Facebook launched its first social widget for use outside of Facebook’s own site today: the Comments Box. The Comments Box is a comments widget that was built on top of Facebook Connect, and that will allow bloggers and publishers to easily implement a Facebook Connect enabled commenting system on their sites. A number of sites [...]

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That was quick. A day after trying to defend changes to its Terms of Use, Facebook has pulled a 180 and decided to revert to its previous terms.
Earlier today, the company began polling its users about the controversial changes, with only 6 percent supporting them and 56 percent opposing (the other 38 percent simply [...]

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We all know how much you like to Woot, so hitch up your pants and get thee to the Woot Off before all the good (somewhat good? crappy?) stuff gets taken. [Woot!]

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If you read any tech publication this week, you couldn’t have helped but encounter the brouhaha over Facebook’s revised Terms of Use. Now, Facebook has decided to return to its previous Terms - dated September 23, 2008 - until it can better determine how to proceed. To help ensure they don’t make the same mistakes [...]

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What were the most intriguing social media stories on Mashable this past week? What were you socially bookmarking, blogging, Twittering, “liking”, emailing and sharing with your online friends and followers from Monday through Sunday? It’s time to look back at the week in social media.
1. HOW TO: Live Inside Twitter and Still Stay Productive [...]

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Thanks to a new technology called Lenovo Constant Connect, Lenovo laptops will be able to sync enterprise-based emails with Blackberry phones at all times, even while the laptop is powered off.
By the power of Bluetooth, any enterprise based email will automatically be sent from your BlackBerry to your ThinkPad once configured. You won’t have to [...]

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The Android Market was designed to be the one-stop shop for all G-1 users to download applications for their mobile handsets. As such, it had a great deal in common with the Apple iTunes App Store - save for one specific feature: the ability for developers to charge for their apps. Now, even that feature [...]

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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 series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.
Name: SnapMyLife
Quick Pitch: SnapMyLife is a mobile-web community for instantly saving, sharing, and discovering [...]

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On any given day, there are thousands of people snapping iPhone photos and uploading them to Flickr. So many in fact, that the iPhone is one of the top five cameras. That’s amazing - but not for the reasons you’d think. It’s amazing because the default process of getting a photo from the iPhone [...]

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