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Facebook Questions Officially Launches
Facebook has begun the rollout of a new feature, Facebook Questions, which will allow users to get answers to their queries from the entire Facebook community.Similar in concept to Yahoo! Answers,...
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“True Blood” and “Entourage” Fans Can Earn Rewards From GetGlue iPhone App
Social recommendation service GetGlue has just announced a new partnership with HBO that will let fans of shows like True Blood, Entourage and Hung earn stickers and rewards when they check in to the...
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TweetDeck and Echofon First to Get Twitter’s Real-Time User Stream
Twitter has begun testing User Streams, a new Streaming API that will finally give Twitter desktop apps real-time capabilities and streams.According to Twitter Developer Advocate Taylor Singletary,...
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How Social Media Can Make Us More Productive
T.A. McCann serves as founder and CEO of Gist. His past experience includes Vulcan Capital, Polaris Venture Partners, where he was an entrepreneur-in-residence. Prior to Polaris, he held senior...
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Cisco Apes Old Spice Campaign, No One Notices [VIDEO]
Hey, did you guys know that Cisco tried to replicate that super popular Old Spice video campaign yesterday? Neither did we.The other week, Old Spice launched a genius campaign in which Isaiah Mustafa,...
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Stop Making E-mail Etiquette Errors: Here’s How
Composing an e-mail is kind of like making out: Everyone assumes they know what they’re doing, but in reality plenty of people could use some pointers.We’re all pretty much constantly sending missives...
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QR Codes Used to Help Clean Up the Gulf
BP may have been able to cap the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, but cleanup efforts are really just beginning. In an interesting intersection between technology and social activism, QR codes...
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Microsoft Has a New Take on Street-Level Maps [VIDEO]
Microsoft is working on a new technology, dubbed Street Slide, aimed at reshaping the street-level mapping space currently dominated by Google Street View and Microsoft’s Bing Streetside.The company...
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Charity Just Got More Daring with New Website
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The...
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With Zuckerberg Gone Android, Will Facebook Get Better Mobile Apps?
Android users, rejoice! Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg will now be forced to feel your pain.The Android app for Facebook could be charitably described as less functional than the iPhone...
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YouTube Banned in Russia Over Racist Video
A court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia has demanded a Russian ISP block access to YouTube because the site hosted “Russia for Russians,” which was judged to be an extremist video.The court’s decision...
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5 Ways Facebook Questions Can Be Improved
Facebook’s newest feature, Questions, has the potential to bring social Q&A into the mainstream. But like most beta features and apps, Questions is somewhat fragmented, and suffers from usability...
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Google Makes Custom Web Typography Ridiculously Easy
Google has once again given an excellent new tool to designers and developers (and even CSS-savvy “common folk”) who long for better, more diverse typefaces on the web: a cool Font Previewer that makes...
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The New Kindle: Smaller, Faster, Cheaper
Today, Amazon announced the newest generation of Kindle, its popular e-reader.As hardware is wont to do, the newest version of the Kindle has become smaller and lighter while retaining its 6-inch...
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Opera Mini Serves One Billion Daily Page Views
Despite the fact that popular smartphones such as the iPhone and Android already have great web browsers, Opera’s Java ME-based mobile browser Opera Mini is constantly growing. According to Opera, on...
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Morning Brief: YouTube Banned in Russia, Amazon’s New Kindle, Motorola Earnings
This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and...
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Motorola Earnings Point to Strong Smartphone Sales Ahead
Motorola posted its financial results for the second quarter of 2010, reporting solid overall results and smartphone sales that hint at better times ahead. Motorola’s sales in Q2 were $5.4 billion,...
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Amazon: E-books Will Overtake Paperbacks by the End of 2011
Amazon predicts that it will sell more e-books than paperbacks by the end of next year, and that they will eclipse both paperback and hardcover sales combined shortly thereafter.“I predict we will...
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Why You Need to Monitor and Measure Your Brand on Social Media
Maria Ogneva is the Director of Social Media at Attensity, a social media engagement and voice-of-customer platform that helps the social enterprise serve and collaborate with the social customer. You...
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Groupon Eyes Further Growth with Personalized Deals
Groupon’s model has always been to serve to up a single daily deal per city, per day. Yesterday, the company nearly reinvented itself when it kicked off its Personalized Deals initiative.With...
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