Many of us are clueless when the name of this website comes up. ‘I think I’ve heard of it somewhere’, ‘something about blog or news?’ – these are some of the vague replies you get when you ask “what is Mashable?”
So, let’s dive deep and check out what the craze of mashable is all about.
The Beginning
In 2004, 19-year-old Pete Cashmore started blogging as he was recovering from a surgery. He brought to light the simple things going on in the tech world. Soon the blog started gaining subscribers and within 18 months it had about 2 million followers.
Cashmore launched Mashable in 2005 with the aim to provide news and information for connecting generations.
What is Mashable?
Mashable is primarily a news website that shares technology, social media and is dedicated to cover digital culture. But unlike normal tech blogs, Mashable focuses on specific domains rather than an overview of technological growth.
Mashable blogs and news posts are divided into several categories including business, tech, entertainment, lifestyle and many more.
How does Mashable help you?
From the coolest gossips in Hollywood to the political fights in white house mashable provides you the ultimate news in almost all domain. In fact, these news and media articles are short and fun to read. Not only do they enhance your knowledge, but also have an entertainment content in them to engage you and other readers.
So, next time you read something really cool in mashable, don’t forget to share it in the social media. Just go ahead and press those facebook share or twitter retweet button to get going.
Promote your website in Mashable
Mashable is a platform that also promotes a website. Actually, the news (scoops) shared by mashable are the original contents of some other website. So, once someone clicks on a link in mashable, they are actually sharing the link to your website. Mashable helps you get more traffic.
To submit news or Tips for mashable, you can email them or go to the writer’s page and submit a scoop. The scoop is nothing but a small section of the big story that would engage the readers and draw them back to your website for the bigger complete story.
Versatility
Mashable is a versatile platform available as a website, as an app in windows, android platforms and also as a browser extension. Basically, it will give you the notifications no matter, where in the world you are.
Verdict
The news shared in mashable may not always be 100% true, but then again we are aware of social media hypes. But very rarely such a scenario occurs.
Mashable actually acts as an interesting platform to increase your knowledge base. It is simply like storytelling and documenting the digital news and technologies and voicing them in the social platforms.
So, get hooked to mashable now!