"Do" is a productivity site and app designed to help you get things done, and the next-gen of the service is launching in beta this week. Do.com (get it?) lets you create to-do lists and then assign tasks on that list to other people. Used for both individuals at home and businesses looking to streamline how they work, the service can be used to assign everything from bringing a bag of chips to a

Twitter Alerts To Scrape The Olympics Site For New Tickets Are Proliferating An unofficial Olympic ticket alerts twitter feed which was accessing the official Olympics ticket site to spot when tickets for events were released has been blocked. But others are now appearing. Adam Naisbitt created @2012ticketalert on Twitter and deep-linked into the Olympics ticket site to allow people to find out ab

Here's How to Appear Higher on Google Search Results [INFOGRAPHIC] Admit it: You've Googled yourself quite a few times. But were you happy with where your name appeared in your Google search results? Each day, one billion names are Googled. Unfortunately for many, half of all people don't find themselves in the first page of results when they Google their own name. Only 2% of individuals own the e

American folk band Bon Iver, winner's of Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards in February, wants people to remix the songs from its album Bon Iver, Bon Iver. The 10 best recreations will be featured on Bon Iver's remix-only album exclusively on music-streaming service Spotify. The top music makers will receive $1,000 each if their versions make it onto the 10-track album. Dubbed Bon Iver, Bon Iver

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With Circl.es, Meet the One Your Friends Forgot to Introduce to You Name: Circl.es Quick Pitch: Date people your friends haven't introduced you to -- yet. Genius Idea: Help people find romance by connecting them to their friends' friends. The world of dating has changed a lot in the past few years. It's been just over a decade since online dating hit the mainstream, and only the past five years fo

Facebook’s Big Challenge: Building A Stable Platform For Developers While Maintaining User Experience Today at The TC CrunchUp at the Fox Theater in Redwood City, a group of founders and entrepreneurs took the stage to talk about the future of Facebook’s platform, where it’s been and where it’s going as a result. Although the company’s stock has been limping of late, Facebook continues to be impos

Peter Deng of Facebook said on stage at the TechCrunch CrunchUp today that the company’s mission is now focused on mobile. There is no single team that is focused on mobile, said Deng, Facebook’s director of product management. Instead, each group, be it the messaging or location teams, are thinking about mobile development. It’s the right team that makes for great development, Deng said. By break

Another Round Of Google Shutdowns: Google Apps For Teams, Google Listen & Google Video For Business Google just announced yet another batch of services it plans to discontinue in the near future. Most of these are relatively obscure products that probably didn’t have a large amount of traction. In this round, Google is shutting down three products, as well as a number of company blogs that had bec

We're not pulling your leg: Headphones for cats exist. But the fully-functional gadgets will set you back $1,000 if you really want a pair for your pet. Designed for electro-house music maker Deadmau5's cat, Professor Meowingtons pHD, the Meowingtons headphones hit the market this week in limited supply. Electronics company Sol Republic's made only 10 but may produce more based on demand. The proc

Facebook Doubles Release Speed, Will Roll New Code Twice A Day Facebook announced in a blog post today that they are doubling the site’s release speed, rolling Facebook onto new code twice per day. “Last week, in conjunction with the opening of our engineering office in London, we decided to double the release speed of facebook.com and indeed “ship often,” release engineering manager Chuck Rossi w

You can guess for yourself what Samsung might reveal based on the invitation below. The rectangular shape looks extremely close to that of Samsung's Galaxy tablets, slightly too short to be a phone. The pen strokes are the biggest giveaway: each model in Samsung's Note line of tablets and phones comes with a stylus, with specialized software. So far there's the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note phone, which la

If you are a consumer internet company you should constantly be experimenting with changes to your site or product. That's because no matter how smart or experienced you are at building things, not all of your ideas will be successful. The benefits of A/B testing -- testing two or more variations in a controlled random setting -- are well documented, with numerous websites devoted to A/B testing c

Microsoft Metro is no more; at least as a brand name for the design style found in Windows 8, Windows Phone and other Microsoft products. That colorful, boxy and built for touch-interfaces style will remain, but, for now, without a specific name. Here’s Microsoft’s official statement: "We have used Metro style as a code name during the product development cycle across many of our product lines. As

VP Mike Schroepfer: 7,000 Different Types Of Mobile Devices Access Facebook Every Day Why is mobile such a challenge for Facebook? Well, for starters, 7,000 different device types are used to access Facebook each day. At today’s Facebook Ecosystem Conference, VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer said that part of the difficulty Facebook faces in reaching mobile users is just that there are so many di

