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It’s been well documented that there aren’t as many women working in Silicon Valley and technology companies as we’d all like. Moving the conversation beyond raising awareness about this thing we’re all aware of, Kleiner Perkins’ partner Aileen Lee recently wrote a smart guest post for us arguing the business case for why Valley companies and VCs should be scouting more women. Namely, because they rule social media demographics.

That’s obviously most pronounced at startups designed explicitly for women, like PopSugar which boasts about 90% female employees. It has a pink Twitter feed filled with celebrity names. It’s likely too girly for a lot of girls. (Ahem, me.)

Bleacher Report, on the other hand, is staffed by a combo of jocks and geeks. Hello, day-old pizza and video games. Its offices boast 300-LCD TVs showing sports at all hours of the day. You can’t get much more testosterone-filled.

Guess who just happened to relocate its headquarters across the street from Sugar, Inc.?

So the inevitable was proposed yesterday: A good old fashioned junior high dance. Ok, that’s my phrase for it. They’re calling it a “mixer.” Essentially the two startups are going on a date. It was suggested and accepted via Twitter, and Eventbrite offered to coordinate the details. We understand dates and themes are in discussion now.

I used to talk to young entrepreneurs who said one of the reasons they relocated to Silicon Valley from LA or New York was because there were no women here to “distract” them. Along with our hopes of greater startup gender equality, it seems that’s destined to change.

Love this infographic that pictures in a eyeblink what happens on the Web every sixty seconds. 13k iPhone apps are downloaded, 90k tweets are shared, 168 million emails are sent. And this is just the beginning…

Bookmark this page. Or save the image. I bet you’ll gonna use it for your fancy presentations exactly as I will

But also remember to credit back to Shanghai Web Designers.

by Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo One day and iOS 5 has been hacked already. Gizmodo reader and Apple lover Mert Erdir has discovered how to upgrade to iOS 5 without developer accounts, using a simple backdoor. Everyone can do it following these extremely simple instructions: The method exploits a security flaw in the activation screen, apparently related to ...

We first heard about Tag Suggestions back in December.

The feature basically means that whenever you’re offered the chance to tag groups of your friends in an album, Facebook will use its facial recognition technology to group similar faces together and automatically suggest the friend you should tag them with.

The option has been rolling out to international users over the past few months, and according to a report from Sophos, the social networking site has been making the facial recognition feature a default setting. Facebook explained the rollout in a post on Tuesday.

If you don’t want Facebook to suggest you when your friends go to tag everyone in that picture from last week’s naked mud-wrestling pool party, here’s how you disable the feature:

1. Go to your privacy settings.
2. Click “Customize settings.”
3. Scroll down to “Things others share.”
4. Find “Suggest photos of me to friends.”
5. Edit accordingly.

Although this is an easy fix, we can see some privacy-focused users getting peeved about the option being turned on without their knowledge. And this wouldn’t be the first time Facebook has turned on a feature without users’ consent (heck, we even wrote an entire guide to Facebook’s privacy features).

What do you think of this latest change?

UPDATE: European Union data-protection regulators will be investigating the new feature and its privacy implications.

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Search engine optimization — SEO — seems likes alchemy to the uninitiated, but there’s a science to it. Search engines reward pages with the right combination of ranking factors. To help demystify what seems murky and inexact science to many, Search Engine Land has created a wonderful  “Periodic Table Of SEO Ranking Factors.” Click on the charts below for the condensed and full PDF versions.

Brilliant campaign by Canadian agency Rethink Communications.
“Notankers is a non-profit organization dedicated to banning oil tankers from Canada’s Pacific North Coast.”

Recent study by InboxQ, they deliver a realtime stream of questions related to your business, products, industry or general interests from Twitter, shows that Twitter serves as one of the most widely used and engaging Q&A apps.

Every month around 3 million questions are being asked on Twitter.  The main topics people ask about on twitter have to do with tech support, product recommendations, searching for jobs, relationship advice, and of course everyones plea for new music.

InboxQ have shown that the more followers you have, the more likely you will receive an answer. But around 20-30% of asked questions never get answered.

The below infographic contains tons of fun and valuable facts about how Twitter is being used by the common users and businesses to ask and answer questions.

Source: InboxQ

Best Facebook Ad ever.

This, is mobile search as it should be done: Do@ (‘doat’)

Cool fresh stuff from NYC artist Aakash Nihalani. I personally love the colours and the brilliant yet simple work he does.

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