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- Giants Website Prematurely Reveals Super Bowl Winner [PIC]
- 29 Meme-Inspired Movie Posters [PICS]
- Top 10 Twitter Pics of the Week [PICS]
- 2012 Grammys Embrace Digital, Mobile and Social Media
- Super Bowl 2012 By the Numbers
- 35 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed
- Top 10 Tech This Week [PICS]
- Facebook Turns 8, And Together We’ve Grown
- 15 of the Most Popular Pictures on Pinterest
- 3 Free iPhone Apps for Creating Your Own Stop-Motion Videos
- Top 10 Google Chrome Plugins for Small Businesses
- Super Bowl 2012: Everything You Need to Know About Watching It Online
| Giants Website Prematurely Reveals Super Bowl Winner [PIC] Posted: 04 Feb 2012 04:22 PM PST      The New York Giants official website accidentally announced the winner of Super Bowl XLVI more than 24 hours before Sunday’s big game even started, by the look of images floating around the web. The error was immortalized Saturday in this TwitPic screenshot (above), which Jeff Frias posted to Twitter. No signs of the mistake are left on the team’s site other than a reported link that leads to the image below: The Giants have yet to publicly confirm whether this whammy is real or the handy-work of a prankster.  While online blunders have cost people their jobs in the past, this misstep — if real — shows that the Giants organization is unsurprisingly ready to financially capitalize on a possible win. The tweeted image displays championship garb traditionally sold after national sporting contests. Giants quarterback Eli Manning and three other players are cropped into the image along with the Super Bowl’s most-coveted prize, the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The image is emblazoned with these words in all caps: “The Giants are Super Bowl champions!” The Feb. 5 broadcast of the Giants vs. New England Patriots game kicks off at Indianapolis Lucas Oil Stadium at 6:30 p.m. ET and will be followed by many post-game breakdowns of the games and commercials. One Super Bowl post-game analysis will occur within an NBC-backed Google+ Hangout. Participants will dissect the commercials, which this year cost $3.5 million each. Did you notice the premature winner’s announcement before it was taken down? Sound off below. BONUS: 10 Athlete Gaffes Aided by Social MediaOnline whammies in the sports world are not uncommon. Here are a few recent memorable digital mistakes. Cappie Pondexter After a tsunami devastated Japan this March, Cappie Pondexter of the WNBA's New York Liberty tweeted, "What if God was tired of the way they treated their own people in there own country! Idk guys he makes no mistakes." Later she continued hypothesizing with this tweet: "u just never knw! They did pearl harbor so you can't expect anything less." Predictably, Pondexter's tweets sparked a strong backlash, and she eventually took to Twitter again, this time to apologize (left). Click here to view this gallery. More About: Entertainment, football, sports, Super Bowl, trending
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| 29 Meme-Inspired Movie Posters [PICS] Posted: 04 Feb 2012 03:20 PM PST   If Internet memes were turned into movies, their promotional posters might resemble the designs London-based Stefan van Zoggel conjured up. “I took the context of the usually short-lived internet memes and virals, and translated that to simple film poster designs,” says van Zoggel on his Meme Movie Posters blog. He has designed 29 meme-inspired posters so far. Below, you’ll find posters about Rebecca Black’s “Friday,” planking, Nyan Cat, Double Rainbow, Keyboard Cat, Shake Weight and a slew of other memes. Which designs are your favorite of the bunch? Which new memes should inspire his future designs? I would like to see movie posters about the Occupy Wall Street movement’s Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop, NFL quarterback Tim Tebow‘s Tebowing and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s sweater vests. Meme Movie Posters
