by admin at Sunday, November 11, 2007 in Internet
Tags: Facebook, Facebook New Ad System, Privacy
Facebook has a clever, new Ad system that could bring them a potentially massive amount of revenue. Leveraging on the trust friends have between each other, it is almost like the most powerful force in marketing – word-of-mouth. Basically, a user who carries out an action that has a relation to an advertiser’s product will have a sponsored advertisement placed in that user’s news feed or profile, which will be exposed to the entire person’s friends.
The problem lies in the fact that they are using the person’s photograph and name, which will appear along with the advertisement. Facebook has an option for the user to decide on whether he or she wants to “share their information” to others. The general question seems to be too vague for the over-zealous lawyers who are complaining about this system. They base upon the aggressive marketing pitch to the advertisers to further comment about Facebook’s possible abuse of the users’ information for the benefit of themselves and the advertisers.
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by admin at Sunday, November 11, 2007 in Internet,MySpace
Tags: hack, Hackers, Internet, MySpace, Security
A HTML/CSS bug in MySpace has been exploited and a few stars’ high-traffic profiles, including Alicia Keys’, has been affected by it. What the hack does is that it creates a link that can be moved anywhere on the profile and covers a substantial amount of space.
When a person clicks on the link, he or she is brought to a page which will prompt the user to install a codec that will allow them to hear music from the artiste. It’s a clever trick because it looks authentic and there is a good chance the user will think it’s some sort of special link to a pre-released song or video of some sort, which will increase the chances that they will download the codec (which is a virus) into their computers.
People with computers that have not applied the latest security vulnerability patch will get infected even more easily because the malware will download in the background, oblivious to the user. Since even legal plugins online get the prompt, those who have the update may still fall for the trick as it everything will seem like its normal.
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by admin at Friday, November 09, 2007 in Internet,Microsoft,Yahoo
Tags: Iran, Microsoft, webmail, webmail services, Yahoo
It is a sad day for the people of Iran as Yahoo and Microsoft have removed Iran from the country lists of their webmail services, claiming that they had to comply with the US policy that prevents them from doing business with Iran. Fortunately, Google mail is still available to the people of the country, and it seems that they are playing with the law by staying at the edge – claiming that they are still complying with the US export controls and sanction programs.
Since these services are free, there is the question of whether this course of action was even necessary. Skype’s removal of their paying Iranian members made more sense, since it dealt with the exchange of currency and would be more appropriately be considered as ‘conducting business’. Perhaps the lawyers of the giants, Yahoo and Microsoft were over-zealous, especially with Microsoft taking a few hits from huge law suits recently. If it is in compliance with the law, what the US is doing may be questionable. What justifies the action of taking away free international communication services from the Iranians?
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by admin at Monday, October 29, 2007 in Internet,Technology
Tags: ICANN, Internet, Technology, web trends
The technical foundation of the internet was laid the foundation stone by Vint Cerf during the early 1970s. He has drawn the entire attention to one of the principal agencies building development with going across various difficult tasks.
After sowing seeds for streamline operations and giving off the international rebellion Cerf is getting down from the post, Chairman of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers which is to take place this week.
He concluded by saying with his humorous attitude that “My sentence is up”. He has struggled a long way in building up the organization as it is today. He also thanked those who lend out a helping hand during the battles to come across with a stable and powerful organization.
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