Category: Weekly News

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?
Facebook Announces New Look for News Feed: The "new version of Facebook designed to reduce clutter and focus more on stories from the people you care about." The changes are rolling out slowly and include new feeds and Facebook will now have the same look and feel on mobile, tablet and web. You can join the waiting list

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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?
Google+ Introduces Application Sign-In:  "Whether you're building an app for Android, iOS or the web, users can now sign in to your app with Google, and bring along their Google+ info for an upgraded experience. It's simple, it's secure and it prohibits social spam." This is the Google+ equivalent of Facebook Connect and Twitter authorization for

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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?
Twitter Officially Launches Their Ads API: "What this means is that as marketers, you'll soon have the ability to work with Twitter's initial set of Ads API partners to manage Twitter Ad campaigns—and integrate them into your existing cross-channel advertising strategies."
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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?
SlideShare Introduces Send Tracker for Email Tracking: "With SlideShare's new Send Tracker, a new content analytics tool for SlideShare Pro, you can now send content to a potential customer, see when they opened it, how they engaged with it and gain better insights on which parts resonated most."

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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?
Instagram Feed for PCs: Instagram has gone beyond its mobile-only interface and now allows you to browse Instagram feeds from the desktop – just like you do on your mobile device. Go to instagram.com and log into your account to give it a try.

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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?
Facebook Introduces Gift Cards: Facebook Card gifts are rolling out gradually in the U.S. You'll be able to give your friends "gifts to Jamba Juice, Olive Garden, Sephora and Target all on one reusable gift card from Facebook."  After you select a gift for a friend on Facebook and complete your purchase, your friend will be notified immediately and

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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?
Twitter Adds Mobile Video Capabilitity: Twitter introduces Vine, “a mobile service that lets you capture and share short looping videos. Like Tweets, the brevity of videos on Vine (6 seconds or less) inspires creativity.”  You can find out more about this standalone app here. Click the video to pause it.
Holding hands at Tilden park

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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?
Facebook Introduces Graph Search Beta: This new Facebook feature gives people the tools to "map out their relationships with the people and things they care about." Facebook calls this map the graph. Graph Search is a new way for you to find people, photos, places and interests that are most relevant to you on Facebook, and is currently available in

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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?
Google+ Pages Can Now Interact With Users Who Haven't Circled Them: A Google+ Page "can now +1, share, comment and plus mention personal profiles that have not circled them."

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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?
Facebook Introduces Poke For Mobile: Facebook Poke is "an iPhone app that makes it fun and easy to say hello to friends wherever you are."

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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?
Facebook Announces Nearby:  Facebook's new Nearby for iOS and Android apps makes it easy to discover new places your friends like. This provides more reasons for local businesses to build a Facebook Page and offers users an alternative to Foursquare.

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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?
Facebook Gives You Better Controls to Manage Your Content: Facebook's latest updates include "Privacy Shortcuts, an easier-to-use Activity Log and a new Request and Removal tool for managing multiple photos you're tagged in."

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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?
Google+ Rolls Out Communities: With this new feature, you can create public or private membership communities with discussion threads and integration with other Google+ features such as Hangouts.  "With Google+ Communities there's now a gathering place for your passions." Mobile functionality for Google+ Communities is coming

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