Cambridge (ip-192.com): Facebook’s already tarnished data security reputation did get another hit after a dating-site startup launched its new service with 250,000 member profiles lifted from the social networking site. Lovely Faces used the information Facebook users made publicly available to get off the ground. The website says that it customized face recognition software to [...]
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Facebook: I million user profiles lifted
Filed Under: News, Social Networks Tagged With: Facebook, Privacy, Security, Social network
Facebook: Traffic up 60 percent
Cambridge (ip-192.com): Facebook is asking its 500 million plus users to set the social networking site as their browser homepage. Some accounts already display a button "Make Facebook Home." The site generates nearly 1 in 4 page views in the US, according to Experian Hitwise, a global online competitive intelligence service. That’s a 60 percent [...]
Filed Under: News, Social Networks Tagged With: Diaspora, Facebook, Gmail, Google, Hotmail, Social network, Yahoo Mail
Google: Is Diaspora the answer to FB email?
Palo Alto (ip-192.com): Facebook could launch its own messaging system to compete with Google’s Gmail, Microsoft’s Hotmail and Yahoo’s email service. If rumors are correct, the social networking site could announce the new service as early as today during a scheduled event in San Francisco. While little is known about Facebook’s intentions, the site could [...]
Filed Under: News, Social Networks Tagged With: Diaspora, Facebook, Google, Open Source, Social network
F1: Firefox social networking extension
Mountain View (ip-192.com): A new extension to Mozilla’s Firefox browser allows users to share content through social networks. F1 will automatically shorten URL’s using bit.ly and insert it into tweets, allowing users to update their status on Twitter in one single step. For Facebook, the extension takes a screenshot and description of the page users [...]
Filed Under: News, Social Networks, Software Tagged With: Facebook, Gmail, Internet, Mozilla Firefox, Social network, Twitter, Web browser
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