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Hangouts in Gmail now available in India

Google had announced that users would be able to start Hangouts from within Gmail itself very soon. Well the feature has been rolled out to users in India today according to a blog post on the Google India blog.

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Top 14 Social Networking Sites For You

There are a barrage of social networks out there for each and every aspect that you can imagine. Social networking sites for connecting with old friends, networks for sharing and discussing about photography and music, micro blogging sites and many more. We will list a few of these sites according to their categories for your benefit here. Social networks featured here may be past their prime or maybe rising suns depending on the number of active users.

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Foursquare launches business companion app for merchants

Foursquare has launched a Business companion app for business users to easily post and manage content from their smartphones.

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Twitter introduces a new way to share short video clips with Vine

Twitter has just introduced Vine, a new way to share short clips of videos to your Twitter feed.

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NASA introduces new badge on Foursquare

NASA has long offered different badges to Foursquare users to earn with their check ins. They have added one more to the galore of badges that can be earned. The new badge introduced is called the “Curiosity Rover” Badge.

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Try Flickr Pro free for 3 months

If you are another ticked off Instagram user who is still fuming after their recent terms of service muddle, Flickr has a holiday offer to entice you. Flickr is offering their Pro service which normally costs $24.95 a year, free for 3 months.

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Wonderful Social Videos this week

Technology meets Fashion is this dress designed by Francesca Rosella of Fashion House CuteCircuit. Their clothes have graced the ramp and also pop celebrity Nicole Sherzinger.

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Make a backup of your photos on Instagram

Instagram recently made some changes to its terms of service and privacy policy which caused a lot of uproar among users. The language used was quite vague and the legal terminology did not make much sense to normal users. Some sites even reported that Instagram would have exclusive rights over your photos and would be free to sell them to advertisers and earn revenue. All this prompted Instagram’s co-founder Kevin Systrom to clarify what the terms actually meant.

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Twitter to let you download your whole Tweet archive

It seems Twitter is not done with its updates and still has a few surprises left for us. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was asked way back in September if users would ever have the option to download their tweets and he had replied in the affirmative.