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Announcing the Facebook Antivirus Marketplace (Facebook Newsroom)
We’re announcing the Antivirus Marketplace, developed with industry partners to enhance protection for people on Facebook. AllFacebook The Antivirus Marketplace features free downloads and six-month licenses from Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos and Symantec. GeekWire The social network says its URL blacklist — which aims to stop its users from accessing malicious sites from Facebook — will also now incorporate the databases of those companies. The Next Web To access the new protection tools, all you have to do is visit the Facebook Security Page and select from the options listed on the page. Read more

On December 13th, 2011, Twitter users all over Japan broke a record by tweeting about during a television screening of Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky — it’s a famous anime that is known by all Japanese and Japanese tweeters tweeted quotes from the show during the entire program.  That was the world record for message per second on a social network until the first minute of Chinese New Year, Monday January 23rd, when Chinese users broke the Twitter record on their own version of Twitter, Sina Weibo.

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We may not hear a lot about it here in the West, but India is currently undergoing their social renaissance.  Services like Facebook, Google Plus and Orkut are huge over there, and continue to grow at staggering rates.  One look at this “Who’s Using Google Plus” infographic and you’ll see that Indians are prominent users of G+.

But the thing is, this influx of social networking is like a megaphone for hundreds of millions of people in the country, who never had the ability to speak out in such a public way before.  And this is why Indian politicians are currently undergoing the growth pains of having a social tech-savvy populace, and their response so far has been to ask service providers to delete harmful communities.

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If you follow emerging social networks news, you’ll often find yourself standing face to face with odd terms like “renren” or “sina weibo”, and for some, it’s tough to even begin to understand what they represent.  Fortunately, the folks over at G+ have put together a fantastic infographic looking at social media behavior in China.  From Youku to Jiepang, this one’s got you set.

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For such a popular social network with over 800 million subscribers it seems hard to believe that less than 20% of Facebook content is liked.

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For most sports fans, watching a game has always and will forever be a social event. NFL Sunday, March Madness, the Olympics, and anything involving the playoffs are much anticipated and social-centered affairs. While smartphones and Twitter in particular have connected sports fans around the world while watching games, one social network is attempting to streamline fandom, hoping it will occur exclusively within their online world. Read more

Even if Google Apps users are already signed up with a Google Plus account, they have an option to import their current Google Plus account over to their Google Apps account.

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I am sure that Google can bring those numbers back up again. Particularly with its partnership with Microsoft, growing online ad business, massive traffic and ever increasing influence.

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If you’re the United Nations, what’s the best way to start a General Assembly? What about with a “global conversation” hosted on social media?

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The social network can connect you with people you’re familiar with or are interested and only around the topics that you care to tweet about.

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