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The words everybody dreads seeing in their inboxes — “[your friend] has tagged you in a photo” — are coming to photo-sharing site Instagram. Just like on Facebook, you will now be able to label the people in your Instagram photos by tapping on the picture and filling in the names through the “Photos of You” feature. Brands can also be tagged. Mashable Previously, the only way to find out whether a photo of you was uploaded to Instagram was to crawl through your activity feed, hoping someone had mentioned your username in a caption (i.e., @laureni). Likewise, there’s been no easy way to share a photo someone uploaded of you to your own followers; oftentimes,

Gmail will now automatically underline dates and times mentioned in emails, allowing users to use the information to schedule events in Google Calendar without leaving the Gmail interface.

“If you do a lot of scheduling over email, it’s now a little bit easier to create events directly from your Gmail,” Gmail product manager Boris Khvostichenko wrote on a company blog.

Users who click on the underlined text will access a small-pop up window that allows them to preview their schedule for the day, edit the details of the event and save it to Google Calendar.

When viewed from the calendar, events created this way will include a link back to the email used to create them.

The feature is part of Google’s ongoing efforts to tie its products more tightly together.

Google said the feature will roll out over the next week to

It’s only been a few hours since Warren Buffett joined Twitter, but the billionaire investor already has a copycat who writes under the homophonous Twitter handle, @WarrenBuffitt.

His first few Tweets show that Buffet’s doppelgänger is both a high roller and a social media maven: “Playing words with friends with @oprah for $4 billion a game. #peasants,” he wrote less than an hour ago. (Oprah Winfrey must have lost the game, because she never wrote back.)

Fortunately for the real Warren Buffett, his twin is not quite as popular. At the time of this post, Buffitt’s follower count was 67, compared to Buffett’s 166,807.

Although we’d like to hear a little bit more about this coal business. Sounds innovative!

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LinkedIn reported first-quarter revenue of $324.7 million, up nearly 75 percent over the first quarter of 2012, but the company’s guidance suggested that its revenue growth will cool, prompting stocks to fall after hours.

The company predicted revenue next quarter to be roughly $345 million and for the full year of 2013 of $1.45 billion. The annual revenue would represent 49 percent increase, down from an 86 percent increase between 2011 and 2012.

LinkedIn reported profit for the first quarter of $23 million, compared to $5.0 million for the first quarter of 2012.

The company, benefiting from research and development tax incentives, paid an effective tax rate of 3 percent last quarter.

Developing: SocialTimes is on LinkedIn’s earnings call. We will be updating this post.

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LinkedIn reported first-quarter revenue of $324.7 million, up nearly 75 percent over the first quarter of 2012, but the company’s guidance suggested that its revenue growth will cool, prompting stocks to fall after hours.

The company predicted revenue next quarter to be roughly $345 million and for the full year of 2013 of $1.45 billion. The annual revenue would represent 49 percent increase, down from an 86 percent increase between 2011 and 2012.

LinkedIn reported profit for the first quarter of $23 million, compared to $5.0 million for the first quarter of 2012.

The company saw 102 million unique visitors per month across mobile and desktop. Its newly launched Contacts app now has half a million users, the company said. With more than a third of the social network’s traffic coming from mobile devices, CEO Jeff Weiner noted that its

Warren Buffet gained almost 100,000 followers on Twitter in just over an hour, but how can less famous users amass a Twitter following?

A statistical study from Georgia Tech challenges the notion that social media rewards those who talk too much about themselves. Instead, posting informational rather than self-expressive content contributed to the accumulation of followers, the study found.

That’s right, tweeting what you had for breakfast is likely to cost you followers over time.

Although Warren Buffet’s first tweet “Warren is in the house” could be seen as self-expressive, most of those choosing to follow him likely read the statement as an indication that Buffet’s views on investment, tax policy and politics will follow, if the study is correct.

Complaining or otherwise expressing negative sentiment inhibited follower growth, while expressing positive sentiment helped facilitate it.

“It matters what you say, and how

The words everybody dreads seeing in their inboxes — “[your friend] has tagged you in a photo” — are coming to the photo-sharing site Instagram.

Just like on Facebook, you will now be able to label the people in your Instagram photos by tapping on the picture and filling in the names.

The feature works for both user profiles and brand pages.

You’ll find a notification in the new Photos of You section when you’ve been tagged on Instagram and you can use your privacy settings to keep the picture hidden from your own profile until you approve it.

Don’t worry, you look amazing.

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Creative production company Portal A has launched a new YouTube channel, AdhocVids, to bring to video marketing something that YouTube has had for years: parodies.

The team’s first parody mocks Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” video, in which a forensic sketch artist compares a woman’s description of herself to a stranger’s in order to prove that women are their own worst critics when it comes to their looks.

Men get the same treatment with other parts of their anatomy in Portal A’s version, “" data-sessionlink="feature=c4-videos-u&ei=3I-CUYeWBaKnhgHv1IGwDg">Dove Real Beauty: #Balls.”

“We loved the original, but often times the best parodies come out of the most emotional or resonant content,” Portal A digital media strategist Jessica Schiffman told SocialTimes. “A lot of the response we’ve gotten so far hasn’t been that folks have hated the original and loved the parody (or vice versa), but that they loved both.”

Launched stealthily, the parody racked up half

Investor Warren Buffet joined Twitter and sent his first tweet out less than an hour ago (“Warren is in the house”) and has already amassed more than 65,000 followers. Update at 2:15 p.m.: 95,916 followers.

The lone tweet has been retweeted more than 12,000 times and favorited more than 2,700 times.

Buffet’s immediate popularity was ushered in by welcome tweets from prominent Twitter users including company staff and Bill Gates, who has 11 million followers.

At least so far, it appears Buffet is as good at social media as he is at investing. (But if he’s going to be a hip online guy now, Buffet might want to invest in a website that looks less like this one.)

Warren is in the house.

— Warren Buffett (@WarrenBuffett) May 2, 2013

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Investor Warren Buffett joined Twitter and sent his first tweet out less than an hour ago (“Warren is in the house”) and has already amassed more than 65,000 followers. Update at 2:15 p.m.: 95,916 followers.

The lone tweet has been retweeted more than 12,000 times and favorited more than 2,700 times.

Buffett’s immediate popularity was ushered in by welcome tweets from prominent Twitter users including company staff and Bill Gates, who has 11 million followers.

At least so far, it appears Buffett is as good at social media as he is at investing. (But if he’s going to be a hip online guy now, Buffett might want to invest in a website that looks less like this one.)

Warren is in the house.

— Warren Buffett (@WarrenBuffett) May 2, 2013

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