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You know you can check in on Facebook, Foursquare and Yelp, but did you know you could check in to your favorite television show? Using apps like Zeebox, Viggle and GetGlue on your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or Android you can…and for some, you can get rewarded for doing so.

This week’s #SoMash is here with the top stories from last week, including Pepsi’s crowdsourced halftime opening, Kobe Bryant joins Twitter, and GetGlue’s top TV shows and movies of 2012.

This week’s #SoMash is here with the top stories from last week, including Facebook Mobile News Feed ads, the NFL’s online reputation plummets, and a redesigned GetGlue website.

Hope you had a great holiday! The Monday #SoMash is here with the top social media stories from last week, including Pinterest’s new editable board covers, Instagram for Android, the best time to tweet and Facebook’s new ad tools.

Excited for the 84th Academy Awards this Sunday? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences promises yet another socially engaging event. For all you movie buffs out there this year’s awards show has plenty of interactive digital features. Here’s how you can follow all the festivities, from the red carpet to the after parties.

There’s a famous idiom out there—”better late than never”—which is how we feel about staring into the crystal ball for 2012. As much as we would have liked to share this ebook earlier with our readers, sometimes other priorities take precedence over thought leadership.

What a year for entertainment “check-in” service GetGlue! Not only did the company surpass the 2 million user mark before the new year, but AdaptiveBlue, Inc. (parent company of GetGlue) has its eye on evolving the platform beyond simply rewarding users for checking-in to movies, music, and television shows.

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.

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.