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    Google Analytics Mobile App: This Week in Social Media

    by Cindy King / July 7, 2012

    social media researchWelcome 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 Analytics Launches New Mobile App Analytics: Google Analytics has “a new set of reports in beta called Mobile App Analytics that help marketers and developers better measure their mobile apps.”

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    These new Mobile App Analytics reports are "tailored for mobile app developers and marketers."

    YouTube's Google+ Integration Makes it Easy to Change Outdated YouTube Usernames: Did you choose a cute username for your YouTube account and now you want to change it? YouTube users can now use their Google+ profile name for their YouTube channels without any impact on their YouTube channel.

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    "If you are currently YouTube user joeysam87, you can now appear as Joey Samson, the full name from your Google+ profile (with an actual space in the middle!), along with any photo you uploaded."

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    Google+ Platform Extending to Mobile: Google+ announces “an offering for mobile developers—the Google+ platform for mobile, in early developer preview.”

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    Google+ integration gets easier for app developers.

    Twitter and LinkedIn Break Up: “LinkedIn and Twitter announced an end to their partnership that allowed users to sync updates from the two sites.”

    Here are a useful social media tool and an infographic worth noting:

    Seesmic Ping: Seesmic's new mobile posting tool.

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    Check out this new mobile version of Seesmic to share your updates and stay connected.

    IBM CEO Study 2012: Here's an excerpt of the infographic created with the results of this study.

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    Click to see the rest of this infographic: How will CEOs change their use of social media?

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    About the authorCindy King

    Cindy King is the director of editorial for Social Media Examiner. She spent 25 years abroad in international business development and then built her own international business using social business networking.
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