Google+ is fresh off a big announcement and has started rolling out deeper YouTube integration to all users, a process that will be completed over the next few days. When visiting the YouTube upload section you will now have the option to share your video direclty to your Google+ account. Simply check the appropriate box…
YouTube Variety Show To Raise Money For Homeless Youth
A YouTube variety show is coming to a computer screen near you with What’s Trending and Virgin Mobile teaming up to broadcast the world’s first live streaming variety show. Called the Tube-A-Tweet-A-Thon and kicking off at 9PM Eastern time on December 13, the idea is to raise money for homeless youth through non-profit organization Covenant House. The YouTube variety…
Tumblr Outage Causes Loss Of Almost 100 Million Views
A Tumblr outage yesterday left user blogs down for nearly four hours and contributed to a loss of almost 100 million views. Issues started when the social network kept giving error messages and slow load times across many blogs. After much deliberation Tumblr decided it was best to take down the whole site in order…
Facebook Privacy Settings Upgraded With Navigation Bar Shortcuts
Facebook privacy settings have been made more accessible with the introduction of shortcuts on the navigation bar. When you go to post something on Facebook, you have the option to change who sees it right next to the “Post” button. Now on the top right of the navigation bar, you’ll see a lock icon right…
New LinkedIn Profile: How To Navigate And What’s Changed
The new LinkedIn profile has been rolling out to users steadily, and with it comes a totally new design that fits with LinkedIn’s homepage layout. On October 16, the social network announced the redesigned profiles with several new features. Here are those features: In-line profile editing. Status updates on profiles. Larger profile picture. Status and…
Facebook Stories Launches 2012 Year In Review, See Your Biggest Moments
Facebook Stories documents people using the social network in extraordinary ways, and with the newly launched 2012 Year In Review, you can see your biggest moments this year. Heading over to FacebookStories.com/2012, you’ll see a big photo that says “See Your 2012 Year In Review.” Clicking the photo will take you to a personalized page with…
Flickr iPhone App Adds Photo Filters, Sign In With Facebook Or Google
The Flickr iPhone app has received a major overhaul with a complete redesign and several new features. The new interface looks very modern, and instead of signing in with a Flickr account, you now have the option to sign in or sign up using Facebook or Google. Once logged into the Flickr iPhone app, you’ll get…
Pinterest Photos Now Display On Twitter With Card Integration
Pinterest photos will now display on the Twitter.com website thanks to new Twitter Card integration. Twitter Cards allow media rich content to be displayed on the social network with very little setup on the part of website and web platform owners. For Pinterest users who like to share their pins to Twitter, when someone sees…
Facebook Gifts Shipping Wine, Now Available In All Parts Of US
Facebook Gifts announced new retail partners on November 16, 2012 and some of those partners include wineries. Facebook users can now buy and send wine to their friends in the US. Here are the current wine partners: Amuse Bouche Blackbird Bonterra Capture Wines Clark-Claudon David Family Domaine Chandon Goose Cross Mondavi Mutt Lynch Recuerdo Tasting…
Twitter 2012 In Review: New Site Shares The Biggest Tweets, Events And More
Twitter is celebrating this year with a look back at everything big that happened on the social network. Titled “2012 Year on Twitter,” the site has six different categories: Golden Tweets, Pulse of the planet, Only on Twitter, Trends, New voices, and Your year on Twitter. Under Golden Tweets, we get to see the five…
Facebook Usage Up 29 Percent In Middle East, North Africa [Infographic]
Facebook usage is on the rise in the Middle East and North Africa with the amount of users increasing by 29 percent since the beginning of 2012. This and more information comes from an infographic put together by Socialbakers which examines the growth of Facebook in those two regions. On average, 21 people sign up…
Facebook Site Governance Vote Ends: No More Voting On Future Changes
The Facebook Site Governance Vote ended today at noon Pacific time and the proposed changes will be implemented. Here were the changes proposed: Remove ability to vote on future changes and instead collect feedback through a question-submission system and live webcasts. Facebook allowed to share data to and from its affiliates such as Instagram. Can change who can…
Holiday Shopping Trends Reveal Top Stores And Gadgets On Facebook [Infographic]
Holiday shopping trends show us what’s hot or not and a new infographic shares the top stores and gadgets mentioned on Facebook this holiday season. The infographic was put together by Compass Labs which includes data from Black Friday and Cyber Monday on the social network. Here were the top mentioned stores on Black Friday…
InstaTwit Returns Instagram Photos To Your Twitter Account
Instagram photos normally display on the Twitter.com website but turmoil between the two social networks caused that to change. Last week Twitter announced that Instagram had stopped supporting Twitter Cards which allows its photos to display within the stream. Some users were seeing cropped photos and others weren’t seeing any photos at all. CEO Kevin…