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| Top 10 Twitter Pics of the Week [PICS] Posted: 04 Feb 2012 03:04 PM PST 1. Feb Photo a Day Blogger @fatmumslim (4500+ followers) started the #febphotoaday trend on Twitter by creating a "photo challenge" where Twitter users share a picture on every day in February, displaying the subjects mentioned on this image. She did the same thing in January, when #janphotoaday was trending throughout the month. Click here to view this gallery. We’ve sifted through tens of millions of pictures posted on Twitter during the week and narrowed them down to the 10 most popular, and here they are. Using a special algorithm developed by our partners/wizards at social media search engine Skylines, we’ve taken the most popular hash tags and found the most widely shared pictures within. There weren’t a tremendous amount of big events going on this week, so our astute curators made a special effort to take the most amusing and interesting pictures and subjects that resided in the top 100. Even so, there were slim pickings this week. C’mon Twitter users, you can do better than that — share some blockbuster pics next week! If you’d like to know more about the selection process, see the full results from Skylines. If you missed them, here are last week’s Top 10 Twitter Pics. More About: Skylines, Top 10 Twitter Pics, trending, Twitter For more Social Media coverage:
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| 2012 Grammys Embrace Digital, Mobile and Social Media Posted: 04 Feb 2012 02:39 PM PST   The 54th Grammy Awards ceremony is only eight days away and the Recording Academy is kicking off the next phase of its digital and social campaign. Under the heading of “We Are Music” the Academy and its partners are harnessing the power of social, mobile and digital to make the award show more modern than ever. The Recording Academy made the decision to invest in social and digital media several years ago (you can read Mashable’s past coverage of the 2010 and 2011 campaigns) and the organization and its awards show are now seeing the dividends. Big time. The latest trends in social TV and second screen experiences are in direct alignment with the road Grammy has been traveling for years. We spoke with Evan Greene, Chief Marketing Officer of the Recording Academy, and he told us the strategy around the 2012 Grammys was to put mobile and digital at the forefront of the project. That means the campaign and the show itself were designed with the digital and mobile attributes in mind from its inception, not tacked on at the end. As someone who has been beating the drum of making social and digital a part of the creation process from beginning to end, this is great to see. Grammy Live and the Second ScreenAs in years past, the cornerstone of the digital Grammy experience is around Grammy Live. Grammy Live is a three-day webcast of special Grammy events, red carpets and parties, designed to bring fans behind the scenes and close to all the action. Although CBS (Grammy’s broadcasting partner) doesn’t stream the awards themselves online, Grammy Live is available as a second screen experience during the event, giving additional insight and tidbits into what’s happening, views from the crowd and access to backstage areas. As Peter Anton, executive producer of Grammy Live pointed out in our conversation, Grammy Live was actually the first major second screen experience designed around an award show — and this was before the iPad! Of course, now that the iPad is here, it makes sense to extend the Grammy Live experience to other devices. In addition to viewing the experience at Grammy.com, users can also interact with the experience in the Grammy Live app for iOS [iTunes link]. This year, Greene told us, the Recording Academy worked hard to make the Grammy Live app a perfect extension of the website itself. CBS was also heavily involved this year, both in helping craft the app and in giving Grammy Live official on-air callouts and integration. Not only does the Grammy Live app give users access to the photos, videos and articles available at Grammy.com, it also features Grammy trivia, the ability to guess who will win at the 54th Grammy Awards and the ability to listen to a streaming radio station of Grammy nominees. One of my favorite features of the app is that it also includes a database of past winners, as well as nominees for the 2012 awards. During the show on Feb. 12, those listings will be updated in real time. The app also lets users browse tweets from various Grammy accounts and hashtags, and of course, access the full Grammy Awards experience before and during the show itself. The app is optimized for iPhone and iPad, and is one of the best apps we’ve seen for an awards show. The Campaign: We Are Music For the fifth consecutive year, the Recording Academy teamed up with TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles for the awards show campaign. The team created a robust campaign with print, outdoor, digital, mobile and television components centered around the theme of “We Are Music.” The genesis of the campaign was formed around the emotions and social experiences that music brings out in us all. The agency TBWA\Chiat\Day wanted to capture the way music moves us as humans and wanted a way to help visualize that emotive experience. TBWA\Chiat\Day always likes to push the technical boundaries in the digital aspects of its campaigns, and this year was no different. The centerpiece is a microsite that lives at Wearemusic.grammy.com. This site was developed using cutting-edge web technologies (in this case, Flash 11 Stage 3D) to create robust real-time 3D visualizations that are modified based on what music is playing in the background.  