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- Watch #SummerMash Interviews From Seattle [LIVE]
- Google to Launch Google Games with “FarmVille”-Maker Zynga [RUMOR]
- Have the Chatroulette Experience on iPhone 4 [APP]
- 13 Internet Slangs with Unexpected Alternate Meanings
- Google Maps Adds 45° Aerial Imagery For All Users
- Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]
- 10 Cool Facebook Status Tips and Tricks
| Watch #SummerMash Interviews From Seattle [LIVE] Posted: 10 Jul 2010 07:45 PM PDT The Mashable team is hosting our U.S. Summer Tour stop in Seattle tonight with networking, an open bar and awesome prizes. We’re also excited to be joined by Rachel Sklar, who will be interviewing attendees on our Watchitoo live stream. We encourage you to participate in the live steam and suggest questions for Rachel to ask in her interviews with the local social and tech community. Feel free to also submit the questions in the comments below or on Twitter using #summermash. We want you to help facilitate some of the discussion on Watchitoo by joining us on-camera to help ask attendees questions and answer some social media trivia. If you're interested in that, the details are outlined below. You'll also have a chance to win tickets to attend the events through the contest. San Francisco | Washington D.C. | New York City | Chicago Mashable Watchitoo Summer Tour ContestContest Submission Criteria: Upload a 14-second YouTube video explaining why you should be brought on live to chat with hosts/attendees at the Mashable 2010 Summer Tour.
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| Google to Launch Google Games with “FarmVille”-Maker Zynga [RUMOR] Posted: 10 Jul 2010 06:51 PM PDT   Google is reportedly partnering with FarmVille and Mafia Wars game-maker Zynga to launch a hub where you’ll be able to play social online games. The source of the rumor is the tech blog TechCrunch, which claims to have confirmed the story with multiple sources. The search giant has allegedly invested between 100 and 200 million dollars in the massive game company, which already sits with Google in the small club of web companies that are valued at much more than $1 billion. Details on the new portal (which TechCrunch calls “Google Games”) are few and far between. The best hints you’ll find are in a job posting for position at the top of Google’s Games division. The “Project Management Leader, Games” would develop a “games commerce product strategy” through both partnerships and in-house projects of one kind or another. The job posting also specifies that both web-based and mobile games are part of the plan. We’ve contacted both Google and Zynga seeking more details about the deal and what to expect from both companies in the future. The Lingering Question: What’s In It For You?MySpace, Facebook and Yahoo also host Zynga games, so any web game player is going to wonder what Google will offer that they can’t already get at the company’s three big competitors. We don’t know yet and to be frank, Google is very late to the game — excuse the pun! The term “games commerce product” would seem to imply that Google is considering making money not just through ads but through microtransactions — small purchases of virtual goods made within games. Those are common in today’s web-based games, Zynga’s titles included. Google’s partnership with Zynga might involve Google Checkout, a PayPal-like online transactions tool that was launched four years ago. You might recall that Zynga and Facebook announced a similar deal that expanded the use of Facebook’s own microtransactions system, called Facebook Credits. Rumor has it that Google is also planning another user profiles push to challenge Facebook, and popular online games could help drive adoption of that network, so it’s easy to see why Google is interested in entering this space. However, none of this explains why we’ll want to play at Google’s portal instead of Facebook’s. We’ll just have to wait to find out how Google plans to woo online gamers. Do you have any guesses? Let us know in the comments. Reviews: Facebook, Google, MySpace, Yahoo! More About: farmville, funding, games, gaming, Google, google games, investment, online games, social games, video games, Zynga For more Entertainment coverage:
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| Have the Chatroulette Experience on iPhone 4 [APP] Posted: 10 Jul 2010 05:17 PM PDT   There’s a new Chatroulette clone on the block. It’s called iChatr, but it’s different from all the others; it’s an app for the iPhone 4’s front-facing FaceTime camera. The free app is already out in the Apple App Store [iTunes link], and we’ve got to admit that the execution is fairly elegant, and just as minimalistic as the site that inspired it. There’s not even a sign-in process — I was surprised to find that I was face-to-face with a stranger an instant after I tapped the icon in my home screen. The top half of the screen displays whatever your FaceTime camera is capturing while the bottom half displays that of your current chatting