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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Nears Deal With Stripe, Spotify Drops Free Listening Time Limit

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Spotify: Facebook’s new Trending section.

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11 Google Reader Alternatives to Consider

Kikolani

July 1st is just about here, so if you haven’t already, now is the time to choose your alternative RSS reader of choice to replace Google Reader. Since I last wrote about Google Reader alternatives, more services have sprung up to fill the voie. Can be used on your desktop with Google Chrome and on iOS or Android devices.

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Facebook Reader a welcome feature

Sherrilynne Starkie

Google will soon shelve Reader and this has created a lot of panicky online noise from ardent fans. But little by little Twitter and Facebook have taken over the reader duties for me. Earlier this month, rumours about Facebook’s possible Google Reader replacement erupted when mentions of RSS feeds appeared in Facebook’s code.

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Google+ Continues Attempts to Start Major Trends in the Social World

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Google+, the social media product of the search behemoth Google, has made several changes recently in an effort to court new users and to continue developing the product as a key social tool. There has been speculation that Google could potentially announce a product that will end up filling that space on users’ screens.

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Miss My Google Reader Updates? Here Are 4 Ways You Can Still Get Relevant Tech News

Stay N' Alive

If you're an avid Google Reader user like me, you are well aware of the recent changes Google Reader made to their interface, removing the ability to share news with friends, and as a result, killing the means for over 1,500 of you to receive relevant tech news updates from me. Maybe you didn't even follow me on Google Reader before.

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This Week in Social Media – 4/3/2013

Social Media Marketing

If you have additional links, sources or ideas that might be helpful, I'd encourage you to add some via a comment below or tag me in Google+. And if you’re on Flipboard, you can get these links in my new This Week in Social Media Magazine. Flipboard has launched user-created magazines and is partnering with Etsy.

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My Love Affair With Pocket

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Over the years, other services came online, Delicious got acquired by Yahoo , RSS readers (like Google Reader ) came into play and, well, things just started getting messy again. From taking physical notes of things to check out, to using Google Reader to having specific folders in my email program for areas of interest. bookmarklet.