Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
With the social networking sites like Facebook and twitter a possible cause would be using your personal information, posting a fake status about you, subscribing/following to anonymous websites/blogs/users etc.
Key: Have strong Passwords.
One of the most important key to protect your online security is to have the strong passwords which can change frequently. Since, to set the strong passwords is bit tricky and even to remember the passwords for various sites is more challenging for us.
One of the way to create these strong passwords is to set a phrase which can be used to enter as password. But doing this you may feel time consuming for entering the complete phrase. So, either way you can use the initials of the phrase. For instance, "IboTNu#B.C" for 'I blog on technology network using blogger.com'. While doing this you are aware of the variants like upper-case, symbols and letters used with there meaningful presence in the passwords. Microsoft has an excellent suggestions on password creation and a password strength checker.
More Tips:
- Don't use same passwords for all sites : Even if you create a strong passwords, don't use same for it every sites. Since, if hacker steals your passwords from any of the sites you logged in. It can be used to break into accounts for your other sites. Hence, you need to be more tricky here while using your strong passwords for different sites such as you may use the initials of the sites in your string passwords. For example: for Google account you could have "Go" lying somewhere in your password and "Fb" could be used for Facebook Account.
- Do have Extra Security for your financial Websites: Here your may strengthen your password more by inserting some more letters, symbols or numbers.
Hopefully, after reading the above post, we all might have configured our strong passwords.
On 8th June, Google, Facebook, Yahoo! etc will be the most organizations that will offer their content over IPv6 for 24-hour "test flight". The aim of the "test flight" is to motivate the organizations like Internet Service Providers, Hardware vendors, Web sites; to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure successful transition as 4 address run out.
So Google created the Google over IPv6 program, where ISP have to promise search giant that they have good IPv6. In turn, Google will respond to DNS requests from those networks with IPv6 addresses for various Google properties such as google.com and youtube.com.
At this point, it's hard to predict what this experiment could mean for the amount of IPv6 traffic that flows through the Intertubes. If a lot of users are IPv6-enabled, a good amount of traffic can move from IPv4 to IPv6 overnight. This depends on how many additional sites and networks join the effort, though.
So, Lets see whether your Internet Service Provider updates IPv6 test it here.
Tout, a real-time social video update service which let you share 15-seconds video clips with your friend and followers. Its like video-twitter-short video updates to share with your followers.It allows you to share 15-seconds long clips so its about real-time conversation in video rather than text. Its an combination of real-time blog and rich clarity videos. The site has been testing with over 2,000 users, and went live on Tuesday.
Tout's uses are flexible, and to an extent, unknown. In many ways, it plugs into the pre-existing model of social interaction online by allowing people an outlet to give updates on their life. But the video element may prove to have unexpected results.
Downing also envisions that as tablets and devices like the Apple TV continue to catch on, that Touters could gather followings commensurate to something like television channels--real-time, highly personal reality TV for a future generation.
But, its an simple way to keep updated about your followers and friends with brief video messages.
Normally, on Facebook we visit our friend's profile to view the profile, in case if we want to know about the people who visited and viewed profile. Hence, an Petitions that let Facebook users to view who visited their profiles, and numerous apps that claim to offer an access.Here is an another scam apps that we have to watch for, like other apps that promises to show you the who visited your profile. Don't Fall in it, installing the app and giving it rights to access your information will not only take you to close to spying attacks but also post an link on your wall.
The app has been spreading rapidly on Facebook via the message, "OMG OMG OMG" I cant believe this actually works! Now you really can see who viewed your profile! on http://bit.ly/aFNPAb".
According to bit.ly these one link had received over 55,000 clicks :
Sopos- an security firm conveys that your profile will be the victim of these viral scam - spreading the message to all of your Facebook friends because you continue...
See the snapshot of App:
Recently, Jesse Stay, a programmer has developed a browser plug-in to that will allow to Like the tweets. Apart from the reply and Retweet buttons an Like button too will appear on the stream.It is done using Facebook's iframe code which can be used only with browsers like Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.
To accomplish these you need to do install the plugin, and then you can start liking the tweets as shown below Like buttons looks out of its place.
The developer planning to work on 'Post to Facebook' by inserting an checkbox below an twitter status update box. Also, to synchronize the Twitter and Facebook profile picture.
The plug-in can be downloaded here.
Facebook has reportedly sent out invitations for a special invite-only event to be held on November 15 at St. Regis Yerba Buena Terrace in San Franscisco, US. Michael Arrington, founder and co-editor of TechCrunch is betting that Facebook will unveil a new web-based email client codenamed Project Titan at this event. Where Internally Project Titan is refereed as "Gmail Killer".
Earlier this month, Google ad updated its Terms and Service that its shutdown Facebook's access to fetch the contacts from the Gmail Account to protect the user data. For these, Facebook come up with an idea to download the Gmail contacts in CSV format and upload the same on Facebook.
Now, to respond back to google, Facebook had rumored to launch its own email service with @facebook.com domain. It's pretty unlikely to kill Gmail but if Facebook launches its own email service, it would be interesting to see how other popular web-mail service providers react.
As of now no other detail is provided we have to wait till 15th Novemeber for Facebook's official announcement.
Recently, there was lot of unrest between Facebook and some members from the muslim community. Since we know that Pakistan had temporarily banned Facebook in the country.Due to which Facebook had deleted a few pages related to islam like:
- Facebook.com/Rassoul.Allaah
- Facebook.com/Logo.Ramadan
- Facebook.com/Quran.Lovers
- Facebook.com/Love.Mohammed.
The group says that the pages does not contains any hate speech. Also they went to facebook to say that if it doesn't take any action for the same pages then about 2.5 million Muslim Facebook members will quit Facebook and join madina.com - a Facebook-twin for Muslims.
Do we think that Facebook will accept the demands of the group and reactivate the four pages that have been disabled?.. Please Leave your comments..
If we ask which is an most visited image upload service in India, we may answer like its an Flickr, Imageshack or picasa etc.. But its now some one else who achieve the crown from these top websites.Its an Social Networking Site Facebook, which according to the recent Vizisense report, is an actually india's most used photo sharing website today. Facebook is even ahead of youtube in sharing video.
This is just because that an Flickr and Youtube stuck with an images & video respectively whereas, Facebook consists and handles both.
The latest Vizisense data reveals that Facebook.com had a staggering 18.7 million unique users in May while YouTube.com in comparison had about 15.5 million. Compare this to Flickr which managed to garner just 1.91 million Indian users.
Facebook is growing quite fast in India as well. Orkut too was nudged away by Facebook recently in India as the country's most used social networking platform.
According to the news at independent.co.uk in 2010, the world's largest social networking website had managed to do that other web sites had never done before. It actually managed to beat the search giant Google by becoming the most visited site in US last week. Even though, the Facebook is achieved who had its history in WWW started as recently as in year 2005.Facebook is on a steady rise and it is the most popular web site in US during festive seasons too. Also, these is the first time that Facebook manages to attract more users than Google. The rate at which the Facebook grows is an 185 % per year which is way above the Google measures 9%.
Besides this the measures are calculate only for the domain Google.com so if considering other Google services like Youtube, Gmail etc.. makes Google an bigger competitor. But then Facebook doesn't compete with Google on those fronts. Google already has a couple of entities in the social networking space - most notably Orkut, which is dominant in Brazil and India and is little known elsewhere globally. It also made a recent splash with Google Buzz.
Facebook Claims that it has over 400 million users signed up and these is steady increasing daily. Recently it opened the office in Hyderabad, India to topple Orkut's dominance as the de-facto social network in the country.
