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Today at the #140tc Twitter Conference in Seattle, Washington (which I keynoted this morning), HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes announced that its popular Twitter application will be integrating with both MySpace and Foursquare, starting this week at the South by Southwest Interactive conference.

HootSuite is one of the more popular Twitter applications, one specifically geared towards power users and businesses. It has been on a roll recently, launching integration with Wordpress and rolling out new updates to its iPhone and ..read more

We wrote repeatedly about Apple’s odd and often unfair application approval process. Instead of fixing it, Apple is just getting weirder and weirder about what apps are allowed in the store. The latest example is the sudden disappearance of several Wi-Fi stumbler applications from the app store.

Cult of Mac noticed that Apple has removed apps such as WiFi-Where, WiFiFoFum and yFy Network Finder. These apps scan Wi-Fi networks in the vicinity, which is not very different from simply going ..read more

Another wave of Twitter phishing has erupted this afternoon, with a spat of direct messages that read “somebody wrote something about you in this blog here” with a link to an ominous short URL.

That short URL asks users to login to Twitter, but one look at your browser’s address bar indicates that it is not Twitter you’re logging into, but a third-party site that looks like Twitter. Once you provide said site with your login details, it DMs ..read more

MOG, an on-demand music streaming service with backing from both Universal Music Group and Sony Music, has raised $9.5 million in a new round of funding.

MOG, which has already raised over $10 million in angel and Series A rounds, launched in December with the goal of muscling into the subscription music business, with its value proposition being its $5 per month price and 256kbps streams.

Competitors include Napster, Rhapsody, and Spotify (though Spotify has yet to launch in the US).

According ..read more

According to Financial Times, U.S. officials have tracked down the authors of the malicious code used against Google in the recent attack.

First, U.S. investigators narrowed down the launch of the program to computers inside two educational institutions in China. Now, they’ve found a hacker, a “freelance security consultant in his 30s”, who wrote a part of the code that exploited a security hole in Internet Explorer, and was ultimately used to break into computers of Google employees. This hacker ..read more

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: MEETorDIE.com

Quick Pitch: Have you ever been invited to a lousy meeting? If so then you will love MEETorDIE.com.

Genius Idea: We love websites with a sense of humor and MEETorDIE.com certainly has that down pat. A creation of ..read more

Valentine’s Day has passed, and now that we have sifted through the roses (and the heartbreak) of the year’s most love-obsessed holiday, it’s time to return to the real world and all of the dating that it involves.

Earlier this week in our Web Faceoff series, we asked you, the readers, to choose between two of the biggest online dating websites out there: Match.com vs. PlentyofFish.

Not only are the two online dating hubs among the biggest in the business, but they ..read more

One of the first big “wow” apps for the iPhone was Shazam — hold up your phone to the radio or TV and BAM, find out what song is playing. Likewise, the Last.fm iPhone app was one of the first apps in the App Store for music fans. Today Shazam and Last.fm are partnering to bring features from both services together. When Shazam launched its premium versions, Shazam Encore and (SHAZAM)RED, last fall, it was unclear if the new ..read more

Twitter was abuzz this week with chatter about the iPad, performances at The GRAMMYs and relief efforts in Haiti.

Some of the top trends were predictable (Mashable’s Ben Parr successfully guessed at four of the ten last week), while others were unexpected.

The tendency for Twitter users to sign off with “Goodnight” has made that a top topic this week, while the “Retweet If” meme gathered momentum. Meanwhile, the Super Bowl is the dominant topic today, although these stats were compiled ..read more

According to Wikipedia and their Info page, Facebook was launched exactly six years ago, on February 4, 2004. Back then it was called “Thefacebook“, and it was originally located at thefacebook.com, but it’s definitely the same project.

Founded by Mark Zuckerberg, together with his college roomies Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, Facebook was originally intended to be a network only for Harvard students, but was later expanded to other universities and finally to everyone.

Intelligent design, a lot of smart ..read more