partner. In lieu of a “Next” button, you just swipe the bottom image if you want to skip to someone else. You must be connected to a Wi-Fi network to use the app, despite the fact that another app called Fring already offers video chat over 3G. You’ll also need to plug in the earbud/microphone combo that came with your phone to converse with the person on the other end, in part because the app doesn’t have a text chat room like Chatroulette does. I didn’t see any naked exhibitionists when I used the app, but it was similar to Chatroulette in one respect. You need a thick skin because almost everyone you talk to will swipe you away within seconds — unless you’re a pretty girl, I assume! [via Gizmodo] Screenshot Reviews: Fring More About: App, apple, apple app store, camera, chatroulette, facetime, iChatr, iphone, iphone 4, Mobile 2.0, video, video chat For more Apple coverage:
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| 13 Internet Slangs with Unexpected Alternate Meanings Posted: 10 Jul 2010 03:02 PM PDT   We’ve all grown accustomed to the online jargon, shorthands and acronyms that have developed over decades of Internet use. Silly as they might be, most of us are guilty of truncating, abbreviating or misspelling words to save a few seconds here and there. The jury is still out on whether the seconds have added up to much or not, but linguists have had a field day studying online lingual behaviors and their effects on offline writing and speech. Nevertheless, it’s interesting to look at how pre-Internet acronyms and abbreviations like “LOL” have taken on new meanings (“laughing out loud”) with the introduction of widely popular Internet idioms. Below, you’ll find a list of 13 Internet acronyms and slang terms with unexpected alternative meanings, ranging from downright unpredictable to hilariously ironic. Add your favorites in the comments below. 1. LOL Before netizens had us “laughing out loud,” there were little old ladies participating in less bone-tickling happenings. LOL in the medical world identifies a patient as a Little Old Lady. Sometimes, in lieu of actual medical terminology, physicians use shorthands like LOLFDGB (Little Old Lady, Fall Down, Go Boom) and LOLINAD (Little Old Lady In No Apparent Distress) on patient records to describe the health statuses of hospitalized elderly females. A study published by Peter E. Dans, MD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHMS) in 2002, looked at the use of and perceived usefulness of pejorative medical terms among JHMS graduating seniors. While the use of such terms are well documented, only 2 to 13 percent of surveyed medical classes considered usage of terms like LOLINAD and LOLFDGB to be helpful, whereas 30 to 50 percent of classes considered it harmful. Interestingly enough, such terms were used frequently for self-destructive or abusive patients. 2. BRB BRB (Be Right Back) is one of the more polite online abbreviations; respectfully letting fellow chatters know that you’ll be taking a brief vacation from your keyboard. Traditionally, however, BRB refers to a Big Red Button, an important, non-descript button associated with a power, reset, detonation, self-destruction, emergency shut-down, or ejection switch. The only real rule for the BRB is “do not press,” unless it’s an extremely dire situation, of course. One of the most interesting uses occurred during the Cold War, when the BRB was used in fictional writing to describe a device that could launch doomsday, an all-out nuclear catastrophe. Other Big Red Buttons have been used in car ignition, computing and cartooning. The BRB has even been featured in an iPhone app. 3. IDK Does anyone remember going to Wal-Mart or the local fair as kid to get your fingerprints recorded for an Ident-A-Kid card? I certainly do. My little brother and I felt like super stars getting our fingerprints taken for our very first ID card, complete with photo. It’s ironic that IDK once stood for “Ident-A-Kid,” the largest child-identification program in the United States, but is now a popular acronym for “I don’t know.” Of all programs, I’d vouch to say Ident-A-Kid is definitely in the know! 4. BFF
For all the teenyboppers out there, BFF will always mean “Best Friends Forever.” But had you asked a computer programmer in the late 1980s or early 1990s, they may have said that BFF referred to Binary File Format, a procedure for storing computer files encoded in binary. Had you mentioned BFF to any piano pop fanboy in the 1990s, you’d likely get a comment about the musical wonders of Ben Folds Five and his trademark glasses. 5. OMG OMG is an Internet acronym used to express shock or amazement and can be translated as, “Oh my God/gosh/goodness,” depending on your comfortableness with using the Lord’s name in vain. But that’s not the only thing to be shocked about. Law enforcement officers use OMG to refer to “Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.” One of the most notorious OMGs in America is the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, founded in 1935. OMGs are seen as such a threat that organizations such as the International Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators Association (IOMGIA) exist purely to train law enforcement officers on dealing with these biker gangs. 