Google’s New Google+ Social Network Challenges Facebook, Promotes (Safe) Sharing

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Google’s experiments with social media have largely landed with a particularly embarrassing thud–Buzz was a security nightmare, Wave was incomprehensible, and Orkut is only popular in Brazil, for some reason. But Google is nothing if not determined, and today announced its biggest social push ever: Google+. It is definitely similar to Facebook at first glance, but there’s a fundamentally different idea underlying Google+ that separates it from the pack. Facebook was an outcroppi…

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Citroën Designers to Answer Questions about New DS5 on Facebook

Citroën is the latest carmaker to embrace the power of social media to communicate with its consumer base. The French company announced on Wednesday that it will host a live video web-chat on social networking site, Facebook, allowing the public to ask questions on its upcoming DS5 crossover. The web-chat will Broadcast live from Citroën’s C_42 building on the Champs-Elysées in Paris between 12pm and 1pm (BST) on Friday, 24 June, with the panel including Pierre Monferrini (Project Manager for DS5)…

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Utah Man Posts Facebook Updates During SWAT Standoff, Gets Help From Online Friends

Hostage Situation via Facebook
A Utah man involved in a 16-hour standoff with police Friday night posted status updates about the ordeal on Facebook, sharing photos of himself with the woman police said he had taken hostage. He even got some help from his friends, who could now face charges of obstructing justice, according to the Associated Press.
One Facebook user warned Jason Valdez that a SWAT officer was hiding in the bushes outside the motel room where he was holed up with a hostage.
“Thank you h…

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3 companies that have found success marketing on Facebook

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2012 Toyota Yaris shows up on Facebook

Toyota’s Hungary Facebook Page has just posted two new pics of the next-generation Toyota Yaris. The new 2012 Toyota Yaris definitely seems to be a big step up from the current-generation and it most certainly has to be when it’s competing with the likes of the new Ford Fiesta, Hyundai Accent, Chevrolet Sonic, Kia Rio and Nissan Versa.
We can expect to see a hybrid Toyota Yaris this time around – most likely based on the Toyota Yaris HSD Concept that debuted at the 2011 Geneva Motor Sh…

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Ford Lets Fans Decide Fiesta WRC Roof Liveries on Facebook

We recently brought you the result of a Citroën-sponsored roof design competition, and now Ford is challenging its rally fans to submit a Facebook vote for the best livery designs for the lids of its three Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team Fiestas. The team commissioned three unique designs for each of the three Fiestas (for a total of nine different designs). The design with the most Facebook “likes” for each Fiesta will grace that car’s roof during Rally Finland in July. So while not quite the sa…

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EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: FaceBook, Twiiter And Web Radio Streaming In Your BMW? First Screen Shots Of BMW Apps In Action On The 335d

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Last night’s cruise-in photos are now up on Facebook

As before, we’re posting cruise night photos to Twitter and Facebook, so you can find photos from last night’s cruise-in there. We didn’t pack the lot like we normally due, but we still had plenty of diehards, including one fella who came all the way from North Carolina, and another couple from Ohio!
Next Hemmings cruise night is June 9, here at Hemmings HQ in Bennington, Vermont.

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GM wants more ads on Facebook to get younger buyers for the Corvette

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AAPEX show goes global on Facebook

The Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo has turned to social media as another means to communicate with show attendees throu -More- 

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