Google+ comments are now part of Blogger + MORE

We’ve done it again: Today the House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) with 288 votes in favor besting 127 votes opposed. Eighteen representatives abstained.
That vote tally compares to last year’s vote on the bill, in the previous Congress, in which CISPA passed 248 to 168…

Facebook today announced a number of changes meant to improve the experience and increase the possibilities for mobile developers building apps that integrate with the social network. This includes new Open Graph APIs, a standard mobile share dialog, faster login and a Technology Partners program to help developers find third-party solutions that suit their needs…

Being “good” at Twitter is more of an art than a science.
There’s no magic formula for social media success, nor hard and fast rules for how to use Twitter well.
But there are guidelines, informed by scads of data and legitimized through case studies and success stories, for writing the “best” Twitter headlines as measured by their clickability…

Facebook is rolling out a new Groups section of Timeline today to allow users to share and highlight the groups that they’re a part of, a company spokesperson tells us.
With the latest Timeline redesign, Facebook overhauled the About page so that it’s one long page with different content-specific sections…

Today, we’re releasing Twitter #music, a new service that will change the way people find music, based on Twitter. It uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists. It also brings artists’ music-related Twitter activity front and center: go to their profiles to see which music artists they follow and listen to songs by those artists…

Just a rumor last week, Twitter today officially announced the launch of Twitter Music, its new standalone music service that will change the way people discover music.
Available on desktop and iOS, the free service uses Twitter activity like tweets and engagement to locate and surface the most popular tracks and artists…

Wildfire, the social media marketing platform owned by Google, announced Tuesday that it is shutting down its self-serve Promotion Builder product.
The company will instead offer promotions solely as part of its Social Marketing Suite for enterprise clients. Basic, Standard and Premium promotions will be retired June 30…

Despite what appeared to be a tightening race, iOS showed renewed dominance over Android in terms of how much revenue it delivers to content publishers in the first quarter of 2013, according to an Opera Mediaworks report [pdf] released today that also pointed to the rise of mobile ad targeting and the continued influence of multimedia content…

It has been three days since the devastating bombings at the Boston marathon. No suspects have been named or are in custody. The web has begun to consume itself, gnawing on its own tail in search of comfort and answers. Until authorities find the bastards who did this, it should be a harmless exercise…

Google has just given Blogger a Plus-size upgrade. Now, you’ll be able to see Google+ comments for a Blogger post alongside Blogger comments for the same post.
It might sound confusing, but it’s a pretty natural integration.
“For example, if there’s a public Google+ discussion about one of your blog entries, those comments and replies will also appear on your Blogger blog,” writes Google engineer Yonatan Zunger today on the companyblog…

Last month, social media curation service Storify revealed its first paid plan, Storify VIP. It sounds like VIP is designed for large media organizations (the first announced customer was the BBC), but today, Storify is announcing that it created a more accessible, less journalism-focused option called Storify Business…

Facebook is today launching cost-per-action ads for certain actions through the Ads API, a company spokesperson tells us.
This pricing model lets advertisers define the action that is most important to them and set a maximum price they’re willing to spend for each action of that type. For example, instead of paying for every click — whether it came from a user who simply viewed a photo larger, left a comment or visited the advertiser’s fan page instead of actually Liking the page — a company could now say it only wants to pay for page Likes…