Article Archive for July 2010
100 million Facebook Page Details Leaked
A directory containing personal details about more than 100 million Facebook users has surfaced on an Internet file-sharing site. according to thinq.co.uk The 2.8GB torrent was compiled by hacker Ron Bowes of Skull Security, who created a web crawler program that harvested data on users contained in Facebook’s open access directory, which lists all users who haven’t bothered to change their privacy settings to make their pages unavailable to search engines. The file contains user ... Read More
Google Announces Google Apps for Government
Google has announced Google Apps for Government, featuring the same applications in other versions but with a higher level of security. Cost is $50 per user per year. Google says meets the requirements set forth by the Federal Information Security Management Act. This includes segregated data centers, which Google says goes beyond FISMA regulations, and will keep government e-mail and calendar event data within U.S. borders. Google Apps for Government ... Read More
Gartner Says Consumers Rely on Social Networks to Guide Purchase Decisions
Social networks have become a critical, but underutilized, aspect of the marketing process, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts have examined the way social networks shape consumer buying behavior. The majority of consumers rely to some extent on social networks to guide them in their purchase decisions. These social networks often include individuals who fulfill different roles or functions in recommending products to people they are connected with. Gartner conducted a survey in the ... Read More
Wadja Integrates Digg and Last.FM Creating One-Stop-Shop for Social Content
Wadja.com, a unique social network that uses labels to create people-to-topic connections, has integrated social news websites Digg and the popular Internet radio site for streaming music Last.FM allowing users to organize, archive and discuss social content in real-time. Wadja helps users make sense of various types of social services, by separating the noise and spam from the real signal. Creating a label takes seconds and allows a user to decide whether to enable or disable targeted ... Read More
Flipboard Acquires Ellerdale to Boost Content Relevancy in New Social Magazine
Flipboard today announced it has acquired Ellerdale, the real-time Web intelligence company. The acquisition concurs with the launch of Flipboard, a social magazine designed for iPad, which provides a faster and more visually engaging way to discover, view and share content from social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Ellerdale, founded in 2008, has developed a Web Intelligence technology that applies semantic analysis to large, real-time data streams to extract relevant and valuable ... Read More
Flipboard Launches World’s First Social Magazine
Founded by Mike McCue, former CEO of Tellme, and Evan Doll, former senior iPhone engineer at Apple®, FlipboardTM began a quest today to transform how people discover and share content by combining the beauty and ease of print with the power of social media. Flipboard also announced the immediate availability of it?s Flipboard App for iPadTM, a social magazine that brings to life the stories, photos, news and updates being shared across Twitter and Facebook. Flipboard?s first public demo will ... Read More
