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target="_blank" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?text=sdasdasd&url=http://mashable.com/2010/12/26/gadget-gifts-poll/"> style="border:none;margin-right:5px;" src="http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-digg-this/i/stumbleupon.png" align="right" /> href="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis/login?url=http://mashable.com/2010/12/26/gadget-gifts-poll/&title=What Gadgets Did You Get as Holiday Gifts? [POLL]&related=true&style=true"> style="border:none;margin-right:5px;" src="http://mashable.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-digg-this/i/diggme.png" align="right" /> target="_blank" share_url="http://mashable.com/2010/12/26/gadget-gifts-poll/" type="box_count" name="fb_share" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://mashable.com/2010/12/26/gadget-gifts-poll/&src=sp" style="text-decoration: none;"> style="border:none;margin-right:5px;" src="http://mashable.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-digg-this/i/fb.jpg" align="right" /> target="_blank" href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/12/26/gadget-gifts-poll/&service=bit.ly"> style="border:none;margin-right:5px;" width="51" height="61" src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://mashable.com/2010/12/26/gadget-gifts-poll/" align="right"/> src="http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/gift3.jpg" alt="" title="gift" width="225" height="224" class="alignright size-full wp-image-482017" />A couple of the major gift-giving holidays have come to a close, which prompts the staff at Mashable to poke our readers in the ribs and awkwardly whisper, “Hey, what did you get?”

We know it’s always…

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Right now, Santa is…

How do you get more kids reading the Bible? The so-called “Jesus Phone” of course! A company called YouVersion launched a mobile, interactive version of the Bible two years ago that got some attention when it won the people’s choice DemoPit award at TechCrunch50 in 2009.

Today it runs on eight platforms, is in the top ten iTunes apps overall and has more than 12 million users across eight mobile platforms. It was bigger than Angry Birds at the time we shot the video below, and then Angry Birds had a great December. But hey, close to Angry Birds is still pretty good.

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It’s hard to argue against…

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Yang was part of the team that created blockbuster social/casual game href="http://mashable.com/tag/farmville">FarmVille. He was CEO…

If you didn’t already know that the 2010 Mashable Awards will be the href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2pGkB7fz6U" target="_blank">event of the season, we’d like to give you a few more reasons to reserve yourself a seat.

In this video, awards show href="http://mashable.com/2010/12/09/join-baratunde-thurston-and-eclectic-method-at-the-mashable-awards/">host and…

Editor’s note: Contributor Jon Evans is an author and software engineer. He hails from the Great White North, but we let him write here anyway.

Report from the app-development trenches: it’s gettin’ kinda crazy out there. I’ve lost track of how many NDAs I’ve signed this year from people with app ideas. Old coworkers and previous clients have deluged me with so many offers of new work I can’t possibly take it all. Friends of friends want my opinion on whether their app notion might fly, and if I might want to partner with them.

The VP at my client Xtreme Labs has as his Gmail status, “I’m hiring 50 Agile Engineers.”  That doesn’t include their startup incubator Xtreme University. And this isn’t frenetic Silicon Valley, this is once-sleepy Toronto. My clients HappyFunCorp, an incubator/development consultancy in Brooklyn, proclaim on their web site, “We can only take on so much work, and because of that, there’s no contact information on our page.” None of my developer friends are underemployed. Supply is low, demand is insane. I realize the plural of anecdote is not data, but I can’t help thinking: this feels a lot like 1999.