Facebook on Thursday has released a security guide aimed at young adults, parents and educators to educate them about security concepts on the social networking site. The 14 pages of the pdf document are packed with information that range from general account protection information to using Facebook’s advanced security settings or recovering a hacked Facebook [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 22
Gooce+, Add Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn To Google Plus
I find it rather difficulty to spend time on all social networking sites that I have an account for evenly. The three dominant social networking sites that I use currently are Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus. I never got the hang of LinkedIn and do not use localized social networking sites. If I would add [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 7
Don’t Want Your Photo To Be Used For LinkedIn Advertisements? Do This!
I have to admit that I’m not a LinkedIn user. I probably should have an account with my Internet business and all, but then again, it feels to me like yet another network that I have to spend time on. So, no LinkedIn for me. I recently stumbled upon a story over at Connection Agent. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: None
Pokki, Apps, Services, Features In Your Windows Taskbar
I held back on reviewing Pokki for a long time. That was probably not the best of ideas considering that it is one of those rare gems that you stumble upon from time to time. For now, Pokki is a free software for Windows 7 that adds information, services and features to the Windows taskbar. [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
- Comments: None
Facebook spammer turns himself in to the FBI
A US man who sent more than 27 million spam to Facebook users has turned himself in to FBI officers in California after being put on their wanted list. Sanford Wallace, from Las Vegas developed a program that was able to circumvent Facebook’s spam filters. The software then lured over 500,000 people to hand over [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Skype Update 5.5 With Critical Security Vulnerability
It does not happen often that software updates ship with critical security updates. But that’s exactly the case with the Skype 5.5 release for Windows. Skype 5.5 is the first version with Facebook integration. Skype users with a Facebook account can now use some of Facebook’s functionality right in the voice over IP software. This [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 18
Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter: Where Will You Be In One Year’s Time?
Google’s new social networking service Google Plus has been off to a good start, thanks to Google’s determination and the invite only system. There has been lots of talk about the growth of Google Plus, and some sites did not fail to mention that the networks growth is a lot faster than that of Facebook’s [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 1
Facebook Application Bookmarks, Sync All FB Apps, Games With Firefox Bookmarks
Chance is you have a Facebook account. And if you do, you are likely using a few apps or playing some games on the Facebook website. Most users who do, load the games and apps after they have logged in. That’s not overly handy. It is on the other hand possible to bookmark games or [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
- Comments: 7
Migrate Facebook and Twitter To Your Desktop Together with Seesmic
Over the years we have posted several different plugins and applications that helps make social networking easier by making it more readily available. There really is no reason that users of the big networks like Facebook and Twitter need to go to the websites of their programs when trying to do normal, ordinary tasks. After [...]
