Facebook On Its Peek On Colonization

The press releases and corporate blog postings have been flowing out of Palo Alto faster than the site's newly introduced "ticker".Automatic friend grouping, updated privacy controls, music, movie and news integration, Timeline and the aforementioned ticker have all transformed the look of the social network.Some users have reacted with anger, demanding a return to the "old" Facebook. Many are simply befuddled - struggling to make sense of the whirring, buzzing modules that have suddenly appeared in their electronic lives.

n his F8 keynote yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg said that as many as 500 million people used Facebook in a single day, with the total Facebook tribe approaching 800 million.According to Experian Hitwise, Facebook had a 10 percent share of Internet visits in the U.S. for the week ending Sept. 17, followed by Google at 7 percent. Among social networks, Facebook garnered more than 65 percent share of visits, compared with YouTube at 19.5 percent for the same time period.With the new features announced yesterday at F8, Facebook is poised to cast a bigger shadow over the Internet of people and things.

At the F8 Developer Conference yesterday, Facebook announced a new way to view user profiles, dubbed as the Timeline. Facebook also announced closer integration with apps and social apps within Facebook for reading books and listening to music. The Timeline view will be rolled out to users over the next few weeks(you can sign up for the same at this moment) and once the rollout is complete, new apps would also be made available. Facebook timeline is a chronically arranged visual representation of a user's status updates, photos, and other activities on Facebook marking the various events of his life. A user can share and highlight memorable and important moments from the past - posts, photos, videos, and events - and make them visible for others.

It is true that the ticker looks a lot like Twitter, as does the subscription system. But then Twitter looks a bit like an RSS feed, which resembles a journalist's newswire system, which has elements of the stock ticker about it.In fact, the technological mechanism is a red herring. What Facebook is learning, is what any TV executive will tell you - if you are unlucky enough to be stuck talking to one at a party - that "content is king".Twitter is a virtual blizzard of opinion - from Joey Barton's pop philosophy to Kim Kardashian's perpetual exclamation fest!! Google+ has become the default hangout for tech geek information exchange, with Robert Scoble and Jeff Jarvis presiding over matters. Both feel like an exciting place to be.

By comparison, Facebook has seemed a little quiet of late. "David is at Pret A Manger", I see.Hence Mr Zuckerberg's plan to make it the central hub of all consumption. In his vision, the site will become the Grand Central Station on everyone's daily commute.Just because you have a cool house and maybe even a swimming pool, doesn't mean anyone is going to come to your party. But if you can get the cool kids to come along, everyone else will be beating a path to your door.

The plan: if you care at all about broadening your horizons - seeing a new video, hearing a new song - this is the place to be.No longer are the Wall, photos and poking enough. You need to leverage the might of news publishers, TV, cinema, anything and everything that is of interest.That is what will bring in the crowds and keep people engaging with Facebook.Ironically, it is the lesson that every wealthy young geek learns the hard way.

Suspected 'Anonymous' Hackers Homes Raided By FBI

The FBI executed search warrants at the New York homes of three suspected members of notorious hacking group Anonymous early Tuesday morning.More than 10 FBI agents arrived at the Baldwin, N.Y., home of Giordani Jordan at 6:00 a.m. EST with a search warrant for computers and computer-related accessories, removing at least one laptop from the premises.The agents spent an hour and 40 minutes at Jordan's house; other agents investigated a second Long Island, N.Y., home and one in Brooklyn, N.Y
Jordan's system was identified as allegedly being used in a coordinated distributed denial of service attack against several companies, a law enforcement official had told us.The targets of the FBI searches are all in their late teens to early 20s. Tuesday's search warrants were part of an ongoing investigation into Anonymous, which claimed responsibility for attacks against a variety of websites including Visa and Mastercard. Anonymous is a loose collection of cybersavvy activists inspired by WikiLeaks and its flamboyant head Julian Assange to fight for "Internet freedom" -- along the way defacing websites, shutting down servers, and scrawling messages across screens web-wide.

The Anonymous vigilante group turned its effects to Arizona police department in late June, posting personal information of law officers and hacking and defacing websites in response, the group claims, to the state's controversial SB1070 immigration law.

While Anonymous is largely a politically motivated organization, splinter group LulzSec -- which dominated headlines in the spring for a similar streak of cyberattacks -- was largely in it for the thrills.

The metropolitan police in London arrested the first alleged member of the LulzSec group on June 20, a 19-year-old teen named Ryan Cleary. Subsequent sweeps through Italy and Switzerland in early July led to the arrests of 15 more people -- all between the ages of 15 and 28 years old.

The two groups are responsible for a broad spate of digital break-ins targeting governments and large corporations, including Japanese technology giant Sony, the U.S. Senate, telecommunications giant AT&, and other government and private entities.

THE POPE TWEETS !!!!!!!!

Ya guys its true it is the pope him self with an i pad and he is twitting man this is one awesome thing to see how an 84 year old man uses an ipad to tweet his thoughts and he certainly tweets about Jesus Christ. Pope Benedict XVI has joined the masses on Twitter, using the micro blogging service for the first time on 29th last month.

The new Vatican Portal brings together various print and broadcast news streams into one site. The social-media outreach programs are grouped on the Pope 2 you site, run by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.but we are not so clear how much of ipad and tweeting the 84 year old man who has seen 60 years of his life as a priest can understand out of it. But any ways this is one hell of an improvement

actually they say these tweets and posting of things about Jesus in the social networking sites like Facebook and in Youtube too will draw attention of younger generation and the digital generation as per the views of the Vatican

TWITTER WAS HACKED

Guys how many of u have a twitter account certainly i do and do all of u think its safe. Twitter was hacked indeed it was hacked on 4th of July the American independence day and the account of FOX NEWS was hacked and it was tweet that the president of America BarackObama was dead. the FOX NEWS informed it to the U.S. Secret Service which is responsible for the physical safety of the president.

The experts in security research said that when compared to other sites like facebook and google twitter is very easy to hack and vulnerable.Twitter simply allows the users commune with the site using a common decoded link, which can make it easier for possible hackers to whip the passwords.Twitter could have stopped itself being hacked if it had a Two-factor authentication. FOX NEWS blames twitter for hacking the account.

The actual tweet contained the following quote "@BarackObama has just passed. The President is dead. A sad 4th of July, indeed. President Barack Obama is dead."The tweets were online for nine hours for the time it was posted. The attack was on a verified Twitter account. one of that Twitter account was of an verified person or an company. FOX NEWS wants an detailed investigation on how its account was hacked and they twitter was responsible.

Twitter may not be responsible at all like the attacker could have got the password from FOX NEWS simply and could have logged in and so Twitter say the blame is on FOX own feet. But anyways Twitter was hacked guys be careful with your twitter accounts i suggest u to use an e-mail id of your own domain if u dont have one use the two-factor authentication system. so guys hope i gave u some useful information have fun.