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Microsoft today announced that the Facebook to Windows Phone app – Facebook 5.0 for Windows Phone 8 – has been updated with bringing a complete UI overhaul, high-res pictures, post sharing, timeline view and more. The company has been working on Facebook Beta program from quite a longer time and with this, it has bought up its first major update. The app updated with a lots of new features and improvements which the company claims “many of its users are looking for.” The changelog is yet to available from Windows Store...

Turning two does not means that Google+ happy with just only bringing new follow button for sites and new badges for communities, pages and profiles but there is more in store: Google+ photos gets an option to move images between albums, bringing new download button and faster uploading. The company’s Vic Gundotra says that the new additions are a direct result of feedback from Google+ users: A new “Move” option makes it easy to move photos between albums. Just pick a few photos in an album (or click the new “Select” link to...

Yahoo today announced that it has integrated Flickr photo sharing directly via Yahoo Mail, means Yahoo Mail users can now share individual photos or sets directly without leaving their inbox. “Since you’re sending and receiving hundreds of millions of photos in Yahoo Mail every single day, we wanted to make it an even better experience. Not only is it simple to share as many Flickr photos as you’d like, but they’re displayed in a beautiful way, just like they are on Flickr itself,” the company said. In order to share from Flickr,...

In order to celebrate and make the second birthday special, Google today rolled out a new Google+ Follow button for sites and new badges for Communities, Pages and Profiles. A new Follow button is a standalone plugin which allows visitors to follow you from your site itself. Second in update is a new badge for communities, new badges are highly configurable, making it much easier to match your site design. The time when visitors click the “Preview” button, they can view recent posts as well as join while returning to your site is...

Facebook announced today that starting from Monday, the company will be implementing a new review process for determining which Pages and Groups should features ads alongside their content. The move will let expand the scope of both Pages and Groups which should be ad-restricted. Moreover, the company will remove ads from all Pages and Group which don’t fall into this new restricted list. The company also added that the review process will be manual at first but will turned out to be a scalable, automated way in the coming weeks in...

The social giant Facebook announced today a beta program for Android apps, letting users to test the upcoming versions while the first beta version will be available starting from today itself. In order to be a part of it, one has to join a Google Plus group followed by which you will be able to use and then provide feedback. As soon as you join the group, you have been allowed to opt-in to Facebook’s Beta program and become a tester. The move means that the company wants to reach more and more Android users and want them on its platform....

Twitter today updated its #Music app for iOS, bringing genres, five new charts and an in-app Rdio authentication. The five charts added are Alternative, Country, Dance, Electronic, Folk, Hip-Hop, Metal, Pop, R&B, and Rock. The latest version of the app can be downloaded directly via Apple’s App Store. Here is an official changelog of the app: Genres! Get hip-hoppy or get your metal on or get your dance beats grooving with Twitter #music genres! Tons of genres plus Superstars, Popular, Emerging, Unearthed and Hunted charts. This...

Vine is the video incarnation of the micro-blogging site, Twitter. Launched in January of 2013, Vine was available as an app only on devices running the iOS until now, but has recently been launched for Android devices as well. Instead of snippets of text, Vine allows you to post short, 6-second videos to get your message across. One might argue the impact of a 6 second video, but so did we argue about 140 character ‘micro-blogs’ and Twitter ranks amongst the top social networking sites today. While users of this new App are usually...

Twitter today updated its Windows Phone app, allow you to see translations of foreign language Tweets to your preferred language along with fixing various bugs. The new update works with both Windows Phone 7.5 and windows Phone 8. You can download the updated app via Windows Phone App Store. Here is an updated official changelog: See translations of foreign language Tweets to your preferred language Various bug fixes Here are the existing features: Follow your interests, browse, and search in one all-encompassing timeline. Watch the...

Starting from today, you will be able to know that who’s viewed your updates on LinkedIn as well as where you have been looking. The business networking updated the site with these two new additions today: these are titled “Who’s Viewed Your Updates” and “You Recently Visited.” In simple, the company trying its level best on how to let users spent more time on site by encouraging them to get involved in more of the activities on its platform. You can get both these new features on the right-hand side of the...