Companies often use mascots as a marketing tool to strengthen its brand image. Twitter has the Twitter Bird, Android has the green robot, and so on. Facebook, on the other hand, just used a plain white font on blue background color. This sparked curiosity as the question was recentlyaskedon Quora:“Does Facebook need a pet (Android robot, Twitter bird, etc) to improve its corporate image?” Facebook ex-employeeEzra Callahanshares the story: True story: in the very early days of Facebook, Sean Parker wanted to make Facebook’s mascot a hedgehog....

Facto!is a place for you to tell the world how interesting you are by posting facts that people might not know about you. The Facto! service gives users a unique profile page that displays your entire list of amazing facts, and each fact itself has a unique url similar to a Twitter status update making sharing easy. Adding facts is similar to creating a status update on Facebook and Twitter and they’re discoverable by the Facto!...

The web has seen the introduction of a lot of music streaming services lately. Ever since the internet has embraced the concept of “the cloud”, more and more services have come forward allowing you to maintain a music collection, without wasting any local storage space. A lot of these sites offer a browser-based music player environment to manage and control your music — my personal favorites beingGroovesharkandRdio. However, since these are browser-based offerings, the media keys on your keyboard do not work to control the music....

This is a guest post by TJ Sassani, CEO and founder ofZozi, a startup that helps people discover unique experiences from abalone diving, to twilight kayaking, to shark cage diving. You can stalk him on Twitter:tjx The idea for my company came to me back in 2007 while I was shipwreck diving in Australia. A long running fear of mine has always been running into sharks. So on this trip, the inevitable happened, and I bumped into a school of bull sharks, a moment that should have been an extremely petrifying one for me....

You may remember our report on a new wave ofcounterfeit Apple Stores operating in Kunming, China where employees sold authentic Apple products believing they were under the employ of Apple. A new reportfrom the Wall Street Journal’s China Realtime Report casts fresh insight into the unofficial stores, suggesting that not only are staff well aware of their employers status but also care about selling “authentic Apple products, [where] customers don’t complain about the quality”....