Not logging out can be a huge privacy risk, especially on public computers but also on other computer systems that multiple users have access to. Why is that? Because everyone accessing the computer after the user may access that user’s profile on Internet websites. That was reason enough for Facebook to add a new option [...]

Internet Explorer is the black sheep of the browser community.  It’s about as standards compliant as the overweight kid in the school athletics team, and as insecure as Fort Knox with the front door open.  Annoyingly though it’s still out there and being used. Now there might be some light at the end of the tunnel.  Social networking [...]

Facebook has been working on a location based service for quite some time now. Yesterday they revealed the new Facebook service Places at their mystery press event. Facebook Places is an location aware service similar to Foursquare. It basically allows users to check in from locations, and more. Places helps you “share were you are”, [...]

Facebook has come in for a huge amount of criticism this year over issues such as privacy and the complexity of their user controls.  Now the social networking giant has sent out mystery press-invites for an event tomorrow, according to neowin. According to the invite, this “news event” will be held at the company’s headquarters [...]

Many users of the social networking site Facebook have long been asking for a dislike button and now it looks like they’ve got what they were asking for… or have they?  Be warned, the latest offering of a dislike button on Facebook is, in fact, an elaborate scam.

Facebook does not seem to come to rest these days when it comes to privacy. A new bug was discovered on Wednesday by researcher Atul Agarwal, which allowed anyone to match an email address to a Facebook user’s name, and profile picture. Facebook has designed the login process to provide additional information to the user [...]

Facebook, love it or hate it. I never really used the social networking site much, not my thing to share quizzes, games and all the other things users share on the site. It has its uses to keep in touch with some friends but then again, there are other means to do that. Still, I [...]

Microsoft is going to release the Facebook social connector for Outlook later today according to Neowin.  The connector allows you to integrate your Facebook contacts into Outlook to view things like their status updates.  It’s a good way to keep in touch with people, though businesses might find the concept irritating. Many people were expecting this [...]

In the last year or so there’s been an explosion in sites allowing you to use a third-party login to access their services.  Every major company except for Microsoft has so far jumped on the bandwagon but it appears we have an outright and runaway winner already. Read Write Web is reporting a study that shows [...]

One problem with that many popular sites out there on the Internet is that of data redundancy. Facebook users who also have a Flickr account had that problem in the past. If they wanted to post photos hosted at Flickr on their Facebook wall they had to either upload the photos a second time or [...]

Remember the story on Read Write Web that was called “Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login”? It causes some controversy back then because it made the popular web blog rank in front of Facebook in Google Search for the term Facebook Login. Many Facebook users left comments and messages on the Read Write [...]

Following the announcement yesterday by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that his company had “missed the mark” on privacy, the social networking giant today confirmed that a new set of privacy settings would roll out to users beginning tomorrow, May 26th according to the BBC. Facebook’s vice-president of product Chris Cox said the whole incident had [...]

In a column today in the Washington Post, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admits they “missed the mark” on recent privacy concerns, as reported by the BBC. Recent changes to the website have caused thousands of members to leave the website, annoyed that their personal details were made available to Internet search engines, and concerned about [...]

Facebook has come under some pressure from consumer groups in recent months over it’s privacy policies, and has had to make some significant changes to it’s terms and conditions in response to pressure from it’s own users. Now after further criticism, this time from the US Senate, European Union and civil liberty groups, the popular [...]

Facebook does not seem to come to rest these days with the increasing awareness that privacy is not handled the way it should be on the popular social networking site. The problems boil down to the large number of privacy related settings and the ever changing nature of the network which intentionally or unintentionally makes [...]

Openbook is a search engine that can be used by anyone to search Facebook Updates. The recent Facebook Search api changes have made the search engine possible. The goal of the Facebook Updates search engine on the other hand is to inform Facebook users about the underlying privacy risks of this new search feature. They [...]

Facebook’s popularity makes it a prime target for hackers, phishers and other malicious users who try to steal your login information, invade your privacy or do other malicious things with your account. Many Facebook users do not know that Facebook has an option to notify account owners about logins from other computer systems and mobile [...]