HTML5-Centric Artillery Raises $2.5M To Make the Browser The Console A challenging area that has seemed perpetually ahead of its time, HTML5 gaming has seen many startups come and go as Flash or native iOS and Android development have held their own. Yet the lure of having true cross-platform play keeps entrepreneurs coming. Now some former early Facebook and early Google engineers are attacking t

For all its successes Facebook has yet to conquer mobile. With that thought in mind TechCrunch is hosting our 5th annual CrunchUp today at the gorgeous Fox Theater in Redwood City, CA. Throughout the day leading developers, Facebook executives and industry experts will take the CrunchUp stage and speak on the state of Facebook’s platform, products, ads and mobile initiatives. Our live stream is av

Many campaigns have chosen to advertise through Google AdWords, which has offered localized targeting by ZIP code for months. While ZIP code targeting is all well and good for national political campaigns that want to blast messages across entire states, it leaves local politicians in the lurch. Congressional districts change with each census every 10 years and thus often don't align precisely to

Electronic Arts Sues Zynga, Says The Ville Is An “Unmistakable Copy” Of The Sims. Zynga: EA Doesn’t Understand Copyright (Updated) Zynga has a bit of a reputation for cloning other game developers’ ideas. Now, the company is being sued by gaming giant Electronic Arts on behalf of its Maxis label for “infringing EA’s copyrights to its Facebook game, The Sims Social.” Lucy Bradshaw, General Manager

A new outfit, as often as you want it, with accessories, for only $49/month. That’s what new fashion rental startup Le Tote is offering young urban women. And the founders are hoping that women’s rich history of sharing clothes will make the company as successful as some other rental successes. Netflix, anyone? “Women only wear 10-20 percent of what’s in their closet,” co-founder Rakesh Tondon exp

At the start of the semester, students haul more than books, clothes and furniture to campus. They bring a slew of bandwidth-sucking devices with them. The largest bandwidth-consuming devices used by students include tablets, smartphones, iPods, gaming consoles and e-readers. On campus, about 41% of students will have three or more devices connected to the Internet at one time. That's a problem fo

Having already built a working R2-D2 in 2002, Senna set himself a somewhat tougher task in 2010 with his Wall-E project. Based on the 2008 movie, Wall-E is a life-size version of a robot that never actually existed. To get the movements right, Senna worked from screen grabs and posters from the movie. Senna, who has a full-time job, spent 25 hours a week on the endeavor. The result is a real-life

Vizio pulled off something amazing when they introduced the Co-Star, the first Google TV box that features OnLive gaming as well as Netflix, Amazon and YouTube. It’s a set-top box that can literally fit in the palm of your hand and ships with a clever, dual-sided QWERTY remote. Plus, it sold out pre-orders in the first 12 hours it was available. With a huge “thank you” to Vizio, we are giving away

E Ink Holdings To Buy Shares From SiPix Technology In A Bid To Expand Role In E-Paper Market If the folks at E Ink holdings have their way, there may be plenty more e-paper displays sprouting up in your future than you may have expected. The company just recently announced that it plans to purchase a majority stake in fellow display manufacturer SiPix Technology and its Imaging subsidiary in a bid

45+ Events in Advertising, Social Media and Marketing Looking to fill your calendar with exciting events that will propel your career forward? You've come to the right place. We've rounded up some great upcoming events from Mashable's Events Board below. Check out this assortment of business conferences and exhibitions, where you'll have a chance to learn about fresh innovations in social media, m

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In December, the ITU will hold a conference to review and possibly change the treaties that govern international telecommunications traffic. Those treaties haven't changed in more than two decades, and there have been plenty of technological innovations in that time -- including some of the innovations that make possible a global Internet. Different countries will have the opportunity to submit an

NASA retired its 30-year shuttle program last year, but that doesn't mean Americans are done with space. The agency announced today that it will shell out more than $1 billion to develop commercial spaceships for Americans. The investment is part of the newly signed Space Act agreement through NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, which was put in place to spur on comme

Want to Learn About Evolution? Here Are 300+ YouTube Videos Evolution is a complex and often misunderstood principle. Fortunately, a YouTube channel called EvolutionDocumentary has done a bang-up job curating some of the very best films on the topic. Sources include the BBC, PBS, The Discovery Channel and National Geographic. In all, the channel boasts 12 playlists of full-length documentaries --