New This Week! May 19-23, 2014
- Facebook’s New Shazam-Like Tool Knows What You’re Watching and Hearing: Facebook has introduced a new tool which can identify songs or television shows you are listening to or watching, allowing you to share it with our friends in your status.
- Facebook Is Taking the ‘I’m a Voter’ Button Global: After the digital-equivalent of the voter sticker became a hit in the 2012 U.S. presidential election, and more recently the Indian parliamentary election, Facebook has decided to offer the feature globally. It will be available for the upcoming elections in Colombia, South Korea, Scotland, Sweden, New Zealand, Brazil and Indonesia this year.
- Facebook Lets Restaurants Post Menus To Their Pages: Good news for restaurants on Facebook! In a partnership with Constant Contact’s SinglePlatform, Facebook has begun letting restaurants post menus on their Facebook pages.
- Facebook Offering Free Anti-Malware Software to Infected Users: Users with infected devices can now download free anti-malware software from Facebook’s abuse and detection prevention system via a popup notification.
Google+
- Google+ Stories Is an Automatic Scrapbook For Your Vacation Photos: There’s a new way to share your vacation photos! Google’s new ‘Stories’ tool will automatically create a digital scrapbook of your best vacation photos after you return, even tagging images with the names of cities, restaurants, hotels and airports!
- LinkedIn Now Shows How Your Profile Ranks In Your Network: Life’s popularity contest has made its way to LinkedIn with the service now showing users how their profile ranks compared to others at their company, as well as to everyone they are connected to. In other words, this is LinkedIn’s clever way of getting its users to be more active on the social network.
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