The best way to describe Offermatic is this – imagine if Mint, Blippy and Groupon went off to Vegas for the weekend, got wasted and ended up in bed together. Nine months later, out pops Offermatic. Like Mint , Offermatic is a front end user interface to Yodlee’s robust financial network

Foursquare should pay attention, Booyah’s got some serious legs. The geo-based gaming service is launching MyTown 3.1, the latest iteration of its increasingly popular iPhone app

Every once in a while something hits our inbox that is just so…wrong…that we can’t not post about it. Today is one of those times. A new site called Cupidtino is preparing to launch

Dropbox’s effortless file sharing service is going mobile in a big way: the service has just launched its official Android application, a native iPad app (which comes in addition to a previously released iPhone application), and a new mobile API. The latter is most important: application developers on the Android and iPhone OS platforms will now be able to integrate Dropbox into their applications, allowing for effortless syncing from third-party apps like QuickOffice, GoodReader, and Fuze Meeting to your desktop.

It’s like deja vu all over again. Two years ago, Twitter used to be down all the time

Two US congressional representatives have released a draft of legislation that intends to reshape how online privacy and advertising currently work, at least sort of. The bill, announced earlier today, goes too far, according to some in the online ad industry, and not far enough, according to some privacy groups. If companies want to collect sensitive user information, like medical and financial records, social security numbers, or precise geographic location, they need to ask users to “opt-in” to share it with them, according to the draft.

The Federal Trade Commission will decide whether or not to approve the pending Google-Admob acquisition in a meeting tomorrow that will include the commissioners and the FTC chairman, says a source who’s been briefed on the matter. The $750 million deal was first announced in November 2009. The FTC has taken a particularly close look at the deal, and Google has made a significant lobbying effort for approval.

Facebook appears to have seen a small dip in its traffic numbers sometime over the course of February, according to our latest review of data from third-party web measurement firms, with growth returning in March. Here’s a closer look at what the firms see, along with what Facebook’s own data shows.

Today at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Paul Buchheit took the stage to talk about his current role at Facebook, as well as his previous roles at FriendFeed and Google (where he coined the phrase “Don’t be evil”). Buchheit is always a good interview because he isn’t afraid to speak his mind.

Today at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Microsoft’s Lili Cheng took the stage to give a keynote presentation feature some of Microsoft’s latest social projects. Cheng heads up Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs group, which was formed last fall to study the new social experiences that are emerging on the web. Cheng first outlined some of the projects that have already come out of the FUSE group, including the integration of Twitter results into Bing.