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Make your readership consistent by avoiding mistakes
The main reason observed when it comes to breaks in blog reading is the lack of trust and reliance on the website. If you have experienced this kind of break by your readers in reading your blogs, you need to make some of the fine changes so that readers do not drive away without reading [...]
Continue reading...Facebook to take down ‘fake’ Likes, improve site integrity system
Facebook has announced stepping up efforts to keep its brand Pages free from 'fake' Likes. The social networking company believes the move will benefit the legitimate users and Page owners. While updating its integrity system, Facebook says new security measures will automatically detect and delete Likes received by malware, hacked accounts or purchased in bulk [...]
Continue reading...Falcon for Twitter (Beta) for Android Review
Twitter has been in the midst of wars of late, with a number of people attacking the micro-blogging network and others defending it, both with equal ferocity. Like it or hate it, what cannot be denied is that Twitter is one of the most popular social networks in the world with millions of users. And [...]
Continue reading...Twitter Followers For Sale
“The number of Twitter followers I had in relation to how many people in the world know about me was woefully inadequate,” he said. So in June he bought a small city’s worth for $424.15, raising his Twitter follower count from about 700 to more than 220,000. “There’s a tremendous cachet associated with having a [...]
Continue reading...Facebook finally deleting unwanted photos from servers
Facebook said this week that it has fixed a glitch that allowed links to deleted photos to stay live long after a user thought they'd been banished from the site. Photos that users have deleted are quickly removed from Facebook profiles and newsfeeds, but if you happened to have a link to the deleted pic, [...]
Continue reading...Posting Flickr Picture Links to Twitter
Is there an easy way to post links to pictures I upload to my Flickr page to my Twitter feed without having to cut and paste links? Flickr has all sorts of photo-sharing options with other social-media services. To more easily share the photos you post on Flickr with your Twitter followers, log into your [...]
Continue reading...Cultural Studies: Parting Is Such Sweet Revenge
Fifty years later, he probably would have tweeted it. The exit strategies of the recently unemployed have taken a new tack: social media is proving to be an outlet for those who decide that they don’t want to go quietly. Whether the leave-taking is voluntary or pink-slipped, anyone with a Facebook page, Twitter account or [...]
Continue reading...After Facebook Settlement, F.T.C. Will Reconsider Rules
The F.T.C.’s turnabout came in response to a blistering dissent from the Facebook settlement by one commissioner, J. Thomas Rosch, who said that allowing the company to deny charges it was agreeing to settle undermined the commission’s authority. In November, the F.T.C. said that Facebook had deceived consumers by telling them that their personal information [...]
Continue reading...Noted: Social Media Speeds Up Criticism of Olympians – Noted
Thanks to the rise of social media, reverence for athletic achievement at the Olympics can now be measured in milliseconds. Even as Gabby Douglas was performing the routines that would earn her the all-around gold medal in gymnastics, a few Twitter users were criticizing her ponytailed clipped coif. On Friday, Joe Scarborough ran a video [...]
Continue reading...Facebook to allow users to send photos as real postcards
Facebook is reportedly testing a new feature called 'Mail A Postcard', which allows users to turn their photos on the social networking website into real postcards and have Facebook send it to their friends. Facebook will be charging users a small fee for the service, though the company is currently working on different price points. [...]
Continue reading...Amazon joins social gaming segment with Living Classics
Amazon has forayed into the social gaming segment with the launch of a new Facebook game – Living Classics. The company has also announced a new division – Amazon Game Studios, which will be releasing more social games in the future. Amazon's first title on the social network on Tuesday and is available for free [...]
Continue reading...After Delay, Twitter Sends Data on User Issuing Threats
The compliance came three days after the social media company, based in California, denied an emergency request from the Police Department to provide the account holder’s registration information and computer network address. Investigators learned of the unsettling Twitter posts on Friday, the opening night of “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” at the Longacre Theater in Midtown, [...]
Continue reading...Instagram is debasing real photography
The Instagram/Hipstamatic/Snapseed filters are the antithesis of creativity, and make all pictures look the same
Continue reading...How to set up a community radio station
Journalism Foundation and Lincoln university plan teaching workshops
Continue reading...Yahoo breach puts users of other sites at risk
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc reported the theft of some 400,000 user names and passwords to access websites including its own, saying that hackers had taken advantage of a security vulnerability in its computer systems. The security firm Rapid7 said a data file published on the Web contained logins and cleartext passwords for Yahoo as [...]
Continue reading...Social networks scan for sexual predators, with uneven results
(Reuters) – On March 9 of this year, a piece of Facebook software spotted something suspicious. A man in his early thirties was chatting about sex with a 13-year-old South Florida girl and planned to meet her after middle-school classes the next day. Facebook's extensive but little-discussed technology for scanning postings and chats for [...]
Continue reading...Google to Shut Down iGoogle in 2013
Google's shutting down iGoogle but the search giant is giving you plenty of time to find an alternative. iGoogle, Google's web portal for its users' homepages, is shutting down and Google wants its users to have ample time to prepare for it. Well over a year's worth of time, in fact, as iGoogle's scheduled shut [...]
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15. October 2012