A new contest widget from ShortForm, an online video community featuring curated playlists, is getting viewers to watch 4 to 6 times the videos they normally do.   The widget, which lets brands and VJs engage fans by creating lists of videos that viewers can vote on, is being used for a ‘Best of the Best Goals’ contest launched by the major league soccer team the San Jose Earthquakes this morning.


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Milestones keep checking in to foursquare, as the location-based mobile app followed up last month’s news that it had topped 10 million users with an announcement Wednesday that more than 500,000 businesses are now using the service.

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