Which World Cup Fans Are the Most Passionate? Facebook Knows

On June 11 the world will be united by football — or as we Americans call it, soccer — when the 2010 FIFA World Cup begins in South Africa. The once-in-every-four-years competition has the the tendency to elicit…

Social Media Parenting: Raising the Digital Generation

Who are your kids friending on Facebook? What are they really texting to their classmates? How much online time is too much?

Too often, parents who are misinformed about the social web (willfully or otherwise) will shut their…

Gowalla Partners with National Geographic and Washington Post for Branded Trips

Location-sharing service Gowalla has just revamped its website and expanded its Trips feature. The Foursquare competitor is launching the new feature set with two big business partners — National Geographic and The Washington Post — who have produced…

MashMeet San Francisco: Join Us for After-Hours Networking

Join Mashable for an informal open gathering after Google I/O on Thursday, May 20th starting at 8:00 PM PT at the Roe Nightclub in San Francisco. Come hang with the Mashable SF team, including Founder/CEO <a
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HOW TO: Turn Slacktivists into Activists with Social Media

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.

Throughout the non-profit world, organizations struggle with social media’s impact on the volunteer and…

NYU Students Raise More than $100,000 to Build Facebook Alternative

Four New York University students have a vision to build Diaspora, “an open source personal web service that will put individuals in control of their data,” or essentially the anti-Facebook.

They started with just a dream…

Facebook: Facts You Probably Didn’t Know [INFOGRAPHIC]

Did you know that the second most popular Facebook Page is that of Homer Simpson, right behind Michael Jackson? Or that the overall amount of time spent on Facebook each month is 8.3 billion hours? (We shudder to think…