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Phishing on Social Sites gets Worse

January 6th, 2009

  Last week a phishing scheme hit Twitter – the first large scale hit on Twitter. People were receiving emails to go and check out a story. The emails took them to a ‘Twitter login page’, and their usernames and passwords were being captured. Fortunately, Twitter acted quickly to resolve the problem, and the damage [...]

 
 

Facebook Fighting For Pole Position

October 5th, 2008

Facebook’s battle with MySpace for web supremacy continues, and this month is already seeing some major activity in the social network world. Some of it is positive for the huge social site, some is negative; but the battle is a sight to watch! On the positive side, Friendster has made the opportunity to tap into [...]

 
 

FaceBook, MySpace Fail in Japan – Blogging Booms

August 3rd, 2008

If you are interested in the Japanese market, take five minutes to learn about the culture. Please. You might realize that what works in America, the UK or Australia doesn’t always translate well in foreign markets. Japanese culture is very security conscious, and platforms such as social networking sites have failed to recognize that when [...]

 
 

Data Portability: The End of the ‘Island’ Effect?

May 10th, 2008

Four companies have joined hands this week to share and make available data across partnered affiliates. They have abandoned the unreliable bridges that connect their formerly impenetrable islands, and opted instead for a super-speed, below the surface transit system. MySpace joined the data portability community today as well as announcing an affiliation with Yahoo, Ebay [...]