Users can select their own mix of songs (powered using Rdio‘s library API) and add in their own photographs to create their own unique visualizations. Users can then share these visualizations with others using Facebook or Twitter. The effect is insanely cool and I encourage you all to visit the site and see it for yourself. Creating a robust and cutting-edge desktop experience was important, but the agency also wanted to have a powerful mobile component. Enter the We Are Music iPhone app [iTunes link]. This app helps bring the visualized experience to mobile devices. In the mobile app, a user’s own music library is used to power the visualizations. Users can also provide their own photos or take one within the app. The app then creates customized experiences based on the music, and also uses the camera flash on the iPhone 4 and 4S to create special pulsing experiences (you can shut this off if you don’t like it). Up to 15 users on the same WiFi or Bluetooth network can even share their experiences with one another.  It’s a super cool app and again, it’s cutting edge. The technology team relied on some of the newest features in iOS 5 to take advantage of these tools. What I like about this app — as with the Music Mapper from the 53rd Grammy Awards, is that the app and microsite can still be enticing and fun even outside the context of the awards show. The TV spots TBWA/Chiat/Day crafted around the campaign have already made the rounds on YouTube. The Grammy artists profiled in this campaign include Adele, Foo Fighters and Bon Iver. All the spots have style, but the ad with Skrillex is notable because they outfitted the artist in a motion-capture suit to get the liquid movement effect. Check it out: Staying SocialOf course, no modern digital campaign strategy would be complete without a big focus on social media. For the 54th Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy is putting Grammy everywhere and engaging with the community of music fans across social platforms. In addition to the Grammys Facebook Page @TheGrammys Twitter account, the Grammys are also active on:
What made me really excited, however, was to see how The Grammys embraced digital music services. Grammy and Pepsi teamed up to create a custom Pandora station that includes Best New Artist videos and Grammy winners and nominees in 12 different genres. Next week, Grammy will also roll out its official Grammy Spotify app that will let users listen to all past Grammy winners in four major categories. The Spotify app will get more categories in the months ahead. What this strong commitment says to us is that the Grammy Awards aren’t playing around with social, the team gets it. Mashable will be at the Grammy Awards live on Feb. 12, 2012 and covering the digital action from the ground. Let us know what you think of the digital campaign for the 54th Grammy Awards in the comments. More About: 54th Grammy Awards, apps, grammy awards, grammys
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| Super Bowl 2012 By the Numbers Posted: 04 Feb 2012 01:41 PM PST   Super Bowl 2012 is blitzing us like a crazed linebacker, coming up in a matter of hours, and the numbers are stacking up quickly. It’s a weekend of superlatives, with astonishing numbers swirling around those brave warriors on the field. In the Super Bowl, everything is larger than life. Instead of a dozen TV cameras for normal football game broadcasts, NBC rolls out 57 cameras. Instead of betting a couple of bucks on the game, people bet hundreds. And instead of eating a couple of chicken wings, an entire nation gangs up to eat 1.25 billion of them in one day. Want more? We have numbers — a long list of them, taking into account the technology of the big game, the behavior of a nation and the world during the contest, the security necessary to keep everyone safe, the enormous amounts of money changing hands and lots more. So sit back and prepare yourself for a gigantic triviafest, giving you plenty of ammunition to be the Super Bowl know-it-all when the game starts at 6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday. Warning: Recite these numbers at your own risk.
