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What’s New This Week?
HootSuite Enhances Facebook Management: The popular scheduling tool HootSuite now supports Facebook Groups and Events, exclusive search streams, plus photo uploading directly to Facebook. Hootsuite has also enhanced refreshed the process for posting to Pages and Profiles.
Facebook Streamlines the Photo Viewer Tool: Facebook has made a few changes to their photo viewer, including bigger photos (720 pixels to 960 pixels) that load faster.
Facebook Ends Facebook Deals After 4 Months: Facebook Deals was launched in a few cities last April. This daily deal product (similar to Groupon) was only available in those cities and has now been discontinued. As Mari Smith notes, this is not the same as Facebook’s Check-In Deals which remain in service.
Blogger Gets a Fresh New Look: Google has refreshed their blogging platform. Blogger has both a new design and improved functionality.
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What social media news caught your interest this week? Please share your comments below.
