Facebook has become increasingly important for the brands to stay relevant and important on the social media. Facebook pages are a central hub for most brands to connect with their millions of fans and the social network keeps adding newer features to make this more easy and convenient. Now, Facebook has added yet another feature to pages.
On May 23, Wednesday evening, Yahoo announced that it’s going to step into the browser business with its new web browser – Axis. The new software, dubbed Yahoo Axis, is being called a “search browser.” With the release of Axis, a new search app and add-on for both iOS and desktop browsers, Yahoo aims to make browsing the Web a more visual and convenient experience. The idea here is that users can search the web using their iPad, iPhone or computer and then pick up that search when they move from one device to the next.
FBI has long been wanting to monitor the internet well enough, even it be in clear violation of people’s rights and their privacy. Security has long been a pretext for violating different portions of constitution. And now, it has been revealed that FBI has secretly formed a net-surveillance unit which will try to devise ways to monitor users over internet, wireless and VoIP communications.
While Facebook’s IPO was quite eventful in a lot of ways, it is now coming to light that all may not have gone as well as it seemed. A lawsuit has now been filed against Facebook as well as its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for concealing important information regarding company’s revenue forecasts from investors at large.
Facebook has been rolling out its Timeline profiles for quite some time. While many have responded very excitedly and happily towards it, calling it a far better way of organizing their profiles, others have complained about the privacy issues that the Timeline brings into question. Now, it has been revealed that Facebook is working on further redesigning the Timeline pages.
Facebook and Google haven’t been on particularly good terms. The rather unpleasant relationship between the two extends well back into the past and the main reason is that Facebook has been refusing to allow Google to use its user data. While Facebook officially says that it won’t share the data because of privacy reasons of the users, Larry Page says that is false.
DNSChanger has been a malware that has been able to infect millions of computers around the globe. Currently, most of the users who have their machines infected with the malware are quite unaware of it. So now, Google is launching a notification system in which it would alert the users who have their machines infected with DNSChanger, to tell them that if they don’t take action soon, they won’t be able to user internet any more.
Tumblr hasn’t been very active on the money-making front, so when folks at the company decided to add a creative version of ads and ‘sponsor products’ to finally start making money from its millions of users. Now, in a recent discussion, Tumblr’s CEO David Karp has elaborated on how advertising on Tumblr is fundamentally different from Facebook ads.
A lot of social networks have launched since the early days of the web and few have lived to popularity and success. While Facebook, the starchild of the social media, rides on a high tide with its near-billion users, Microsoft has launched a social network of its known under the name So.cl. Clearly, an awkward name may not be the only reason it doesn’t sound too interesting.
Facebook has been closed to anyone aged under 13 until now. One of the primary reasons for this is to let the kids aged less than 13 to stay safe. However, more and more under-13 kids are using Facebook and many of them are doing so with their parents’ consent. And now we have a rumor that Facebook may actually allow under-13s to use the social network. Is the rumor true?
Google has been working really hard on its email service, Gmail. The search engine giant has been introducing a number of new features to Gmail and has been quite successful in making Gmail one of the most used email services online. Now, Google has introduced yet another tweak to the search feature in Gmail, making Gmail search more convenient and effective.
One of the most wildly successful portions of the social media online is YouTube, the video site that has exploded into popularity and mass usage. And the number of users uploading content to the site, and the amount of content, is increasing each year. YouTube celebrated its 7th birthday on May 20th and announced that users are now uploading a whopping 72 hours of video each minute!
The online hacktivist group, Anonymous, has been known to side with human rights and other socio-political activist groups. Currently, during the NATO Summit which is ongoing in Chicago, the police department brutalized and mistreated a number of protesters who had gathered to retaliate the warmongering of NATO. Anonymous avowed revenge and took down the website of Chicago police department.
Twitter has officially supported Do Not Track option which is promoted by The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Mozilla. Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. It request websites visited by DNT enabled users not to track them over the web. By officially supporting DNT, Twitter has acknowledged to honor the requests by not tracking requesting users over the web.
Dubai Police has been cracking down on social media accounts for quite some time. The reasons provided by the authorities are varied, from online harassing and blackmailing to defamation. During the course of this year, Dubai police has shut down a total of 15 Twitter and Facebook accounts so far. These accounts were reported to the respective social networks who then had them removed.
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