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• 01 May 2013

• News: Facebook revenue rises 38 percent amid continued mobile growth

  Facebook posted a revenue increase of 38 percent in the first quarter that was bolstered by broad engagement across the site, the company reported Wednesday.

• News: Dunkin' Donuts brews up strong social response to Boston bombings

  When Dunkin' Donuts executives were deciding how to respond on Twitter and Facebook to the Boston Marathon bombings, they acted like what they are - members of a grieving Boston community.

• News: Path users complain about mass texts; Path says it's user error

  Social network Path appeals to people who want more privacy, but now users are complaining that the app is spamming their address book contacts with unsolicited texts that invite them to join the network.

• News: Facebook's big data plans include warehouses, faster analytics

  Facebook may treasure the data it has on its one billion-plus users for its advertising returns, but the analysis the site performs on that data is expected to continue to pose numerous challenges over the coming year, an engineer said.

• 30 April 2013

• News: Bang With Friends raises $1 million to help people 'bang' their Facebook friends

  Sometimes I wonder if there may be too much venture capitalist money out there. Business Insider is reporting that the popular three-month-old Web app Bang With Friends (BWF) has raised $1 million in seed money to further spread its unique brand of carefree social media-fueled debauchery.

• News: Vine update adds front camera, Twitter-style mentions

  Vine, the app from Twitter that lets iPhone owners create and share six-second videos, scored a few updates on Tuesday. It's easier now to make videos that star you, and Twitter-style mentions are now supported, too.

• News: Google may have smart eyeglasses but Budweiser has smart beer glasses

  Budweiser is trying to make it easier to make friends -- Facebook friends -- when you're drinking beer.

• News: Twitter opens self-service ads to everyone

  Twitter is expanding its self-service advertising platform so that any business in the U.S. can pay the site to promote its accounts and tweets.

• News: Enterasys boosts productivity with Microsoft SharePoint alternative

  Enterasys Networks, the Salem, N.H., maker of networking and security products, found coordinating collaboration among staff, suppliers and partners was cumbersome using Microsoft's SharePoint so went looking for a simpler way that wound up saving money by boosting efficiency.

• News: Facebook fights user fatigue, while Twitter is fastest growing: report

  Facebook has seen some growth in its active users, but Twitter has become the fastest growing social platform in the world, according to Global Web Index.

• News: Facebook fights user fatigue, while Twitter is fastest growing: report

  Facebook has seen some growth in its active users, but Twitter has become the fastest growing social platform in the world, according to Global Web Index.

• 29 April 2013

• How-Tos: Designing your digital legacy

  We lead rich virtual lives on social networking sites like Google+, Facebook, and Twitter. So what happens when real life catches up, and our flesh-and-blood bodies succumb to mortality? For our virtual selves, at least, some concrete answers are available--ways to settle our digital affairs after death, while minimizing hassle and heartache for loved ones.

• News: 25 must-have technologies for SMBs

  Running a small business isn't easy. I know. I run one. As a freelance writer, I’ve learned that you need to run your writing career as if you were running a business.

• News: Instant messaging overtakes the humble SMS text

  Use of instant messaging via services like WhatsApp and iMessage has overtaken regular SMS text messages for the first time.

• 27 April 2013

• How-Tos: Make your Twitter feed less annoying in 3 simple steps

  It's trendy to complain about Twitter being overwhelming, and to say that whatever value the social media site once had has been drowned in a sea of incorrect, boring, or fatuous tweets. While the first reply to these complaints is, "Learn how to pare down your Twitter streams," sometimes that can be tougher than it seems.

• News: The White House joins Tumblr; animated GIFs and pet photos to follow

  Tumblr is where memes are made, where cats and animated GIFs rule supreme. It's also where all the cool Internet kids hang out these days, so naturally the White House had to get in on the Tumbling action.

• 26 April 2013

• News: Wolfram Alpha nerd-crunches your Facebook activity, turns your social life into data

  Every time you like a picture of the meal your friend posted to Instagram or tweet about loving that horribly irresistible "Thrift Shop" song despite yourself, you have created a data point. Congratulations! Crunching all that publically available data is of obvious interest to the security and marketing folks (and therefore also privacy advocates), but it is also becoming an increasingly important tool for social research.

• News: Wolfram Alpha study of Facebook users details relationship cycles

  The average Facebook user has 342 friends and teenage girls and boys tend to misreport their relationship status as married, according to an analysis of Facebook data by Wolfram Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram.

• News: Twitter revives, updates native OS X client

  In a sign that perhaps, on occasion, pigs do fly, Twitter has announced an update to its official OS X client, Twitter for Mac, bringing it to version 2.2.

• 25 April 2013

• News: Facebook buys Parse, gets into development tools business

  Facebook is acquiring Parse, a cloud service company that makes it easier for developers to build mobile apps by providing them with a hosted back-end infrastructure, the companies announced Thursday.

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