System Recommendation Twitter

Twitter has announced a new recommendation system. This system originated from an experiment via @ MagicRecs account. It was raised Satuluti Venu, Sr. Software Engineer, Search and Relevance. According to Venu, he often feels nice to miss some tweets or just know when someone of interest has joined Twitter.

This new recommendation feature, he said, is expected to resolve such problems. "You will receive a personal recommendation when several people in your network follow the same user or mem-'favorites' or her 'retweet' tweet the same," said Venu.

This feature will be implemented in the Twitter app for Android and iPhone. Previously, the system was tested through the account @ MagicRecs. In that experiment, @ MagicRecs will send Direct Message (DM) to the Twitter users who follow your account download it. The DM contents are recommendations related to the user or tweets that are considered suitable by the follower.

While in practice, the recommendations will appear in the form of a notification or notice delivered Twitter app for Android and iOS. Surely, said Venu, this notification can be controlled by the user. Through the settings in the application, the "Recommendations" can be turned off or on.

Facebook finally provides a feature to 'Edit Post' on social networking pages each user. This feature is one of the most anticipated by Facebookers.

The latest update of the Facebook for Android app bring up a button to edit the post and comments, as well as showing the changes that have been made​​. But not all Android devices are able to enjoy this new feature.

Facebook confirmed the feature will be available in the Facebook app for Android and the web tomorrow. For a while this post edit feature is not yet available on the Facebook app on various Apple devices. Button to edit this post can be found on the top right corner in the form of an arrow pointing downwards.

This new feature is a feature that many criticized by previous users. According to the survey, not a few people who felt sorry after writing a post on Facebook. Moreover this post edit feature has long been available on competitors like Google+ social networking

China Block Facebook

Social networks like Facebook is known inaccessible in communist China. Latest news mentioning China again increased blocking Facebook site in some other areas.

Not just Facebook, a social networking such as Twitter and news sites that are sensitive to politics also affected by the Chinese government blocked this weekend. The addition of a blocked area to the rest of China, but there are some areas that are still able to access it.

The only region in the distance range of 17 miles from the center of Shanghai which is a free trade area. Moreover, do not expect to have free access to popular sites in the world.

Previously China has blocked Facebook and Twitter since mid-2009 after a conflict that killed many people in the Xinjiang region. While news sites The New York Times blocked after preaching about corruption in the government of one China.

LinkedIn has Violated The Privacy of Users

Dutch politician cast criticism and questions related to advertising in business-based social networking LinkedIn judged to have violated someone's privacy laws. Since last June, LinkedIn testing the service advertisement. Some ads include a photo of the user is known for ads that are known to some of the services are of interest to the user in question for later broadcast to other users.

One politician, Jeroen Recourt, judging this ad techniques violate privacy of Internet users and has filed a petition to investigate the legality in the Netherlands to the Minister of Law. Responding to the complaint, and to hear criticism of its users directly, LinkedIn finally confirmed that it will immediately discontinue participation in the ad photo in its services. The Netherlands is known is the country's largest LinkedIn users about 30 percent, although the U.S. is still noted as the country with the number of users in the world.

Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Account is banned

Has the same name as the inventor of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg made ​​a lawyer from Indianapolis, United States, depressed. Instead he is banned by the popular social networking because it presumed to use a false name.

Mark Zuckerberg account is blocked by up and expressed as a false account, because Facebook does not allow a false name.  "I feel depressed because of all this. I do not want money, I just want to go back to the up and asked them to leave me alone," said Mark Zuckerberg.

Admin up soon realized this mistake and re-activate the account Mark Zuckerberg.  "We see thousands of content every day from the accounts that are reported, so sometimes we make mistakes, when this happens, we receive the notification and work quickly to restore the content. We have to re-activate your account and send Mark Zuckerberg apology via email on this inconvenience "said a spokesman for Facebook.

This is not the first time that Mark Zuckerberg should bear the consequences of having a name similar to the founder of Facebook. Two years ago, his Facebook account was also blocked for four months.

Children Under Age Have Social Networking Profiles

According to a recent survey of the European Commission (EC), the number of children who use social networking sites have increased. In fact, 50 percent of children aged 9 to 12 years in the UK already have a profile. EC expressing overall, 43 respondents who had their young have a survey on social networking profiles. Especially for the age group 13 to 16 years and even increased to 88 percent.

Results of a survey of 25 thousand young people across Europe, one in 10 respondents claimed to have a public profile, in which one-fifth claimed to display the address and phone number.  Age group 9 to 12 years were more likely to display their important information in the public domain. But only half of respondents aged 11 and 12 years claimed to understand how to change the privacy settings in various social media.

