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It’s been a while since we’ve had some Gaga up on Mashable. Well, quit your crying, Little Monsters, because a “Born This Way” parody recently hit the web featuring none other than the X-Men.

This vid, which was created by the folks at The Warp Zone on YouTube, is a more elaborate version of an acoustic reinvention of the song, inspired by the film X-Men: First Class.

Naturally, this isn’t the first parody of Lady Gaga’s jam — Weird Al Yankovic famously featured a tune called “Perform This Way” on his album, Alpocalypse.

Which Gaga satire has been your favorite?

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This week’s top Twitter trends remained fairly stable, with few viral surprises.

Soccer remains at the top of the heap as the Copa América competition kicks off in Argentina. The not-guilty verdict in the Casey Anthony murder trial had the Twitterverse abuzz, landing the topic at number two. And Justin Bieber remains on our chart at number three, though the discussion these days tends to be less about the Biebs himself, and more about what it means to be his fan.

You can check Twitter trends from the past in our Top Twitter Topics section.

Top Twitter Trends This Week: 6/31 – 7/5

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This week’s top Twitter trends remained fairly stable, with few viral surprises.

Soccer remains at the top of the heap as the Copa América competition kicks off in Argentina. The not-guilty verdict in the Casey Anthony murder trial had the Twitterverse abuzz, landing the topic at number two. And Justin Bieber remains on our chart at number three, though the discussion these days tends to be less about the Biebs himself, and more about what it means to be his fan.

You can check Twitter trends from the past in our Top Twitter Topics section.

Top Twitter Trends This Week: 6/31 – 7/5

Data aggregate courtesy of What the Trend.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, 123render

More About: casey anthony, justin bieber, List, Lists, soccer, social media, Top Twitter Topics, twitter, Twitter Lists

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This week’s top Twitter trends remained fairly stable, with few viral surprises.

Soccer remains at the top of the heap as the Copa América competition kicks off in Argentina. The not-guilty verdict in the Casey Anthony murder trial had the Twitterverse abuzz, landing the topic at number two. And Justin Bieber remains on our chart at number three, though the discussion these days tends to be less about the Biebs himself, and more about what it means to be his fan.

You can check Twitter trends from the past in our Top Twitter Topics section.

Top Twitter Trends This Week: 6/31 – 7/5

Data aggregate courtesy of What the Trend.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, 123render

More About: casey anthony, justin bieber, List, Lists, soccer, social media, Top Twitter Topics, twitter, Twitter Lists

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Lady Gaga and MAC Cosmetics have launched a “digital, interactive movement” (a.k.a. a microsite, albeit an innovative one) to drive awareness for a line of lip color products that benefit HIV and AIDS-related charities.

Users are invited to upload photos of themselves at vivaglam.com, which will then be transformed into a “sequin” that becomes part of a matrix of sequins featuring other participants. Users are then asked to spread awareness via email, Facebook and Twitter; the more they share, the larger and more prominent their sequin becomes in the matrix.

These sequins will become part of a unique garment that Nicola Formichetti, creative director of French label Mugler and Lady Gaga’s personal stylist, will design for the 25-year-old pop star to wear at Paris Fashion Week in September.

In the month following its launch, 10,000 “little monsters” (as Gaga affectionately dubs her fans) and MAC fans have joined the movement — not bad, but by no means spectacular, given the resources on both MAC’s and Lady Gaga’s ends. (Lady Gaga alone has more than 10 million Twitter followers and another 38 million Facebook fans.)

This may well be because of the way the site is built. Users are required to fill out a sign-up form — a big ask in an era in which users can bypass most sign-up forms and authenticate via Facebook or Twitter — before submitting their photo, and only afterward are they prompted to share it on their networks.

Furthermore, users can’t target particular friends on Facebook — they can only post messages to their walls, lessening the impact of each share. The messaging is also generic and non-descriptive, saying nothing about what Viva Glam is and it’s involvement with HIV and AIDS charities.

The site’s leaderboard is also unclear; it’s difficult to visualize how users are performing relative to each other. Something like Fast Company‘s Influence Project mosaic would help participants contextualize their reach, and encourage a healthy sense of competition.

Execution failures aside, we love the concept and are excited to see the dress Gaga dons this fall. Try the site out yourself and let us know: How do you think the campaign could have been carried out better?

More About: Lady Gaga, mac, MARKETING, social good, social media

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Lady Gaga and MAC Cosmetics have launched a “digital, interactive movement” (a.k.a. a microsite, albeit an innovative one) to drive awareness for a line of lip color products that benefit HIV and AIDS-related charities.

Users are invited to upload photos of themselves at vivaglam.com, which will then be transformed into a “sequin” that becomes part of a matrix of sequins featuring other participants. Users are then asked to spread awareness via email, Facebook and Twitter; the more they share, the larger and more prominent their sequin becomes in the matrix.

These sequins will become part of a unique garment that Nicola Formichetti, creative director of French label Mugler and Lady Gaga’s personal stylist, will design for the 25-year-old pop star to wear at Paris Fashion Week in September.

In the month following its launch, 10,000 “little monsters” (as Gaga affectionately dubs her fans) and MAC fans have joined the movement — not bad, but by no means spectacular, given the resources on both MAC’s and Lady Gaga’s ends. (Lady Gaga alone has more than 10 million Twitter followers and another 38 million Facebook fans.)

This may well be because of the way the site is built. Users are required to fill out a sign-up form — a big ask in an era in which users can bypass most sign-up forms and authenticate via Facebook or Twitter — before submitting their photo, and only afterward are they prompted to share it on their networks.

Furthermore, users can’t target particular friends on Facebook — they can only post messages to their walls, lessening the impact of each share. The messaging is also generic and non-descriptive, saying nothing about what Viva Glam is and it’s involvement with HIV and AIDS charities.

The site’s leaderboard is also unclear; it’s difficult to visualize how users are performing relative to each other. Something like Fast Company‘s Influence Project mosaic would help participants contextualize their reach, and encourage a healthy sense of competition.

Execution failures aside, we love the concept and are excited to see the dress Gaga dons this fall. Try the site out yourself and let us know: How do you think the campaign could have been carried out better?

More About: Lady Gaga, mac, MARKETING, social good, social media

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Style Sheet switchers (or "colour theme choosers") are not really that new. Apart from that fact, they still are pretty fun to use and cool to see. I was wondering how jQuery could help me achieve this technique. While searching, I came across several solutions.

There is a problem when using these techniques, which I will explain later. I created a little work-around to create a better jQuery stylesheet switcher. We’ll simply change some colours for the user!

Make sure to check out the demo to view what we’re trying to accomplish.

  

The cute little monsters used in the demo are created by Fast Icon (Dirceu Veiga). Now, let’s take a look at how you can create something like this yourself!

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