Social Media Observatory

Social media and technology had a great weekend, thank you very much. Even though it got off to a somber start with the funeral of pop superstar Whitney Houston, things picked up with tons of great news and cool tech coming down the pike to our Mashable door. If you were busy all weekend with all your fun and frolic, we have you covered here at the Weekend Recap, gathering…

Google is expanding its reach across social media — first with Google+, now with Leaderboard, a new feature allowing users to earn points for checking in to a location via Google Latitude. Last week, Google launched an updated vers

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