Faisal Shahzad, a U.S. citizen from Pakistan who has been linked to the recent attempted bombing in Times Square, bought the vehicle used in the plot on Craigslist.According to various reports, he bought the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder from its Connecticut owner via the website, paying the $1,300 asking price in $100 bills. The now-infamous Pathfinder was filled with explosives and parked in Times Square this past weekend. A nearby T-shirt vendor notified authorities when he noticed that the vehicle was emitting smoke.Shahzad was arrested at JFK Airport as he was attempting to flee the country for Dubai.You can see the Pathfinder in question in this video from the Associated Press: For more technology coverage, follow Mashable Tech on Twitter or become a fan on FacebookReviews: Facebook,
Alleged Times Square Bomber Bought Car on Craigslist
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Clicker Launches Live Web Video Search
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Video search engine and index Clicker has billed itself as a “TV Guide for television content online” but it hasn’t indexed live video streams, a large and important segment of web video. That changes today with the launch of Clicker Live.Clicker Live helps users browse and search live streaming, professional-quality video content just like the classic Clicker does with non-live streams. Every live video Clicker tracks has editable tags and streams, and links to the original source.Additionally, this new service provides a countdown clock for upcoming live events. For example, if you’ve heard that your favorite band plans to perform a concert live on the web, you can search for the band name or browse through the music category to find the event. Once you’re
ChoiceVendor Brings Yelp-Like Reviews to Businesses
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ChoiceVendor, a Yelp-like review service aimed at the B2B space, has left beta and officially launches today.ChoiceVendor aims to do what peer-review services like Yelp and Angie’s List do in the consumer space, but with denizens of the business sphere. The B2B space is actually an area where peer-driven recommendations can really come in handy, because if you are trying to find an IT consultant in your area, a business attorney or a place to rent office furniture, it can be hard to get started in that process unless you already have connections to make referrals. This is exactly the type of problem that ChoiceVendor aims to help solve. Businesses can add or claim their business on the service and then request that clients rate them there. Customers can rate their experience and al
HOW TO: Cultivate Your Brand’s Super Users
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David Spark is a veteran tech journalist and the founder of the firm Spark Media Solutions, which gives voice to companies by building their media network. Spark can be seen and heard regularly on Cranky Geeks, and blogs regularly at Spark Minute. Follow him on Twitter @dspark.Far too many social media marketing meetings begin by asking the self-centered question, “How can we get more people talking about us?” Generating “social buzz” is not easy. Just because you tweet and blog doesn’t mean people are paying attention.What if you were to flip that traditional marketing question around and ask yourself, “How can we pay more attention to our users?”That is the most common formula for cultivating super users. Once you have super users on your side,
OK Go Parody “Mousetrap Never Works” Becomes YouTube Hit [VIDEO]
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Yeah, pop band OK Go might have nabbed a Webby for Film & Video Artist of the Year, but you know what they say: Mockery is the sincerest form of flattery… Or something like that…In any case, comedians and online-video makers The Fine Brothers have recently released a parody of OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass” video via The Station, titled “Mousetrap Never Works.” And it’s already managed to rack up more than 300,000 views.If you’re not hip to YouTube controversy, “This Too Shall Pass” was first thrust into the limelight when YouTube and EMI disabled embedding on the first iteration of the vid. After they released a newer, more bad-ass, embeddable version (complete with a Rube Goldberg machine) with the help of State Farm
Mashable Wins 3 Webby Awards
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Mashable is honored to have won three Webby Awards in the categories Best Cultural Blog (Webby Award) and Best Business Blog (Webby Award and People’s Voice). We’re thankful to all the readers who voted for us.The Webbys, now in its 14th year, honors “excellence on the Internet.” This year’s winners include The New York Times, College Humor, The Muppets, National Geographic, CBS, Twitter, Next New Networks and TED.com.The Webbys also announces honorees each year for its “Special Achievement Awards.” This year, the list includes comedian Amy Poehler, film critic Roger Ebert, pop band OK Go and Internet co-inventor Vint Cerf.The 14th Annual Webby Awards will be presented by B.J. Novak in a ceremony on June 14 in New York City.For more social med
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HOW TO: Embed a Tweet
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As expected, Twitter has rolled out a new tool that lets you embed a tweet on a website. The feature –- which we confirmed was on its way on Monday –- replaces the need to take a screenshot and crop tweets, like we often do in blog posts when we want to quote someone via Twitter.Using “Blackbird pie,” you can create an embeddable tweet by first entering the URL for the chosen message in the form that Twitter has created (that URL can be found using the timestamp on a tweet – i.e. –- where it says “3 hours ago”).From there, click “Bake It,” and Blackbird will generate the code needed to embed the tweet on your website. Twitter notes when “you paste it into your site, the tweet will pick up some of your styling, e.g. the font-family you use on your p tags. That’s intentional!” Her
Google Invests in App that Predicts the Future
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Google Ventures has just invested an undisclosed amount in Recorded Future, a company that is working to accurately predict the future.As its name implies, the web application uses a wealth of quantifiable data from the past and present to forecast trends and predict outcomes. It likely has around the same level of accuracy, give or take, as a weather report.Recorded Future offers alerts on topics such as financial markets, geopolitical news, industry changes, public figures, technology and information security. The app can be customized to return results for an individual or other topic, as well.Predicting the future is big business in industries such as finance, marketing and bookmaking. The way the analysts in these areas make their predictions is also through quantifying and parsing
AddThis Toolbox Gets the Facebook “Like” Button
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Social sharing widget-maker AddThis is enabling users to integrate the Facebook “Like” button by adding a single line of code to the AddThis Toolbox.AddThis is now used on 1.2 million websites. It’s a familiar catch-all sharing button that lets blog and website publishers implement sharing across a huge and ever-expanding network of social platforms and web services.Here’s what the Facebook Like button will look like when integrated into the AddThis Toolbox:Justin Thorp, AddThis’s developer community manager, wrote today on the AddThis blog, “We see ‘Liking’ as another way for users to support the content they love and share it with their friends, fitting squarely into our mission of making it easy for anyone to share anything anywhere onli
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Ning: We Have a $4 Billion Market Opportunity
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It’s official: Ning has announced that it’s going premium. We had the chance to chat with Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal about what’s changing, what’s coming and why he believes that Ning has a $4 billion market opportunity.Two months ago, Gina Bianchini stepped down as Ning CEO. Since then, there’s been turmoil at the company: It cut 40% of its staff and shifted its business model to premium offerings.Rosenthal told me that Ning will now offer three products: Ning Pro, Ning Plus and Ning Mini. The Pro version, which will bundle all of Ning’s premium features and adds premium customer support, will cost $49.95 per month. The Plus version, which offers personal branding, unlimited members and some of Pro’s other features, will cost $19.95 per month.
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