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Two weeks ago, German marketing agency Divia released a blog post and infographic inspired by our “Top 30 Teams on Facebook” white paper ranking each of the twenty (20) Champions League teams from 2011 according to the strength of their Facebook Page marketing. Dankeschön Divia for the shout out!

As we customarily do at Activ8Social in our spare time (because we simply love digital marketing and social media so much), we were scouring the social web for interesting thought leadership when we came across a compelling infographic about the human mind. The research and graphic design, both done by OnlineColleges.net, explores how Google is affecting our memory and how exactly we learn when we search for facts online.

Facebook’s f8 Conference last Thursday showed the largest social network has some major changes in store for your profile. With that said, this week’s Mashup is going to catch you up to speed on what you will be seeing in the near feature with Facebook’s new profile layout, Timeline. We’ve also covered Facebook’s new partnerships with Spotify, Netflix and Hulu. In other news, Google+ is open to the public and has a bunch of new features and Foursquare hit 1 billion checkins.

Calling all students and young professionals! Activ8Social is taking on additional clients so we are in need of motivated, talented people who love social media marketing and would like to consider building a career in the industry.

Last week, Jason Kottke from the famed kottke.org blog posted a screenshot of one of the earliest public versions of Twitter. The service was originally named twttr by Noah Glass (an original co-founder pushed out of the company by Evan Williams) inspired by photo sharing service Flickr and the five-character length of an SMS short code.

We’ve all checked in somewhere or at least seen a friend check in to a restaurant, sporting event or concert, but have you ever wondered what demographic is powering the social media check in and auto tagging their location? Well, we’re here to shed some light. Visible’s research in the infographic below was taken from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

Time to bust out the fall clothes and winter jackets. Temperatures are dropping on United States east coast, meaning those fun beach days are going to be a fond memory for the next few months. Sorry to cause any seasonal depression, but not to worry though, Monday’s #SoMash is here to cheer you up! Here’s this week’s top headlines: new photo sharing service Erly, Twitter’s new web analytics tool, Facebook’s Subscribe button, and the NHL’s social media policy.

Welcome back from the first weekend of the NFL regular season! This week’s #SoMash features Maryland’s uniforms which generated enormous social media buzz, the New England Patriots and JetBlue Facebook sponsorship, GetGlue’s growth in the entertainment checkin world, and Google’s recent acquisition of Zagat.

Welcome back folks! Hope you all enjoyed the holiday weekend. Nothing better than a three day weekend to kick off the college football season, unless you’re a Notre Dame fan. To start off the shortened work week we’ve got Southwest live streaming MLB games, Twitter ads from accounts you don’t follow, Facebook’s new music service launching this month and iPads on the football.