This Week in Social Media (December 3-7, 2012)

Posted on the 08 December 2012 by Cendrinemedia @cendrinemedia

In social media, there is never a dull moment! Check out the list of headlines below.

Facebook

Responding to Your Feedback (Facebook Newsroom)

Early Voting Results Show That Facebook Users Don’t Want Policy Changes (AllFacebook)

Facebook Allows Users To Create Repeat Events, Auto-Fills Details (AllFacebook)

Facebook decides ‘follow’ sounds better than ‘subscribe’ (CNET)

Facebook Testing Customer-Service Chat For Small Businesses With Salesforce.com (AllFacebook)

WhatsApp Denies Facebook Talks (AllFacebook)

Shoutlet 6.0 Rolls Out With New Features For Facebook Marketers (AllFacebook)

TabSite Facebook App Enables Instagram Photo Contests (AllFacebook)

Man Fools More Than 500,000 Facebook Users Pretending To Be Lottery Winner (AllFacebook)

foursquare

Manage a business? Now you can add events like trivia nights, wine tastings, and book signings to Foursquare (foursquare Blog)

Google

Google Plus rolls out Communities feature (Examiner.com)

YouTube redesign: It’s all about channels (Examiner.com)

New set of Dynamic Views gadgets released for Blogger (Google+ update)

Google Kills Free Google Apps For Business, Now Only Offering Premium Paid Version To Companies Of All Sizes (TechCrunch)

Easy resizing, swipe to archive and more added to Gmail on Android (Google+ update)

Introducing online sign-up for Google Maps Coordinate (Official Google Enterprise Blog)

Sign into multiple Google Accounts with the Gmail iOS update (Google+ update)

YouTube on iPad, and sweet updates for iPhone 5 and iPod touch (YouTube Blog)

Explore digital archives of buildings in Japan affected by the 2011 tsunami (Official Google Blog)

Twitter

20 Twitter Stats From 2012 (AllTwitter)

Twitter Loses Ability to Properly Display Instagram Photos (The New York Times)

See Twitter Trends Now For More Than 200 Cities (AllTwitter)

Do You Share Links On Twitter? Soon You’ll Have Two Fewer Characters To Use In Your Tweets (AllTwitter)

Yahoo

Yahoo Acquires OnTheAir to Build Out Mobile Team (Mashable)

Miscellaneous

Socl unveils brand new design (Examiner.com)

Indiegogo expands international presence (Examiner.com)

Social media news: HootSuite, Pinterest, Vimeo, WordPress and more (Examiner.com)

Quora users can now share contributions on LinkedIn, post answers directly to their profiles (The Next Web)

SoundCloud Revamps Site to Reach 180 Million Listeners (The Wall Street Journal

Spotify’s New Discovery Features Free Listeners from Judgmental Friends (SocialTimes)

Even when you gotta go, social media goes too (USA Today)

A Commitment to Trust and Transparency in Search (Bing Blog)

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