This Week in Social Media (January 14-18, 2013)

Posted on the 19 January 2013 by Cendrinemedia @cendrinemedia

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

Facebook

An introduction to Facebook’s new Graph Search (Creative Ramblings)

Facebook for Android updated with faster photo viewing, broader story sharing, and voice messages (The Next Web)

Dropify Aims To Make File Publishing Via Facebook A Social Activity (AllFacebook)

Storify Curator Shows Private Facebook Posts (AllFacebook)

foursquare

Foursquare, in Bid for Relevance, Shows Off 500 Million Check-ins (SocialTimes)

Google

Hello Browser (Google Chrome Blog)

Google+ ios app 4.2.0 now available in 48 new countries and territories! (Google+ news)

Google/YouTube To Invest In Music Distributor Vevo? (ReadWriteWeb)

Google Search in Chrome gets more secure (The Chromium Blog)

Instagram

Instagram Sends Reminder Email To Users About Jan. 19 Privacy Policy Changes (AllFacebook)

Instagram Is About to Start Sharing Your Data With Facebook (Mashable)

New Instagram Stats: 90 Million Monthly Active Users (Social Fresh)

LinkedIn

The Top Job Search Trends of 2013 (LinkedIn Blog)

New Year, New You (LinkedIn Blog)

Microsoft

Bing Social Updates Arrive Today: For Every Search, There is Someone Who Can Help (Bing Search Blog)

MySpace

New MySpace launches in open beta (Examiner.com)

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon Lays Off 30% of Workforce in Effort to Streamline (SocialTimes)

Twitter

Twitter UK subsidiary TweetDeck faces closure if it fails to file financial accounts (again) (The Next Web)

Twitter goes global by putting its service on feature phones (Cnet)

Judge: News agencies shouldn’t have used Twitter photos (Cnet)

Miscellaneous

Interview with Tanay Tandon, founder of Clipped (Examiner.com)

TrendSpottr announces email notification service for emerging trends (Examiner.com)

Social media news: Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter (Examiner.com)

Former Redditor Aaron Swartz Dies at Age 26 (SocialTimes)

Sharetize Launches New Social Media Marketing Platform, Pays You to Recommend Things to Your Friends (SBWire)

Canadian Internet Registration Authority Now Supports French Characters (Techvibes)

Vidyard Integrates with HubSpot, Provides Video Marketing Analytics (Techvibes)

MagicScroll for Chrome lets you read every Web page like a book (The Next Web)

Just 18% Of CEOs Use Social Media [STUDY] (AllTwitter)

What Happens Every 60 Seconds In Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC] (AllTwitter)

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