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| Google+ at 2 Years: An Assessment | | Friday, June 28, 2013 6:40 PM | Christina Warren |
| Two years ago Friday, Google unveiled its social network Google+ to the world. In the early days, Google described Google+ as a "social layer" rather than a pure social network, partly because Google+ permeates lots of different services, and partly to offset the idea that Google+ was an attempt to directly compete with Facebook and Twitter.
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| Facebook 'Compliments' Pages Promote Positivity on College Campuses | | Friday, June 28, 2013 6:34 PM | Annie Park |
| Last fall, a new Internet craze hit college campuses: Facebook 'Compliments' pages. Four students at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, started a Facebook profile called Queens U Compliments. They encouraged fellow classmates to anonymously submit compliments about members of the university, which were then posted to the profile to be viewed publicly.
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| Join Us for a Discussion About Social Media Day | | Friday, June 28, 2013 2:34 PM | Ryan Lytle |
| In 2010, Mashable launched Social Media Day to celebrate the growth of digital and social media. Going into our fourth annual year of recognizing this revolution, Social Media Day has become a worldwide celebration with more than 300 communities coordinating events.
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| Why Everyone Thought Alec Baldwin's Wife Tweeted at a Funeral | | Friday, June 28, 2013 2:27 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Pesky time zones. Even on Twitter, they can cause some confusion — as perfectly evidenced by the controversy surrounding whether actor Alec Baldwin's pregnant wife, Hilaria, posted a series of tweets while she was at James Gandolfini's funeral on Thursday.
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| 9 Sweet LGBT Proposals to Celebrate Pride Month | | Friday, June 28, 2013 1:58 PM | The Daily Dot |
| YouTube is celebrating the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community on its YouTube Spotlight channel as Pride Month comes to an end. The special programming began just one day after the U.S. Supreme Court deemed the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional and dismissed the appeal on Proposition 8.
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| Be Yourself: Share Your Individuality in a Photograph | | Friday, June 28, 2013 10:02 AM | Annie Park |
| What makes you unique? Is it your personality? Your sense of style? For this week's Mashable Photo Challenge Guest Series, we want to see images that best capture the phrase "be yourself." Your photos can be portraits, self-portraits or any other creative depiction of the theme. "The prompt is 'be yourself,' so be yourself as a photographer!" our guest curator Kevin Truong says.
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