Google's latest blog post has revealed what Oscars-related searches topped the hot search list during the Oscars.This is probably no surprise to most of you: some of the most popular searches were related to stars' fashion choices? So who topped the list? The leading fashion-related searches were Zoe Saldana's elaborate and purple Givenchy dress, Miley Cyrus' Jenny Packham number, and Sarah Jessica Parker.Designers who were popular in Google searches included Armani Prive, Elie Saab and Marchesa, who were worn by ...

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Today at the #140tc Twitter Conference in Seattle, Washington (which I keynoted this morning), HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes announced that its popular Twitter application will be integrating with both MySpace and Foursquare, starting this week at the South by Southwest Interactive conference.HootSuite is one of the more popular Twitter applications, one specifically geared towards power users and businesses. It has been on a roll recently, launching integration with Wordpress and rolling out new updates to its iPhone and Android Apps.While ...

The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; YouTube; Wordpress: these companies, built from the ground-up, are mainstays in social media. None of them were created by a large tech company, and all but one remains independent.It's an interesting phenomenon, when you think about it. Large tech companies have had limited to no success creating their own social ...

A huge thank you to everyone who entered our Best of the Best competition, and everyone who helped rate the entries. The winners have been chosen! To find out if you won the “freelance earner pack” worth over 00 - or congratulation the person who did - head over to this GraphicRiver forum thread.

GraphicRiver has just had its first birthday, and to celebrate we’re running our biggest competition ever: the “Best of the Best” competition. We’re looking for the top collections showcasing the best files that GraphicRiver has to offer. And the prize is a huge “freelance earner pack” worth over 00! Eligible collections must be submitted between February 17th and 26th, and the winners will be announced a week later. So get started. Don’t miss out! For more details about the competition ...

The blogosphere was literally split down the middle in terms of online buzz around the 82nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees. Both Avatar and The Hurt Locker each maxed out with three quarters of a percent (.75%) of blog post buzz across the web.The data in question comes from The Nielsen Company, who charted all blog posts since the start of February and found that The Hurt Locker's Best Picture and Director win mirrored the movie's rise in terms of ...

comScore just posted its monthly report on online video viewership, and the total number of videos viewed in January slipped slightly as compared with December.In December, 179 million people watched 33.2 billion videos. In January, it was 173 million people and 32.4 billion videos. It's not a big decline, and we already saw in one of our monthly top webisode round-ups that special holiday content can boost viewership during December, so we know that this probably isn't indicative of a ...

Having worked as a project manager at several companies and having to monitor my own projects there's a certain list of things I do to check on often (and I still do). Some of the things are SEO related, some are tech tasks, some help to achieve the marketing goals. Some of the things [...]

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