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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Y Combinator startup Scribd has raised its second big round of financing - $9 million from Charles River Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Kinsey Hills Group. That comes on top of a $3.7 million Series A round in the middle of 2007, plus some scattered angel investments.
Scribd is a site where users upload PDFs and office [...]

Hamburg, Germany based XING, a global professional social network that’s strong in Europe, has acquired New York based socialmedian for an undisclosed amount approximately $7.5 million in total, a mix of $4 million in cash up front and an earn-out valued at between €0.5-2.5 million payable over three years. Socialmedian’s founding CEO Jason Goldberg is [...]

Virtual gifts have been fairly popular on social networks like Facebook, which offers a library of hundreds of gifts, most of which sell for a dollar (a few of them are free). But these gifts are generally all tied to the network they were purchased on, which means you can’t display the same giftbox [...]

It seems that everywhere I look, there’s someone telling us why corporate blogs are not only a waste of time if you’re looking for something to read, but they offer no value and should be taken down as soon as possible.
The detractors claim corporate blogs lack transparency, fail to adapt to the changing times, [...]

I know there’s a good portion of you that are going to instantly groan at the headline, either because it’s a territory that’s been hashed out a number of times from a number of different angles or because you’re one of those folks who simply doesn’t believe there are such thing as “killer” technology (I’ve [...]

You know you want Mashable on your desktop’s Dashboard — that way you can ensure you never miss a post and see articles real time as we post them! Interested? Check out Mashable’s brand new Mac OS X Dashboard widget made by one of our dedicated readers, Joel Then.

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Meet Lois Whitman-Hess, from the New York based PR firm HWH. Lois is one of the most obnoxious PR people you’ll ever meet, and the poster child for everything that is wrong with the industry. Consider this part two of my ongoing discussion of the industry.
Lois takes pleasure in making people miserable, and her specialty [...]