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From Mashable! Founded in July 2005, Mashable is the world's largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Media news. Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what's new on the web and offering social media resources and guides.
Stylitics Is an Analytics Dashboard for Your Closet [INVITES]
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Like Testing New Apps? BetaBait Will Hook You Up
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 detail...
4 Ways to Tweet as a Visual Brand
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Companies that rely o...
Olapic?s Crowd-Sourced Photo Campaigns Becoming a Sports Trend
Crowd-sourced social photo sharing appears to be the latest community engagement trend among professional sports teams, largely powered by the online startup Olapic. Olapic’s service allows ...
The Strange and Epic Lifestyle of Megaupload?s Kim Dotcom
If you’re not aware of Kim Dotcom, the man who changed his last name to pay homage to the World Wide Web, we offer you this brief history lesson. Born in Germany, Kim Schmitz (a.ka. King Kim...
10 Hot Web Startups Changing the Face of Retail
Macala Wright is the publisher of FashionablyMarketing.Me, one of the leading fashion and retail industry business websites. She is a retail consultant and business strategist who specializes in ma...
Travel Website Lets You Book Flights Featuring Wi-Fi, Live TV
Travel is so much easier when you’re prepared and know what to expect. Airfare shopping website CheapAir.com now lets you find out which flights offer Wi-Fi, live TV and movies before you boo...
Facebook IPO: Test Your Knowledge [QUIZ]
News of Facebook‘s IPO swamped the Internet earlier this week, when the company’s 213-page S-1 document went up on the SEC’s website, promptly crashing it. In addition to confirmi...
Smartphone Sales Overtake PCs for the First Time [STUDY]
If you bought a smartphone in 2011 — and didn’t buy a PC — you were part of a history-making trend. For the first year ever, total PC sales around the world were outpaced by tot...
Book Review: The Real Truth About Social Media
I was sent a copy of the book “The Real Truth About Social Media” by Eric Harr. Overall I found this book to be an easy read and full of real life examples of social media successes and f...
Fortune 500 Companies Still Slow To Embrace Social Media
Surprisingly data from a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research study that shows while many of the Fortune 500 companies are using Facebook, Twitter and corporate blogs, ...
Interview With Kris Narayanan, VP Digital Marketing At Samsung
Ready good interview by eMarketer?s Kimberly Maul of Kris Narayanan, vice president of digital marketing at Samsung. Narayanan oversees Samsung’s paid, earned and owned social media programs an...
What People Don?t Become Fans Of Your Page Or Brands
Companies seem to be in an arms race these days to get people to ?like? their Facebook page, as they hope to win more social media fans. Interestingly a new study from a June 2011 study from ExactTar...
Latin America Becoming Facebook Territory
According to comScore, Internet users inArgentina, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico and Peru are overwhelmingly choosing Facebook over any other social network. comScore also counted five Latin Ame...