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Facebook Make Over, ‘Bacon’ Diet

Facebook has a new plan to make user’s profile pages to be more dynamic. At the same time, many applications have against the users’ privacy purpose will be deleted. “Users can choose whatever, wherever, and whenever the information they want. If there is an information distributed, users can do that only if they want to,” said Ben Ling, Head of Product Management Facebook quoted from Reuters.

From the appearance, profiles from Facebook’s users can be arranged into some tabs. Read More …

Moko, A Friendster-Like Site In Your Palm

Moko is a social networking service such as Friendster or Facebook. The difference is that Moko is designed to be enjoyed on the users palm, meaning from their cellphone. The site owned by Loop Mobile was launched on 21 July 2008. It is considered as the only social networking service that all its features can be accessed through cell phone and through the sites.

Moko has been integrated into 3 networks in Australia and England. This site basis is on its live chat features, then also on the profile pages like Facebook or Friendster and the ability to upload photos and videos. One of the Moko’s specialty is the same experience that the users will get when using this service through cell phone just like through computers. According to Martin Hoffman, CEO Loop Mobile, this thing has not been accomplished by any social networking sites. Read More …

German’s Facebook Ask The Real Facebook To Back Off

StudiVZ, social networking site like Facebook is quite popular in German, asking Facebook site to back off from its effort to sue StudiVZ. They said that Facebook reason is because it is incapable to compete. Previously, Facebook has gone to the Federal of California court claiming that StudiVZ copies appearance, service and features from Facebook. StudiVZ, was said, to have done an illegal activity that can cost negative impact to Facebook’s reputation. Read More …

Social Networking Sites, Time Bomb For Companies?

It is true that social networking sites are in the heart of many people. However, do you know that this site can be like a time bomb for companies’ network security?

As said by Trend Micro, a company that handles Internet security problem, social networking sites can be a threat to security not only for users but also for companies networking.

And what is the reason? Many employees access the social networking sites from their workplace, using PC and company internet connection. The bad thing is this site is usually used to spread evil programs.

Raimund Genes, Chief Technology Officer Trend Micro said, the social networking site popularity has made people easily targeted for intangible crimes. “The malicious programs are distributed through email attachment, the program is put in the link web2.0, that is why so many malicious programs that are spread in the social networking site,” he added as quoted in the softpedia. Read More …

Facebook Sued A Porn Site USD 500,000

A porn site has agreed to pay Facebook USD 500,000. The reason why this site has to pay Facebook USD 500,000 is because the site is trying to breach into Facebook security and steal its user personal information.

Facebook sued that pornography site, SlickCash tried to access personal information from Facebook’s users. For two weeks period in June 2007, the company which is located in Ontario, Canada, had tried to access Facebook server for at least 200 thousand times.

Quoted from Canadianpress, besides they agreed to pay USD 500,000 to Facebook, SlickCash and some people involved in this site agreed not to become Facebook’s member for 10 years. They agreed not to contacts Facebook members using personal information which they have got from Facebook website.

At present Facebook is so popular, it has approximately 34 millions users in the world. With Facebook, users can easily posted photos, personal information such as date of birth, address, e-mail, phone numbers and so on.

Friendster Mobile To Let You Socialize Everywhere

Socialize Everywhere

Social networking Friendster can be accessed by the cellular phone users through their mobile service at
http://m.friendster.com. Althiugh its popularity is fading by MySpace and Facebook globally, Friendster is
still the number one in Asia.

Looking at how big cellular phone users potential in Asia ( reaching 1.2billion), this mobile service is very well implemented. Even, supports towards various languages in Asia, including Indonesia is starting to develop.

Facebook Becoming A Junkyard

Junk mail aka spam flooding in our email perhaps is very common. But lately, spam also likes to visit social network sites such as Facebook or MySpace.

According to Sfgate, a lot of Facebook member reported that they have received a massive commercial message that ask them to do things such as download ringtone or buy male enhancement drugs. These sort of messages are coming from their friends who are also member of the site, but they also linked to lots of commercial sites.

The cases of someone’s profile in social network site been hijacked and used as spam farming are often happen. According to Derek Manky, a security researcher in Fortinet, spammers are paid by related companies.

Spam is really a pain in the neck at anytime. If we have our email flooded with spam for years, now in social network sites we have to deal with the same problem. Facebook has realize this and they have warned member for not to click any suspicious link. Since a couple years ago, Facebook has welcome software applications developed outside Facebook. According to data, there are more than 200,000 applications that can be inserted in Facebook, and this can be a way to spread spam too.

How Open Source Has Changed Microsoft

Even though Google is considered as one of very competitive threats for Microsoft, but the bigger scary thing that face Microsoft today is open source. This is at least what Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie said at the Sanford C. Bernstein Strategic Decisions conference in New York. According to Ozzie, Google is a strong competitor, but the main threat for Microsoft business model is the open source. Open source programmers have greater power in software market nowadays.

So, why is open source considered as bigger threat for Microsoft? There are two reasons said Ozzie, first is that open source has strong foundation to face Microsoft. Google, Facebook, Yahoo are among open source’s ‘children’, and they are Microsoft competitors too. Second, the presence of open source change consumers perspective about a software value, to become US$0 aka free. Nevertheless, Ozzie said that open source has make Microsoft a stronger company. Want it or not, Microsoft has to change their business model to adapt with open source, such as making compatible softwares with open source products.