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For continuous World Cup coverage, check out Mashable’s 2010 World Cup Hub, which will be updated throughout the games.During this year’s FIFA World Cup games in South… Read more

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.Recent media coverage… Read more

As we noted yesterday, the launch of the new Google Buzz API means that applications like TweetDeck, Seesmic, Plancast and Boxee can now integrate directly with Google Buzz. Seesmic Desktop released its first version with Google Buzz support yesterday and today TweetDeck joins the Google Buzz party.The new version of TweetDeck also adds support for [...]

Interest in Google Buzz has been dwindling ever since its initial release, but that could soon change. Today Google announced that a number of notable web and desktop applications — like TweetDeck, Seesmic, Plancast and Boxee — have integrated Google Buzz via the new Google Buzz API.What this means is that starting today you can [...]

Last year at the Google I/O conference, the search giant created a tsunami of interest when it revealed Google Wave. This year the company is making the invite-only, real-time communication tool available to everyone — including Google Apps users — at wave.google.com.As you may recall, when invites first started rolling out last September, online users [...]

A Pakistani court has ordered the authorities to temporarily block Facebook due to a contest that calls for caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.The court order follows a petition by a group called the Islamic Lawyers’ Movement, which complained that the contest was “blasphemous.” A search on Facebook reveals two sites featuring such caricatures: one supporting [...]

Have you got a project cooking that you think is a certifiable winner? Well, tell us about it, then! It’s no good basking in the glow of your own genius all by your lonesome. Each week day, Mashable features one startup that we think is truly stellar (take a look at our Spark of Genius [...]

Relationship manager Gist has just launched the Gist Gadget for the Google Apps Marketplace. The Gist Gadget basically lets you find out way more about the people in your inbox, directly from Gmail.This means that when you get an e-mails, you can also get links to the sender’s Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, see what [...]

Following a drawn-out media and PR debacle, Facebook has decided to simplify privacy options for users.Tim Sparapani, Facebook’s chief of public policy, said in a radio interview today that because so many people have expressed frustration and confusion with the network’s granular sharing and privacy options, “We are going to be providing options for users [...]

Facebook and game creator Zynga, recently valued at $4 billion, have signed a five-year “strategic partnership” to maintain the symbiotic relationship between the social network and games like FarmVille, Mafia Wars and Treasure Island.Facebook Credits, Facebook’s virtual currency system, will be an important part of the partnership between the two companies and its use will [...]