Always On Top Of Social
Pinterest, the social image sharing platform that is growing exponentially, has released version 2.0 of their successful app. This release brings with it Android platform support, as well as iPad.
According to the update:
“All new iPad app that makes it easy to pin, repin and browse the web.”
It goes on to include, “better usability for the iPhone and improvements to stability and performance.” Pinterest account creation is also now possible from the app.
Google+ has announced in a blog post that they are going to begin rolling out “vanity URLs.” They say, “Today we’re introducing custom URLs to make it even easier for people to find your profile on Google+. A custom URL is a short, easy to remember web address that links directly to your profile or page …
Digg, the social bookmarking website, released an updated version of their mobile app. Their entire service, website and mobile platform were recently overhauled. This is a minor update that addresses some specific issues and features.
Version 3.0.1
This update includes:
The social networks Klout, Foursquare and Yelp all released minor updates to their mobile apps.
Version 1.6
This update includes:
Empire Avenue is an online game that has achieved enormous popularity lately. It is a form of stock market, where every player is a stock and you can buy or sell shares in each other. Your share price and dividends are based on not only your in-game activity, but your real life social network activity as well. Users connect their Facebook, Facebook Page, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn and YouTube accounts and Empire Avenue automatically records and scores your activity. Users are also able to connect one or more blogs and RSS feeds.
Digg has launched a completely new website, app and mobile version. The new Digg is being referred to as v1. The company’s blog post gave a sneak peak and took us through the motivation for completely rebuilding Digg and what will be coming.
Digg Launches New Website, App, Integrates Facebook and Twitter in ScoringRead More
Starting with LinkedIn, Twitter has been publicly making moves to gain more control over Twitter user’s experience. Several weeks ago, Twitter severed ties with LinkedIn and stopped allowing Twitter user’s Tweets to be automatically displayed within the LinkedIn site on user’s profile pages. Now, Instagram is next.
Twitter Takes More Steps to Control the Twitter Experience, Cuts Off InstagramRead More
Yelp, the social network for finding and sharing location activities, has released version 6.0.0 of their mobile app. The update description states: This update is literally filled to the brim with awesomeness. We’re not joking — we had to get an intern to stand on the top of it just to get it zipped up …
Twitter released version 4.3.1 of their mobile app. Changes included:
There was no additional information available on twitter.com.
