This Week in Social Media (November 26-30, 2012)

Posted on the 01 December 2012 by Cendrinemedia @cendrinemedia

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

Facebook

Review: The latest Facebook scams to watch out for (Digital Journal)

Facebook makes it official — an external advertising network is coming soon (GigaOM)

iTunes Gifts Now on Facebook (Facebook Newsroom)

Facebook Fires Back in Want Button Lawsuit (AllFacebook)

Facebook tests new features, expands ad tracking program (CNET)

Facebook Promoted Posts Can Now Target Fan Countries (AllFacebook)

Give your annoying Facebook friends a time-out with Defriendtion (Bubblews)

Animoto lets you share your story through Facebook pictures (Bubblews)

WARNING: Bug Causing Some Facebook Users To Rejoin Groups They Have Left (AllFacebook)

Photo Sync (Facebook Newsroom)

Google

Google Creative Sandbox releases animated digital guidebook (Google+ update)

Google Cloud Platform: new features, lower prices, extending European datacenters (Official Google Enterprise Blog)

Gmail and Drive – a new way to send files (Google Enterprise)

Launching admin features to all supported languages at the same time (Official Google Enteprise Blog)

Edit spreadsheets on the go with the Drive mobile app (Official Google Enterprise Blog)

Grow your audience with the Google+ followers gadget (Blogger Buzz)

Get ready for winter: Mapping the Canadian Arctic and global ski resorts (Official Google Blog)

YouTube automatic captions now in six European languages (Official YouTube Blog)

Tumblr

Tumblr Hits Quantcast’s List Of Top 10 U.S. Networks (TechCrunch)

Twitter

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: Users Can Download Their Entire Archive By Year-End; Now Sees 1B Tweets Every 2.5 Days (TechCrunch)

Twitter Generated Zero Percent of Black Friday Sales (Mashable)

Twitter Fiction Festival selections (Twitter Blog)

Latest Twitter Scam Directs You To Video Showing Obama Punch Someone In The Face (AllTwitter)

Miscellaneous

Interview with Misha Leybovich, co-founder of Meograph (Examiner.com)

Social media news: Buffer, Prismatic, Snip.it, Vimeo, WordPress, and more (Examiner.com)

The Ultimate Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet [INFOGRAPHIC] (AllTwitter)

Dropbox for iOS continues multimedia focus with improved video playback, other minor updates (The Next Web)

Bing Translator App Now Available for Windows Phone 8 (Bing Blog)

Wikimedia Foundation announces 9th annual fundraiser (Examiner.com)

Social media sites in numbers (Bubblews)

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