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1. Instagram Lets You Tag People In Photos Now You have always been able to tag users in Instagram posts, but two weeks ago Instagram announced that soon, you would be able to tag people in the photo itself. The feature, called “Photos of You,” was given a two-week long soft launch period in which users could opt-in if they so chose. Today it has been ... 2. Google’s AdMob Gets Makeover At Google I/O, Google announced today that it has rebuilt its AdMob mobile ad network technology. It incorporates tech from other Google platforms like AdSense, and adds some additional features. The new AdMob includes smarter app promotion features. “Conversion Optimizer helps many AdWords advertisers increase conversions while decreasing cost per acquisition,” explainsAdMob product manager Vish 3. Google Tries To Simplify Mobile Shopping According to Google, the abandonment rate of shopping carts on mobile is a whopping 97%. With that, they’re providing an HTML5 autocomplete function in mobile Chrome to fill out info in three steps: checkout button, review billing and shipping, and submit. That’s down from these 21 steps, as outlined during today’s Google I/O keynote: 1. Checkout ... 4. Google Cracks Down On Paid Links Earlier this week, Google’s Matt Cutts ran down a bunch of new stuff Google’s web spam team is working on. Cutts tweeted an extension of that today, noting that Google will continue to tackle link networks, and that in fact, they just took action on “several thousand linksellers” today. He tweeted: In addition to http://t.co/ptV8oDZOwC it’s safe to assume ... 5. New Google Maps Unveiled Google unveiled a new Google Maps at Google I/O this week. First, they talked about the next generation of Google Maps for mobile coming to Android and iOS. This involves a new design. It includes a new Zagat experience, with Zagat badges in the interface for restaurants, and some Google Offers integration. If you find Starbucks, ... 6. Foursquare Gets Better At Local Search Over the past year or so, Foursquare has been going through a major transformation – well, at least a major improvement. What they’ve been doing is making both small and large tweaks to turn the focus of the service toward local search and discovery. A company that started as a simple check-in app is now ... 7. Groupon’s New POS App Is The New Breadcrumb On Monday, news came out that Groupon had a new POS app for the iPad available in the App Store. Well, it turns out there’s a little more to the story than that. “What happened was that a limited beta version of the app that we’re announcing today slipped out into the store for a short period ...

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