Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn’t matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can execute,... 

Are any of you intending to rock? Well then I salute you and offer one of two You Rock Guitars from InspiredInstruments . This $199 git-fiddle is actually a MIDI guitar that connects with either the Wii or the PS3 and can be used to play games like Guitar... 

In a rather small survey conducted by a young psychologist, Facebook was shown to have some interesting correlations with self-esteem and narcissism in young adults. In a survey of 100 college students, young people with narcissistic personality traits... 

The 2010 Emmy Awards are this Sunday, and NBC is using the ceremony to embrace social media in a big way. NBC is using services such as Twitter , yfrog and Ustream to bring a more real-time experience to the event. These services will also let fans and... 

We’ve seen marriage proposals , political protests , high-profile resignations and daring escapes executed via Twitter; here’s a new one for the list of bizarre and significant tweets. Ben Huh , founder and CEO of the Cheezburger Network... 

While checking into a Facebook Places location recently, one Mashable reader noticed a new tab: Photo Memories. We’ve been unable to duplicate the same tab ourselves, which means Facebook may be testing this feature with a small number of users... 

Facebook has made its grand entrance into the geolocation space with Facebook Places . Will users embrace it and ditch Foursquare ? That’s the question we posed in this week’s Web Faceoff , our ongoing series comparing technology apps or... 

It’s been exactly one month after Diaspora , which aims to become an open Facebook alternative (much like OneSocialWeb and others) raised just over $200,000 in funding from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others through Kickstarter . Since then,... 

Ever since the new version of Digg was announced three months ago, it has undergone a lot of revisions and caused a lot of turmoil. In that time, Kevin Rose replaced Jay Adelson as CEO , reportedly unhappy with the direction Adelson was taking the company... 

As an early adopter brand , Starbucks has reaped the rewards of social media innovation. Today the company is furthering those efforts with a Facebook application for customers to access and manage their Starbucks cards. The application will go live...