6. PLZ Used online to quickly say “please,” PLZ is also well-known in aviation as the airport code for the Port Elizabeth Airport in South Africa. The airport was recently upgraded to accommodate the increased traffic due to the 2010 FIFA World Cup. 7. CYA Usually, the Internet version of an acronym is way more vulgar than the “real life” application. Not this time. CYA in online speak is a pleasant misspelling of “see ya,” but for politicians, physicians, journalists and law enforcement officers, CYA is a sneaky acronym for “Cover Your Ass.” Some CYA tactics include copying a boatload of people on all e-mails, getting signatures for everything, avoiding commitment dates, and refusing to answer complicated questions. Check out the document above, with the conspicuous subject of “CYA.” This document was used by CBS News on a 60 Minutes broadcast presented by Dan Rather about President George W. Bush’s service in the Air National Guard and so-called failure to live up to requirements. The authenticity of the document, along with a few others, has been highly criticized, and the debacle has been called the “Killian documents controversy,” after Bush’s commander, the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian. 8. BTW FYI, BTW isn’t just short for “by the way.” It’s also an acronym for British Traditional Wicca. BTW refers to branches of the Neo-Pagan religion Wicca that have origins in the New Forest area of England. The traditions of Gardnerian and Alexandria Wicca follow the initiatory lineage of Gerald Brosseau Gardner and are collectively known as British Traditional Wicca, or BTW for short. 9. FML Before FML (F*ck My Life) became a popular site for telling screwed up life stories, FML stood for something much more family-friendly: Family and Medical Leave. FML made a splash in 1993 when the Family and Medical Leave Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton to “provide guidance on unpaid family and medical leave to employees.” 10. DOS The original use of DOS (Disk Operating System) is already a bit antiquated, but there’s something about that black DOS screen that just brings back great memories — namely contracting dysentery, buying family members and losing an ox on The Oregon Trail. If you thought that was old-school, here’s something even more ancient: DOS once stood for Dreaded Orange Spots. These spots have been plaguing soap-makers for ages, and apparently no one really knows why they show up. Possible theories include using soft oils, incomplete curing, high humidity, over superfatting or oxidation, according to Ersilia Vitale, an experienced soapmaker. 11. ROFL ROFL is currently known as “Rolling on Floor Laughing,” one step above LOL. However, back in the day ROFL was also the acronym used by Clan 52 of Medievia, better known as “Rogues Of the Forbidden Legion. Medievia is an online, fantasy-themed, text-based game founded in 1992. ROFL made its appearance in 1998 and officially disbanded in 2001, to the disappointment of the Medievia community and their clan leader, Tharghan. Seriously, I couldn’t make this stuff up. 12. THXAre you a Star Wars fan? Or maybe just a fan of George Lucas and his production company, Lucasfilm? If so, you’ll be happy to know that THX isn’t just shorthand for lazy people typing “thanks,” it’s also the acronym for Tomlinson Holman’s eXperiment, an audio spin-off of Lucasfilm. THX was created by Tomlinson Holman for the third Star Wars film, to ensure optimal sound quality. If you’ve been to a movie lately, you’ve undoubtedly heard the “deep note” crescendo. Check out the video above for a memory jog. 13. BC Before there was a shorthand for “because,” there was Christ. Even before that, there was BC, or “Before Christ,” an English language acronym demarcating the epoch before he was born. Enough said. And U?I could go on and on with this list, but I’d rather see what “U” have to say. What are some of your favorite Internet acronyms and slang terms with interesting alternative meanings? [img credits: See-ming Lee quinn.anya, wlodi, aragon5, Kim Dent-Brown, gabi_menashe, Soap Naturally, Medievia, Ian W. Scott] Reviews: FML, Facebook, Internet, Twitter More About: bc, Before Christ, ben folds five, bff, big red button, binary code, binary file format, brb, british traditional wicca, btw, by the way, Clan 52, cold war, cover your ass, cya, disk operating system, DoS, dreaded orange spots, family and medical leave, fml, fmylife, George Lucas, idk, indent-a-kid, internet acronyms, internet slang, jerry b. killian, little old lady, little old lady fall down go boom, little old lady in no apparent distress, lol, Lucasfilm, meanings, medical, Medievia, omg, Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators Association, plz, port authority airport, rofl, Rogue of the Forbidden Legion, rolling on floor laughing, soap, South Africa, thx, Tomlinson Holman eXperiment, wicca For more Entertainment coverage:
