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Facebook tests another Timeline layout with elements from new and old designs – insidefacebook.com Although Facebook publicly announced a new Timeline layout last week with posts in a single column on the right and customizable modules to the left, some users are seeing another design, which is more of a hybrid of the new and old Timeline. Blink VP Planning and Media Eti Suruzon says her profile was updated Wednesday, but it doesn’t look like the version Facebook has launched to others… Continue Reading On insidefacebook.com » Facebook to drop mobile bookmarks for all apps except cross-platform games – insidefacebook.com...

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Payroll For Collaborative Consumption Startups Gets Easier With New Braintree-Venmo Service – techcrunch.com/social Braintree’s $26.2 million deal to buy New York’s mobile payments startup Venmo seems to be paying off once more for the Accel-backed company. The company is launching an easier way for collaborative consumption startups — which could include Braintree’s best known-clients like Uber and Airbnb — to pay their contractors or users… Facebook prompts some page owners to share links to their website – insidefacebook.com Facebook is testing a new way to encourage admins to make posts to their pages this week by starting a post with...

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How Evernote Food Can Help Market Your Restaurant – sproutsocial.com/insights Evernote might not be the first tool you think of when it comes to marketing a restaurant, but the most recent update to its Food app certainly demonstrates its potential. Today Evernote Food — which gives consumers a place to discover, collect, and remember all of life’s memorable food moments — was updated to include support for OpenTable, Foursquare ratings, and recipe sharing… Continue Reading On sproutsocial.com/insights » Facebook announces winners of PMD Innovation Competition; Ampush leads – insidefacebook.com Facebook today announced the winners of its Preferred Marketing Developer Innovation...

Option to mark items as spam less noticeable in latest Facebook iOS app + MORE

Singaporean-Finnish Startup Nonstop Games Raises $2.9M For Core Gaming On iOS, Android – techcrunch.com/social Nonstop Games, a Singaporean-Finnish gaming company (yes, really), just picked up $2.9 million from two Scandinavian venture firms, Creandum and Lifeline Ventures, to build out core games for iOS and Android. The company’s team has an interesting backstory. Henric Suuronen was a head of studio at one of Europe’s biggest social gaming companies Wooga, and a director at Digital Chocolate Finland before that… Continue Reading On techcrunch.com/social » ‘Silent updates’ for Android download latest version of Facebook without Google Play – insidefacebook.com Facebook is testing a...

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Accounting software startup Xero ditches HTML5 in favor of native iOS and Android apps – thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ Supporters of HTML5 for mobile were dealt a significant blow when Facebook u-turned and began developing native apps last year. Now another company is hedging its bets after accounting software maker Xero gave up on Web apps for mobile claiming that the development was resource intensive and difficult… Continue Reading On thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ » This week’s headlines from across Inside Network – insidefacebook.com A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between March 11 and March. 15. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence...

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Twitter Careers: New Jobs Posted This Week – mediabistro.com/alltwitter/ This continues our series highlighting new positions posted at Twitter each week. Check out past listings here. This week, Twitter added 20 new jobs to its career page. And here they are: continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. Continue Reading On mediabistro.com/alltwitter/ » Flickr updates its iOS app enabling hashtags to be added to any photo’s title, description, or search – thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ Flickr released an update on Saturday to its iOS application with hashtag support. Now, users are able to add a hashtag not only to a photo’s title or description, but they...