Archive for 'Social Networking'
Facebook Survey Stalker App
Once again the crooks have re-invented a way to dupe millions of Facebook users into believing they can actually see who has viewed their Facebook wall. The first thing a user will see is the standard Facebook application request dialog – requesting your permission to grant a third-party app access to your Facebook profile. Once [...]
Full StoryWhy Google Could Fall to Facebook
Even the Mighty Casey struck out and Google may be the next to fall from being the most visited site on the internet. Since March 2010, Facebook has gained a ton of ground on the King and is currently less than 10% less in unique visitors daily according to Compete.com. Facebook is currently the second [...]
Full StoryFacebook Trojan Spreads Rapidly
This is becoming a big problem and it’s time that Facebook step up and moderate what Apps are shared on their network. Facebook and its 600 million plus users is the perfect playground for cyber criminals to spread their malicious viruses, Trojans and Malware. The problem is users are receiving shares from friends who are [...]
Full StoryFacebook Serves Up Questionable Ads
Last week I published an article called – “Who’s Searching for You Scam.” It’s about how you can find out who’s searching for you for free? The company behind this is also running TV commercials. What concerns me is that Facebook should do a little research to ensure what people are stating is accurate before [...]
Full StoryFacebook Like Button now Shares
If you haven’t notice the new functionality of the Facebook “Like” Button, it now does the same thing the Share did. It’s about time and I think many users will like this new function a lot better, I know I will. In the past you had two options on Facebook – like it or share [...]
Full StoryFacebook Stalker App Shows Up Again
Once again another stalker app claiming to show you who has looked at your profile and or photos showed up on Facebook Saturday, February 5, but this time Facebook was on the case rather quickly. According to Facebook: “Don’t believe any applications that claim they can show you who’s viewing your profile or photo. They [...]
Full StoryBizarre and Entertaining Stumbles on StumbleUpon
If you are not a StumbleUpon user, you should consider signing up. You never know what web site you may stumble upon to see some of the most amazing things that you can find on the internet. Here are some cool stumbles I came across the last few days Logo Design Gone Wrong: 10 Offbeat [...]
Full StoryDo You Trust Facebook?
It looks like Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not safe on his own site. Yesterday, his Facebook page was attacked and many users are now weary of the safety of their information on FB. I am beginning to wonder if Facebook will start to lose its stamina because of all the security issues that [...]
Full StoryFacebook Suing Over the Use of Book in a Domain Name
This is absolutely ludicrous! Facebook doesn’t want anyone to register a domain name that uses ‘generic plus book’. There are many domains that have generic plus book such as; Macbook.com SEObook.com (Excellent resource for SEO) lookatbook.com eBook.com Techbook.com (Parked domain) Teachbook (Currently being sued) iownbook.com (Newly registered) According to Facebook: “If others could freely use [...]
Full StoryWhat a Bash at the Chicago Mash!
Last night, a group of us attended the Mashable Summer Tour in downtown Chicago. It was a great time and as I would call it, a bash at the mash! If you missed this awesome event, please try to make it next year. There are a lot of people, like you, who love to network [...]
Full StoryMashable Chicago Summer Tour
Chicago TechJaw’s fans – Are any of you attending tomorrow’s Mashable Chicago event? This will be the last stop on their U.S. Summer Tour. One of our advocates, ServiceLive.com, will be attending as a sponsor. Be sure to stop by the ServiceLive booth for some freebies and fun conversation. WHEN Wednesday, August 11th, 6:00 – [...]
Full StoryStumbleUpon Reaches Milestone
StumbleUpon reaches 10 million users as of May 17, 2010. This is double the amount of users than in April 2008. The 10 millionth user was Nellzom who is from Colombia. It’s a great milestone, but how many users are still active? StumbleUpon was a giant back in 2004 in the social network space and [...]
Full Story