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Twitter acquires Summify for social aggregation

, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [2]

The folks at Twitter have picked up a startup by the name of Summify, a group whose main goal it is to aggregate the social media users around the world deal with on a daily bases. As Twitter scoops up this company, so too does the Summify team move over to San Francisco and their products be transitioned into Twitter-centric orbs. Their main service, the aggregation product which moves Twitter, Facebook, RSS, and other streams into one product, will be shut down inside a month. Read The Full Story

Google+ Record Video now live, looking rather familiar

, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [1]

If you didn't know that Google also owns YouTube, you'd be a bit suspicious of the interface used by Google in a new feature added to their social network allowing users to record video from their share box and post it for the world to see. Your own webcam will be your weapon here, and a rather simple interface is what you'll be using to make it happen. Once you've recorded yourself looking like a pro, you can post and share the same way you've been sharing the rest of the materials on Google+, with as many or as few of your Circles as you like. Read The Full Story

Facebook Timeline Apps spreads Open Graph to travel, food, more

, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook has officially launched its Timeline Apps platform, broadening Open Graph from its existing multimedia integration into the social network to cover travel, food, shopping, fitness and more. Announced back at f8 2011, Timeline Apps currently consists of over 60 “lifestyle” apps, including TripAdvisor, Urbanspoon, eBay, Runkeeper and Rotten Tomatoes, allowing Facebook users to share details of their hobbies and activities automatically.

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg blasts SOPA and PIPA

, Jan 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

There’s been no lack of smashing on the SOPA and PIPA bills in Washington today specifically because of the “blackout” agreement everyone appears to have silently agreed on – one name everyone should have been waiting on, a name that’s now in the ring against the bills where he should be, is Mark Zuckerberg. The face of Facebook has brought out his company in force with a small note on his own Facebook page, saying that they will “continue to oppose any laws that will hurt the internet.”

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Google+ mobile web gets hot updates, tablet apps still nowhere in sight

, Jan 18th 2012 Discuss [2]

Those of you participating in the social network known as Google+ over the past several months know that it can get quite addicting, and with the two value-added features Google has just rolled out for the mobile web version of the experience, surely the fun will increase tenfold. The new features include first the "What's Hot" category at the top of your feeds list. With this you'll be able to see the most shared and read items on Google+ at any given moment, this bringing the most popular bits in to your fingers at a single tap. Read The Full Story

Google+ gets photo meme creation tool

, Jan 17th 2012 Discuss [1]

Google has added meme creation tools to Google+, allowing users to easily add text to their images. Set to roll out over the coming days, according to senior software engineer Colin McMillen, the new tool simply involves uploading a picture to the sharebox on Google+ and then typing in some suitably comedic words over the top. Read The Full Story

Facebook Open Graph apps due Wednesday tip sources

, Jan 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook and its partner developers are readying the first batch of Open Graph apps that will "frictionlessly" integrate third-party services into your social stream, according to sources. The initial apps will arrive at an event this Wednesday, AllThingsD's insiders claim, ahead of a mandatory switchover to Facebook Timeline that could begin as early as this week.   Read The Full Story

Twitter adds 11 accounts per second!

, Jan 17th 2012 Discuss [4]

Social networking and microblogging on twitter are constantly growing it seems. A new stat has surfaced about twitter that is a little mind-boggling if you stop and think about it. TheNextWeb reports that Twopcharts has offered up a handy dandy chart showing Twitter is gaining 11 accounts every second. Twopcharts is a third party twitter app that looks at metrics and such. Read The Full Story

Murdoch on MySpace: “We screwed up in every way possible”

, Jan 13th 2012 Discuss [2]

Outspoken News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has given a blunt summary of the MySpace debacle, describing the company's attempt at the social networking market as having "screwed up in every way possible." Murdoch took to Twitter to answer "many questions and jokes" about MySpace, which News Corp. acquired back in 2005 for $580m. "[We] learned lost of valuable expensive lessons" the exec admitted. Read The Full Story

Facebook now lets you listen to music with friends and groups

, Jan 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook has just announced a new feature that will let you listen to music with a friend or with a group of friends via Facebook's chat service. There's already plenty of music services integrated into Facebook now, with your ticker notifying you of who's listening to what and when, but now you can easily hit up a friend or friends and play virtual DJ directly in Facebook. Read The Full Story

Google+ Hangouts adds screen-sharing & boosts to TV-scale

, Jan 11th 2012 Discuss [1]

Having revealed it has designs on your search results earlier this week, now Google+ has set its sights on collaborative working tools with the addition of screen sharing. The updated Hangouts - impromptu video calling held within the browser - now includes the ability to show fellow video chat participants what's going on in your screen, according to Hangouts designer Christopher Johnson. Read The Full Story

Twitter livid over Google search filtering

, Jan 10th 2012 Discuss [6]

Twitter has struck out at Google's new Search plus Your World integration of Google+ into regular search results, describing the move as "bad for people, publishers, news organizations and Twitter users." Google announced earlier today that it would be using Google+ information to better personalize search results for users, showing friends' mini-profiles, contextually-filtered topics and suggested new contacts in among the regular findings. That's obviously upset Twitter, which seems to believe it's being forced away from Google users' eyeballs. Read The Full Story
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