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Microsoft Bing will be working with Facebook to bring instant inline language translations to Facebook. Translations will be available on individual posts and comments. Facebook will also offer an option for page admins to translate content and after enough users vote positively on the accuracy of translations, that tranlator's content will populate when translate is clicked.

With company bonuses tied to social media success, its surprising to find that Google's senior team either doesn't have a Google+ account or is hardly-to-never used. To be exact, only seven of the eighteen senior managers have ever posted on Google+:
 

(SVP Social) Vic Gundotra - 150 Posts

(SVP Chrome) Sundar Pichai - 58 Posts

(Co-Founder) Sergey Brin - 15 Posts

(SVP Mobile) Andy Rubin - 8 Posts

(CEO) Larry Page - 7 Posts

(SVP & CFO) Patrick Pichette - 7 Posts

(SVP Ads) Susan Wojcicki - 1 Post

Google+ now lets you disable comments and sharing on your posts before they go live. Before, these options were available after you posted something. We're all glad that Google figured out it makes more sense to provide this feature before sending a post live.

Minimizing the amount of spam that comes through our emails and phones can be done with our tips listed below:

1. Instead of paying for a an anti-spam service, use BumpUP CMS which has a built-in, automatic learning anti-spam tool.

2. Don't use email addresses like sales@company.com or info@company.com because spam knows to look for accounts like these. Be creative.

3. When you get spam phone calls, tell the caller "Please permanently remove me from your calling list." The company has to, by law, stop calling you.

4. Just be smart. Think twice before you give your email or phone number out.

The new Facebook ad unit will be different than it's Sponsored Stories in two ways. One, it will never appear in the News Feed, Two, it will also contain an advertiser message, and Three, the new ad unit will also provide a field to post comments and see other comments related to the ad.

Google+ statistician and Ancestry.com co-founder Paul Allen released news that Google+ now has roughly 43.4 million users, nearly a 30% increase since it opened doors to the public. Coming from 10 million users in July, the end of September is proving the Google+ is on its way to becoming a serious competitor with Facebook.

Enhancing brand awareness, building an online community and strengthening customer service are important tasks businesses have to be on top of in today’s competitive market. Here are five tips to help you launch a product through Facebook more efficiently:

1. Build a targeted audience, ones that will be more likely to share your product.

2. Reward existing community members with giveaways, discounts, free shipping or something! Be creative, some companies have experienced growths of 1 million Likes as a result.

3. Create a clear landing page with call-to-actions, one that meets Facebook design restrictions, keeps navigating simple and uses call-to-actions appropriately.

4. Request feedback, or volunteers for a beta version then feedback.

5. Make sure to geo-target your ads into qualified markets.

The rumors are not true, from what Facebook has claimed on their account. “A rumor on the internet caught our attention. We have no plans to charge for Facebook. It’s free and always will be.”

The Washington Post has released Social Reader, a virtual newspaper for Facebook that displays articles that reflect your profile, things you’ve liked, stories that your friends are reading and trending new topics. Articles can be viewed in full on Facebook without being redirected to the source’s site or have to pay for anything.

Friends can now be grouped up into any type of category you wish to put them in, just like Google+ offers. Once they are grouped, you can view posts of each individual group separately. Friend activities are now displayed in the top third of the chat window.

Facebook has partnered with over a dozen entertainment companies including Netflix and Hulu to add TV shows and movies to Facebook. If you use the Facebook Timeline, your friends will be able to see what you’ve watched and marked as top movies and episodes.

Facebook now loads up your notifications with all activity of your close friends. So you’ll never miss anything while you’re away from Facebook. Activities include shared links, comments, updates and likes.

The new feature lets users follow public updates of those they wish to keep up-to-date on. The subscribe button customizes your News Feed and Notifications so you will never miss an update from desired users again.

After clicking ‘Edit Video’ on the particular video’s page or in My Videos, you can easily edit your video. Clipping, color changes and adding audio can now be done. Your video’s comments & ratings will not be lost either.

Instead of continuing to receive the mass amount of emails regarding notifications from Facebook, you can now choose to have important updates and summaries send to your inbox. 

A recent study shows that posting from one of the top then third-party API’s gives you nearly 90% fewer comments and likes. A lot of third-party apps are posting updates on a schedule rather than immediately as well not populating every aspect an update from Facebook’s interface will do. So with all of that in mind, it’s recommended that you steer away from third-party social media management apps – at least Facebook’s.

Facebook Likes, Google +1’s and Twitter Tweets are some of the most popular social interactions are deeply impacting your ranking and listing in even ‘regular’ search results. Real people sharing their interests spawns more accurate data for search engines to evaluate and then produce off of. Shared content ranks higher in organic searches as well. With over 30 billion pieces of content shared on Facebook per month and over 5 billion tweets on Twitter, it’s easy to see why search engines are focusing in the always fresh, truly personalized and relative content of social media sites.

