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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!

Calling all golf aficionados and Foursquare badgers! The PGA Tour has recently partnered with the world’s check-in leader to offer an exclusive FedEx shipping discount on golf equipment, merchandise, and apparel as well as a limited edition Foursquare Partner badge.

We’re now less than 365 days away from the London 2012 Summer Olympics (and have been for some time now), but in case you were wondering about Sochi 2014, Rio de Janiero 2016, and PyeongChang 2018, we’ve got you covered with this cool countdown timer. This week’s edition of the Social Mashup features ESPN exclusive partnership with Foursquare, Skype’s acquisition of GroupMe, StumbleUpon’s continued rapid growth, and Google+ verification badges.

The QR code, despite it’s widespread implementation is still a vastly under utilized social media tool especially in terms of innovation and creativity (PS they don’t have to be black and white … scan this purple one). The power to give out a wealth of information while using minimal real estate yet not forcing the consumer to remember a website is incredibly powerful.

We’re one more sultry summer weekend closer to the revitalized NFL season, college football, and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows! On that note, today’s #SoMash includes MasterCard’s promo of the Yankees, live streaming of U2′s 360 Tour, Nielsen’s new Facebook ratings, and the PGA Championship’s social media push.

We hope you had a great weekend and are ready for last week’s top news in sports, entertainment, and social media. Today’s edition includes a major social media marketing push behind box office number one movie Cowboys & Aliens, the 2012 Olympics Twitter contest, Twitter’s new delivery of promoted Tweets, and finally Foursquare and Groupon’s official partnership announcement.

Today, we came across Kwarter, a new iPhone and iPad app, that’s soon to launch to the publics, and we are pretty stoked about it. The app sets to reinvent the live television sports experience by giving fans a platform to engage with friends, family and other like minded fans during their favorite team’s game.