Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week?
LinkedIn Introduces New Ads API:  This new program will “empower developers to build custom tools and solutions specifically to help social marketers meet their goals.” LinkedIn's Ads API program is only available to a select group of partners.
YouTube Automatic Captions Now in Six European Languages: Automatically created captions have been available in English on YouTube videos since 2009. Today, 6 more languages have been added to bring the total number of languages available to 10. Â Simply hover over the video below and click the closed caption (CC) button to see how it works in the original language or with the translation option.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLbpi6ZahtOH6DszcLA-HhzgvZCKMRi72o&feature=player_embedded&v=10eg2zcY4Qc
Discussion From Our Networking Clubs: Thousands of social media marketers and small business owners are asking questions and helping others in our free Networking Clubs. Here are a few interesting discussions worth highlighting:
- Guest expert Laura Fitton talks Twitter!
- Share your suggestions to improve this Facebook Page's visibility.
- Share your best blog post this week.
iTunes Gifts Now on Facebook: With Facebook Gifts, you can now “instantly gift your friends iTunes digital gifts and recommend albums, movies, games, apps and more, available on the iTunes Store.”
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Vimeo Launches New iPhone App: “Vimeo just launched a totally reimagined iPhone app that's awesomer, sleeker, more beautiful, way awesomer and also much more awesomer than ever before.”
Tumblr Breaks Into the Top 10 Sites in the US: According to Quantcast statistics, Tumblr is now in the top 10 sites in the US.
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TweetLevel: A tool to analyse your Twitter account and assess your influence.
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