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In addition to free airport Wi-Fi, Google has another gift to you this holiday season — aka this flu season. They’ve been working with the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services to develop a tool for locating flu shot providers near you, located at google.com/flushot.
The tool leverages Google Maps to show you nearby vaccine [...]

Ever wanted to design your own Monopoly property? Now you can, thanks to Hasbro and Google.
We’ve been covering the new Monopoly City Streets real-world game using Google Maps since it launched earlier this month. Now, a “Design Your Own Building” competition gives you a chance to create a property that could win a place in [...]

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, [...]

Sometimes the same old email signature day in and day out just won’t cut it. If you’re a Gmail user looking for some ways to mix it up a bit, you’ve come to the right place. Here are five ways to spice up your Gmail signature.
These tips vary from the practical to the creative to [...]