How to hide friends on Facebook

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Privacy is being a major concern when our social life on the web is increasing rapidly. Any information about us that is displayed on the web, will be available to anyone, if it not properly secured. And this information can be handled by malicious users and it could work against us.

xAuth Makes Social Sharing Easy

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Extended Authentication (XAuth) makes social sharing easier by automating the way users share the content on various social networks. XAuth was an initiative by Meebo. When you log in to social networks like Google, Microsoft, MySpace, Yahoo! and others, these services notify xAuth.org that you have an active session with the service. When you visit [...]

Google Buzz Share and Follow Buttons

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Google has launched its share button for Google Buzz. It helps you to share posts on Buzz.  To promote your Buzz account, there is also a “Follow on Buzz” button (similar to Follow on Twitter button) which helps people to follow you on Buzz from your sites. To add the Google Buzz buttons to your [...]

7 Things you need to know about Google Buzz

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Google Buzz was sudden wave trying to go beyond all the other social networks. Inspite of the privacy issues it had on launch, Buzz is trying to bring the best in other social networks. We can share photos, messages and may be later on using Google Maps, it could even be the next Location based [...]

Phishing Attempt on Twitter

There is a phishing attempt on Twitter which is spreading via Direct Messages. It tries to get your usernames and passwords using a Direct Message saying “You’re on Here?” or “someone posted on their blog about you” and these messages are followed by a link. Once you click on the links, it might direct you [...]

GoJiyo – From Locks to Social Networking

GoJiyo.com is a new social networking site launched by Godrej in association with CNBC-TV 18 seeing the popularity of Orkut and Facebook  in India. Tanya Dubash, Executive Directorand President – Marketing, Godrej group said “It is an online activation platform for us to activate the youth and get it to interact with  us  and our portfolio. It is certainly a deviation form our core business,  but  is  the definitely the next step as getting ourselves more relevant to the youth.” It has avatars where you can [...]

Spies on Social Networking Sites

The US law enforcement agents are going undercover on the social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to access the social networks of suspects and to search for evidence or even to track suspects.  Marc Zwillinger, a former U.S. cybersecurity prosecutor, said investigators should be able to go undercover in the online world the same [...]

Facebook Email?

It is rumored that Facebook is going  offer web email. Google has come up with similar surprise earlier with their Social Search Steps beta which challenges the social network sites like Facebook. As seen in the past these two companies are addicted with success and they don’t want to stop behind one. Google took away a small share of [...]

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