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Opera Mini Serves One Billion Daily Page Views

By jorge | Published: July 29, 2010
Despite the fact that popular smartphones such as the iPhone and Android already have great web browsers, Opera’s Java ME-based mobile browser Opera Mini is constantly growing. According to Opera, on July 25th it served one billion page views. The mobile browser, which recently dropped the beta tag from the already quite polished version 5.0 , has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In June 2008, it was serving 100 million page views every day; in June 2010, this number was 910 million. Opera Mini’s distinguishing feature is its compression technology, which compresses web page content up to 90% on Opera’s servers before sending them to the actual device, which saves time and bandwidth
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The New Kindle: Smaller, Faster, Cheaper

By jorge | Published: July 29, 2010
Today, Amazon announced the newest generation of Kindle, its popular e-reader. As hardware is wont to do, the newest version of the Kindle has become smaller and lighter while retaining its 6-inch reading area. Contrast on the screen has improved by 50%, and page turns are 20% faster. Storage on the device has doubled, and battery life is up to an entire month.
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Google Makes Custom Web Typography Ridiculously Easy

By jorge | Published: July 29, 2010
Google has once again given an excellent new tool to designers and developers (and even CSS-savvy “common folk”) who long for better, more diverse typefaces on the web: a cool Font Previewer that makes adding a new font to your site as simple as copy/pasting a few lines of code. Back in May, Google rolled out its Font Directory and the Google Fonts API. The idea was that these tools would make it simpler for designers and devs to embed a wider range of fonts in their sites and applications.
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TweetDeck and Echofon First to Get Twitter’s Real-Time User Stream

By melissa | Published: July 28, 2010
Twitter has begun testing User Streams , a new Streaming API that will finally give Twitter desktop apps real-time capabilities and streams. According to Twitter Developer Advocate Taylor Singletary, Users Streams is now in “a limited testing period for desktop clients.” This is the first time that the User Streams API has been in the wild since its launch at Twitter’s Chirp conference . The Twitter Streaming API gives desktop apps the ability to auto-update with new events as soon as they happen. It covers not only real-time Twitter updates, but retweets, direct messages, mentions, favorites, following and search. We saw the demo of this feature at Chirp back in April, and it certainly made TweetDeck and other desktop apps a lot more useful
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Facebook Questions Officially Launches

By melissa | Published: July 28, 2010
Facebook has begun the rollout of a new feature, Facebook Questions, which will allow users to get answers to their queries from the entire Facebook community. Similar in concept to Yahoo! Answers , Quora and Mahalo , Facebook Questions gives users the opportunity to ask questions just by clicking the “Ask Question” button on the homepage. Questions is also available on friends’ profiles just as you would post on someone’s wall. We first learned of Facebook’s Q&A feature two months ago, when the company started asking for volunteers to beta test the product. The world’s largest social network even went so far as to promise beta testers a trip to Facebook’s offices to meet with the Q&A team
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How Women Use the Web [REPORT]

By jorge | Published: July 28, 2010
More women than men across the world visit social networking sites and spend 30% more time per month using them. As such, in the “Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet” report, comScore concludes that women are the digital mainstream, a group of savvy Internet explorers who are more engaged than their male counterparts, and are the primary drivers of online and group buying. comScore analyzed the Internet behaviors of women everywhere and found that while women make up a little less than half of the global online population (46%), their online behaviors drastically distinguish them from male Internet users.
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Pardon This Interruption: Kanye West Joins Twitter

By admin | Published: July 28, 2010
Yes, it’s true: Superstar rapper Kanye West has officially joined Twitter under the username @KanyeWest . The Grammy-winning artist sent out his first tweet earlier today. He is apparently in Silicon Valley meeting with technology companies. In fact, he performed yesterday at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto, California. To say the rapper has been critical of Twitter in the past would be an understatement
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HOW TO: Add Multimedia to Your Blog

By jorge | Published: July 28, 2010
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. A website without multimedia is like a cupcake without icing: Functional but lacking. These days, all manner of web pages from huge company sites to small business blogs are expected to add audio, photo, or video to their posts and homepages. While this all sounds well and good for multimedia companies that produce endless amounts of content, small businesses with text-based websites can run into trouble finding and providing appropriate content
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SCVNGR Launches Sophisticated Rewards Program

By jorge | Published: July 28, 2010
When SCVNGR CEO and founder Seth Priebatsch dropped out of Princeton to pursue his startup full time, he spent the first year of operations going after enterprise clientele. Thursday, those behind-the-scenes efforts will culminate in a significant release that introduces a rewards element to game play. At launch, 1,000 locations across the U.S. will begin rewarding SCVNGR users with freebies or discounts for completing custom-designed challenges at their venues.
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Motorola Mocks Antennagate with Full-Page Ad

By admin | Published: July 28, 2010
Samsung isn’t the only phone maker using the whole antennagate brouhaha to its advantage, Motorola ran an ad in today’s New York Times for its Droid X device complete with the slogan, “No Jacket Required.” In the copy for the ad, Motorola takes a slightly passive-aggressive swipe at Apple, noting, “it’s just one of those things that comes as a given when you’ve been making mobile phones for over 30 years.” Ouch! This is the ad: What do you think of the way other cellphone makers are using antennagate in their own advertisements? Do you find these ads persuasive? [ img credit: Evan Wexler ] [via 9to5Mac ] More About: Antennagate , apple , MARKETING , Motorola , new york times For more Mobile coverage: Follow Mashable Mobile on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Mobile channel Download our free apps for iPhone and iPad
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