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| Google Maps Adds 45° Aerial Imagery For All Users Posted: 10 Jul 2010 01:12 PM PDT   Google has granted all Google Maps users the ability to view aerial photos taken at a 45° angle. Just zoom in at one of the supported locations and you’ll get a better view than you could before. The feature was previously only available to developers and as part of Labs for Google Maps, a set of work-in-progress features that you had to opt in to. Now anyone who uses Google Maps can see the aerial images, but the locations are limited to just a few cities in Europe and South Africa, and on the west coast of the United States. These pictures are taken from the air, not from orbit, so they’re sharper and their angle allows you to appreciate landmarks and buildings as they appear from the side, not just directly above. Microsoft’s Bing Maps has offered similar, higher-quality images by default for some time, so Google’s playing catch-up here.  Where It’s AvailableGoogle Maps 45° aerial imagery is only available for a few locations in North America, Europe and Africa at present, but hopefully it will expand to more locations later. For now, the supported locations include places in Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Nelspruit, Polokwane, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, and Rustenburg in South Africa; Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara in the United States; Dortmund in Germany and Venice in Italy. Here’s a map of the support locations. You can browse the map yourself at Google’s website.  Reviews: Google, Google Maps More About: aerial imagery, Google, google labs, Google Maps, navigation, satellite imagery For more Social Media coverage:
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| Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART] Posted: 10 Jul 2010 11:11 AM PDT   The World Cup takes the trophy home for another week as expected, with three other related trends in tow – including a jinxing Mick Jagger, a psychic octopus, and a Portuguese footy superstar. Similar to last week’s trends, American movies continue to rank high, and NBA free agent LeBron James hit the chart at number eight, even before he made his big announcement. We expect to see his name a bit higher up on the list next week. As always, our partners in data at What The Trend have provided the complete chart below. Because this is a topical list, hashtag memes and games have been omitted from the chart. You can check past Twitter trends in our Top Twitter Topics section as well as read more about this past week's trends on What The Trend. Top Twitter Trends This Week: 6/26 – 7/2
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, ricardoinfante Reviews: Google, Twitter, World Cup, harry potter, iStockphoto, movie More About: entertainment, List, Lists, Movies, social media, Top Twitter Topics, trends, twitter, twitter trends, world cup For more Social Media coverage:
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| 10 Cool Facebook Status Tips and Tricks Posted: 10 Jul 2010 08:52 AM PDT   With Facebook’s ever-changing layout, and the fact that other social sites are encroaching on its real-time update strangle-hold, it’s easy to forget that there are some pretty nifty tricks you can pull using your humble Facebook status. We’ve pulled together 10 great how-to tips that will help you get the most out of your status update, from official features to apps, Easter eggs, jokes and more. Perfect for newer Facebook users, or anyone who is looking for a refresher, read on and let us know the ones you like in the comments below. 1. HOW TO: Add a Dislike Option to Your Status Update
“Like” buttons are everywhere on Facebook, and they’re everywhere on the web. But what if you want to update your status or share something that your friends can “dislike?” We know, your friends can choose to “comment” on your post, but where’s the fun in that? The clever Status Magic Facebook app can add a dislike button to any status updates posted via the app. And if you wanted to really mix it up you can actually customize the second emotion to anything, such as “love,” “hate,” “disagree” or even “LOLs.” 2. HOW TO: Hide Status Updates From Certain People Using Facebook’s general privacy settings (find these by hitting “account” on the top right of a Facebook page) you can select whether everyone, just friends or friends of friends can see your status updates. However, there is a way to narrow those options down even further. You can select specific friend lists to see your status (relevant for work, special interest groups, etc.) or even individual people by name, which is useful for anyone organizing a surprise party. To take advantage of these options, click the padlock icon just below your “what’s on your mind” box on your wall and a drop down menu should appear. Selecting “customize” will bring up more options such as “make this visible to” and “hide from” with the option to make your selection a default. 