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Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media & Web Events (Mashable)
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section . Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership. Mashable’s Weekly Social Media and Marketing Event Guide is proudly ...

Calling All Designers: Weebly Gives Users More Variety With New Theme Community (TechCrunch)
Weebly , the startup that allows users to build rich websites using a straightforward drag and drop interface, is about to get a lot more colorful. The site has opened a new Theme Community , allowing any of its 3.5 million users to submit their own themes for use by other Weebly members. To help launch the new feature, Weebly is holding a contest where it's giving $10,000 to the top submitted ...

Daily Proposition: Become a blogger. Everyone’s doing it (Crikey)
Put an online journalist out of a job, start your own blog tonight. The software is free and bloomin' easy to use. New blogger Elly Keating explains how.

Who Wants an iPad? The Young, the Social & the Pop-Culture Addicts (ReadWriteWeb)
Social media data company Rapleaf recently investigated the profiles of users who "fanned" the iPad on Facebook in order to get a better sense of the type of users who are interested in Apple's upcoming slate device. After analyzing the top three Facebook pages and their respective fanbases, Rapleaf discovered that there were some common themes among these users. The prospective iPad buyers on ...

Article: iPhone Gems: Top 12 Twitter Apps Reviewed (iLounge)
Over the past year the popularity of the Twitter micro-blogging service has continued to increase dramatically. With this growth, the Twitter service itself has expanded to offer new communication and social features. Mobile devices such as the iPhone continue to be popular platforms for accessing and sharing information on Twitter, and there continues to be a healthy landscape of Twitter ...

From Media Writer to Mediagazer: S.F.'s Megan McCarthy Launches Meta Aggregator (SF Weekly Blogs)
As technology - and the Internet in particular - has morphed into a horizontal vs. vertical industry, it's seeped its way into much of what we do. The way we consume media is no exception; ...

Effective Blog Design Part 1 (Search Engine Journal)
Blogs have almost become as ubiquitous as the internet itsself. With powerful CMS tools like Wordpress and Blogger it's never been easier to start a blog. In past articles I've spoken about the need to hire a professional web designer to get a great design or to rely on one of the thousands of free themes.… Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Effective Blog Design Part 1

Is SaaS a friend or foe of open source? (ZDNet)
Even where SaaS companies let customers take back their data, they often don't let them take the code underlying it, Dries Buytaert of Drupal and Acquia wrote in a blog post.