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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Facebook has added a small but useful feature that makes Posted Items a bit more interesting. Now, when you click on a friend’s Posted Item, you’ll get a Facebook navigation bar “layered on top of the page you arrive on,” (in a new tab) as you can see in the example below.
The value here [...]

For some reason I cannot understand, Hot Or Not is one of the most popular concepts for an application ever to appear on the Internet. And, like many popular ideas, it’s very simple: look at pictures of people, rate their appearance.
Now, there’s a Twitter version out there, called Twit Or Fit, brought to us by [...]

Talk about a broad demographic: CoffeeBuzz is a new iPhone app targeting coffee lovers who use Twitter. Perhaps this is the iPhone app @starbucks should have built?
It’s no gimmick: CoffeeBuzz is a slickly-produced app, even if the need for such specialized features is questionable at best. Those features include:
1. Coffee locator: find coffee [...]

This post is part of Mashable’s Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials.

Company Name
InternshipRatings
20-Word Description
InternshipRatings.com is a resource for college students to rate and research internships in various industries across the United States
CEO’s Pitch
Lauren Grunstein and Stephanie Gurtman launched InternshipRatings.com in February 2008. [...]

This is a guest post by Angela Benton, Founder & Publisher of Black Web 2.0, a site that covers the internet industry from an African-American perspective. It was co-written by Black Web 2.0 General Manager Markus Robinson.
The release of Blackbird, an African American focused web browser sparked quite a bit of controversy this past week. [...]

I’ve pontificated many times on exactly how democratic and open certain social media tools like Twitter, FriendFeed and specifically Digg are. The idea is in most social media is that by getting a crowd together engaged in a great big free-for-all discussion, there will magically occur this effect known as “Wisdom of the Crowds.” [...]