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Scribd — the online document-hosting service — is announcing a major play for the mobile device document market today: a new send-to-device feature, pending mobile apps, and fresh e-reader and smartphone APIs.

Scribd’s send-to-device function is a fantastic feature for consuming cloud-based docs on the go. Users can now send all Scribd documents to e-readers [...]

The random videoconferencing sensation Chatroulette has been all the rage lately, but we can’t blame you if you haven’t actually given it a try just yet. Casey Neistat approached the new site for a more scientific breakdown of what might be found there, confirming much of our suspicion and hesitation: the average composition on [...]

File under “strange and delightful” — CodeOrgan is a Flash app that turns any web page into music.
It analyses the text in the body of the supplied URL and follows an algorithm to render that site into a musical composition. It chooses a drum pattern, synth style and key based on the contents of [...]

The European Union’s Data Protection Working Party has given an express order to Google: Ditch Street View images taken in the UK after six months.
Computerworld reports that the working party found Google’s current 12-month retention time for the images to be a “disproportionate” length of time.
The party reported being “concerned that Street View continues [...]

Every week, we pit two web apps or companies against each other in our web faceoff series. In the past, we’ve put Android vs. iPhone, Digg vs. Reddit, and Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard order to see which one was truly the people’s choice.
This week, we’re tweaking the competitors a bit. Over [...]

It’s been yet another exciting matchup here in our Web Faceoff series, with the newcomer Google Buzz going head to head with Facebook and Twitter for the heady title of Mashable readers’ favorite social network.
Last week we saw free beat out premium in our online dating services head-to-head, and this week we wanted to [...]

Back in December, we discussed Google’s decision to shift focus away from Gears, its platform that allows web apps to work offline — instead the company would utilize HTML5.
In the Gears API Blog this week, Google has reinforced that decision, making it clear that the company “will not be investing resources in active [...]

Yes, it’s that time once again, folks — time for the Weekly Poll!
We’ve definitely got Google Buzz on the collective brain. We’ve asked if you’ll use it at all, and if you are using it, how are you using it? The choice of which other services to integrate into any other is one of [...]

Flash games and AIR apps are making the jump to mobile, starting with Google’s Android platform. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Adobe has unveiled AIR and Flash 10.1 for Android, both of which should arrive in the first half of 2010.
Adobe didn’t reveal all that much about the capabilities of Flash and AIR [...]