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25+ of the Latest Job Postings in Advertising, Social Media and Search

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage Social Media for Career Success and How to Find a Job on Twitter . But we’d like to help in a more direct way, too.
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Why QR Codes Are Poised to Hit the Mainstream

The QR code, or quick response code, is simply a two-dimensional bar code that came into being in 1994 and found a large audience in Japan. Stateside, however, QR codes — while clever for tying real-world objects to online content — have always remained on the outskirts of public awareness. Nonetheless, we’ve seen QR codes employed for creative purposes. The Detroit Red Wings interactive programs and the giant QR codes in Times Square come to mind. Each of these serves as prime examples of how QR codes could be on the verge of their breakout moment.
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Patriotic Quotations in Binary

Just in time for the Glorious Fourth, we bring you inspiring, patriotic quotations from America’s founders — in binary! In a sense, Thomas Jefferson could be called our country’s technical writer; James Madison, its system architect. And Eleanor Roosevelt was a social media strategist if there ever was one, although her time in the White House predated social media by a good fifty years or so. This novelty is brought to you by Code for America (CfA), a groovy open-source civic betterment project we found out about earlier this year . The quotations are available as PDFs — perfect for the patriotic nerds and nerdy patriots who might want to print these out and post them around IT as we approach the national holiday. As CfA staff member Abhi Nemani wrote on the company blog, “For centuries, [Gov 1.0 leaders] have helped define the very principles we want our fellows to realize through Gov 2.0: democracy, participation and patriotism.” If you’d like to translate the “binary art” messages from Code for America, we found this binary-to-text and text-to-binary conversion tool works nicely.
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Twitter Sets New Record: 3,283 Tweets Per Second

Despite massive Twitter activity due to ongoing World Cup match play, Twitter’s biggest tweets per second record to date was during last week’s NBA finals. That record was shattered yesterday as Twitter users published 3,283 tweets per second at the close of Japan’s victory over Denwark in the World Cup. These new numbers come directly from Twitter .
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HOW TO: Run an Online Daily Deal

Barrett Lane is a blogger for Yipit , the personalized daily deal recommendation service. You can find more of his posts on Yipit’s blog . He is also @barrett_lane on Twitter. Everyone loves a great deal, so it should come as no surprise that online daily deals are more popular than ever.
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Gowalla Teams Up with USA Today for Travel Tips

USA Today has partnered with location-based social network Gowalla to bring its travel content to the network’s users. Gowalla users who follow USA Today and check in at major U.S. airports will receive airport and airline news and features from the news organization’s Travel section and online community. Users can also embark on one of USA Today’s Trips, highlighting eight to ten destinations in ten major U.S. cities — New York, Seattle, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, Boston, West L.A., Las Vegas, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
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HOW TO: Send a Real Gift on Facebook

Sometimes flinging a virtual cupcake at a Facebook friend just isn’t enough. As you may know, Facebook has offered the option of purchasing real gifts since last summer. A big pro here is that you don’t need to know the person’s address to send them a physical gift. And like the Twitter gifting services we recently rounded up, the service makes it easy to integrate birthday, anniversary, and holiday shopping right into your favorite social network. Take a look at our quick how-to guide below, and if Facebook’s in-house offering doesn’t quite do it for you, check out the three alternatives we’ve also detailed.
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SCVNGR Puts the Game Back in Location-Based Gaming

Today, SCVNGR (scavenger), a location-centric social game that initially gained traction in the enterprise and at universities, is coming to the public by way of mobile apps for iPhone and Android. Backed by Google Ventures and Highland Capital, SCVNGR is already being used by the U.S. Navy, MIT, Princeton, Harvard and the City of Boston and now its coming everywhere (well, everywhere in the U.S.). Geolocation applications and services are nothing new — Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt and BrightKite are just some of the players in the space. So what makes SCVNGR different
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Terahertz radiation and metamaterials combine to form super X-Ray specs

It looks like somebody actually coughed up the extra dollar for the De Luxe model X-Ray specs in the back of Mad Magazine , then reverse-engineered 'em in the name of science. That somebody is Richard Averitt, whose team at Boston University has come up with a way to use metamaterials and terahertz transmissions to see through you. We've seen metamaterials plenty of times before, typically being used for nefarious deeds on the opposite end of the spectrum: invisibility cloaks. Here they form pixels for a digital imager that can be activated by THz radiation
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$400 Red Sox Beats Headphones Cost Nearly as Much as a Trip to Fenway [Beats]

Dr. Dre and the Boston Red Sox have combined forces to produce a branded Red Sox version of those notoriously expensive Beats headphones, just in time for Opening Day. The result of this union, predictably, is also expensive. More
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