Google Translate is now extended to Google+, which means users can now communicate through updates in over 50 languages. Just install the extension, refresh Google+ and you’ll see Translate links next to posts and comments. If you click the links, you’ll instantly see translations.

Larger images and improved speed now bring Facebook users a better experience when browsing photos. New and already existing Facebook photos are now 720 to 960 pixels big and load twice as fast. Facebook has also released a new photo viewer, which takes up more screen real estate and reduces clutter so users can focus more on the photo.

Instead of blocking or having to delete someone from your friends list, Google+ now lets you ignore them, which will achieve three things. First, it removes all of that person’s posts from your “Incoming” stream. Second, you’ll no longer get notifications about that person’s activity. And third, it will remove that person from your Circles page. That user won’t be notified that he or she is being ignored.

Ignoring will allow that user to view your stream and comment on it. Blocking that user will eliminate their posts from your stream and block them from seeing anything you post.

After meeting with representatives from Facebook, Twitter and RIM (maker of Blackberry Messenger), British officials have decided not to restrict social media use during times of chaos. Twitter is considering compelling people to use their real names instead of anonymous handles and RIM has agreed to provide the British police with information from BlackBerry Messenger under some circumstances.

Google says they’re working on Google+ brand accounts and “should far exceed the consumer profile in terms of its usefulness to businesses”. 

American Express released a new Business Gold Rewards Card, which gives double the points to business owners for all online and offline marketing spending. The points can be used for a range of products and services including retail purchases, access to dining and entertainment events, travel and gift cards.

Card owners get two points for each dollar spent on marketing and three points for airfare. The program is designed to help business owners more aware of other open services like an online reputation management tool, an ad creation management program and a search advertising solution.

As of today, “user galleries” will display the 100-most recent photos that you’ve tweeted or as far back as January 1^st, 2010 if you do not have 100 yet. These galleries are displayed on the user’s profile and highlight a few recent photos. A person viewing a profile can click to “view all” of the photos and also see the tweets that go along with them.

Now when you hover over the Google +1 button, it displays a list of friends who have already clicked the +1 button on the same article or page. The addition to the +1 button is small, but hopefully will help ramp up hosting and usage of it across the web.

Celebrities and public figures will now have verification badges next to their profile name. The verification badge can be clicked on to verify that the user really is who they claim to be.

Google+ has released a new feature: Click on the share button under any YouTube video. To the right of the Facebook, Twitter and Google+ links you’ll see “Watch with your friends. Start a Google+ Hangout”. Watching videos with your friends has been possible since the beginning, but now it’s a whole lot easier. 

The Google+ email application allows you to share your latest public G+ status in your email signature. Your email recipients can then add you to their Circles directly from the message. You have to download WiseStamp to enable this feature.

Google claims we’ll see 16 games on Google+ in the up and coming weeks and months including Angry Birds, Bejeweled Blitz, Diamond Dash, Crime Cities and Poker. Google says that they will only be taking a 5% cut out of the developer’s pay for transactions that take place on their platform were Facebook takes 30%. Considering that there are currently 25 million users on Google+ verses 750 Million on Facebook and the games are in Flash, we think 5% is a pretty smart tactic at getting developers to bring their games over to Google’s platform without much risk. 

The controversy began Tuesday after Randall Safara, Google’s spokesperson, posted a video on Google+ that showed how Facebook was limiting the spread of Google+ invited on Facebook. The video showed Safara posting a Google+ invite on his Facebook page and proving that the invite was not appearing in his friend’s New Feed while also pointing out that his other posts were populating without any problems.

The funny thing is Google+ invites are working for everyone else so far. Google said yesterday that they hadn’t contacted Facebook directly about the conflict, but it’s obvious they’re taking it to the public first. 

Last week, twenty year old Jordan Blackshaw and twenty-two year old Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan were arrested following the riots in London and the surrounding areas that began on August 6^th. Blackshaw created an event on Facebook called “Smash Down” in Northwich Town that was set for August 8^th. Only the police showed up to the meeting point outside a McDonalds as well as Blackshaw who was promptly arrested.

Sutcliffe-Keenan created a Facebook page called “The Warrington Riots” on August 9^th. The page allegedly caused a wave of panic in the town and after Sutcliffe-Keenan arose the following morning, he removed the page and apologized to his 400 contacts claiming that the page was only a joke. Luckily, no riots broke out as a result.

The crackdown on social media organizing and orchestrating of disorder is strongly enforced in the United Kingdom. On Monday, a man was arrested for planning a water gun fight on BlackBerry Messenger and Facebook. Yes, a water gun fight! The UK is even going as far as to meet with representatives from Facebook and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion to discuss prevention of individuals targeted for plotting violence, disorder and criminality on via their websites and services.