Facebook feels like privacy hell. Not a single week goes by without reports of new privacy problems on the popular social networking site. The latest was published on Techcrunch Europe just yesterday. It apparently allowed anyone to view their friend’s live chats and take a look at their friend requests and friends. It is ironic [...]

I have recently started to increase the time spend on Facebook, not because I’m really fond of social networking sites but because I like to get a deeper understanding of it. I ran into several issues recently of which one was to find out how to block people from accessing your profile at all. Facebook [...]

Facebook privacy has been in the news lately with many users thinking that the privacy settings on the site are to darn complicated and hidden to be effective. As a result information are publicly available which some users might have no intention to share with the world. Facebook itself is not really helpful when it [...]

The Web in 2010 seems to be all about personalization. First we got search engine personalization and now we got Facebook’s Instant Personalization feature introduced a few days ago at the F8 conference. Instant Personalization has caused some unrest amongst tech savvy Internet users. But what does it do? It basically allows partner sites (currently [...]

Norton Safe Web is an url scanning service offered by Norton. It scans websites and urls and displays possible threats found on those websites to users of the service. It is in this regard similar to other url scanning services like AVG Linkscanner or Web of Trust. Norton Safe Web For Facebook is a Facebook [...]

Panic! Facebook is not loading. I just encountered something that Facebook users probably experience as well from time to time. Tried to open the Facebook website directly in the Firefox web browser only to be greeted with a blank page. No content was displayed at all. Tried reloading the page with Ctrl-F5 but the blank [...]

Many Internet users who want to view and edit documents online use Google Docs to do so. There are other services besides Google Docs but none that can compete with Google’s service on an eye to eye level. This however could change in the near future with the public release of Docs.com, an online document [...]

Facebook some time ago offered their users an alternative version of the social networking site dubbed Facebook Lite which was a stripped down version of Facebook designed for users with slow Internet connections to speed up page loading times. Facebook Lite on the other hand was not designed for mobile users who can access Facebook [...]

Keeping track of all your Facebook friends can be a problem if you have a lot of them. We are not talking about a few dozens but hundreds or even thousands of friends. One thing that becomes very time consuming is maintaining the friend list. This includes keeping track of users who have stopped being [...]

Popular software programs and online services are more likely to be targeted by malicious users than less popular services. Facebook is currently the most popular social networking service on the Internet and security experts are noticing increased attacks on the network and its users. Several security companies are currently warning their users about a widespread [...]

Internet Explorer users have a limited choice of add-ons and extensions compared to other web browsers like Firefox or Google Chrome. One of the new options to extend the web browsers functionality are so called web slices that have been introduced in Internet Explorer 8. A web slice is basically a notifier that updates information [...]

One of the nice, but somewhat hidden, features of the upcoming Ubuntu 10.4 release is that you can access chatting, tweeting, and social network all from a simple panel applet. Now I will warn you, this feature is not production-worthy. In other words, it will crash on you. But to see what is in store [...]

Mafia Wars is a very popular game on Facebook with thousands of players playing it at any given time of the day. It is a so called browser game in which the player takes on the role of a Mafia member with all sorts of options at hand from fighting opponents to running jobs, buying [...]

Facebook Lite is currently offered as a public preview. It basically allows registered Facebook users to log into a lighter version of Facebook instead of the standard Facebook page. The advantage of this is that the Facebook lite page requires less resources and should therefor be faster for users accessing it. This can mostly be [...]

There are two problem categories of Facebook login difficulties. Category one contains problems that are related to the FAcebook page loading only partially or not at all while the second category contain problems related to the Facebook login itself. The first category of problems is usually easier to fix. A not loading Facebook page can [...]

If you are a Facebook regular chance is you have played around with some of the applications offered on the social networking sites. This ranges from the overly popular Farmville game over greeting cards, quizzes to fantasy football and business applications. Applications are anywhere and most users receive regular invitations to participate in yet another [...]

