Not content with simply letting its users spam each other to death with an endless barrage of application requests, Facebook will now allow a new application to turn users into nauseating sales reps, preying on their friends to earn commission for selling products. A new application called “Affiliate Window” is bribing users with between 1% [...]
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Your Facebook profile could be compromised
Social networking sites are becoming a prime target for criminals according to the latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report. Popular sites such as MySpace and Facebook are prime targets for these attacks, in which rogue criminals steal personal information or match personal details with credit card numbers stolen from other sites. Sites can sometimes provide [...]
Facebook Chat Coming This Week
Facebook has confirmed that it will be conducting a slow, gradual rollout of Facebook Chat, and tells users to expect “fairly soon to notice our Chat bar at the bottom of your browser”. Justin Smith of InsideFacebook is one of the lucky ones to already have it and he has posted his first impressions. The [...]
Building your own social network is as easy as 1,2,3…
Want to build your very own social network? By following the following 18 steps you will be well on your way, and who knows, perhaps you will be the founder of the next big thing to follow Facebook! Install ELGG Upload “ELGG” Renaming Enter your details Create an account Make an upload file Save this [...]
Interaction design: getting the user involved
The Internet is getting personal; and people are loving it. Just look at the great success of such web applications as Facebook and MySpace. But, is this perhaps too close for comfort, and are these applications making the web too personal? You see numerous Facebook users adding photographs of their new baby, giving intimately personal [...]
Hong Kong Investor puts $40M into Facebook
Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing has reportedly upped his stake in Facebook to more than $100 million according to Marketwatch. Li previously invested a reported $60 million in the company in November of last year. This means that the investor now owns nearly 1 percent of Facebook, assuming the deal was made at the same [...]
Microsoft offers way to share data with social networks
It is reported in the IDG News Service that Microsoft is opening up its Windows Live platform to allow users to share their contact lists with five social-networking sites, some of which until now have been accessing such data through the back door. Facebook and Bebo members can now invite friends on their Windows Live [...]
nclüdr – Inclusion, Boon or Bane for Social Networking.
nclüdr, a new social networking site was formally launched yesterday. A news release of this event claims that nclüdr will overshadow the success of contemporaries like Facebook and MySpace. nclüdr takes an inclusive approach to social networking, promising that you’ll never be “rejected”. Membership is supposedly already in the billions however no applications were available [...]
Facebook At Center Of Mid East Conflict
Facebook has angered Jewish settlers by listing them as residents of “Palestine”, forcing the social networking site to allow users to change themselves back to Israel. Facebook users living in Maale Adumim, Ariel and other Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank protested when the site automatically listed their hometowns as being in “Palestine.” Settlers [...]
Facebook To Launch Instant Messaging Service
It is reported that Facebook has been testing a new instant messaging service and will be launching it to the public soon, perhaps during the next week. The service will probably be built into the users main page and will let users chat with their Facebook friends. The service is likely to be built from [...]
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