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| 35 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed Posted: 04 Feb 2012 01:00 PM PST   Were you too busy this week to read everything on Mashable? Maybe you’ve been planning your Super Bowl party, or maybe you were figuring out how to buy a piece of Facebook (don’t get your hopes up). For whatever reason you missed our digital media resources this week, don’t worry — we’ve got you covered with our weekly features roundup. Take a look at what you missed: We have a list of users rocking Pinterest, a rundown of the presidential candidates’ stances on tech issues and tips for what to do if your website gets hacked. You’ll find YouTube‘s most-shared ads for January, unique urban farming projects and ways to update your Facebook Timeline without annoying all of your friends. We even have a real-life Facebook wall at our New York headquarters! Take this weekend to relax, watch some football and use this list to catch up on our best resources in no time. Editor’s Picks
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| Posted: 04 Feb 2012 12:33 PM PST 1. Self-Guided Bullet This formidable projectile is more like a micro-mini missile than a bullet. Developed by defense lab Sandia, its self-guidance system lets the four-inch projectile nail a target a mile away. It doesn't spin like conventional bullets, because it has fins that make it fly just like a tiny smart bomb. The weirdest part? The farther away its target is, the more accurate it gets. Still under development, it's not available yet, but when it is, just hope you're not on the wrong end of such a guided missile. [via The Verge and Sandia Labs] Click here to view this gallery. It’s been an unusual week in the tech world, yielding gadgetry and innovations that are surprising and altogether unexpected. Here are the top 10 we found. The theme we kept running into in our journey into the techosphere this week was wish fulfillment. We’ve been wishing for a self-refrigerating can for decades; we’ve hoped for a waterproof iPhone, smoother slow-motion on football games, and a high-quality video editing system we could use on a tablet. Beyond those items, we found lots more. And then, after quenching our thirst for certain conveniences and innovations, we figured it wouldn’t hurt to toss in a couple of superlatives, giving you a gigantic contrast between the tiniest self-propelled vehicle we’ve ever seen and the most gigantic diesel engine we’ve ever imagined. It’s a study of contrasts, indeed. Come along with us on a journey from the sublime to the ridiculous, as we lay down a gallery of Top 10 Tech This Week. Here’s last week’s Top 10 Tech. More About: iphone, Nokia, Top 10 Tech
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| Facebook Turns 8, And Together We’ve Grown Posted: 04 Feb 2012 11:40 AM PST    I’ve been on Facebook for 2,561 days, having joined during the first year of its existence and my first year of college. As the world’s largest social network turns 8 years old today, millions of people will reflect on the impact Facebook has had on their lives, however big or small that impact may be. My Facebook experience mirrors yours in many facets. We’ve changed our relationship statuses, sometimes more than we can remember. We’ve flipped through our tagged photos, every once in awhile untagging the ones we now deem unfavorable. We’ve seen friends’ last names change, with their marriages followed by offspring. We’ve said goodbye to fellow Facebook users, our friends whose Walls — and now Timelines — have become digital memorials. We cried. We smiled. We tell our stories. Just shy of its second birthday on Feb. 4, 2005, Facebook saw me register for an account on Jan. 30. Back then, Facebook was only for college students. I was 18, living in a dorm at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. I didn’t own a computer or a laptop, and smartphones as we know them today didn’t exist, so I accessed Facebook on campus computers. Facebook became a hobby, something I would check every so often and not every day like I do now. But as more faces jumped onto the service — first high school students, then anyone over 13, then my mom (Hi Mom, I hope you “Like” this story!) — I began to rely on it more. I replaced my physical scrapbooks, which I routinely updated in high school, with an online database of memories: 161 photo albums and 28 videos. In 2006, a year after Pete Cashmore introduced the world to Mashable, Facebook unveiled Notes. I used them as my first crack at blogging. Since then, I’ve used Notes to showcase my celebrity look-a-likes in 2006, reveal some intimate thoughts about turning 21 and listening to Kelly Clarkson’s “Sober” in Milwaukee in 2007, as