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Here’s what you need to know about the Google+ shut down

Sprout Social

Since 2013, Google+ had been experiencing low activity. Since this bug was affecting the platform’s Application Programming Interface (API) and some of its users, the company decided to expedite the shutdown. This will include data from your Circles, Streams and Communities as well as all your +1 data.The process is quite simple.

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How To Schedule Instagram Posts

The Social Media Hat

The Instagram community has grown from 90 million active users in January 2013 to more than 400 million active users in September 2015. There are other apps that have or soon will have Instagram scheduling capability but unfortunately, due to the way Instagram's API is configured, this is how they all work. Tweet this!

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iGoogle Finished – what’s your favourite RSS Dashboard social media monitoring?

Laurel Papworth

It can’t be a purely RSS play as we need gadgets/widgets for API only based services. iGoogle will be retired in 16 months, on November 1, 2013. Really grumpy ! about iGoogle shutting down – if Google can’t find it on the ‘net, nobody can – but I’m sure there are services nearly as good.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Google’s Mobile Changes

Convince & Convert

The misinterpretations surrounding Google’s April 21 algorithm updates resulted in panic in the tech and business communities last week. Google introduced this functionality in 2013 to encourage the use of previously installed apps when users perform searches on Google and Android devices. It’s been nicknamed “Mobile-geddon.”

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Sydney Social Media Course – 3 Days with Laptop

Laurel Papworth

Sydney social media course 2013. Laurel manages massive gaming and online communities including Facebook and forums for reality TV shows such as Junior Masterchef. Since 2005, Laurel has been teaching online community management at the University of Sydney and she has been managing virtual communities since 1989.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Foursquare’s geolocation API was used for geofilters and location tagging in apps like Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram. Apparently, A LOT of people (like 45 million unique viewers by 2013 ) love watching live-streamed video games. Registering its one-millionth user that same year, the site became just “ Facebook ” in 2005.

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Who will win the video app wars?

Janet Fouts

Then there’s Hang w/ which launched in 2013. And shortly after we learned about Twitter cutting off access to their API, it became clear why. That app launched in 2009 and allowed users to swap video messages back and forth before it was acquired by Skype back in 2011, and then shut down in 2014. Who will win the video app wars?

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