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Facebook Alternative Diaspora Launches September 15
Diaspora, the much-hyped open source alternative to Facebook, will release its code to the world on September 15, but promises that its creators are just getting started.Earlier this year, Facebook was...
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Facebook Looks to Develop More Social Startups
Y Combinator, an investment firm for early stage startups, will be upgrading its relationship status with Facebook today, as Facebook has just announced a partnership with the venture company.The...
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Google Simplifies Event Scheduling in Calendar
Google is launching a revamped version of Google Calendar’s event page with a focus on simplicity and coordinating multiple schedules.The updated version of Calendar has already begun rolling out and...
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No Parents Allowed: College-Exclusive Social Network Launches
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup...
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One Million Calls Placed From Gmail in 24 Hours
If you’re as big as Google, there’s no such thing as a small product launch. So when Google introduced voice calls into its webmail service Gmail, essentially launching a Skype competitor, it was bound...
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YouTube Launches Movies Section for UK Residents
YouTube has launched its Movies section for UK residents, with 400 free movies in the catalog.The UK version of the Movies section follows the launch of the Shows section of the site, which brought...
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Morning Brief: Facebook Valued at $33.7B, Apple Severs Ties with Tablet...
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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SCVNGR Brings Location Game to Facebook Places
Taking an if-you-can-beat-them, join-them-and-beat-them attitude, SCVNGR is today unveiling its integration plans for Facebook Places and launching new features to take of advantage of both Facebook...
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Gmail Bug Turned Some Users into Spammers
This week, a Gmail bug caused duplicate messages to be sent from some user accounts. In certain cases, the same messages were sent over and over for several days, which, as you can imagine, must have...
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Mayor Wars: A Battle For Foursquare Supremacy [VIDEO]
This November, Americans will head to the polls and choose from a multitude of candidates vying to become the next senator, governor or mayor.But one particular race won’t be determined by popular...
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Illustrator Turns Cute Animal Meme into an Art [PICS]
Do you like adorable animals? Do you like adorable animals doing silly things? Do you like adorable animals doing silly things that have become Internet famous? Well, then, we’ve found your new...
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4 Beer Companies with Social Media On Tap
Terry Lozoff is President and CEO of Boston-based experiential and digital marketing agency Antler. He has been on the front lines of the non-traditional marketing industry for a decade and has worked...
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Hands-On: Netflix for the iPhone Brings Big Movies to the Small Screen
As we noted yesterday, Netflix has just released its long-awaited iPhone app.The app, which is free for Netflix subscribers (subscriptions start at $8.99 per month), works with iPhones or iPod touch...
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Facebook Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over “Like” Buttons
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Facebook in a Los Angeles County Superior Court alleging that the company commercially misappropriated the names and likenesses of minors without parental...
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The Little Black Dress of the Future Doubles as a Cellphone
London-based fashion company CuteCircuit has just upped the ante in the Little Black Dress category.The company recently released images and a few details about its forthcoming M-Dress, a dark, richly...
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Google’s Latest Acquisition Is All About Facebook
Google has acquired Ångströ, a service for delivering intelligent search results about a person’s professional network. It has also hired its founder, likely in an effort to build a legitimate...
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Net Neutrality: 7 Worst Case Scenarios
Many consumer advocacy groups, web companies and startups are ranting about the perils of losing net neutrality. Net neutrality, they say, is what made the Internet what it is today by giving small...
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Microsoft Co-founder Sues Apple, Google and Facebook
Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen is suing Apple, Google, Facebook and eight other companies through his current firm, Interval Licensing LLC.The lawsuit alleges that 11 different companies, including...
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Mozilla’s Mobile Browser Alpha Hits Android and Nokia N900 [PICS]
Mozilla has just released the Fennec 2.0 Alpha for Nokia N900 and Android 2.0+ devices.Fennec is the code name for Firefox mobile and includes the ability to install browser add-ons and sync with the...
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