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Instagram today introduced web embedding for Instragram photos and video with bringing easy way for all to add the content to their stories. When  you visit any of Instagram photo or video page on your desktop web browser, you will notice a new share button on the right side of your photo, clicking on which you will see the embed code. Copy and paste it anywhere you like. Once published, the photo or video will appear. The embedded photo or video appears with your Instagram username, and clicking on the Instagram logo, you will be taken...

After probably listening the cries of many of users, Google has brought calling back to Gmail with Hangouts. Not only this, but the company even makes calls to US and Canada free from any country where Hangouts are available while it does allow callers to made calls even from outside of North America. To make a call from Hangouts, users have to look for the new phone icon in Gmail while they can also make a call via “Call a phone” menu item in Google+ and Chrome extension. The company via tweet says that it will be rolling out this...

Google today announced a new feature for its social networking service Google+, highlighting posts which you +1’d to people in your circles. The feature is rolling out “over the next few days” while it says that it will “occasionally” highlight posts that were +1’d by people in your circles. The circle will helps you control who can see your activity as well as what appears in your main stream. You can visit your settings to decide who, if anyone, might see your +1s highlighted in the stream: http://goo.gl/CtZXk In all cases:...

Facebook today announced that it has updated its Android app with bringing folders for its Home launches; News Feed embeds inside messages. Other updates include the ability to store the app right on your phone’s SD memory card, sharing News Feed stories inside a private message, and swiping on the screen to open chats and bookmarks. You can download the updated version directly via Google Play Store. Here is an official changelog for Facebook for Android app: Share News Feed stories in a private message Swipe left and right to open...

Twitter today announced that it has updated its Mac, iOS, Android, mobile apps with bringing in major improvements on board. The first among them to receive the updates were the iOS and Mac apps. The company says doing an update means it is pushing “a coordinated update for seven different apps: Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, twitter.com, mobile.twitter.com and TweetDeck.” You can download the latest version via Apple’s App Store and Mac App Store. Here is the full Twitter 5.8 for iOS changelog is as follows: When you read a Direct...

In the recent couple of years, we have witnessed a fair share of successful and not-so-successful marketing campaigns on social networking sites. Youtube videos became viral, Facebook posts earned hundreds of thousands of shares and Twitter profiles earned followers by the millions. That is how powerful social media marketing can be. Things can easily go viral on various social media platforms which usually catapults brands, products and even individuals into fame. However, there is a downside in using social media platforms for marketing...

According to reports in The New York Times and ABC News, the social giant Facebook is about to start rolling out its new Graph Search tool to all US-based users this Monday. The feature which has been in beta ever since January lets you do advanced searches with the help of metadata stored on Facebook. The rollout in total will take a few weeks time to reach to all those based in US and having American English as their preferred language to use the Facebook website while there are no words on when in actual the global rollout will take...

With introduction of animated Gif to use with profile photo on Google+ and letting users to search for animated and transparent Gifs via Google image search, the company rolled out another new feature which displays animated previews of Google+ videos, bringing the Google+ auto Awesome Gif as the video image. The animated previews feature began rolling out on June 28 although it is only enabled for new videos uploaded to Google+. Without a doubt, the planned move will do make a lot of sense for company to encourage and attract more crowd...

Twitter today announced that it will soon target ads in the US based on browser cookies and hashed email addresses from ad partners. The move means that company will be trying to making its ads “more useful” for the US-based users. The ads that will get displayed the promoted content across from brands and businesses which its US-based members shown interest in, users won’t see more ads on Twitter, but they may see better ones. Interestingly, Twitter also gives its users the freedom either to turn it off too, all totally depend...

As expected and reported earlier, Microsoft’s former Interactive Entertainment Business President Don Mattrick joined Zynga as company’s Chief Executive Officer replacing Mark Pincus. Mattrick also be a member of the Board of Directors, with both designations will be effective July 8, 2013. Mattrick bring together an experience of over 30 years developing, building and managing profitable entertainment business. Pincus, Zynga’s founding chief executive officer, remains Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Product Officer...