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.

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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.”

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

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:

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

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

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

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