Today during an interview at AllThingsD’s D8 conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg got grilled by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher on Facebook’s recent privacy changes, the resulting backlash, and the company’s long-term vision. By far the most tweeted about moment of the conversation came around a third of the way through, when Zuckerberg (who was [...]

Two topics that have been burning up our newsroom lately have been Facebook privacy and Twitter advertising. In the light of public and media scrutiny — and growing… Mashable!

Frank Barry, manager of professional services at Blackbaud and blogger at NetWits ThinkTank, helps non-profits use the Internet for digital communication, social media, and fundraising so they can focus on making a true impact and achieving their mission. Find Frank on Twitter @franswaa. With the recent news coming out of Chirp, Twitter’s first ever “official” developers’ [...]

Google has been very busy in the last couple of days. First came the rumors of Google’s venture into TV space with SmartTV. Then, Google offered to acquire Global IP Solutions (GIPS), followed by a slew of announcements at the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco, the biggest being the release of an open source, [...]

Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr appeared on Al Jazeera English this weekend to address questions about the dangers posed by Facebook, including the privacy concerns and the recent spat of out-of-control parties organized on the social network. Facebook’s Open Graph platform could be a huge boon for web businesses, but the privacy-related complications it brings up [...]

Our fearless leader, Pete Cashmore, swung by the Bloomberg studios earlier this week to discuss what’s happening in technology, the debate around open vs. closed web, and Facebook’s new Open Graph initiative and how it could hurt Google. It’s tough to argue that the last few weeks haven’t been filled with action in the tech [...]

Our fearless leader Pete Cashmore swung by the Bloomberg studios earlier this week to discuss what’s happening in technology, the debate between open vs. closed web, and Facebook’s new Open Graph initiative and how it could actually hurt Google. It’s tough to argue that the last few weeks have been filled with action in the [...]

The seminal series of TEDtalks currently available online (and addictively so) are about to reach a whole new audience thanks to the new TED Open TV Project. The new initiative will allow television broadcasters around the world to air the talks for free as well as create programming around them. Announced at the Web 2.0 [...]

At WordCamp SF yesterday, we got to talk to WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. He’s the man behind the Automattic empire, a collection of blogging software and complementary services, such as PollDaddy and the spam filtration system Akisment. Mullenweg chatted with us about the demise of Ning and how buddyPress, his solution for communities, can help [...]

Josh Williams, the grinning, long-haired CEO of the rapidly growing geo-social application Gowalla is the kind of guy who wears flower shirts and cowboy boots under a sports jacket when he goes to New York for meetings. Outdoorsy and family-oriented, he’s a visual designer turned social network founder, who goes by the Twitter handle @jw. [...]