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YouTube is having a less-than-reliable Saturday as unscheduled downtime is preventing video pages from loading. YouTube embeds around the web are also broken. While the YouTube front page continues to load, clicking any of these video thumbnails will deliver a downtime message. YouTube acknowledged the problems on its Twitter feed earlier today, Tweeting: “We’re aware some [...]

Facebook Wave: Why Facebook Should Clone Google Wave

History is littered with good ideas that didn’t work out because they were ahead of their time. Tablet PCs didn’t work out a decade ago, but with technology advances, they’re poised to make a comeback. Microsoft’s local information web site Sidewalk.com was a bust in 1997, but now sites like Yelp and Google Maps offer local information that many people couldn’t fathom living without. [...]

WARNING: New Facebook Malware Attack Is Spreading

When Facebook attacks, it’s not pretty. We were just remarking on how new ways of spreading malware were plaguing social media, and now the second Facebook-related scam in the past week appears to be spreading. Have a look at the picture below, and if you see a profile similar to what you see in the screenshot, do not click on the video link. If you do, you’ll see a similar “malware [...]

Obama Assassination Poll on Facebook Was Created by a Minor

Earlier this week, a poll created using a third-party app on Facebook asked “Should Obama be killed?” The episode quickly garnered national attention, and the Secret Service was called in to identify who created it and determine if there was a credible threat against the President. As many of our commenters speculated, fortunately, there was not. The Secret Service has since been able to [...]

3 New Facebook Strategies for Building Your Personal Brand

Dan Schawbel is the bestselling author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog and a columnist for BusinessWeek. With over 300 million users, no one can deny the power of Facebook. In fact, 50% of users log in every single day and spend over 6 billion minutes on the platform. What are they doing on it? Depending [...]

4 Ways Social Media is Changing Business

Soren Gordhamer writes and consults on ways we can more creatively and effectively use the technologies of our age, including social media. He is the author of “Wisdom 2.0″ (HarperOne, 2009). You can follow him on Twitter at @SorenG. Social media is helping to forge a new era in business transparency and engagement, creating both new challenges and opportunities. Gone [...]

Gelato: Social Media Meets Online Dating

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: Gelato (Ge.la.to)Quick Pitch: Gelato is real-time search meets online dating. Think Friendfeed for dating. [...]