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Twitter Weekly Email Digest

source3marketing — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:48:24 +0000

Over the next few weeks Twitter will be sending a weekly email digest to users’ inboxes. The weekly email digest will include tweets and links that are most likely to be of the user’s interest based on what is shared from the people they follow. Not only that but the weekly email digest will include …

Google+ Features “Hangouts on Air”

source3marketing — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:50:34 +0000

You all know Google+ Hangouts right? Hangouts allow Google+ users to do live video chats with friends from their circles. But what is Hangouts on Air exactly? Hangouts on air allow users to do a public live broadcast for anyone to watch. This Google+ feature was released and used by a small number of people …

Facebook Introduces “Life Saving” Features

source3marketing — Wed, 02 May 2012 04:51:35 +0000

Just announced recently along with Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America, Facebook is introducing a feature that can possibly save lives regarding suicides, cyberbullying, and organ donation. Facebook has launched a program named “Lifeline”. The program enables friends of the victim who expresses suicidal thoughts to alert Facebook and in turn reach out …

Google+ Adds Share Button

source3marketing — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:37:48 +0000

Google’s cloud storage service (Google Drive) has been all over news recently but what’s new for Google+? In Google’s social network, giving a +1 to promote a post is sometimes not enough; sharing it on the other hand can easily spread content. With that in mind, Google+ is adding up a new feature; the “Share …

Google Presents Google Drive

source3marketing — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:46:53 +0000

The rumors are true! Google Drive officially launches today as announce on the Google Blog! What is it really? Google Drive is a cloud-storage service from Google where in users can keep all their files and even create, share, and collaborate with files. Google Docs is now built within Google Drive; others may work on …

Happy Foursquare Day!

source3marketing — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:53:49 +0000

April 16th was marked the unofficial holiday of Foursquare! Why? Four squared equals 16! ( = 16) plus April is the 4th month of the year. Anyway, why the celebration? Foursquare has updated on the latest statistics seen in Foursquare’s Blog revealing that they currently have more than two billion check-ins, more than 20 million users, …

Facebook Adds “Listen” Button to Musician Pages

source3marketing — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:56:27 +0000

Facebook combines one of the best features MySpace had; music discovery. The new “Listen” button has just been added to bands and artist pages on Tuesday making users have an easier and faster experience in discovering music. The “Listen” experience is made possible through music services such as Spotify and MOG on Facebook. The new …

Facebook Expands “Download Your Information” Feature

source3marketing — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:09:19 +0000

Facebook has a feature that allows users to download an archive of their account history. This includes the users’ photos, posts, messages, friend lists and their email (If they’ve allowed it under their account settings), and chat conversations. “Download Your Information” was introduced in October 2010. Users may find this feature under their General Account …

Facebook acquires photo-sharing app Instagram for $1B

source3marketing — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:16:39 +0000

Facebook has just bought the popular photo-sharing app “Instagram” mounting up to approximately 1 billion dollars in cash and stock. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg has announced the news in a post on his Facebook Timeline on Monday. The acquisition is said to close later in this quarter and includes 9 staff members of Instagram. Thought …

News of Facebook Search Engine

source3marketing — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:18:56 +0000

There has been news circulating through out the internets specifically from an article found in BusinessWeek about Facebook’s plan in search. Will Facebook improve its search on the site or will it dwell deeper into Google’s realm by creating a whole new search engine that’ll most likely utilize data from Facebook? What sparked this thought …