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Google+ Updates Android App, Adds New Design And Other Features
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GetGlue, NBC Offer Comedy Show Studio Audience Members Stickers For Checking-in
GetGlue has teamed up with NBC to offer some cool stickers to studio audience members of some of the network's late night comedy shows -- “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” and “Saturday Night Live.” You can only unlock these stickers if you attend a taping of the shows. There are posters with instructions on how to obtain... Read more » Sonar Adds LinkedIn Integration And New Interface To iPhone App
Sonar, an app which helps you meet nearby people through your existing social networking contacts, has rolled out a new version of its iPhone app. The updated version of Sonar has integration with LinkedIn and a fresh interface. Sonar, which launched back in May, uses Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and now LinkedIn to help you find potential new connections... Read more » Turntable.fm Closes $7M Funding Round, Launches iPhone App
Turntable.fm has confirmed that it has closed a $7 million funding round, details of which were initially revealed last month. The social music service has also launched its iPhone app in the App Store. Union Square Ventures led the funding round and Fred Wilson, a partner at the VC firm, is joining the Turntable.fm board. Others who have participated in the round... Read more » Dwolla Adds LinkedIn Integration, Rolls Out Updated iPhone App
Social payments service Dwolla now allows you to send and receive payments with your LinkedIn connections. Meanwhile, the company has rolled out an updated version of its iPhone app that includes the new Proxi feature. Dwolla, which added the option to send payments by SMS last month, has used the LinkedIn API to add the LinkedIn integration to its... Read more » Formspring Launches iPhone App, Lets You Send Photos To Friends
Social Q&A service Formspring has launched its first mobile app. The new iPhone app allows you to ask questions, respond to questions and share photos with your friends to get their responses. The photo-sharing feature of the app is most interesting, as it is a brand new Formspring feature -- you cannot send photos to your friends or attach them to responses... Read more » Monster Launches Professional Networking App ‘BeKnown’ For iPhone, Android
In June, Monster launched a professional networking app for Facebook called “BeKnown.” The app allows users to create a professional network right from their Facebook profile and even invite contacts from other social networks -- not just your Facebook contacts. To help users take the service anywhere, Monster launched a mobile app for BeKnown on Tuesday. The... Read more »
Location-based App PigeonMe Helps You Plan Meet-ups With Friends
A new app called PigeonMe has been launched that helps you let your friends, family and coworkers know when and where to meet you for a social or business event using location-based data. The app mimics the idea of homing pigeons by informing your friends where you are and how to get to that location using GPS data. All you have to do is say when and where the... Read more » Gowalla Reveals Details Of New-look App, Focuses On Travel And Storytelling
Location-based service Gowalla is launching a brand new version of its mobile app, in which it moves away slightly from the check-in space to focus on travel and storytelling. Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams unveiled the brand new app at TechCrunch Disrupt Monday. Although this is effectively version 4.0 of the Gowalla app, it looks drastically different from... Read more » Posterous Shifts Focus To Selective Sharing, Becomes Social Network With Launch Of ‘Posterous Spaces’
Posterous has undergone a massive overhaul, with a new focus on selective sharing of content, a revamped iPhone app and a new-look website which has several new features. The service announced the launch of Posterous Spaces Monday, which allows you to share content with your friends, families or colleagues privately or share content with everyone publicly. Spaces... Read more » Bing Rolls Out Mobile Website Updates, Adds Facebook Integration, YouTube Videos And More
Search engine giant Bing has rolled out a new set of updates for their mobile website, Bing for Mobile Browse. The updates help make the website faster, easier to use and more social. Earlier this year Bing launched a Facebook integration that allowed users to see which search results their friends had Liked. Now, users can expect to see this same integration on... Read more » 
