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Social Media Saturday: This week in social media was relatively quiet, except for one company: Facebook stole the show. Along with finally converting its entire site to secure HTTP, the company also rolled out embedded posts, moved some Facebook Home features to its main app, and may start rolling out 15-second ads.
This week in social media, Facebook surprised investors with great returns and growing mobile revenue, Pinterest announced you can opt out of being tracked, and hackers attacked Instagram users with smoothies. Yes, really.
This week in social media Tumblr learned about a huge vulnerability that it subsequently fixed. But it also tried to fix NSFW content, and stirred up a bit of a fuss. Twitter also added a NSFW filter, but that was less controversial.
Social Media Saturday: This week in social media was all about including everyone in the most up to date versions of various social networking platforms.
This week in social media was all about including everyone in the most up to date versions of various social networking platforms.
Nokia’s launch of the Lumia 1020 has the tech community talking, from its design, smartphone specifications, and notably the 41-megapixel camera.
In January of this year, Facebook announced a revamped version of the site's search tool, called Graph Search. Until this week, Graph Search has been in a limited public beta test. But starting Monday July 8, and for the next few weeks, Facebook will finally be rolling out the new feature for all English-speaking Facebook users in the United States.
After Facebook sent out enigmatic coffee-stained postcard press invites to a June 20 event, saying "A small team has been working on a big idea. Join us for coffee and learn about a new product," rumors are hitting the internet that Facebook's Instagram might be adding video capability.
It's been a busy week in social media, with new ways to display what you've been doing on Twitter with #FollowMe and Facebook revealing how law enforcement has tried to follow what you're doing by disclosing information requests on its users from local and federal law enforcement. Also this week, Facebook opened a server near the Arctic Circle and is ditching sponsored ads, Twitter started testing how to give users more use of analytics, and Foursquare maps your life.
After months of envy and patient waiting among the non-iPhone crowd, Twitter announced on their blog Monday that their popular 6-second video service, which debuted for iOS almost six months ago, is finally coming to Android users. Let the excessive cat videography begin!
It seems there are few social media networks more full of adults than Twitter, besides LinkedIn and perhaps BabyBoomerPeopleMeet.com, but it appears Facebook is fast becoming too long in the teeth for some teens - but that doesn't mean that they're deleting their profiles or becoming inactive.
Recently, a slew of events surrounding white privilege in America have made national headlines. One blog post gaining rapid popularity speaks to the very different precautions Americans would take depending on whether the assailant of the Boston Marathon bombings was Caucasian or of an Eastern ethnicity.
Hopefully, the new Pope will like it.
NASA is inviting 150 of its social media followers on Facebook, Twiter and Google+ to chat live with astronauts on the International Space Station.
If the social media world determined the Super Bowl's outcome and participants, it would be a re-match of Super Bowl XXX. The Dallas Cowboys are "America's Team" after all, if most of their fans on Facebook are U.S. residents. The Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers, the 2013 Super Bowl participants are behind the 'Boys by quite a bit for NFL social media supremacy. The Pittsburgh Steelers have some of the most active Facebook fans from the data presented.
