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If you want to collect and share web content, and express your opinion in a structured fashion, where would you turn? Certainly not Facebook or Twitter, says Ramy Adeeb, founder of Snip.it, a startup launching this week in private beta to help you collect web content you want to save with your v...

Mashable Editor in Chief Lance Ulanoff recently opined that tech has simply become overly distracting for him — and it isn’t just a personal problem. The phenomenon even has a name: “Inattention blindness,” coined by a 2009 University of Utah study (PDF). The term was cr...

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The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Pen.io Quick Pitch: Pen.io is the fastest way to publish content online. Genius Idea: ...

For years, media industry observers have talked about convergence, with video entertainment someday moving completely online, morphing into an all-streaming entertainment cornucopia that’s only a few years away. When you look at this infographic from Sandvine (a company that makes devices tha...

Facebook’s latest data center is being built in North Carolina — its next one will be built closer to the North Pole. The company confirmed Thursday that it plans to build a server center in Lulea, Sweden, about 60 miles outside of the Arctic Circle. The new center will be Facebook&#...

Microsoft has laid out its vision for the next few years, and it’s a visual feast for techies and futurists. The dialogue-less video follows a woman taking a business trip, her daughter doing homework and a man in Hong Kong taking the subway to work all against the backdrop of a pulsing ele...

RIM’s apology and peace offering of free apps after a four-day service outage in early October did not appease all unhappy BlackBerry owners. Two separate lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. and Canada, both on behalf of all BlackBerry owners with an active service agreement at the time of...

Does actor and comedian Rainn Wilson really love fast food eatery Del Taco? Take a look at this trio of tweets Wilson sent, and tell us if you think he really does believe that the Del Taco Macho Bellgrande Burrito is actually as “Beeftacular™” as he tweets. Just before Wilson, ...

The United States is planning to open an embassy for Iran for the first time since 1980 — but only on the Internet. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the BBC that the “virtual embassy” would open by the end of 2011 and give Iranians information about visas and student exch...