Programming Blog

LIVESTRONG.com is the social networking piece of the Lance Armstrong Foundation (making remarkable strides in social media for social good) that aims to help people better their lives with tools and resources for diet, nutrition, and fitness. There’s also a very popular Calorie Tracker iPhone [iTunes link] and BlackBerry applications that are giving would-be lifestyle [...]

Back in March, when former Facebook CFO Gideon Yu left the company, The Wall Street Journal reported that the social network was looking for someone with “public company experience.” Today, Facebook has certainly found its man. The company has hired David Ebersman, who is the former CFO of Genentech. That company – a biotechnology giant [...]

Web-based image editor Aviary has just made it exceptionally easy to grab, edit, and share screen captures. To get started, all you need to do is type in “aviary.com/” in front of the URL of the page you’d like to screenshot. From there, Aviary opens up its web-based image editor, where you can do things [...]

We’ve previously covered a number of Facebook scams, most designed to steal your Facebook login details to spam your friends. Today another such scam popped up: the Mashable team currently has multiple mails from “Junfunrun [dot] com” and “Bulitre [dot] com” (don’t visit those domains). We’re not yet sure whether this is a fresh attack [...]

Brand sponsored social media campaigns are everywhere. From SeaWorld, Starbucks, and Dunkin’ Donuts, to Cadbury, A&E, and even Universal, it’s officially the hot trend to replace or supplement traditional marketing campaigns with social media. Huggies, the maker of diapers, training pants, and other products for babies and young kids, has decided to jump on the [...]