The sharing service ShareThis is familiar to lots and lots of Internet users — thanks to its popular plugin and sharing buttons. Now the service is introducing ShareThis Stream which adds a real-time and social element to what is being shared by your friends and other ShareThis users all over the web. The [...]

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It’s time once again to pit two contestants against each other in an all-out battle for the hearts and minds of Mashable readers. In this week’s Web Faceoff, we wanted to get a sense of which online console gaming service Mashable readers prefer: Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE, or Sony’s PlayStation Network?
Last week we saw HTML5 [...]

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Google, the world’s largest search engine and the owner of the world’s largest online advertising platform, has been granted a major U.S. patent for “determining and/or using location information in an ad system.” In other words, Google now owns a key patent for location-based advertising.
The patent, which was first discovered by Venturebeat, was [...]

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