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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 [...]

Yes, it’s that time once again, folks — time for the Friday Poll! This week we want to get a sense of how Mashable readers are reacting to all the services and features coming online that allow us to share our location information, from Foursquare, Gowalla, and Loopt to geolocation features in services like [...]

Last month, we reported that Facebook was transitioning from application notifications to e-mail notices. Today, the Facebook Developer blog has added further information about this new method and announced that as of March 1, 2010, app notifications will be discontinued. For users who hate being bombarded by app notifications in Facebook, this is [...]

While NBCOlympics.com has a really cool Twitter Tracker, much of its online strategy for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver has left much to be desired.
In addition to not airing events live to people on the West Coast, the network has made some downright bizarre decisions about what events to stream online at [...]

If you’re like me, the only time you pay any attention to the Olympics is when someone wears something brightly colored (Hello, U.S. snowboard team). Well, imagine my delight upon finding The Norwegian Olympic Curling Team’s Pants fan page, which is rapidly garnering followers on Facebook.
The page, which was launched February 16 or thereabouts, [...]

The Nielsen Company measured online buzz around Olympic athletes and found that skiers Lindsey Vonn (U.S.) and Alexandre Bilodeau (Canada) are the most buzzed-about gold medal athletes for their respective countries.
The analytics company compared online buzz surrounding gold medal winners in both Canada and the United States. The data comes from the company’s database, [...]

Teresa Basich is the Content Marketing Manager at Radian6, the social media monitoring and engagement platform. She blogs at Writing On Purpose and is @TransitionalTee on Twitter.
The Olympics. They’ve been talked about, reported on, blogged about, tweeted, YouTubed, Facebooked, Flickred, and then some. A sporting event of this magnitude is prime fodder for discussion [...]