Facebook lets users rate any place and change their ratings from desktop pages + MORE

Gmail users will be able to send money as an attachment to make person-to-person payments online, Google said today.
Along with the paper clip attachment icon, users will see a dollar sign that allows them to send money.
The feature draws on Google Wallet, an app once intended to facilitate in-store payments with smartphones but which has increasingly focused on Web payments…

Facebook place pages now include an option for users to give star ratings to businesses and locations directly from their page on Facebook.com, even if they haven’t been to the location. Facebook tells us this is a test.
Previously, users could rate places from the Local Search section of the mobile app, and only if they had previously checked into the location or been tagged there…

Time for a back-up plan for your Twitter back-up plan. Backupify — the Cambridge, MA cloud-based backup, search and restore provider for online services — is shutting down TweetBackup, a company originally founded in Sweden that Backupify acquired in 2010 for an undisclosed amount. Tweetbackup has posted a note about the closure on its site, as well as — yes — on its Twitter account, noting that new signups are stopping as of today, and that existing users will have 30 days, until June 28, to keep logging into their accounts and back up their Twitter data elsewhere…

Vin Diesel leads this week’s list of top gainers in the People Talking About This metric for actor/director pages. The “Fast and Furious” star has achieved 1.6 million total engagements with his page, increasing by 546k engagements over the last week. With the newest “Fast and the Furious” release date nearing, the page is producing a steady stream of content…

In our earlier post on “tweetblocking being the new junkpunch on Twitter” we introduced you to a watchdog handle, @FixWMATA, that was blocked by the publicly funded entity it was watchdogging: the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
And we’re wondering if publicly funded entities should be allowed to block watchdog groups – or anybody for that matter – on Twitter…

Floorplanner, which offers an online 3D floor-planning platform to some 7 million users, has announced its acquisition of Mydeco3D (Mydeco).
Mydeco offers a 3D room planner tool that adds depth to online property listings by enabling floorplans to be populated with virtual versions of real-world products and furnishings…

Wikipedia marketing is hard.
Offering content to Wikipedia’s editorial community is different than traditional content marketing.
The content is rule-bound. The editors are thorough. And these editors have to produce neutral content about the company, rather than a thought-leadership subject.
Some companies have such strong opinions about themselves and certain controversies they are involved in, it can be an emotional process to write neutrally on it…

Compass Labs
Social marketing platform Compass Labs today announced a new dynamic campaign solution, The Social Advertising Optimizer, which automatically manages an advertiser’s bids. The tool can identify and optimize campaigns by ad placement, targeting and creative combinations based on different weighted actions and goals…

Who needs a second screen when you can use one screen to watch, share, and see what others are saying about life television entertainment? Today SimulTV launched a new online TV-viewing app that integrates social, eliminating the need for two screens.
“SimulTV puts the social in TV – literally – by merging the second screen with the first,” the company says…

Are you a member of a LinkedIn Group? Do you spend time networking in LinkedIn Groups? LinkedIn Groups are great way to build credibility and make new connections that can ultimately help grow your business. With over 1.5 million LinkedIn Groups, it can be difficult to find relevant Groups and determine which ones might be […

It’s official: Gran Turismo 6 will be arriving this holiday season, with the first demo becoming available this July
At an event held to celebrate 15 years of the popular racing series, Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi revealed that 70 million copies of GT have been sold so far

“I’d like to announce today that we are developing GT 6 for the holiday season this year on the PlayStation 3” #GT6isComing #15YearsOfGT
— PlayStation Europe (@PlayStationEU) May 15, 2013

The next installment in the series will feature all the cars and tracks from Gran Turismo 5, as well as many new cars, bringing the total amount of cars available to a whopping 1,200 Read more…

Today Google+ is getting a huge update with 41 new features, including a brand new multi-column layout with customization options.
Rolling out later today, the new interface bears resemblance to the layout adopted for its iPad and Android tablet apps last June. The Pinterest-esque design replaces the long list of posts, photos, and comments that currently makes up the stream…