well as describe my encounter with a suicidal man while living in Phoenix in 2009. Notes ignited content sharing on Facebook so much — and so early on — that media organizations began opening their eyes to the site’s potential to bring more readers to their stories. Being in journalism school, this piqued my interest immensely. Facebook capitalized on that revelation by launching a Share button just months after Notes came out. Early adopters of the feature such as The New York Times, Sports Illustrated and The Onion continue to reap the benefits of social sharing and the significant referral traffic it attracts. A year later in 2007, early signs of Facebook trumping MySpace as the go-to social network surfaced. I never really got into MySpace, but the chatter about this topic among friends who avidly used it became frequent and intense. Again, Facebook pounced on this opportunity to dethrone MySpace as social king with a redesign, which involved ditching its trademark “Facebook Guy” logo. That same year, the first rumblings of a possible Facebook IPO made their way into headlines. CEO Mark Zuckerberg squashed the rumors, but on Feb. 1, 2012, Facebook filed for a $5 billion IPO. Zuckerberg in 2007 wanted to focus on development, and then along came a mobile version of Facebook, specifically for iPhone. 2008 was the year Facebook unleashed its Chat feature, expanded its global reach by adding more languages, and overtook MySpace based on monthly unique visitors. For me, Facebook Chat eventually pushed aside my other instant-messaging applications. A major redesign then merged our Walls and Mini-Feeds. Facebook rolled out Usernames in 2009, allowing us to sign up for custom URLs (here’s mine). In 2010, a new Feature called Facebook Messages let me create an @Facebook.com email address. Facebook Messages integrated my email, IM and text messages into one inbox. Just last year, my Facebook experience began to transform tremendously. First, Facebook Chat gave us voice-calling capabilities and Skype-powered video chat. Then, I enabled the new Subscribe feature, which allowed anybody to subscribe to my personal profile and see anything I share publicly. And most notably, some of our profiles evolved into Timelines (see the changes in the gallery below). Somewhere in between all of those changes, I sent virtual Gifts, I Poked some of you, I cringed at the ads that first appeared in 2006, I scoured the Marketplace for any gems, and I used the apps developed within the open-source Facebook Platform. Now it’s election year 2012, and politicians more than ever are using Facebook and other tools to grab our attention and sway our votes. If social networks could run for office, I’d vote for Facebook because of all the things I just mentioned. Together, we’ve grown. Happy birthday, Facebook. Good luck, Zuck and the gang. Thanks for enriching my life. What are your fondest memories of using Facebook? When did you join the social network? BONUS: How Your Profile Has Looked Throughout the Years2005 - The Facebook Back in the days when The Facebook was only available to select networks, the News Feed didn't exist. Users hopped between profiles like this one. Click here to view this gallery. More About: Facebook, Opinion, Social Media, trending
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| 15 of the Most Popular Pictures on Pinterest Posted: 04 Feb 2012 10:48 AM PST 1. Hands Pinterest via Edris Kim. Click here to view this gallery. If you’re like us, you’re obsessed with Pinterest. You get excited when you find pictures you love and pin them to your online bulletin boards with a sense of pride that they are yours. With so many photos on the two-year-old social scrapbooking site — and countless more added each day — it’s common for some to only get a handful of re-pins. Meanwhile, other images pick up so much popularity that they go virtually viral, getting pinned from one board to the next. Here are 15 of some of the most popular pictures on Pinterest — all of which have raked in more than 15,000 re-pins each. Are any of these pictures on your boards? If not, go ahead and pin them, or leave some suggestions in the comments about your favorite pins. More About: Facebook, Photos, pinterest, Social Media, trending, Twitter For more Dev & Design coverage:
