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• 26 January 2012

• News: Google+ offers more restrictive user experience for teens

  Google+ is now officially welcoming teenagers and tailoring the experience of the social networking site for them by making it more restrictive and potentially safer.

• News: Your Complete Guide to Facebook Timeline

  Facebook announced yesterday that Timeline--its redesigned profile page--is becoming mandatory for all users. If you don't switch to Timeline on your own, Facebook will do so for you within "the next few weeks."

• 25 January 2012

• News: Tibco adds geolocation to its Tibbr social platform

  Tibco has added geolocation technology to its Tibbr enterprise social-networking platform, in a move that will allow companies to use physical spaces as "data hubs," or launching points for information delivery and collection.

• 24 January 2012

• News: All Facebook Profiles Switch to Timeline Soon: Brace for Backlash

  Facebook users who've been avoiding the new Timeline profile format won't have a choice for much longer, because Facebook will be switching all users over to the Timeline format in the next few weeks.

• News: Google+ Says 'Yes' to Nicknames, But No to Anonymity

  Google relaxed the strict naming policy for Google+ users and will allow nicknames and pseudonyms on the social network. The new naming policy, announced by Google’s Bradley Horowitz on Google+, will start rolling out this week and allows users to choose alternatives names, be it nicknames or names in non-Romanized languages. But there’s a caveat.

• News: Twitter acquires antimalware company Dasient

  Twitter has acquired Internet security firm Dasient, the Sunnyvale, California startup said on its blog on Monday.

• 23 January 2012

• News: Google+ adds support for pseudonyms -- sort of

  Google has relaxed somewhat its strict real-names policy on Google+, by letting existing members attach an alternate moniker to their profile name and by letting new members sign up with just a pseudonym, provided it is an "established" identity online or offline.

• News: Social networking engineers team to make Google searches less 'evil'

  Software engineers from major social networking companies have apparently grown tired of Google's relentless drive to push its own Google+ social network at the expense of other sites.

• News: Obama to do YouTube, Google+ Hangout interview

  Continuing his longstanding use of social networks, President Barack Obama is set to do an interview in a Google+ Hangout on Jan. 30.

• News: Hacker releases 100,000 Facebook log-in credentials

  A hacker who claims to act in defense of Israel has released 100,000 credentials of allegedly Arab users of Facebook in an ongoing row between Israeli and Arab hackers.

• 21 January 2012

• News: Google Nixes Photo Web App

  Google's campaign to drive up usage of its growing social networking service could be the reason for the demise of Picnik, a fun and powerful photo editing website that will be closing shop on April 19.

• 20 January 2012

• News: 4 Facebook Tips to Cut News Feed Noise

  You probably have a handful of Facebook friends who post too often, play too many games or share too many pictures. These well-intentioned friends end up flooding your News Feed with noise.

• News: Google+ now boasts 90 million users

  Say this for Google+: It no longer has fewer total users than MySpace.

• News: Tips for Facebook Timeline Apps: Beware What You Share

  Facebook opened the floodgates to its "new class of apps" Wednesday, unveiling its partnership with more than 60 applications that let users share more about their daily lives.

• 19 January 2012

• News: Twitter acquires social media feed condenser Summify

  Twitter has acquired Summify, a startup that summarizes content in people's Google, Facebook and Twitter social media feeds and delivers a daily digest via email, on a website or to a user's iPhone.

• News: Facebook Floods Timeline with Oversharing Apps

  Facebook's Timelines are about to get a lot busier, with dozens of new apps allowed to automatically post updates on what their users are doing.

• News: Facebook Announces 60+ New Apps for 'Timeline'

  You know those "Alex P is listening to Sleezin' by Freak-Z on Spotify" messages you always see in your Facebook ticker? You're going to start seeing many more of those, and not just ones about your friends' music tastes. The ticker will soon be telling you about everything your friends are eating, photographing, buying, watching, tasting, reading and much more.

• News: China to expand real-name registration for Twitter-like microblogs

  China plans to require users of the country's Twitter-like microblogs to register with their real identities, and has already begun trials of the system in five cities, according to a Chinese official.

• Opinion: Don't Tell the Boss: You Tweet from Work Like a Maniac

  A new study by network security firm Palo Alto Networks shows "explosive" growth in the use of social networks in the workplace, with a 300 percent increase in social media activity in the latter half of 2011 compared with the same period of 2010.

• 17 January 2012

• News: Facebook may let you share what you do off-site

  Speculation is swirling that Facebook is getting ready to announce a way to combine information on what users do on, and off, the social network.

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