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2011 Portfolio Mashes Year in Film into 7:44 Epic Minutes [VIDEO]Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. This video finally answers the question: What would the entire year in film look like as one massive, epic trailer? Mashup artist “hatinhand” stitched together pretty much every major fi... Ralph Lauren Transforms Online Catalog Into Holiday Greeting CardsBy now, we know that online greeting cards can be a way to spread brand awareness among networks of friends, but can they be used to drive sales as well? Ralph Lauren is about to find out. For the holidays, the clothing company’s Rugby line has developed customizable — and shoppable ... RIM Executive Faces Charges Over BlackBerry ‘Stampede’ [VIDEO]RIM may have fallen on hard times in the U.S. smartphone market, but in other parts of the world, its device still commands incredible interest. In Indonesia, demand for a 50% discount on one of the company’s smartphones was so strong that a stampede ensued, causing injuries to s... Special Seats for Tweeting At Theaters: Annoyance or Enhancement? [POLL]Pulling out a brightly lit smartphone to compose a tweet during a symphony or ballet is generally considered a faux paus of the highest order. But in some theaters, it’s a welcome activity — in designated seats, at least. Connecticut’s Norma Terris Theater, Raleigh’s Carol... No Hope for the Russian Space ProbeThe European Space Agency has given up on efforts to revive Fobos-Grunt, the Russian space probe that was slated to visit the Martian moon Phobos, but got stuck in Earth’s orbit shortly after launch. The unmanned probe was launched on Nov. 9 with a mission to take soil samples from the Mar... Foursquare Tops 15 Million UsersFoursquare now has 15 million users, tripling its base since this time last year. Half of the users are in the U.S., while the other 50 percent are international. The New York-based tech company revealed the stats to ClickZ News in a pair of emails on Monday. Foursquare’s new high-water mar... Could Postal Service Budget Cuts Affect Netflix?The U.S. Postal Service announced Monday that it will begin cutting first-class mail services in March 2012. By shutting down processing facilities throughout the country and potentially eliminating Saturday deliveries altogether, the USPS hopes to save billions of dollars by 2015. Where does tha... The Experiment: A Working, Digital Rube Goldberg Machine in HTML5With their endless series of implausible chain reactions, Rube Goldberg devices are fascinating not because they look crazy, but because they’re almost always crazy enough to work. Now Honda’s bringing that crazy fun to anyone with a mouse thanks to “The Experiment,” a digi... Alicia Keys: Why I Turned to TumblrGrammy winning recording artist, songwriter and activist Alicia Keys has expanded her digital footprint to include “her latest obsession”: Tumblr. Over the past year, Tumblr has become more prominent amongst brands, musicians and the fashion industry. Even President Obama... Graphing Comes to GoogleGoogle has added graphing functionality to its seemingly ever-growing list of search bar capabilities, the company announced Monday in a blog post. Now, when users type in a function — for example: sin(x) — the first search result will be an interactive graph allowing users to explore... |