Last week, when Google Chrome came out of beta, many of you wondered what the rush was, given the lack of support for extensions, not to mention the absence of a Mac version of the Web browser. Today, it looks like at least one other common request – auto-discovery of RSS feeds – is on the list ...

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If you said that they both posed topless, well, you’d be correct.  The actual answer I was driving at was that they’ve both had their Facebook accounts deleted. According to Nick O’Neill at All Facebook, there are (not surprisingly) quite a few Lindsay Lohans on Facebook. So, what did Lindsay...

Digg has sent a cease and desist to the company behind USocial.net, the website pictured above. Should we be surprised? The site is publicly advertising its service that lets you buy votes in mass quantity on Digg, Stumbleupon, and Propeller. The social news site has come under scrutiny for some of ...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting early this morning that an individual with strong ties to Silicon Valley is set to be named by President-Elect Barack Obama to one of the nations top economic advisory positions. Lawrence E. Summers, who served as cabinet secretary under President Bill Clinton an...

Jajah, which has been on the fast track to expansion by way of several partnerships, has just teamed up with Pageonce’s Personal Internet Assistant service so users can keep track of their Jajah activity at any time. This comes with additional alerts from Pageonce for account updates like a lo...

As has been widely reported by tech media outlets for a few days now, Facebook filed a lawsuit against studiVZ Ltd. in California federal court on Friday claiming the German network had copied its “look, feel, features and services.� Today the recipient of the suit issued a public response on th...

Mashable’s second stop on the U.S. Summer Tour was definitely the place to be! We named the time and place and San Francisco showed up in full force. It was a great mix of people, both new faces and those we already call friends, all mashing together in one place; literally as we packed The Mi...

This weekend and over the course of yesterday, Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop made the news for creating a new set of RSS feeds added to the site from FriendFeed. They called this the “Frienderati,” and it was a list of FriendFeed members as determined by a mystery algorithm worth following...

From the creators of BOXSTr, a file-hosting and backup solution, comes a new cloud-based storage solution called OpenDrive. Presently in public beta mode, OpenDrive acts much like a typical redundancy device, but its downloadable software utility connects your local life to the Web more fluidly, wit...