Hasta La Gadget!

Here’s another way to capitalize on social media: make snack foods inspired by social media elements like emoticons and hashtags. That’s what Birds Eye Foods UK did with their latest offering called Mashtags.

It’s essentially a potato snack with its chips (can you still call them chips?) in the shame of smiley faces, asterisks, at symbols, hearts, and of course, hashtags.

Birds Eye brand manager Pete Johnson explained: “Social media is all about conversation and we’re confident Mashtags will resonate across various groups of people. We’re constantly looking for ways to innovate and inspire consumers and hope that Mashtags will get people talking around the table and help to make mealtimes more enjoyable.”

It’s a fun idea, but it feels like a novelty at best. What do you think?

[via C|NET]

When hashtags are used the right way, they are a great tool for quickly finding information on Twitter and Facebook. Jimmy and Justin show you exactly how stupid people look when they use hashtags other than a means to get information out to your followers. Even though it is a personal favorite in this video, I would never look up “#thatshowwedo”.

When you’re visiting somewhere either on vacation or business, we’re sure you can’t help but to tweet or publish a status update talking about where you are and your experience there. Not only do we want to share our experience, but deep down, we also like to secretly brag to our friends and family where we are, and where they aren’t. Now there’s a hotel that specifically wants you to use Twitter to help share your experience as well as communicate with them called @SolWaveHouse.

Sol Wave House offers a number of ways for you to communicate with its staff through the use of hashtags. Need your mini fridge to be filled? Just tweet with the hashtag #FillMyFridge, and you can expect a refill soon. That’s not all as the entire facility seems to have a number of signs with their appropriate hashtag to help them as well as your friends know where you are in the hotel, such as tweeting #BaliBed6 to let them know you’re hanging out at the pool.

If you’re a Twitter addict, pack your bags and head on over to Spain, which is where Sol Wave House is located.

Twitter-Powered Hotel Encourages Visitors To Tweet Their Experience original content from Ubergizmo.

Clickable hashtags are a major new Facebook feature, and now the social network is bringing them to the next level by rolling out related searches and mobile availability. We’re talking about its mobile site and (unfortunately) not its iOS and Android apps, making the former a better choice for browsing public status updates on the go. The introduction of related searches also makes it easier to discover new conversations, as searching for a particular hashtag brings up similar ones. Facebook analyzes which terms are often posted together, so looking for #equality also brings up posts tagged with #lgbt or #pride. These updates will soon show up on your accounts if they haven’t yet, and unless you despise hashtags, they’re icing on the cake.

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