Google Buzz just launched on Tuesday, but it looks like it’s already made a big splash with Gmail users. Now the Google team is moving quickly to make rapid improvements based on user feedback. First the numbers: according to Google, its Buzz service already has over 9 million posts and comments. …

Apple is rapidly approaching 10 billion song downloads. They’re counting down to the massive milestone download number, and doing it in style. But don’t blink or you might miss it. To speed along the process — though it really doesn’t appear that iTunes needs the extra push — Apple is greasing the …

The Red Cross text messaging campaign has raised nearly $18 million for Haiti relief, according to the State Department’s Katie J Stanton today. Just four days ago we reported that the total had passed $5 million . Promos during the NFL playoffs helped boost donations, Stanton explains on her Twitter feed . Now she&#…

Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com . Organizations are using Twitter for just about everything from ecommerce to legislative awareness. Given the variety of messages that Twitter can be used for, why …

There are Twitter apps for just about everything – managing your account from your desktop , finding local tweeters , tweeting on-the-go , and more. The one we just stumbled across though, Bet Your Followers , is unlike any app we’ve ever encountered before. Bet Your Followers is part social experiment and …

As a Twitter and BlackBerry fanatic, I’ve been reviewing most of the new Twitter clients for BlackBerry that come out. While TwitterBerry, perhaps because of its obvious name, has long been ubiquitous with Twitter and BlackBerry, UberTwitter , my personal favorite, has actually risen to become the most popular client for…

Earlier today, we were overwhelmed with reports of follower counts dropping for many users, as a result of Twitter’s purge of spammy accounts. We still haven’t noticed a (significant) change in our personal accounts or Mashable’s Twitter account , but it’s possible that this change is being delivered gradually …

Although Facebook has beaten MySpace in terms of traffic and attention ( both in the US and internationally ), MySpace is still the social network of choice when it comes to bands and music . Clearly, MySpace still resonates well when it comes to certain areas of interest; this advantage can be extended…

Earlier today we mentioned that Digg.com appears to have changed the behavior of its short URLs so they no longer go to the source of the story for logged-out users: instead they direct visitors to a landing page on Digg.com. The change has many negative implications for publishers, …

Forty years ago, on July 20th, 1969, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first human beings to set foot on the moon. The Apollo Program, though, was a decade-long project involving millions of dollars, thousands of scientists, and constant competition with the Soviet Union. The result was one of mankind’s most…