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Crowdsource Your Relationship Issues

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: CouplesSpark Quick Pitch: Crowdsource your relationship issues with CouplesSpark
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“Jane Austen’s Fight Club” Fake Trailer Goes Viral [VIDEO]

A brief, though extremely well-produced, faux trailer has been making the viral rounds these past few days, depicting what would happen if they had fight club during the days of Jane Austen. We imagine a whole lot more boys would have been OK with reading Pride and Prejudice had Lizzy busted out with a roundhouse once in a while. The humor in the video seems to reflect a recent trend we’ve been seeing in literature, whereby classic books are injected with dark, incongruous humor — see Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (you can check about the book trailer for the prequel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls , on YouTube ) and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters . This little vid has been spreading across the web pretty steadily over the last few days, racking up more than 37,000 views and scoring mentions on blogs like Jezebel and video-sharing sites like PopScreen. Check it out and let us know what you think in the comments: Would you watch this film?
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Nook for Android Is Here

Nook for Android hit the Market for free download today, and it has some nifty features that make e-book reading easy and clean, even for someone who would much rather breathe in the dust of a library book than stare fixedly at her Droid X. A little less than a month ago, the Kindle for Android app came on the scene, much to the delight of the Google device-inclined. Although Amazon’s app is clean, simple and rather stunning (much more attractive than its iPhone counterpart and Borders’s Kobo-powered app, IMHO), Barnes & Nobles’s app has a few more goodies. First of all, the Nook boasts eight font styles and five text sizes — which means I can read Imperial Bedrooms in Times New Roman (no Comic Sans, alas).
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10 Fascinating Facebook Facts

Facebook’s astronomic rise, staggeringly large user-base, and world’s youngest self-made billionaire CEO make it one of the most fascinating companies around today. While everyone knows the basics about the service’s Harvard dorm room origins, we’ve delved a little deeper to find out more interesting snippets of info. Here are 10 facts you might not know about Facebook, so read on and let us know your favorites in the comments box below. 1
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“Twilight: Eclipse” Is Way Better in 8-Bits [VIDEO]

Twilight: Eclipse opens tomorrow, and if you’re anything like some of us over at Mashable, that equates to one big “I don’t care” in your book. Well, that was before you saw the 8-bit choose-you-own adventure version. The Fine Brothers — of “Mousetrap Never Works” fame — teamed up with The Station and Doc Octoroc (the animator behind the 8-bit Dr. Horrible game ) to write and direct Twilight: Eclipse – The 8-Bit Interactive Game .
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Trailer Hits the Web [VIDEO]

The first full-length trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , one of the most hotly anticipated movies of both 2010 and 2011, has finally made its debut on YouTube and the web. The film, which has been split up into two feature-length parts, is the seventh and final installment of the Harry Potter series. Like the book it’s based on, it promises an apocalyptic showdown between the forces of good and evil. Part one will premiere in theaters November 2010, while part two will hit theaters July 2011. The Harry Potter series has already proven itself a social media phenomenon.
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15 Awesome Android Accessories

Whether you own a Droid , sport a Nexus One or do the Backflip, there’s one thing you have in common with more than eight million other people — you operate on Google’s mobile phone OS, Android. To celebrate all that is Android, we’ve rounded up a whopping 15 fab items featuring the platform’s cute little green bot mascot. Each item could help spread the word and show some love for the ‘droid, so hit up our curated collection below and let us know in the comments which ones suit your fancy. 1
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YourNextRead Tells You What Book You Should Read Next [Books]

If you're looking to stock your summer reading list YourNextRead is a simple and crowd-driven tool for finding out what book you should read next based on the ones you've recently finished. More
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AT&T: drop net neutrality or U-verse gets it

Back when Google announced it was looking for cities to test its fiber-to-the-home trial network ,
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