Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week?
LinkedIn Makes it Easier to Grow Your Professional Network: LinkedIn rolls out an update for the People You May Know feature with a streamlined user experience and improved accuracy and relevance of your recommendations.
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TweetDeck Updates Lists, Activity, Media and More: “This update introduces some great new features as well as a host of smaller improvements and bug fixes. Check out this video for a quick tour of the updates, and read on for more information.”
Google+ Hangouts SlideShare App Rolls Out:Â Google+ is enabling developers to share any hangout app with the entire Google+ community and SlideShare is one of the featured apps at launch.
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Updated Pinterest Terms: These “updated Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy and Privacy Policy are easier to understand and better reflect the direction our company is headed in the future.”
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