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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.

Welcome back from the weekend Mashup readers! This week we’ve got Twitter’s new redesign, Twitter brand pages, StumbleUpon Channels and Google+ check in offers.

Hope you all had a great weekend! The Monday #SoMash is back with a small but powerful lineup that includes Manchester City’s display of fan tweets, the Tampa Bay Lightning’s microchipped jerseys, and Facebook’s acquisition of Gowalla.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers! The A8S team enjoyed a relaxing weekend jammed packed full of football, food, and more football Without further ado, this week’s #SoMash reviews college football Rivalry Weekend’s hashtag end zone, Google+ livestreaming LBJ, CP3, and Melo, and Arizona’s major Twitter announcement.

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.

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.

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 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.

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!

Music and social media form the perfect union. In fact, music has overtaken social media. This isn’t really a bold statement like Nas claiming, “Hip hop is dead,” it’s just a statement of fact. Music has moved its residence, and it now lives on the internet, visiting Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube millions of times every second. CDs and record stores have been pushed aside to make room for their digital counterparts, iPods and iTunes.