The results of this survey clearly worrying, given the fragility of young Internet users. "The number of children who access social networks increases, but most of them have not done the necessary steps to protect themselves," said Neelie Kroes as EU commissioner for the digital agenda.  "All social networking sites should immediately restrict access to the profile of these children only to the list of contacts that has been approved as well as through search engines," said Neelie Kroes.

Neelie Kroes also appealed to the sites that have not been registered in the European Union regulations relating to use of social networking is safe to immediately register.  In 2009, 17 companies including Bebo, Google and YouTube, Microsoft Europe, Myspace and Yahoo Europe have enrolled in these regulations in order to improve the security of social networking users under the age of 18.

Microsoft Windows 7 Phone for Barack Obama

Microsoft offers the Windows 7 Phone to Barack Obama, following a joke the President of the United States that he never uses the latest technology.   "I think the Oval Office will have the cool phones and so on," said Obama in an election campaign event he repeated in the presence of donor funds.  "We can not make our phones work fine. Give me a break,  I was the President of the USA! Where are the buttons or the sophistication of a large screen that suddenly appeared? That does not happen,"joked Obama.

  Although only joking, Microsoft turned out to take it seriously. Through Twitter account, Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) sends a message to the president, while linking an article about Obama's complaint.   "Hey @ BarackObama, we understand you want a phone that's cool, what about Windows 7 Phone? We can send one to you!. Unfortunately the message did not get a response from Obama's Twitter account.  This is not the first time Microsoft offers tools WP7 to a popular figure. Earlier this year, the software giant had offered to free the WP7 famous hacker George Hotz, or commonly known as GeoHot

US CENTCOM Spy on Users of Social Networking

The United States military through the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) would spy on users of social networking activities with using a false identity. CENTCOM had hired Ntrepid service, a software firm from California, to create 500 fake online identity. In a contract valued at USD 2,76 million was mentioned, Ntrepid have to provide false identities with "includes background, history, supporting details, and the existence of a consistent cyber technically, culturally, and geographically."

Fake profiles will be handled through a terminal operator and can perform communication through a standard electronic communication methods. Meanwhile, his workstation will run a VPN with an IP address that is always changing.

"This technology supports the activities of secret blogging on foreign sites for CENTCOM could anticipate the extremists and the propaganda of the enemy outside the continental U.S.," said Bill, spokesman of Central Commander (CENTCOM). Still, he insists, this operation will not run against U.S. citizens, because the action was illegal.

Innovation Worst in a Decade

Although the most popular social media today, Facebook and Twitter rated as the worst innovation during the last decade. Thus the results of polls the British consulting firm of The Foundation of 2,200 consumers. The Foundation, the consultancy for the retail, banking and other consumer companies making the list of innovations that contribute the most and least to British society over the last 10 years.

Surprisingly social networking site Facebook is ranked second in the category of innovation that contributes at least in the UK. While micro-blogging site Twitter was ranked fourth. Reality TV program called the most useful innovation. Most respondents argued, the program was 'annoying' and 'wasting time'. Respondents expressed the same reason against Facebook and Twitter. Internet network online shopping home and occupy the two top most useful innovation in the UK. The search engine Google was in the top three, while GPS is ranked 10.

Here's a list of innovations that contribute most in the UK for the last 10 years:

1. Home broadband .
2. Online shopping .
3. Google .
4. Chip and Pin .
5. Digital camera / photography .
6. Online comparison sites .
7. Movement of community recycling .
8. Health labels on food packaging .
9. Cheap flights .
10. GPS / Sat-Nav .

While the information with a low contribution in the UK are:

1. Reality TV .
2. Up and so forth .
3. Pop-up ads .
4. Twitter .
5. IVR / Interactive voice response on telephones .
6. Congestion charging .
7. Paid plastic bags .
8. DVD subscription scheme .
9. Tracker mortgage.
10. Public bicycle schemes.

They Manipulate Following

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Facebook Shutting Down on March 15 ?

PALO ALTO, CA –Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in March. Managing the site has become too stressful. “Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”

Zuckerberg went on to explain that starting March 15th, users will no longer be able to access their Facebook accounts. “After March 15th the whole website shuts down,” said Avrat Humarthi, Vice President of Technical Affairs at Facebook. “So if you ever want to see your pictures again, I recommend you take them off the internet. You won’t be able to get them back once Facebook goes out of business.”

Zuckerberg said that the decision to shut down Facebook was difficult, but that he does not think people will be upset. “I personally don’t think it’s a big deal,” he said in a private phone interview. “And to be honest, I think it’s for the better. Without Facebook, people will have to go outside and make real friends. That’s always a good thing.”