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| 3 Free iPhone Apps for Creating Your Own Stop-Motion Videos Posted: 04 Feb 2012 09:26 AM PST 1. Created with the Stop-Motion Camera AppThis simple short was made with the Stop-Motion Camera app. It's incredibly easy to use. Click here to view this gallery. Stop-motion animation used to be a complicated, time-consuming process, but the emergence of easy, automated apps make it something creative that anyone can try — for free! We have tried and tested three simple iPhone apps, and we recommend that stop-motion animation beginners give them a go. Take a look through our video gallery of short stop-motion animations we made using the three, free apps. Then have a read below for more information about each app. Link us to your stop-motion creations in the comments below! 1. Stop-Motion Camera   Stop-Motion Camera is a bare bones app that is about as easy to use as it gets. It offers only manual shutter with no frames-per-second customization, and there's no way to save a project and come back to it, but if you're a total beginner and looking for a quick and easy stop motion solution, this app could be it. Click here to view this gallery. More About: apple, features, gallery, iphone, iphone apps, iphotography, photography, trending, Video
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| Top 10 Google Chrome Plugins for Small Businesses Posted: 04 Feb 2012 08:13 AM PST   This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. The Google Chrome Web Store has made it easy for anyone to stay organized, and the browser has gotten much faster, as we’ve noticed in the beta version of Chrome 17. But as the web gets bigger and stronger, so many apps and plugins are available that it’s hard to know which is the best for you. If you’re running a business and don’t want to be bogged down by multiple PC-installed applications, there are a couple of great go-to apps that you should become familiar with to help manage your day-to-day routine. Whether you need financial management or to check your email offline, here are some great options for small businesses using Google Chrome. Are you using the second-favorite browser? What plugins do you use to manage your business? Let us know in the comments. 1. Gmail Offline Gmail Offline beta is built to support offline access, so you can read, respond and archive without network access. After your first start-up, Gmail Offline will automatically synchronize messages and queued actions anytime Chrome is running and an Internet connection is available. There is also a great Google Mail Checker widget that notifies you of any messages in your toolbar. Click here to view this gallery. More Small Business Resources From OPEN Forum:
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| Super Bowl 2012: Everything You Need to Know About Watching It Online Posted: 04 Feb 2012 07:20 AM PST   This year’s Super Bowl marks a digital first: The game will be the first Super Bowl that you can watch online — legally. NBC, the broadcast partner for this year’s game, is going to stream the game live. NBC has actually been streaming some NFL games online since 2009, though never the Super Bowl. While it opens up the game to a whole new online audience, NBC sees it as a “second screen” experience — a complement to the TV broadcast rather than an alternative. Still, streaming an event as huge the Super Bowl (last year’s broadcast had a record 111 million viewers) brings with it a whole different set of variables. What devices can you watch it on? What extras will the stream have? And most important — will it have the ads? Read on for our comprehensive guide to watching Super Bowl 2012 online. BasicsHow can I access the stream? What devices can I use to watch? Can I access the stream from outside the U.S.? Does it cost anything? Will I be able to embed the stream on my website? The AdsWill I be able to see the same ads as on TV? As in years past, Hulu and YouTube will feature every national Super Bowl spot online. How much do advertisers spend on the online ads? Where can I watch the ads after the game? MobileWhat’s the deal with watching on my phone? Bell Canada customers can enjoy the Super Bowl live via Bell’s Mobile TV app for phones and tablets. Mobile TV data plans are an additional $5 a month. Is there anything different about the mobile stream? Just Verizon phones, though? Extra StuffWhat’s the resolution of the stream? Will there be any features you can’t get from the TV broadcast? What about 3D? What happens if the stream goes down? Why is NBC doing this? Bonus: The Most-Shared 2012 Super Bowl Ad Teasers So Far1. "The Bark Side" (Volkswagen)Not surprisingly, the sequel to the most-shared ad of last year's Super Bowl and of all of 2011 for that matter, is leading the pack this year. Volkswagen released this video last week showing dogs barking to the tune of Star Wars's "The Imperial March." So does that mean there will be dogs in this year's ad? More Star Wars? We'll know soon enough. Click here to view this gallery. More About: live streaming, nbc, second screen, Super Bowl, Super Bowl XLVI, trending
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