Facebook fends off two days of phishing attacks
News Unsuspecting Facebook users get a message from a friend urging them to "check this out" and including a link to a web page that appears to be a Facebook log-in page, but it is a fake site that steals their information when they type in their...
[May 1, 2009, 9:08]
Google Friend Connect increases spam risk
Blog Here's what it enables you to do: log in" to our website so that your identify can be seen to all others using GFC to log in; and you can see the identities of all those who have also logged in using the method friend" other GFC users on our...
[December 8, 2008, 7:23]
Google gadget translates sites into 51 languages
News Google announced the gadget on International Translation Day, the same day on which Facebook said it was making its Translations for Facebook Connect technology available to web developers. However, Facebook's tool involves the human-powered...
[October 1, 2009, 15:41]
Google previews Friend Connect
News Google Friend Connect employs several more or less standard networking technologies: OpenSocial as a foundation for richer web applications; OpenID to handle login chores; and OAuth to let users approve the grafting of new branches onto their...
[May 13, 2008, 16:53]
Skyfire mobile browser comes out of beta
News It can include updates from Facebook and Twitter in the RSS news feed, and users need only click once in the browser to post articles to their Facebook and Twitter accounts, according to Skyfire. Skyfire first became available to UK users in beta...
[May 27, 2009, 17:00]
Researcher delays release of SSL exploit
News According to the researcher, other sites, such as Facebook, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail, are also vulnerable. He said he has contacted security representatives at Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Facebook about the fact that their sites remain vulnerable to a...
[August 26, 2008, 11:16]
What to expect in Internet Explorer 8
News IE8 introduces Accelerators, a productivity-enhancement add-on genre that hopes to speed up repetitive tasks such as blogging or searching for friends on Facebook. Clicking the green button that appears after a site-specific Web Slice has been...
[January 28, 2009, 15:24]
Blogger targeted in Twitter, Facebook DoS
News A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to a site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a...
[August 7, 2009, 10:18]
Liability and privacy: Key to Web 2.0 services
News Some 700,000 Facebook members petitioned, for example, when the social-networking site made a change that allowed for the dissemination of information about a user's relationship status. Crompton said Web 2.0 users will act with such defiance when...
[May 22, 2008, 12:03]
Yahoo reveals its wiring to developers
News While sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace capitalised on the social-networking phenomenon, Yahoo argues that it already has the social data built into its properties. It's now a matter of bringing it to the fore so applications and users...
[October 27, 2008, 8:27]
Working@Home: Keeping Secure
Blog Some social networks, like Facebook, allow users to engage in private or secret groups. Never enter your username and password on a page you arrived at by clicking on a link in an e-mail, IM message, third-party Web site or social networking site.
[May 20, 2008, 22:00]
Ten IT flame wars that refuse to die down
Comment Everyone you meet blogs, has a Facebook page, tweets on Twitter, and is LinkedIn. Facebook has a certain value, but does it have value in the workplace? Gnome users fixate on the proprietary origins of KDE's toolkit, Qt.
[September 4, 2009, 15:44]
Facebook overtakes MySpace globally
News Facebook, according to ComScore, pulled in 123.9 million unique visitors in the month of May, beating MySpace's 114.6 million, and 50.6 billion page views, compared to MySpace's 45.4 billion. New figures from metrics firm ComScore show that, in May...
[June 23, 2008, 13:06]
Facebook, Twitter hit by fresh phishing scams
News A new scam hit Facebook users that, like others in recent weeks, sends them to a website that steals their log-in information and also secretly downloads malware onto computers when they visit the malicious website in what is known as a 'drive-by...
[May 22, 2009, 15:33]
Programmers to get a cut of AOL's revenue
News Other examples of the idea are Facebook, Google and other members of the OpenSocial consortium, and the Yahoo Open Strategy. Ultimately, richer applications can mean more users, more activity and more advertising — although at this stage, the more...
[June 10, 2008, 11:14]
A look at Skyfire's Web 2.0 mobile browser
News According to the company's Facebook page: "Supporting the BlackBerry is definitely on Skyfire's roadmap". The web browser is notable for being able to natively handle Web 2.0 content, such as that based on Flash.
[November 27, 2008, 14:27]
Why "Real Time" Search misses the point of what makes social media powerful
Blog It would be quite possible with the tech they've got to offer alongside traditional web search an ability to simultaneously broadcast your request to your Facebook users, as well as potentially any other network (including Twitter) you have...
[October 19, 2009, 9:48]
Beta release moves a step closer to Firefox 3.5
News Firefox is vying with Apple's Safari 4 beta and Google's Chrome for the best JavaScript performance, a factor that is important for the new generation of sophisticated websites such as Google Docs and or Facebook applications.
[March 13, 2009, 7:29]
Tweeting for business - can it work?
Blog Bored rigid of reading people's banal status messages on Facebook (and this was from friends! And my use involves a panel in my iGoogle dashboard which tells me what everyone I follow is up to; Twitterrific on my iPhone which gives me all updates...
[September 3, 2008, 17:25]
