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Shop-able YouTube Videos, MySpace for Millionaires, and Social Media Meltdowns | This Week in Social Media

by Fluency Media

Google announces shop-able YouTube videos Soon you’ll finally be able to combine two of your favorite pastimes—shopping and watching videos on the Internet—into one seamless couch-based activity. This week Google announced a new channel gadget that will allow brands to add shopping links for products featured in videos on their channel. The feature will only [...]

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The Top 12 Social Media Stories of 2012 | This Week In Social Media

by Lindsay Blackwell

Facebook’s IPO, the return of MySpace, the explosion of Instagram and Pinterest and Google+’s continuing battle for acceptance. It’s been quite a year for social media. Here are the top 12 social media stories of 2012 that shaped how we use social networking sites and our expectations for the future of the social web. Things [...]

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Instagram and Twitter break up, the Pope joins Twitter, and Google+ is still trying | This Week in Social Media

by Lindsay Blackwell

Instagram disables support for Twitter cards Images shared to Twitter from popular mobile-based photo-sharing application Instagram will no longer display in-stream on a user’s newsfeed, Mashable reports. Facebook—the company that recently acquired Instagram for $1 billion—confirmed Sunday that Instagram has completely turned off support for Twitter Card technology.  Twitter Cards are the technology that makes [...]

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Foursquare Open Invitation, LinkedIn Improves Personal Profiles, and Marissa Mayer Searches Google for Yahoo Execs | This Week in Social Media

by Richard Retyi

Foursquare Allows Non-Registered Users to Search without Checking In Foursquare is opening its Explore feature to non-registered users. The redesign will allow Foursquare to make recommendations and expand its audience beyond the usual check-in crowd. The move from a social check-in service to a search-and-discover service puts Foursquare in more direct competition with services like [...]

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Google Maps Adds 1,000 Marathons-Worth of Street View, Facebook’s “Want” Button, and Google+ Admin Support for Mobile | This Week in Social Media

by Richard Retyi

Google Maps’ Largest Street View Update The Street View feature on Google Maps added an additional 250,000 miles over 17 countries. This update was the largest in Google Maps’ history, and is available on web and mobile versions of Maps. The timing of the Google Maps update is salt in the wound to Apple, who [...]

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Apple’s iPhone 5, Instagram’s New Users and Google Docs with Liz Lemon

by Richard Retyi

Apple Unveils iPhone 5 To the usual fanfare that accompanies the release of new Apple products, the company introduced the iPhone 5 last week. The updated version of the popular device is as notable for added features as for features that have been removed. Google Maps and YouTube apps no longer come pre-loaded – another [...]

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Google+ Vanity URLs, Facebook Closing 83 Million Accounts, and Google Buys Frommer’s | This Week in Social Media

by Richard Retyi

Google+ Set to Launch Vanity URLs Following the lead of Facebook’s vanity URLs and Twitter’s verified accounts, Google+ is introducing custom URLs to a social network that has, to date, featured long strings of seemingly random letters and numbers. The initial rollout will make custom URLs available to large, verified brands and celebrities like Delta [...]

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Google I/O Conference, Social Media Legislation and What Bubble? | This Week in Social Media

by Richard Retyi

Google’s Big News at the I/O Developer’s Conference Google made some big announcements last week at the Google I/O developer’s conference 2012, biggest among them being the reveal of the Nexus 7 tablet running Android Jelly Bean (available for pre-order in the Google Play store). Competition in the tablet space will increase options for consumers [...]

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Apple Kisses Facebook, Google’s Social Analytics and How to Boost Blog Traffic | This Week in Social Media

by Richard Retyi

Apple iOS 6 Includes Facebook Apple kissed Facebook on the cheek last week. Well, at the least they hugged. The latest version of iOS, which runs on iPhones, iPads and iPods, will integrate Facebook, putting the social network in default apps like the calendar, contacts and the App Store. Birthdays of friends will show up [...]

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All-New foursquare, 20 Reasons to Switch to Google+ and Facebook’s Mortality | This Week in Social Media

by Richard Retyi

3 Keys to Marketing Health Care Online Health care marketers are on notice: the internet is driving health care decisions, forcing health care marketers to strengthen their online marketing platforms. The Fluency Media team created an infographic highlighting the 3 Keys to Marketing Health Care Online. Have you ever used the internet or social media [...]

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