Dial Into Google Hangouts By Phone: 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?

With UberConference You Can Dial Into Google Hangouts: With the UberConference app, you can now call into Google hangouts from your phone.

Tumblr Adds Support for SSL: “You can now take extra precaution against hackers and snoops by enabling SSL security on your Tumblr dashboard. Just head over to your Account Settings and flip the switch.”

“It doesn’t change anything about the dashboard; it just encrypts your connection to it.”

Path Adds Video to Android: “You’ll be able to share up to 30 seconds of video with the people you care about.”

“To capture a video, open the Path camera and hold down on the camera button.”

Here’s some other social media news worth following:

Twitter Introduces Data Grants: This is a pilot project in which Twitter will give a handful of research institutions access to their public and historical data.

Here are a few cool social media tools worth checking out:

Instaradio: An Android app that is a “new way to share your voice and the sounds around you.”

“Broadcast audio to anyone, listen to the people you care about, be featured in the Editor’s Picks and connect with your friends’ microphones.”

Peek Calendar: A tool that “cuts away the overwhelming features of mobile calendars.”

“It redefines an on-the-go experience for people to use when they need it, so that they are not consumed by its entirety and benefit from its existence.”

Fuzel: A tool that allows you to create photo and animated collages on your iPhone.

“Create fun collages with Fuzel’s creative tools.”

Other Mentions

Introducing Social Media Marketing World: 60+ pros help you master social media marketing! Join Chris Brogan (co-author of The Impact Equation), Mari Smith (co-author of Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day), Michael Hyatt (author of Platform), Jay Baer (author of Youtility), John Jantsch (author of Duct Tape Marketing), Amy Porterfield (co-author of Facebook Marketing All-in-One for Dummies), Mark Schaefer (author of Tao of Twitter), Michael Stelzner (author of Launch) and experts from more than a dozen brands as they reveal proven social media marketing tactics at Social Media Marketing World 2014—Social Media Examiner’s mega-conference in beautiful San Diego, California.

Check out this overview of the conference or click here for more details.

What do you think? Please share your comments below.