Jalen Rose is a former 13-year NBA star and current ESPN sports analyst but may be best known for being a member of the famous University of Michigan Fab Five . This year’s NBA All-Star weekend will be held in Dallas, Texas, and like all others that came before, it will …

Google keeps adding new features to Google Maps and Google Earth . The latest: As of today you can type in a restaurant or other place you like in Google Maps and receive recommendations of nearby places you might like just as much or more. Sure, it’s not quite as radical…

Dag Kittlaus is the Co-Founder and CEO of Siri . He is a serial innovator and consumer wireless Internet veteran of 10 years in both Scandinavia and the US. Siri is Dag’s third consecutive mobile product. In the near future, anyone who lives a connected lifestyle will be able to delegate their everyday…

First Conan O’Brien put The Tonight Show up for sale on Craigslist . Now he’s decided to sell himself there, too. He created a listing in the “Casual Encounters” section. He announced the listing on his show, saying, “This is a real offer.” We’re sure it’s…

The Facebook group I’m With COCO (the same one that we wrote about last week) organized rallies to support The Tonight Show ’s Conan O’Brien in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Seattle today. Artist Mike Mitchell, who designed the now almost iconic group image, is tweeting the I’m…

New data from social media analytics firm Sysomos shows that despite the U.S. traffic flatline , Twitter is still growing in popularity internationally. Whereas in June of last year the U.S. accounted for 62 percent of all active Twitter users, that number has fallen to 50 percent. Significant growth in countries like Germany, Brazil and Indonesia…

In 2009 the web as we knew it changed dramatically. Twitter graduated to become a media darling and a mainstream communication staple. Facebook became the most significant social network of this day and age. And Google changed the way we search. When historians look back on 2009, they’ll be forced to acknowledge Google’s…

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Usabilla Quick Pitch: Usabilla offers a fast and simple way …

Given carrier reputation and our own iPhone call drops, we were pretty surprised to discover, through careful testing in 12 markets, that AT&T’s has pretty consistently the fastest 3G network nationwide, followed closely—in downloads at least—by Verizon Wireless . Let’s get this straight right away: We didn’t test dropped voice …

Josh Warner is president and founder of Feed Company , which promotes and distributes brand videos, including campaigns such as Levi’s “Backflip,” Ray-Ban’s “Catch” and Activision’s “Bike Hero.” In three years, Feed has seeded more than 100 videos across the social web. 2009’s crop of…