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Bobbi Brown Launches Facebook Campaign to Revive Discontinued CosmeticsFor years, fans of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics have used traditional and social media to lobby for the return of lip colors that are no longer in production. This week, the cosmetics company is launching a Facebook campaign that will let fans do just that. The campaign will kick off with a video messag... Slate Gets Personal With Customized NewsfeedOnline magazine Slate is giving readers more control over the news discovery process with the Monday launch of MySlate, a personalized newsfeed made up of stories from the topics and authors of their choice. The newsfeed, which is modeled after similar systems from The Huffington Post and Forbes,... SOPA and Hollywood: Standing in the Way of Technological Innovation [INFOGRAPHIC]In case you’re still unclear about the U.S. Congress’s hapless SOPA legislation that went down in flames earlier this month, the Matador Network sums it up neatly with this angry infographic. Once you’ve read this infographic about SOPA, you might become angry, too. That’s be... How the Peace Corps is Building a Community of Volunteers OnlineWhen volunteers return home from service with The Peace Corps, they often want to stay in touch with fellow Corps members. Can social media help them do that? Yes, says Erica Burman, director of communications at The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA). The Peace Corps, a U.S. service progra... YouTube Cover Song Face-Off: Adele’s ‘Set Fire to the Rain’Each week, Mashable picks a popular song, finds 10 covers of it and asks you to vote for your favorite. More than year after Adele’s mega popular 21 came out, her third U.S. single — “Set Fire to the Rain” — from the album claims the top spot on Billboard‘s Hot 100... Pinterest Becomes Top Traffic Driver for Retailers [INFOGRAPHIC]Pinterest, a two-year-old social bookmarking site that lets users collect and share things they like on the web, is driving increasingly significant amounts of traffic to retailers’ websites. The service enables users to create online bulletin boards, or “pinboards,” for popular ca... Meme Machine: Top 5 Viral Hits of the WeekThe Mashable Meme Machine is a daily look at five hilarious viral topics spreading across the web right now. The weekend is finally here, and if you’ve been too embarrassed to look at photos of cats and Ryan Goslin at the office, we’ve got you covered with this week’s roundup of... How To Avoid Hiring The Wrong Person For Your StartupChris Rickborn is the COO and co-founder for Unrabble, a cloud-computing hiring software company that helps busy startups make great hires. In a startup, hiring a new employee can be a business-changing event. The smaller the organization, the more impact each employee has on its ultimate success... Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Loses ‘Call of Duty’ Top Spot While in Prison [VIDEO]Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom can’t defend his top-spot score in the game Modern Warfare: Call of Duty 3 from behind bars — he was recently bumped to the no. 2 spot by a player named Azaros. On Wednesday, a judge denied Dotcom bail, meaning he likely won’t be able to usurp Aza... 10 Hysterical Political Parodies on TwitterThere are countless parody accounts on Twitter — musicians, celebrities, cartoon characters and religious figures can all grace your feed with their presence. The most entertaining parodies, however, may be those of politicians around the world. For some people, real politicians who utilize Tw... |