Foursquare has added 5 new languages to their app - Bahasa Indonesia, Korean, Thai, Portuguese, and Russian - to support their expanding global user base. Wildfire has launched a new Facebook app called Storyteller that helps brands create more engaging sponsored story ads by asking users questions. Facebook and Google have introduced Chrome extensions that allow users to Like or +1 websites without those features being built into the sites themselves.

1. Social Digest: Week of August 29
Foursquare Adds 5 New Wildfire’s New App
“Like” and “+1”
Languages
Extensions
As Foursquare focuses on their Wildfire has launched a Facebook Facebook and Google have
global expansion efforts, the check- app, named the Wildfire rolled out Chrome extensions,
in social platform has added five Storyteller App, which focuses on which allow users to Like or +1
new languages: Bahasa Indonesia, creating better content for a site regardless of whether page
Korean, Thai, Portuguese, and Facebook’s Sponsored Stories. owners have incorporated the
Russian.
The app’s focus is to generate plugins into their site or not.
engaging Sponsored Stories ads The Like extension takes it a
According to the Foursquare blog, from user responses. By asking step further by allowing you to
use of the app in countries where the right question, brands can leave a comment along with
those languages are spoken has create for more engaging social your Like.
since exploded.
ads.
Reference: http://mashable.com/2011/09/01/foursquare- Reference: http://mashable.com/2011/09/01/ Reference:http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/01/
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