GMAIL USERS: You’re welcome to join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account . Google Buzz is not a rival to Facebook or Twitter, says Google exec Bradley Horowitz — instead he sees it as a platform for conversation, and hopes other services will be able to flow in and out …

On December 4, 2008, Facebook Connect opened for business . It was the first major extension of the Facebook platform, allowing users to log into their favorite Web sites with their Facebook credentials and move their social graph anywhere on the Web. Now a year and five days later, Facebook is (belatedly) celebrating…

Great viral videos are hard to come by, but Volkswagen (or rather ad agency DDB Stockholm) appears to have hit the bullseye. Their new campaign “ The Fun Theory ” is a series of experiments, captured on video, to find out if making the world more fun can improve people’s behavior. …

Would you post your love-making locations on the web? Thousands of people are happy to, it seems, on a quirky site called I Just Made Love . It’s a simple idea: right click on a Google Map to post the location of your passionate moments, select “Indoor” or “Outdoor” and…

YouTube is having a less-than-reliable Saturday as unscheduled downtime is preventing video pages from loading. YouTube embeds around the web are also broken. While the YouTube front page continues to load, clicking any of these video thumbnails will deliver a downtime message. YouTube acknowledged the problems on its Twitter…

Are you a geek, a dork or a dweeb? It’s the question that’s plagued geekdom since time immemorial. Now a viral Venn diagram whizzing around the web claims to settle the issue once and for all: dweebs combine social ineptitude with intelligence, geeks combine obsession with intellect, and dorks…

This afternoon, YouTube tweeted out a link about an 11-year-old reporter interviewing President Obama. Intrigued, I clicked on it and checked out the video (embedded below). It was as promised: an 11-year-old named Damon Weaver from Canal Point Elementary School in Florida conducting a 10 minute interview with the President about …

It’s Independence Day weekend, and as people all across the US enjoy barbecues and fireworks, the top web companies are marking the occasion in their own ways: through custom logos and themes. While Google frequently changes its logo to mark specific events – both in the US and internationally &#…