3. HOW TO: Pre-Schedule Status Updates While SocialOomph, Sendible and HootSuite offer the same kind of service, the simplest way to schedule Facebook status updates is by using the easy, free Later Bro service. Just sign in with Facebook Connect, select your time zone, type in what it is you’d like to say, set the calendar and clock to when you’d like to say it, and presto! 4. HOW TO: Tag People in Your Status Updates This was quite a big deal when it was announced this past September, but from the amount of searches on the topic “how can I make someone’s name go blue in a Facebook status?” it seems it’s not universally known. To mention someone in a status update just type “@” (a la Twitter) in the status bar and start typing their name as it appears on Facebook. An auto-generated list will then come up with people in your social circle whose name starts with the letters you’ve typed. The feature also works with pages, brands, events and companies. Hit the name you want, complete the update, click share and the name will become a hyperlink (you won’t see the @ symbol) and will appear in blue text. 5. HOW TO: Add Symbols to Your Facebook Status Although there are plenty of emoticons that work with Facebook Chat, typing “:)” into Facebook’s status bar will not magically transform into a smiley yellow face. In fact, the only symbol you can create in a Facebook status update through the shortcut keys is a ♥, by typing “<3." While this won't bother many Facebook users, others more used to punctuating their missives can copy and paste web-happy, universal symbols into the box, as you can see in the screengrab above. PC users can also access some symbols by hitting “alt” + various number combinations (on a numerical keypad). So, while smileys are yet to hit Facebook statuses, you can annoy or amuse your buddies with symbols right now. 6. HOW TO: Turn Your Status Updates Into a Word Cloud There’s a really fun way to visualize anyone’s status updates (even an entire country’s) as a word cloud. The Status Analyzer 3D app will look at what it is you’ve been chatting about lately and generate a list, and then a pretty, colorful, animated cloud as pictured above. You can share the results with others on the social networking site by posting it to your friends’ walls or by adding it to your profile. 7. HOW TO: Have Fun With Facebook’s Humorous Language Options While you can always change your setting into more sensible alternative languages, the site offers a couple of fun linguistic Easter eggs. You can chose to have Facebook display upside down English, or, for anyone feeling a little salty, in “pirate.” Pirate essentially turns your status into your “plank,” your attachments into “loot” and instead of “share” it offers the option to “blabber t’ yer mates.” Sadly, anything you type in the status bar won’t be upside down, or pirate-y. But with the use of some external sites you can achieve the same effect. TypeUpsideDown.com and UpsideDownText.com are just two examples of sites that can flip your text, while the Talk Like a Pirate Day site can help you with your pirate translations. 8. HOW TO: See Status Updates From Around the World If you want to get a glimpse of the thoughts of Facebook users from around the world’s, head over to OpenBook. Created by three San Fran web developers with a serious privacy message in mind, the site aggregates the status updates of everyone whose privacy levels are set to “everyone.” You can narrow your searchable results down by gender and keywords to find out what people are saying about a certain topic. Or you can just browse the recent searches. 9. HOW TO: See Your Status Update Stats Have you ever wondered how many times you have updated your status on Facebook? The Facebook app Status Statistics, can tell you this and more. The app analyzes your updates and gives you a tidy list of how many you’ve written, the average word count and how many times a day you post. In addition, it generates a graph that shows you what time of day or what days of the week you normally update. Old statuses are also searchable via the app, so you can find that witty retort you made back in November 2009 without having to scroll back through your history. 10. HOW TO: Play a Trick On Your Friends in Your Status Update We have a funny one to end on — a way to play an amusing trick on your Facebook buddies. This clever link “http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363″ looks like it could be a URL for anyone’s Facebook profile, actually takes anyone logged into Facebook to their own profile page. If you try it out, be sure to remove the link preview that Facebook auto-ads. Have fun, and don’t be too mean… More Facebook resources from Mashable
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, flyparade Reviews: Facebook, HootSuite, Twitter, iStockphoto More About: facebook, facebook apps, how to, Lists, status, tips, trending, tricks For more Social Media coverage:
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