uniform alongside other Adobe software, such as Lightroom.

At the end of the video, Hughes shows off a new feature called “rich cursor support,” which gives instant information about a brush’s diameter, hardness and opacity.

The video is titled “Sneak Peek #1″ and is the sole member of a “Sneak Peeks” YouTube playlist, perhaps a signal that more of these previews are on the way:

What do you think about the Photoshop CS6 Sneak Peek? Sound off in the comments below.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, bizoo_n

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Top 10 Twitter Pics of the Week [PICS]


Out of the millions of pictures posted on Twitter last week, 10 of them stood above the rest, and we have the Top 10 Twitter Pics gathered right here in a cozy, clickable group.

And a cozy week it was, with snow falling in New York, big-time NFL football games underway and nostalgia galore as people looked back to previous decades and reminisced about their childhoods.

Meanwhile, political events were going on, including the State of the Union Address, where the United States Congress paid an emotional farewell to one of its colleagues. Meanwhile, Jan. 25 marked the anniversary of a protest half a world away in Egypt.

With help from a special algorithm developed by our partners at social media search engine Skylines, we’ve plucked these pics from more than 30 million submitted to Twitter during the week.

With our technique, we make a special effort to show you the most popular topics or pics, highlighting the most important trends that occurred during the week rather than concentrating on celebrities.

We’ve also placed links on hashtags, allowing you to go to the Skylines site and see a tremendous number of pictures dealing with that hashtag’s topic. So click away and enjoy the top 10 pics! Let us know in the comments which ones were your favorites.


1. School memories




@Eric_Cartman (1000+ followers) describes the TV setup (which most of us probably recognize) displayed in this image as "the best memory ever." During last week, #middleschoolmemories and #highschoolmemories were popular subjects for Twitter photos, making Twitter users indulge in the memories of their teenage years. Do they look familiar?

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If you missed them, here are last week’s Top 10 Twitter Pics.

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Tech Companies Ramping Up the Green Jobs [INFOGRAPHIC]

If you’re looking for a new job, but you’re also a friend of the environment, there could be a perfect position for you in the tech sector. More than ever before, tech companies are committed to sustainability — they’re developing greener devices, increasing the life cycle of products and developing meaningful partnerships. In fact, seven of the top 10 green companies are in the tech sector, and IBM leads the way, with a greenscore of 82.5%.

This year, there will be more than 3 million green jobs in America, helping the “green economy” surge past the “regular economy.” Another benefit of going green in the job hunt? It can also bring you more green — wages are 13% higher for green jobs than for the average American job.

Take a look at the green profiles of IBM, Apple, Google, Dell, Nokia, HP and Microsoft, and check out the other stats in the infographic below, produced by JobVine.


Infographic courtesy of JobVine

Social Media Job Listings

Every week we post a list of social media and web job opportunities. While we publish a huge range of job listings, we’ve selected some of the top social media job opportunities from the past two weeks to get you started. Happy hunting!

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Weekly Wrap-up: Social Media Reference Guide and More

weekly_wrapup-1.pngFlowtown releases a great social media cheat sheet for those new to social media. Dan Frommer wonders if downloads or discs are more applicable for the next gen XBox. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.

After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web - Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web - plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on for more.

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[Infographic] The SMB Social Media Cheat Sheet

[Infographic] The SMB Social Media Cheat Sheet

Make sure the social media noobs in your company check out The SMB Social Media Cheat Sheet from Flowtown. The infograhic includes instructions on how to use various social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, Tumblr and Digg. LinkedIn is notably missing, but other that it's a great infographic and one that's sure to be helpful in your office.

Why Does the Next Xbox Need Discs At All?

Why Does the Next Xbox Need Discs At All?

Kotaku reported that the next generation of Xbox might not play used games. Dan Frommer wondered about the future of discs for the gaming industry as a whole.

The future is probably downloadable or streaming games, but until we get better bandwidth, it's not practical for everyone yet.

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[Infographic] PHP vs. Python vs. Ruby

[Infographic] PHP vs. Python vs. Ruby

Udemy has put together an infographic that compares Ruby, PHP and Python. This looks (briefly) at the history, popularity, ease of use, demand for programmers, benchmarks and more for each language. If you're job-hunting, Udemy says that you probably want to know PHP above Ruby or Python. More

Nearly 1 Million People Jailbroke Their iPhone or iPad Over the Weekend

Nearly 1 Million People Jailbroke Their iPhone or iPad Over the Weekend

People sure do love jailbreaking their iOS devices. In fact, after Friday's launch of the Absinthe A5 tool, jailbreaking iOS 5 on A5-powered devices was almost as popular as the iPhone 4S itself when it first launched. More

Apple's Growth Rate Is Simply Incredible... And It's Accelerating

Apple's Growth Rate Is Simply Incredible... And It's Accelerating

There are plenty of impressive stats in Apple's December quarter earnings report, such as 37 million iPhones shipped, $46 billion of overall sales, and $13 billion of profit. More

A Brief History of the BlackBerry

A Brief History of the BlackBerry

Back in the early 1990s, we didn't have BlackBerries or any kind of wireless data devices. Phones weren't very "smart," and dial up still ruled the land. Then a trio of companies came together to invent the Viking Express which was a combination of an Ericsson Mobidem wireless data modem that was the size of a small brick, an HP 100 pocket-sized computer that looked more like a big calculator, and software from a company called Radiomail that ran on the DOS operating system of the HP. The world of wireless hasn't been the same since. More

[UPDATED] Twitter May Censor Certain Tweets In Certain Countries

[UPDATED] Twitter May Censor Certain Tweets In Certain Countries

Twitter will censor tweets in certain countries while still publishing them throughout the rest of the world, the company said Thursday on its blog.