Some Facebook users were furious upon hearing the shocking news. “What am I going to do without Facebook?” said Denise Bradshaw, a high school student from Indiana. “My life revolves around it. I’m on Facebook at least 10 hours a day. Now what am I going to do with all that free time?”

However, parents across the country have been experiencing a long anticipated sense of relief. “I’m glad the Facebook nightmare is over,” said Jon Guttari, a single parent from Detroit. “Now my teenager’s face won’t be glued to a computer screen all day. Maybe I can even have a conversation with her.”

Those in the financial circuit are criticizing Zuckerberg for walking away from a multibillion dollar franchise. Facebook is currently ranked as one of the wealthiest businesses in the world, with economists estimating its value at around 7.9 billion. But Zuckerberg remains unruffled by these accusations. He says he will stand by his decision to give Facebook the axe.

“I don’t care about the money,” said Zuckerberg. “I just want my old life back.” The Facebook Corporation suggests that users remove all of their personal information from the website before March 15th. After that date, all photos, notes, links, and videos will be permanently erased.

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Several sites stated that Facebook will be shut down is a false rumor. This rumor I got from some sites, but whether the rumors were true?. So far in My Facebook account there was no warning about it as reported from several websites.

It seems we must wait for an official statement of Mark Zuckerberg through the Facebook site if it is deemed necessary, and if it were true then surely we will see alerts on our Facebook account. So we just wait what will happen some time in the future on Facebook.

Dangerous Trap of Shortening URLs

One of the advantages of the most popular in Twitter is information that can be disseminated very quickly. Unfortunately, this situation is misused by cyber criminals. According to security firm Symantec, they just check the Twitter main page for the topic that is becoming a trend, which shows a message that has several times announced. Attackers choose one of the tweets that contains a short URL, which is replaced with a another short URLs, which point to a malicious website.

Because the text in the message is the same, users do not know that the new short URL to point to a malicious website, not to the original news. Therefore some links will follow wherever it leads, and this can not be avoided.  Although not impossible, it is difficult to say whether a post is genuine or not just by looking. The user may want to install the browser which leads to a short URL.

Nevertheless, it is very difficult to identify a malicious link, because of frequent a website legitimate hijacked and transformed into host drive-by download attacks. Therefore, it is a good idea if you patched computers and software - including its browser and has installed security software, so do not become victims of drive-by download attacks. Twitter also says that they are working actively on other features that they believe will enhance the safety and security of users.

Thief Wrote Messages on the Facebook Wall of the Victim

Effect of human life up until now even greater. Included are used by the thief to show loot to the victims. A thief in the United States recently have the heart to upload photos to the wall loot the victim, who was none other than the owner of the goods have been stolen.

"Thanks for all the goods,"wrote a thief to his victim through a facebook wall. Burglar displays pictures of himself by appearing complete with stolen goods such as iPods, laptops and cash. According to the victim, Marc Fisher who was also an editor of the Washington Post, the thief allegedly was the person who has stolen in his home on Friday last week.

The jacket was used by a thief is his favorite jacket, said Marc Fisher.The police who handle cases of theft are also convinced that the thief in the house of Fisher is a man on Facebook Fisher. "I have seen many cases, but this is the stupidest criminal I have ever seen," said the Washington DC police officer Kyle Roe.

Child Killed while Playing Games Farm Ville

Disturbing because the mother is more fun to access Facebook, with dark eyes she kill her baby. In fact, carried her baby just cried, when her focus surfing the social networking site. Mother named Alexandra V. Tobias this. She was found guilty on two levels of murder and she was threatened with jail.

The mother told investigators that she was angry when she heard that androgynous baby boy was crying, when she was playing games Farm Ville. Alexandra silence her baby who was crying with her up and swung it quickly. Then she smoked to calm her and then she had to calm her baby again the same as the previous treatment. Alexandra will undergo the trial and threatened with imprisonment which will be passed through in December. Alexandra under sentence of 25 to 50 years in prison.

Internet is More Reliable than a Friend

The Internet is a borderless world which is also the most extensive public spaces. But you are announcing, today people have more confidence to tell their secrets on the internet compared with their own friends.  From 3,000 correspondents surveyed indicated that the average adult does not think twice before entering some very personal details about himself when registering on social networking sites.

In real life most of them will not trust their friends to give your PIN number, for example. They are just to add more information about him/her on Facebook or Twitter. According to NetApp as well, with a good 86 percent caring for them and not letting the secret PIN number to friends and acquaintances, and only 5 percent of which reveal some important infornasi to those closest.

