There's no shortage of reviews online for all types of products, but Tom Leung believes the vast majority are useless to readers because the people writing them don't know anything about your situation. That's why he decided to come up with an alternative called Yabbly. Yabbly, an iPhone app that launched in beta late last year, prompts users to describe their specific situation and concerns about

Startups, hardware, app fatigue: What's trending now at SXSW Interactive SXSW Interactive Director Hugh Forrest joined Fast Company's Anjali Mullany and Chic CEO's Stephanie Burns for a mid-festival recap of what's in, what's out, and what to watch for at SXSW Interactive 2013. The quick and dirty Sunday morning panel, "Current Trends at SXSW," covered what the experts have seen so far at the fest

Have you sent your first "Pheed" yet? Launched late last year, Pheed is a new social media platform that lets you share text, photos, videos and audio. Propelled by teenage users, Pheed topped the App Store's social networking category in late February. Though the company says the app is not just for teens, Pheed told Mashable the user base is 81% between age 14 and 25. Pheed's popularity with tee

AUSTIN - Danny Boyle is an Oscar-winning director behind films as diverse as Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours. As New York Times columnist David Carr put it, "just when you think you have [Boyle] pegged, he comes up with something else completely different and new." Boyle was at SXSW showing off a preview of his next film, Trance a film about an art auctioneer who gets mixed up wit

Facebook is losing its grip on kids, according to a recent article by CNET's Jennifer Van Grove, in which she cites complicated features and too much parental control. In this Sunday Comic, our friends Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech illustrate how parents might be dealing with this shift in demographic.

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