Clearspring Technologies, the developer of social sharing platform AddThis, is launching its mobile strategy today, unveiling optimized technologies for the iPhone, Android and mobile web. For background, the AddThis button sharing tool is currently deployed on 9 million websites worldwide and allows users to easily and quickly share content with others through more than 300 [...]

American Express this morning announced that customers will now be able to pay for Facebook ads using Membership Rewards points, which the company says are used by millions of American Express small business and consumer Cardmembers. Cardmembers can redeem Membership Rewards points for Facebook Ads through AmEx OPEN’s Facebook Page or the Membership Rewards program [...]

Gmail just rolled out, via preview themes, their new, minimal look. Keeping in line with the update to Google Calendar, the new interface brings a lighter and cleaner look to your Gmail inbox. It’s not the default just yet, so to turn it on: Go to your Themes tab in Gmail Click one of the [...]

A trove of books from Charles Darwin??s personal library is now digitized, online and free for all to view. The collection, displaying Darwin??s scrawled-in-pencil marginalia, tantalizingly reveals his thought process as he developed the theory of evolution.

A new study by Yahoo (embedded below) shows that online video watching habits are shifting. People are watching longer videos and watching more at night during primetime. The chart above shows when people watch videos online. The blue line is today (2011) and the dotted line is two years ago (2009). The two lines show [...]

Remember the good old days when a gigabyte was considered a lot of space? Improvements in hard disk technology have allowed the humble magnetic drive to reach the dizzying heights of multiple terabytes of storage, but Cisco foresees a future that’s a few orders of magnitude more impressive. Pinpointing 2015 as the commencement of what [...]

Due to a sales tax measure recently passed in the California state legislature and on its way to be signed by Governor Jerry Brown, Amazon has sent all participants in its California Amazon Associates program the below email, warning of the termination of the program. Amazon’s Associates program allows site owners to monetize off of [...]

Though Apple took to the pages of The New York Times last week to respond to a chorus of criticism about Final Cut Pro X, it’s clear the company is going to have to go a little further in assuaging videographers who were alarmed to learn that the built-from-the-ground-up software omits certain key features found [...]

If you don’t want to manage multiple music libraries and would rather just have one, but your iTunes is eating up precious disk space, TuneSpan can migrate your excess media to external drives while still keeping it accessible within iTunes. This way you can move music you don’t listen to very often to an external [...]

We took a look at some of the most prominent mobile-application ecosystems out there today, comparing the benefits and drawbacks of each. Before buying that next tablet or smartphone, we suggest you take a look.