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Google+ brings What’s Hot stream to mobile web app

Google updated its mobile web app for Google+ with a couple of new features. The first is the addition of the “What’s Hot” stream, which aggregates the most popular public posts on Google+ at any given time. The second is the ability to see specifically who +1′d a post, rather than just the +1 count itself. The What’s Hot stream is accessible by swiping to the right of the Circles stream. It brings the web app’s carousel of streams at the top into play. To see who +1′d a post, Read more

Motorola Mobility invests in social startup Shaker

Motorola Mobility has announced that it will be investing in a hot new startup that will probably grow dramatically in 2012: Shaker. Shaker is a different kind of social networking experiences that brings your friends together in a virtual environment (think Habbo Hotel or IMVU but in a bar setting) to chat with friends and meet new friends of friends. It won the award for best startup at TechCrunch Disrupt for 2011, although I like to think that oh-so-clever “Where Things Happen” slogan is contributing greatly to its success. Just as Read more

Layar introduces Stiktu, makes augmented reality social

Layar, one of the innovators of mobile augmented reality, recently announced the release of its new social experiment called Stiktu, an application allowing Android and iOS smartphone users to leave digital postings on real-world images and share them with each other. The social app lets users add text, images, stickers and sketches to objects around you by scanning them with your phone. Discussing the reason why it created Stiktu, Layar on its blog said: From the very start we always wanted to give this powerful technology to people so they Read more

Galaxy Nexus gets Facebook sync in latest MoDaCo ROM

While we’re pretty much in love with virtually everything Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich brings to the table, many may be bummed that Facebook contact sync is not available for the Galaxy Nexus and hasn’t been sync Android 2.3.3. Well, if you’ve got a Galaxy Nexus on hand, you may be happy to hear that the latest custom ROM from MoDaCo has successfully enabled the feature. We can understand why Google would choose to integrate Google + contact sync instead of Facebook into Ice Cream Sandwich, let’s face it, Facebook Read more