Remember when you were young and you were tasked with the role of wagon leader and solely responsible for the fate of your fellow pioneers as you traversed the dangerous trail connecting Independence, Missouri to Oregon’s Willamette Valley? If you’re anything like me, you failed miserably at your duties, with settlers dying off faster than [...]

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Looking for something to decorate your fridge with this V-Day, here’s magnets of men weeping. Maybe it’s just me, but if I really wanted to see grown ass men cry, I’d just start dating again.
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A new charity effort called Twestival.fm, which bills itself as "a kind of Twitter-driven Live Aid", aims to raise $20,000 USD in 2 weeks using music donated by artists on Twitter. People can download MP3s for free, but are encouraged to give a donation in exchange. Twestival.fm currently has donated tracks from over 350 artists, [...]

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What were the most intriguing social media stories on Mashable this week? What were you socially bookmarking, blogging, Twittering, “liking”, emailing and sharing with your online friends and followers? It’s time to look back at the week in review.
1. Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand - Dan Schawbel on using [...]

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How wide is the hall to the “axle lab” at John Deere’s Edmonton, Alberta factory? Wide as two crazy men, according to this shot, sent by one of the show-offs. Two words, Ryan: Workers’ Comp.

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With online videos, you can never watch - or share - just one. But creating a playlist that allows you to share those videos - especially if they live on a number of different services - can be more difficult than it should be. Usually, you’re stuck with a series of links or a page [...]

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Samir Balwani is a social media marketer who helps businesses create effective web strategies. You can follow him on Twitter and get his newsletter.
As we battle a global recession, corporations are looking for new ways to sell their products and engage their consumers. Many have turned to the Internet, with Social Media in particular, to [...]

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Jajah isn’t the first VoIP app for the iPhone/iPod touch, but it’s the first that let’s you send/receive SMS messages over wi-fi. I got a brief look at it, and so far, so good.
Previously, the JaJah app for the iPhone was used as a middleman to connect people on VoIP to your cellphone, but it [...]

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Facebook announced a major update to its API tonight that will allow developers to read and post status updates, links, and notes to Facebook. In addtion, Facebook now also allows third-party developers to create applications that can upload videos directly to a user’s account. The service already had an API for uploading and viewing photos.
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Twitter spam is an ongoing issue, that in recent months, Twitter has become much better at dealing with. But as with the big social networks before it, spammers are getting more aggressive with their tactics, and software solutions are emerging to automate the process of mass-adding friends and blasting out marketing messages.
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