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The Existential Trouble With Social Gaming [COMIC]
Ask any social media maven if he’s into FarmVille and he’ll likely slap you in the Facebook at the mere mention of virtual agriculture. Yet Zynga, purveyors of such feed-clogging digital crack, just...
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P&G Shifts Marketing Strategy From Soap Operas to Social Media
Consumer products manufacturer Procter & Gamble Co. is said to be ending its 77-year run as a prominent sponsor and producer of soap operas — a genre the company helped create — in favor of...
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Facebook Announces First Hacker Cup
Facebook is known for its hackathons — all-night coding sessions designed to help create new products or improve others. Now the company has announced its first Hacker Cup.Facebook says it’s...
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For Restaurants, Social Media Is About More Than Just Marketing
Jenny An is a Chicago-based writer with a focus on popular culture, food and travel. Her work has appeared in Time Out Chicago and VenusZine.Social media certainly has its benefits for those who love...
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Mapping Facebook’s Global Takeover [GRAPHIC]
Facebook seems to be a bit of an omnipresent entity these days. Once the domain of college kids, it now features users of all ages and has also turned into a promotional tool for artists, politicians...
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Brightkite Permanently Checks Out of Checkins
Brightkite, the company that pioneered the place checkin, is checking out of the competition. The Limbo-owned company pivoted to group texting earlier this year and has just announced that it will drop...
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View the “Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue” Flipboard Style [PICS]
Flipboard, which was crowned “iPad app of the year” by Apple, has just added the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition feed to the app.The feed, which is part of the Sports Illustrated Everywhere...
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Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Toy Edition
It’s December, which can only mean one thing: It’s time to celebrate consumerism gone horrifically rampant! That’s why this week’s YouTube theme is appropriately regressive: Toys!We asked The Fine...
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What Makes the “Most Influential Social Good Champions” Tick? [INTERVIEWS]
This post is brought to you by Yahoo!, sponsor of the Mashable Awards’ “Most Influential Social Good Champion” Category. Yahoo! keeps more than half a billion consumers worldwide connected to what...
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Instagram Updates With Support for Posterous and New Languages
Instagram’s hit mobile photo-sharing app for iPhone has just been updated with some key enhancements. Most notably, the application now includes Posterous support, mentions and translated versions...
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Thanks to Mashable’s Socially Savvy Supporters
Thanks to this week’s advertisers and partners for enabling us to bring you the latest social media news and resources. Mashable’s sponsors are as social media savvy as our readers!Advertise with us...
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WordPress Rolls Out New HTML5-Friendly Theme
WordPress has just introduced Toolbox, a brand new theme that will let its users take advantage of some nifty HTML5 elements with the Custom CSS upgrade.Toolbox is “a semantic, HTML5, canvas for CSS...
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Google Chrome Web Store: Confused Yet?
Google this week unveiled its Chrome Web Store, which does for the web what Apple’s App Store did for mobile devices: It provides a place to explore and “install” web-based applications.The launch was...
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U.S. Navy’s Record-Breaking Electromagnetic Railgun Shoots Projectiles at Mach 7
In a fascinating display of futuristic weaponry, the U.S. Navy broke world records today with a railgun, a device that sent projectiles hurtling around a range at speeds of up to Mach 7 and up to 33...
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Niche Job Board Finds Opportunity in Temporary Employment
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details...
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New Android Market Coming Soon
Android-powered devices will soon see a revamped Android Market that delivers a more slick and sophisticated way to discover and purchase apps.The rollout will happen over the next two weeks and will...
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Microsoft Introduces Montage, a Magazine-Like, Topic-Based Web App
At LeWeb yesterday, Microsoft demonstrated a pretty, new way to curate the web’s information: Montage.Montage looks and feels a lot like a glossy magazine web or tablet app. It works by allowing the...
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Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]
It was a bittersweet week in the Twitterverse. Some of us cheered for our entertainment and sports heroes while others lamented the loss of some notable public figures.Soccer (football) took the top...
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5 Classy Speaker Docks to Boost Your iPad’s Audio
A speaker dock for your iPad is a great investment for your home entertainment set-up. Besides offering vastly improved audio, it gives your precious ‘Pad somewhere tidy to sit and charge.Whether you...
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NASA Engineer Shows YouTube “Best of the Best” Shuttle Videos
Matt Melis, a longtime NASA engineer, has take to the ‘Tube to show off what he calls “the best of the best” imagery from shuttle launches, including hi-definition videoMelis has been in the launch...
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