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The most clicked stories from this week’s #Sports e-newsletter included the 10 best sports games for the iPhone, Mark Cuban’s take on smartphone usage during games and 2011′s sports social media stars. For these stories and more, read below and subscribe to #Sports below.

Hope you had a great holiday and Santa brought you what you wanted! This week we’ve got the Super Bowl live streaming online, Facebook’s private messages between pages and fans, and Twitter handles on jerseys.

The most clicked stories from this week’s #Sports e-newsletter included an NBA fan’s twitter stunt that landed him a job, UFC’s Dana White’s endorsement of Twitter as the greatest marketing tool of all-time, and the Phoenix Sun’s push for mobile marketing in 2012. For these stories and more, read below and subscribe to #Sports below.

Happy Monday! Did you take advantage of your extra hour of sleep yesterday? We certainly hope so! Well, here’s what we’re covering in this week’s Social Mashup: Glamour Magazine’s use of Social SnapTags to generate more “likes” for advertisers, Google’s “GoMo” mobile initiative, Twitter’s testing “Top News” and “Top People” in search results, and LinkedIn’s continued growth.

SoLoMo seems to be the latest buzzword to encapsulate the online world. To stay relevant in this social (So), local (Lo), mobile (Mo) space, it’s important to remember the consumer (because let’s be honest they’re the ones forking over the dough at the end of the day, right?) and to understand both their tendencies and behaviors.

Back to the work week! Without further ado, here’s what the Social Mashup has in store for you this week: LinkedIn introduces ‘Classmates’ tool, the LA Kings debut gamification, IBM and USC join forces to analyze MLB fan sentiment, and social media on mobile devices soars.

The Social Mashup is back for another week! Here’s what we’ve got for you: Foursquare’s new ‘Radar’ feature, the L.A. Dodgers ‘Social September’ promotion, Google+ adds hashtags and real-time search and last but not least the NBA players uniting through social media.

Activ8Social, in partnership with Kwarter, is proud to announce our first official infographic! Kudos to the team at Kwarter Inc who were the masterminds behind the in depth market research which was conducted to demonstrate how the young San Francisco start-up is poised to “change the game” in terms of how fans experience the games we love.

This week we saw the passing of one of the brightest and innovative minds of our time. Thank you Steve Jobs for inspiring us to think differently. You have no doubt left your mark on the world.

As for Monday’s Social Mashup, this is what we’ve got in store for you: Facebook’s new Insights Tool and ad unit, Samsung’s USOC Genome Project, Rdio’s free music streaming service and Samsung’s Olympics phone.

We’ve had one heck of the week on the east coast between earthquakes and hurricanes, but we survived it and hope you all made it through as well. For news this week, we’ve got Ticketmaster and Facebook teaming up to make your ticket purchases more social, Tweetsport for iPhone, Facebook photo filters and the New York Giants broadcasting tweets live on television this preseason. Here’s to a safe and natural disaster free week!