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Voting ends tonight (11:59PM CT) in the Pepsi Refresh SXSW Challenge, where Mashable is supporting SparkHelp, a location-based mobile application that looks to connect people to opportunities to volunteer in their communities.

As a quick refresher, we’re competing against two other teams to help SparkHelp win $50,000 in funding so they can pursue their idea. If you want to help us out, you can append the hashtag #RefreshMashable to your tweets until voting ends, Read More...

While a lot of the smaller startups like Foursquare and Gowalla are getting much of the buzz at SXSW, Twitter isn’t sitting idly on the location sidelines. Sure, they launched location integration on their site a few days ago, but they’ve also apparently set up a sub-site totally around location for SXSW. But here’s the weird thing: It’s only for stalking their employees.

As co-founder Evan Williams tweeted out earlier, sxsw.twitter.com shows you a Google map Read More...

Here in Austin, I just finished introducing SparkHelp, the project Mashable has decided to support for the Pepsi Refresh SxSW Challenge. We’re competing against two other teams over the next few days to help get our idea $50,000 in funding, which will help make it a reality.

After lots of great submissions from our readers, we settled on SparkHelp’s simple and timely concept that we think stands to make a huge social Read More...

We’ve written about FunMobility’s nifty picture messaging app for the iPhone and Android, called FunMail, that allows users to blasts their text into the application, which then breaks down whatever the user typed for context and places fun graphics with your original text. Now, FunMobility has caught the Twitter bug and is launching FunTweet, a web service which turns any Twitter stream into visual messages that are related to the text.

Similar to FunMail, Read More...

Real-tme feed publishing startup Superfeedr has quietly turned on automatic location data in the feeds it republishes from around the web, we confirmed with the company today. Founder Julien Genestoux explained the feature using Twitter as his example, but the same content extraction and analysis is being done on all kinds of feeds run through the service.

“If you turn geolocation on in Twitter, then your feed will include geolocation in your Tweets and we’ll Read More...

Filed under: Multimedia, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touch, App Review

I’ve always liked Slate Magazine on the web. It’s sometimes sassy and irreverent, but always interesting — an eclectic mix of politics, culture and tech news.

Now, Slate has come to the iPhone in a US$1.99 app that features all the articles from the site, as well as the blog posts, staff tweets and streaming video from the Slate podcasts. Once content is downloaded you can Read More...

Microsoft today began rolling out its new MSN homepage, but not everyone will be getting it at once: the update will trickle out over the next few weeks to the site’s 100 million US customers. The software giant is touting the new version as “its most significant homepage redesign in over a decade.” It comes with a new MSN butterfly logo (which complements the Bing logo), a larger Bing search box and tighter integration with Read More...

The blogosphere was literally split down the middle in terms of online buzz around the 82nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees. Both Avatar and The Hurt Locker each maxed out with three quarters of a percent (.75%) of blog post buzz across the web.

The data in question comes from The Nielsen Company, who charted all blog posts since the start of February and found that The Hurt Locker’s Best Picture and Director win mirrored Read More...

We just came across Packrati.us, a simple bookmarking service that allows you to essentially sync your Twitter feed with your Delicious bookmarks. Once you sign up with you Twitter and Delicious accounts, Packrati will follow your Twitter feed, and whenever one of your tweets contains URLs, the site will add them to your Delicious.com bookmarks.

You can also bookmark URLs in @replies to you. In your Delicious account, the service will include any hashtags you Read More...

It seems hundreds of Twitter accounts have started to Tweet out “weight loss” product spam today.

Specifically, users who have had their accounts hijacked are Tweeting the message “I lost 20 lbs in 2 weeks!” and links to diet sites. Our source counts over 200 rogue tweets so far tonight.

It’s not just new users getting caught out: famous tech pundit John C. Dvorak (@therealdvorak) got caught up in the attack, and was none too Read More...