Compare with information on the Internet, more than 60 percent gave their birth date on your favorite social site. 50 percent of online users to let all visitors know the status of their relationship, with 30 percent adding a partner for all to see. Commenting on this, Paul Wooding, head of UK Public Sector for NetApp, call this irony. He went on to emphasize that it's really worrying that people have so much confidential information such as home addresses are available on their Facebook profile.

A man Deceive Thousands of Women on Facebook

A 60-year-old man managed to fool thousands of women whom he met through the social networking Facebook. He was named Clive Worth is able to meet around 1,500 young women who met through the internet media. Most of these women feel cheated when meeting with Clive.

Of the thousands of women, 300 of whom she met through Facebook social networking media. In creating the account, other than create a false identity, Clive also use the profile photo of the model Coralie Robinson to appeal to women. "I've made a Facebook account for four times, and all have been deleted by Facebook. They argue, because social networking is not a place to meet people who are not known," said Clive.

Previously, in 2004, Clive was also part of the site DatingDirect.com. He claimed to have met with at least 200 women. But unfortunately, he said that he always failed to have a relationship. In addition to the DatingDirect, he also claimed to have been 'evicted' from sites such date plentyoffish.com and match.com and video sharing site like break.com and buzz.net. Although already 60 years old, Clive will not stop the love adventures in cyberspace until the age of 80 years.

Freeze All Assets Belonging Facebook

New York City Court issued a decision to freeze all assets of the company who is on Facebook. This followed a demand that posted by someone who claims to have more than 80 percent stake in Facebook. Responding to this, the Facebook take that as a reckless decision. Even the world's largest social networking that will fight for their rights in earnest.

"It seems that this decision really crap. We're obviously going to fight," said a spokesman for Facebook. Earlier, a man from New York, United States, Paul D Ceglia claims that he has approximately 84 percent stake in Facebook. Seeing the success of Facebook now, there is the possibility that this guy just admit it-confess. But, dare Ceglia is accountable for his statement. Even to prove he had the courage to fight in court.

The origin of Wellsville man filed a lawsuit against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and claims that he has a written contract which proves that he has a big share in the social networking site. Ceglia accusing Zuckerberg had violated the contract that was signed in 2003. Currently, Ceglia was looking for judges who would prove the truth.

Facebook Virtual Currency for Asia-Pacific

Facebook has signed an agreement with a company in Asia to allow for virtual currency in transactions conducted on these social networks. This virtual currency will be used in any transaction is on Facebook, both in the purchase of virtual items for games and other services involving retail stores throughout Asia. This service is claimed to be the first. Social networking giant is working together with the payment service provider named MOL AccessPortal. MOL will provide a means of payment named Facebook Credits for Facebook users that can be obtained by purchase.

Credits Facebook itself is a virtual currency that can be used by consumers to buy gifts or virtual goods in many of the services or applications that integrate game on Facebook. Many Facebook users who prefer to use a physical card to make payments online. But Facebook Credits will later be sold at 500 000 MOL existing outlets in 7-Eleven stores and internet cafes across the Asia-Pacific region so that Facebook Credits will be easily found.

"Facebook wants developers and site owners to provide content. We want to make it very easy for people to make a lot of money on the popularity of Facebook," said Director of Business Development and Corporate Facebook Vaughan Smith. "What we want to do is create a virtual currency to be more easy for users to buy services when they use games and services on Facebook." explained Smith. Going forward, Facebook and MOL will also launch Facebook Gift Card in Malaysia and Singapore as a testing phase before the launch of Facebook globally Credit.

Facebook in 2009 Revenues Reached $ 800 million

Facebook financial performance increasingly showing its strength. Facebook in revenue in 2009 reached approximately $ 800 million. In fact, the net income of this social networking site for tens of millions of dollars recorded last year. Facebook in 2009 revenues doubled from the previous year, growth in earnings and revenue that showed how Facebook more and generate money for six year.

As is known, Facebook ranks as the largest social networking site in the world with nearly half a billion users. Thus, it is possible to generate investor interest to release the stock to public (IPO), despite the insistence of IPO firms is not a priority at this time. July last year, Marc Andreessen Facebook Council members said that the company is on track to earn income above $ 500 million.

In September, Facebook said that they were more positive cash flow, so the company can generate enough money to cover operating expenses and capital expenditure needs.Whereas previously, a variety of media to predict revenues reached $ 550 million Facebook to $ 700 million. In fact, two sources say that Facebook revenues in 2009 was $ 700 million to $ 800 million.