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Welcome to the Lunchtime Poll: Weekend Edition! If you’ve been following along with our weekly lunchtime polls, you’ll know what this is all about. If you’re new to the lunchtime poll, it’s all very simple: we ask you a question, and you answer it!
As it turns out, it seems like a lot of people enjoy [...]

Pandora got a large number of votes in our recent lunchtime poll for favorite music streaming service. And if you’re one of the proud subscribers to the Pandora One service, you’ve got some good news today: the Pandora Desktop App was updated to version 2.0.
Some relatively simple interface tweaks to the Pandora One AIR app [...]

Ruh roh — what to do when the tubes are clogged and Gmail is down? First: breathe.
Have you achieved proper air circulation? Excellent. Now check out our list of humble suggestions for your post-care treatment.

1. Immediately flood Twitter with tweets alternately proclaiming “Gmail is down!” and inquiring “Is Gmail down?” Gmail being down is [...]

You’re probably pretty familiar with the web series Harper’s Globe, Get Cookin‘, or lonelygirl15, but you’ve likely heard very little about EQAL the company behind the social shows and their web presence.
Today, they’re announcing at Twiistup that they’re branching out from hit web content and releasing Umbrella, their consumer platform product for social publishing and [...]

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: PadMapper
Quick Pitch: PadMapper is an apartment rental search engine that combines Google Maps [...]

The practice of sharing documents online via upload and embed is increasingly growing more popular. Case in point, DocStoc, one of the companies competing in this space, has been on tear of late, reporting 40% growth in traffic in the past month with a total of 8 million unique visitors.
To keep the momentum rolling, DocStoc [...]

Wait a minute, this can’t be true. In a StudyBlue survey conducted by SurveyU, students went on the record to say that they are much likelier to spend more than three hours studying online each day than participating in any other online activity, such as using Facebook or other social networking sites.
StudyBlue, an online academic [...]

As much as we’d love to look picture perfect in every photo, most of us, myself included, need a little retouching from time to time. Sure there’s those that just let it all hang out, blemishes and all, but for the rest of us there’s Photoshop or online photo editing tools.
PicTreat, one such brand new [...]

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: Stupeflix
Quick Pitch: Stupeflix is a web service that turns digital content (images, text, [...]