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Joint attack on Facebook and Twitter to hit a single user

August 8th, 2009 admin No comments

A type of DoS attack (Denial of Service) was carried out during the day yesterday with Twitter and Facebook, two of the most popular web services and used social networking in recent times.

A type of DoS attack like the one carried out against Twitter and Facebook has the direct and primary goal to make the inaccessible web sites, submerging systems required data, so as to cause knee ’s infrastructure of ‘ whole service. L ‘attack was a ‘ single source ..read more

AniGif

August 7th, 2009 admin No comments

Program version: 1.0 The website is: Readdle Price: $ 1.99 Trial: No Russian Language: No Available at: Icy - No AppStore - Category Social Networking iTunes Link

The well-known to all of us Readdle company recently released its new product called AniGif.

This program is designed to create animated images, which, in turn, can send to your friends by email.

The interface of the program is very friendly and understanding, it does not make no trouble.

Images can be added as a photo album, and from the camera. The ..read more

Twitter and Facebook under attack

August 7th, 2009 admin No comments

In ‘era of Web 2.0 the target between the three social networking sites more popular. Twitter and FriendFeed blocked an attack for hackers were stopped by a Denial of Service, however slowly Facebook

Mario De Ascentiis 07-08-2009

Black Thursday for services of social networking more popular. Twitter is ‘lost ‘ under the blows of a hacker attack that led to a Denial of Service, hundreds of millions of users instead showed slowdowns on Facebook fearful, difficulty in proceeding ..read more

KDE 4.3.0 Released

August 5th, 2009 admin No comments

KDE 4.3.0 after about seven months since the release of version Plasma Desktop Shell has undergone a restyling architectural and is now faster, requires less memory and is more stable. The Dolphin file manager has different features especially in the management of trash. KRunner is more performant.

Other changes are affecting more or less all the components. Note support for geo-location using Social Desktop comfortable and innovative.

The new specifications of FreeDesktop and update this framework also trying ..read more

OS Chrome, the Google Operating System

July 18th, 2009 admin No comments

Shake up the world of computing and especially for the software house. Recently, the shock announcement from Google, which has formalized the development of new operating system that has the code name Google Chrome OS.

Google has finally released information on Chrome OS, just to avoid any speculation about potential features of the operating system. To talk about this project, however, have so many gurus in ..read more

Analyze your Twitter account

July 11th, 2009 admin No comments

Services which build the various statistics on Twitter to an account, huge set. Some very much even the interesting. For those who yet does not read me, mine Twitter: http://twitter.com/dimokru. 1

Originally posted here: Analyze your Twitter account

Stats: How Much Money are Facebook and MySpace Making?

July 9th, 2009 admin No comments

As we wrote yesterday, spending on social media marketing is expected to rise at better than 30 percent annually over the next five years. But how much money are the top two social networks – Facebook and MySpace – making now, and how will that shift over the next few years as Facebook continues to extend its traffic lead and intensifies its ad sales? eMarketer is out today with some projections . The research firm projects that MySpace revenue ..read more

Should a Social Media Editor Use Social Media?

July 9th, 2009 admin No comments

A month and a half ago we wrote that the New York Times had hired a social media editor , concluding that it’s not so much about the position, but the person who will obtain that position. Simply put, that person needs to use and understand social media. Jennifer Preston , however, hasn’t tweeted at all in a month. She could be ill or on vacation, of course, but the NYTPicker has done some digging and it appears she ..read more

The Web in Numbers: Twitter Back on Track, Wolfram Alpha Plummets

July 9th, 2009 admin No comments

Last couple of months have been very interesting as far as new startups, projects and services go. We’ve seen Microsoft switch its search engine from Live to Bing, and Wolfram Alpha came to cater to the needs of geeks all over the planet; on the other hand, Twitter’s huge growth has slowed down considerably in June. Compete now displays traffic results for June; I’ve been waiting for these anxiously, as now we can finally paint some kind of picture ..read more

Fail Whale in Pop Culture

July 8th, 2009 admin No comments

When Yiying Lu designed the Twitter Fail Whale, she probably didn’t expect it to become very popular; after all, it’s an image that appears only when something isn’t working. However, a year ago Twitter was so unstable that the fail whale image popped up to hundreds of thousands of users almost daily, and history was made. The image was quoted, linked to, used and reused so much that it became almost iconic. To capture how this motif – a ..read more

Facebook Users Are Getting Older. Much Older.

July 7th, 2009 admin No comments

Analytics company iStrategyLabs has examined the demographics stats from Facebook’s Social Ads platform, and they’ve reached some very interesting conclusions. Facebook’s userbase, as a whole, is getting much older very fast. As you can see in the chart below, the overall number of users between 18 and 24 years of age has grown only 4.8% between the fourth of January and the fourth of July of 2009. In comparison, the number of users aged 25 – 34 has grown ..read more

Obama: Does He Pass the Social Media Test?

July 7th, 2009 admin No comments

He used social media and the web unlike any other presidential candidate in history. Barack Obama’s incredible online presence turned into a grassroots movement culminating in his election as the 44th President of the United States. He was all over YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and the blogosphere. But that was the campaign. Since then, he has promised to be one of the most transparent and accessible presidents in history, and social media was going to be central to achieving that ..read more

Influx of Twitter Account Suspensions Creating Confusion

July 7th, 2009 admin No comments

Update: Twitter says that the account suspensions were due to human error. We’ve included Twitter’s entire statement at the end of this article. — There seems to be a wave of suspensions going around Twitter today, and it’s turning quickly into an echo chamber of confusion and frustration. We’ve received several tips (the first one being from Mashable guest writer Matt Singley ) that a range of users are being taken down, including some with large followings such as ..read more

4chan Versus Twitter: Round One

July 7th, 2009 admin No comments

Internet pranksters, gathered around the popular anonymous Internet forum 4chan, have seemingly orchestrated an attack on Twitter, creating a number of fake accounts and pushing the hashtag #gorillapenis to the trending topics . The attack now seems to be under control, as that particular hashtag is no longer visible in Twitter trends , but coupled with the recent problem with the suspension of several real accounts — which might have been partly due to the 4chan attack — it ..read more