Google+ Pages Can Engage Anyone: This Week in Social Media

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.”

Foursquare Shows Users' Full Names Publicly: Foursquare sent an email to users advising of an update to its privacy policy.  Until now, usernames were displayed with a first name and the initial of the last name. “From 28 January 2013, full names will be displayed everywhere across the service.” Businesses on Foursquare will also be able to see more recent check-ins, instead of the three hours' worth visible up to now.

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Moolta: a tool to create and take on challenges for cash, moolta points or charitable donations.

Ritetag: a multi-network social media tool to help you identify hashtags with the best reach.

Pinto: a free tool for Facebook users to pin images to their Facebook albums.

Kumbuya: a new social commerce platform designed for original content creators.

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