The new apps now have their own look that better represent LinkedIn and look less like Facebook’s apps. LinkedIn also has revealed a new HTML 5-enabled mobile site for touch devices.

The new app is claimed to run up to ten times faster, which should make searching for content or checking out friend’s updates much easier. The next big thing about LinkedIn’s app is Groups. Groups was claimed to be the most-requested feature, so now, Groups is available so you can browse discussions and post discussions in different groups.

A twenty year old man was arrested Friday after Essex police discovered the mass water fight plan via BlackBerry Messenger and Facebook. The unnamed man has been charged with “encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence”.

In 2008, several mass water fights in British towns and cities were organized through social networks. Most remained peaceful although the water fights this month among thousands of young Iranians resulted in a series of arrests.

The UK is taking action and even going as far as to meet with representatives from Facebook and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion to discuss prevention of individuals targeted for plotting violence, disorder and criminality on via their websites and services.

Facebook now displays status updates you posted exactly one or two years ago, but don’t worry, they only display on your end and not to your friends. This new feature also allows you to surface photos from the past.

We’re not sure if Facebook thinks of these new features as just a fun little addition or if this should serve a purpose. Either way,Facebook now displays status updates you posted exactly one or two years ago, but don’t worry, they only display on your end and not to your friends. This new feature also allows you to surface photos from the past.

We’re not sure if Facebook thinks of these new features as just a fun little addition or if this should serve a purpose. Either way, it’s an interesting feature to take not of. it’s an interesting feature to take not of.

When a link comes up in a search result, if one of your Google+ friends has shared that link, an annotation will show up under that link. 

Pseudonyms (fake names) and nicknames create windows of opportunity for spam and trouble to make their way into social networks. Google realizes that to minimalize it as best as possible on their end, real names have to be used while registering each new account.

Google announced that instead of immediately suspending accounts in violation of the policy, Google will give each user a four-day grace period to fix their profile names before the get suspended.

Accusations against Facebook regarding the rumors that they are harvesting user’s phone numbers and making them public are not what Facebook says is happening. The problem is stemming from the “Contacts” feature where after downloading the Facebook mobile app, Facebook will try to sync all of your phone’s contact information with your profile.

So if you are already friends with someone on Facebook and have their same name used on their profile in your phone with their contact information, Facebook will sometimes sync the two contacts. Some smart phones require you to “Link to Facebook” which lets you find the contact’s profile and connect the two.

If you go into your privacy settings on Facebook, you can set whether your phone number should be available or not to your friends.

Twitter has released Twtrland, a new service that converts streams into detailed profiles to try and make it easier for users in deciding who to follow. Twtrland tells you how often users per day their profile is retweeted, a breakdown of tweet content (plain tweets, pictures, @replies, etc.), most-retweeted tweets (Famous Words), top followers and a sampling of tweets.

Twitter says that they go deep inside the user’s history and “sum it all up to the simplest profile we could think of to help youTwitter has released Twtrland, a new service that converts streams into detailed profiles to try and make it easier for users in deciding who to follow. Twtrland tells you how often your profile is retweeted per day, a breakdown of tweet content (plain tweets, pictures, @replies, etc.), most-retweeted tweets (Famous Words), top followers and a sampling of tweets.

Twitter says that they go deep inside the user’s history and “sum it all up to the simplest profile we could think of to help you decide in a glimpse, to follow or not to follow.” decide in a glimpse, to follow or not to follow.”

Friends that you chat with the most and are currently online will now be displayed at the top of your chat list. Following those that you chat with most will be the remaining friends that are online under “more online friends”.  A third section of online friends might populate if any of your friends are accessing Facebook through a mobile app.

The redesigned chat list stretches upwards instead of the old pop-up box everyone hated. Not to mention it actually shows all of your online friends now too.

Messenger is a separate app on your phone, so accessing your messages or sending one is a click away. Messages are delivered through notifications and texts, so your friends are more like to get them right away. Messages can also be sent to your friends whether they are online or not online.

Another cool feature of Messenger is the ability to start a group conversation and message everyone at once. If you choose to add your location, everyone you’re messaging can easily find you on the map. You can also attach photos, which can be viewed by those in the chat and commented on.

To download the app simply look up Facebook Messenger in your app market.

The first tab that Twitter has created replaces the mentions tab and becomes more of a personal notifications dashboard called “@[username]”. The tab includes tweets directed at users, highlight favorite tweets and retweeted tweets as well as include new follower notifications.

The second tab that Twitter has created, the Activity tab, is similar to activity notifications of Facebook’s New Feed.