Both Bing and Google are dead serious that search engine users want a search that is more social, that weaves recommendation’s, likes and personal messages into the results. This change is happening right now, as both Bing and Google are already adding social recommendations in their search results. The two search engines may promote results [...]

Categories: Search Engines

Content Security Policy is a standard developed by Mozilla designed to protect against cross site scripting (XSS) attacks. Cross site scripting attacks use vulnerabilities in websites to inject JavaScript code into pages or urls of that site. The injected JavaScript code is then executed when visitors open a specifically prepared link or page on the [...]

Categories: Firefox, Security, Twitter

This week saw the acquisition of TweetDeck by Twitter for $40-$50 million. Yay for Twitter, right? They’ve gotten access to a popular and functional client. But why TweetDeck, and why now? Well, that’s quite a story. With the acquisition of TweetDeck, Twitter is getting hold of a popular Twitter client. It’s got versions for the [...]

Categories: The Web, Twitter

The way we consume media has changed drastically over the last few years. Instead of watching the nightly news, we are getting news real-time. And the news we get is no longer filtered by big media companies. We’re just as likely to get the news from a person who sees it happen as we are [...]

Categories: The Web

Apis of popular web applications like Facebook, Google, Dropbox or Twitter allow third party developers to create services and tools that offer additional features or functionality. These third party services require user authorization before they can access account related data. One example of such a service is Find Big Email which crawls all your Google [...]

Categories: Facebook, Google

Twitter: Love it, hate it. Even the biggest Twitter critics have to agree that the social messaging service must be doing something right. Yes, there is lots of automatic messaging going on and spam, lots of spam. But underneath that pile of junk, you find valuable information. New product and software releases for instance, or [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

A few years ago, the social networking site Twitter was virtually unheard of. However, it then started becoming very popular with the rich and famous, prompting a massive surge in users from the general population. Or was it the other way round? What is it that makes this website so popular with the majority of [...]

Categories: The Web

I use Twitter for a lot of things. One is to help promote my writing (both my fiction and technical writing). Because promotion seems like a 24/7 job, it is critical that the tools I use be easily accessible, low maintenance, and can run all day without causing any undo stress on my system. I have [...]

Categories: Linux, Networks, Online Services, Tutorials Basic

We have talked about the dangers of publicly available location information before (see Creepy! Track Michael Arrington, Or Anyone Else, Via Geolocation for pointers). A simply example would be a Tweet from your holiday location, which could invite burglars or social engineering attacks. But there is more to it than the direct danger, people can [...]

Categories: The Web