Looking to spruce up your Twitter profile for the New Year? MyTweetSpace, which launched on Christmas Eve, is one of the slickest ways to create a custom Twitter background: choose a theme, enter as much or as little information as you like, and generate a new, hot looking Twitter background.

Almost puts our Mashable profile [...]

OfficeMax had a hit with ElfYourself, the dancing elves winter promotion, but a lesser known viral campaign of years gone by is equally novel: My Holiday Sweater lets you create your own holiday sweater and email it to your friends, personalized with your photo (or theirs).
For more fun holiday virals, check out 5 Original and [...]

Facebook is the social network of choice for millions of people, but like any site out there, we all have our own list of improvements we’d like to see. Luckily the Greasemonkey script community feels the same way and has come up with hundreds of scripts to improve your user experience. 
The scripts allow you to [...]

On December 25th, the now famous Shiba Inu Puppies will take their final bow and vanish from the Internet. I know that there will be collective weeping over this devastating loss to the Internet, especially as we try to find ways to fill in large, tedious chunks of holiday time.
But never fear! Mashable’s [...]

Mark Ghuneim is the Founder/CEO of digital marketing agency and technology incubator Wiredset and social media tracking service Trendrr.
It’s the time of year when people from many parts of the earth take time off to eat, drink and be merry, or something like it. But just how excited is the social media universe about the [...]

If you’re home for the holidays but looking for a change in ‘09, you’ve come to the right place. Mashable’s job boards are currently open for business and we at Mashable firmly believe that one of the lucky recipients of a new job can be you. This week and every week, Mashable will [...]

Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.
Brand monitoring has become an essential task for any individual or corporation. Years ago, when people talked about our brands, it was behind our backs and we almost never found out [...]

So, when you first heard about the iPhone’s application platform and how cool it was, what were your thoughts? I know what I thought: great, I can’t wait to see all the cool and useful applications we’ll see on this thing! I bet on location-aware apps to be the next big thing. I even threw [...]

There are now thousands and thousands of applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and sorting through all of them can be an absolute nightmare.
Did you know about all of the wonderful free music out there that’s just waiting for you? Ever wondered what the top pop song currently is in Turkey? Now [...]

Want to see if your friends, family, or colleagues are on Twitter? Now you can through the microblogging tool’s re-launched people search, which lets you query the service by username or first/last name to find other users. The feature had been taken down earlier this year when Twitter was experiencing significant downtime issues. [...]