This Week in Social

 Facebook's iPad app to launch next week

Facebook will launch its long-awaited iPad app at Apple’s iPhone 5 launch event on October 4th. In addition to the iPad app, Facebook is also expected to release a revamped version of its iPhone app and may unveil an HTML5-based mobile app marketplace. 

For more on this story visit Mashable.

 

Google+ lets you share your "Circles"

Google+ has made it easy to “share” your Circles with friends today, by enabling an option to send other users a list of Circle members on your Circles page. Users who want to “share” the contents of their meticulously curated Circles can now click on the Share button as well as Edit and Delete in the Circles options menu and then select the Google+ user or users they want to share the Circle with.

Read more on Techcrunch.

 

Google+ Button now shares directly to Google+

Google has upgraded the +1 button with several new features, including the ability to directly share a webpage to Google+. In the past, clicking the +1 button only shared content to a tab on a user’s Google+ profile. This is in contrast to the Facebook Like button, which posts an article on a user’s Facebook wall. Now that Google has its own social network, the search giant can match Facebook’s button functionality.

To carry on reading this story visit Mashable. 

 

Foursquare Privatises Homes

This week Foursquare have taken a few more steps to make homes more private. Only the person who created the ‘home’ and their friends can see the address on the venue page. Also, they have added a new ‘Report a problem’ link, which allows users to tell Foursquare that a place is their home.

Continue reading on the Foursquare Blog.

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This Week in Social

Twitter has 1 million active users

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Five years ago, Twitter came to life when @jack sent the first Tweet to his seven followers. Now 100 million active users around the globe turn to Twitter to share their thoughts and find out what’s happening in the world right now.

Read more about Twitter on their blog.

 

Facebook's extra privacy setting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Facebook's new feature allows you to approve tagged photos or posts before they appear in your news feed or your wall. Out of all of the new privacy settings, this is the one feature that you really must turn on as soon as it becomes available to you.

Read more on this story at AllFacebook.

 

Twitter will have more promoted tweets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twitter has started putting promoted tweets in users’ timelines this summer, but was careful to note that you would only see them if you followed the brand. It was revealed this week that everyone would start to see promoted tweets in their timeline, regardless of how they’re accessing Twitter

More on this article at Mashable.

 

Facebook begins autogrouping friends

 

 

Facebook is beginning to rolling out “Smart Lists” to selected users which, as the name implies, intelligently groups certain obvious groups of friends into pre-packaged lists. This could be Facebook's response to the Google+ circles.

Continue reading at Techcrunch.

 

 Wildfire's Storyteller App

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social marketing service Wildfire has launched a Facebook App focused on creating better content for Facebook’s Sponsored Stories. Sponsored stories allow brands to turn user activity such as checkins, wall posts and likes into a small advertisement that appears to the right of the newsfeed.

More available on the Wildfire Blog.

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This Week in Social

Beyonce breaks Tweet record, The Sims on Facebook, Invite Facebook friends to JunkBox, LinkedIn may have competition, Facebook and Google+ add Chrome extensions, Facebook music service

 

Beyonce Baby Revelation Breaks Tweet record

According to Twitter’s global PR team, Beyonce’s baby reveal  gave Twitter a record bump of 8,868 tweets per second. That means that Beyonce’s VMA moment received more mentions per second than the Women’s World Cup, Japan’s New Year or Osama bin Laden’s death.

More on this story on Mashable.

 

The Sims Becomes The Fastest Growing Facebook App

Electronic Arts has a hit on its hands! The Sims Social has been the fastest growing application on Facebook this week, since debuting on 23rd August just over a week ago. The application has had a growth of over 16 million users in a single week.

For more stats about Facebook apps visit AllFacebook.

 

Invite Facebook friends To Dig Through Your JunkBox

Invite all of your Facebook friends to a yard sale with JunkBox, a new app for the social network. Playing off the cliché, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” JunkBox offers Facebook users a way to buy, sell, trade, and barter their unwanted items.

Read more of this story at AllFacebook.

 

Path.to Could Be Competition To LinkedIn

Path.To basically aims to simplify the way professionals connect and promote themselves online. Path.to is in a combination of About.me and LinkedIn. Users can create photo-rich, sleek professional profiles with simple user discovery.

Read more on the about Path.to on their blog.

 

Google+ and Facebook Roll Out Google Chrome Extensions

On Wednesday Google released the Google +1 Button extension allowing you to +1 a web page anywhere on the web. Browsers now no longer have to rely on a site to implement the +1 Button. Facebook followed shortly after as they rolled out their Like Button extension, that according to Google is indeed built by Facebook itself.

Read more on the Google+ extension and Facebook Like extention.

 

Facebook Music Service Coming At F8

Facebook has bandied a variety of music-related ideas around over the years and in 2008 it was poised to launch a streaming music of some sort in collaboration with a single music company such as Lala. Now at F8 there is going to be an announcement about their new music service.

Continue reading at InsideFacebook.

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