"As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there," the company said. "Others are similar but, for historical or cultural reasons, restrict certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi content." More

Community Manager Appreciation Day 2012

Community Manager Appreciation Day 2012

Today is the 3rd Annual Community Manager Appreciation day. Originally founded back in 2010 by Jeremiah Owyang, the 4th Monday of January has since become a day to both thank Community Managers and to enjoy some great community-themed content. More

Priceline's Shatner

Priceline's Shatner "Negotiator" Makes His Last Deal Today

Perhaps not since "The Sweet Hereafter" has there ever been a more pivotal bus crash shown on TV or in the movies. Today Priceline begins a new ad campaign that shows the death of its William Shatner "Negotiator" character. For those of you that haven't seen "The Sweet Hereafter," a movie based on a Russell Banks story, it is worth renting just for Ian Holm's wonderful performance. But back to Priceline and Shatner. More

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Firefox Support Ending for Windows 2000, Windows XP Pre-SP2

firefox-150.jpgIf you're one of the few Firefox users still on Windows 2000 or still using Windows XP without Service Pack 2 or later, Firefox is going to have to say goodbye. Yesterday, Mozilla's Asa Dotzler announced that Firefox team is moving to a newer version of the Visual Studio toolchain. Once Mozilla moves to Visual Studio 2010, they won't be able to build for Windows 2000, XP RTM or SP1.

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Dotzler says that the team has held off "for a number of years" to preserve support for Windows 2000, Windows XP Release to Manufacturing (RTM), and Windows XP SP1. Unfortunately, that comes at a price. "Our developers have not been able to take advantage of new compiler features and have had to struggle to keep valuable optimizations from breaking – including having had to back out and ultimately delay some important new features like SPDY."

Finally, Mozilla is saying a fond farewell to the 0.4% of Windows users that are still on those really old releases. But there's still time. Says Dotzler, "Next Tuesday or Wednesday, after Firefox 12 moves to Aurora, the Mozilla Release Engineering team will begin upgrading our Windows build systems to Visual Studio 2010.

It is, of course, worth noting that Mozilla has supported Windows 2000 and XP with new browser versions longer than Microsoft itself. Internet Explorer 8 requires XP with SP2 or higher, and does not support Windows 2000 at all. Internet Explorer 9 requires Windows Vista or later. Mozilla has supported a tiny fraction of its user base with legacy systems far, far longer than most projects or companies would have done.

If you're on one of the old XP releases, you can still upgrade with Microsoft's free service packs. For larger organizations, there's the Extended Support Release, which will provide an extra six months or so before the older versions become unsupported.

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What Apple Could Do With Its $100 Billion Cash Hoard [COMIC]


Let’s face it: Apple is rich. So rich it could send a crowd of people to the moon to build a luxury hotel and hang out there for a few years. Here’s what else it could do, according to our friends at The Joy of Tech.

It’s not surprising Apple is so deeply awash in cash, especially after its spectacular first-quarter earnings announced this week. You can see the details of Apple’s unbelievable numbers here, but will give you a highlight: the company’s revenues for the quarter were higher than its total revenues for all of fiscal 2009.

Apple’s so rich, it could give each of its employees a check for $6,622,516. The company’s worth more than $400 billion. Here’s more about Apple’s riches.

If you had $100 billion (or $97.7 billion in cash reserves, to be exact), what would you do with it?

Comic illustration courtesy Geek Culture, used with permission (thanks, Bruce!)

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Cartoon: To Make a Long Story Short...

rob story 150.jpgI'm somebody who can, uh, go on. At length. About nearly any subject. Ask anyone who's taken one of my classes... or read one of my blog posts once I get on a roll.

So I can understand why I'll get the odd "TL;DR" in response. And I try not to take it personally; instead, I look on it as a reminder to pare my text down, murder my darlings and generally indulge myself a little less.

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That's on a good day.

On a bad day, I mourn the rapid decline of human civilization, curse people's can't-be-bothered-to-read-anything-longer-than-a-tweet mentality, and generally grumble about "kids these days". I imagine scenarios where the instructions for disarming a doomsday weapon are three paragraphs long, and nobody on the planet has the attention span required to get through them.

And I'm finding my bad days now outnumber my good days by about five to one, and rising.

In fact, there are times when I...

No! Wait! Don't go - the post is almost over! You've nearly made it to the cartoon! All that's left is the "you-can-find-more-Noise-to-Signal-cartoons-at-Rob's-web-site" and you're there!

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6 Standout Apps Worth Downloading This Week


Evi for Android and iPhone




Evi is like the iPhone 4S for Android and other iPhone devices running iOS 4.0 or later. It does the same tricks, like showing you coffee shops nearby when you speak or type "coffee," or providing the traditional answer "42" when you ask it for the meaning of life. It's search with an artificial intelligence twist. On iPhone ($.99) or Android (free).

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Facebook hogged tech headlines this week with news that it was pushing its Timeline to all users and will IPO next week. But while the 800-million-person social network was making news, there were also worthwhile launches from great startup apps that you might have missed.

You could sort through the App Store’s 500,000 apps and the Android store’s estimated 300,000 apps in order to find them. Or you could check out our recap of the best new apps in the slideshow above. We’ve done our best to sort out the overly frivolous, the ugly and the downright impractical.

The apps left standing include one that accomplishes a popular Photoshop trick in two simple steps, another that will pool contact info from your phone, social accounts and email to create one list to rule them all, another that works like Siri for people who don’t have an iPhone 4S and long-awaited Android versions of two popular social service apps.

Have you seen any other apps this week you’d add to the list? Let us know in the comments.

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