Tech savvy computer users enter domain names, which are also commonly known as urls, directly in the web browser’s address bar. Many inexperienced users on the other hand tend to search for the domain that they want to enter by entering the domain name into a search form and not the address bar. An inexperienced [...]

Popular web services like Facebook, Gmail or Yahoo Mail can usually be enhanced with browser add-ons and userscripts that add or change functionality directly on the websites. Facebook Fixer is one of the first extensions for the Google Chrome web browser that improves the user experience on Facebook extensively. It is a port of the [...]

About a week ago Facebook’s own Mark Zuckerberg posted an open letter to the community announcing some long awaited privacy changes to the popular social networking website. What most users would not have expected at that time was how controversial these new privacy settings would be. What Mark announced was better privacy for Facebook users. [...]

Microsoft’s Outlook email client comes with an option to add photos to contacts that have been automatically or manually by the user. This does make sense as it becomes easier to identify contacts in the email program. It can however mean lots of work if the address book consists of more than a few dozens [...]

Have you ever asked yourself which information are accessible to quizzes and applications if you allow them to access your account before taking the quiz to find out if you really know everything about becoming a vampire or which superhero your cat resembles most. Most Facebook users might think that those quizzes receive barely any [...]

In an open letter to the Facebook community its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced some upcoming changes to Facebook privacy settings. The main reason for the privacy changes is connected to the incredible growth of the social networking website. According to Marc the current privacy model of Facebook relies not networks which can be communities, companies [...]

According to several reports on websites like Computerworld a new phishing scam is currently in the wild that is trying to get the Facebook login data of Facebook users. Pandalabs, who uncovered the phishing scam, did not release lots of details about the attack other than it mimicked the Facebook login page and displayed an [...]

Offering a popular website or web service is not always a blessing. This especially becomes apparent when you have to deal with security related issues like phishing attacks. Facebook is without doubt one of the most popular sites on the Internet these days and it therefor comes unsurprisingly that the service is regularly attacked. Trend [...]

Chance is you have a Facebook account. Hundreds of millions of users have one and at least some of them are looking for ways to change the standard appearance and functionality of the social networking website. One unobtrusive way of doing that is to use so called userscripts which can be loaded into web browsers [...]

Facebook login problems are more common than some users might think they are. The most common type of errors that are encountered by Facebook users are usernames and passwords that are not accepted. Less common are page display problems or other error messages during the login phase. There are a few options for users who [...]

Facebook users who want to check their Facebook account for new messages, pokes, friend requests or invites usually have to go to the Facebook website and login there to see the Facebook status updates. This does mean that they sometimes visit Facebook to find out that nothing has been updated. A Facebook status update notifier [...]

Facebook is currently probably the most popular social networking website on the Internet. With a user base growth of 50 million in the last three months it is without doubt now ranking at the top with its 300 million users. Facebook login problems are as common as those on other websites. This does not only [...]

Many online services do not offer the means to backup data locally. Users who want to backup data are usually left with a tedious manual process (like downloading pictures or videos one by one). Data that cannot be downloaded right away is even harder to backup, think of contacts or private messages for example. Archive [...]

Facebook has activated a lite version of their popular website for users in selected countries. Facebook Lite was initially designed to offer users with slow Internet connections a faster way of accessing the most relevant sections in Facebook. The concept still seems to be valid although only users from selected countries can currently open the [...]

The owners of the popular social networking website Facebook have acquired FriendFeed, a web service that allowed users to share information with friends and groups easily. Details on the acquisition are sparse at the moment with the exception that FriendFeed will continue its service for the time being. All FriendFeed engineers will join the Facebook [...]

Oh noes, not another URL shortening service. That’s probably the first reaction of many users who read the announcement that Stumbleupon’s URL shortening service Su.pr is now available publicly. As if there were not enough services of this kind already. There are however a few aspects of su.pr that make it quite unique in its [...]

Do you microblog to multiple accounts but find yourself posting the same thing to each account? If so it can be a hassle to log into each site or open up each client just to say “I’m eating my Frosted Kibble while reading the latest articles on ghacks.” Wouldn’t it be nice to have one [...]