Filtering Twitter, One Tweet at a Time
As the San Francisco-based Twitter grows in popularity, third-party developers have jumped at the opportunity to create tools, both fun and functional, for the site.
One of the more common categories of apps to spin-off of the microblogging site is services that aim to organize and filter the hundreds of conversations, from impromptu snowball fights to political scandals, underway at any given moment.
Yahoo Revamps E-Mail to Become More Social
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc. has finally started to roll out new features designed to make its e-mail service more like the popular online hangouts Facebook and MySpace, following through on a promise made nearly a year ago.
With the additions announced Monday, Yahoo’s roughly 275 million e-mail users will have the option of setting up their accounts so they can highlight communications from other people with whom they have formed an online connection.
The concept mirrors a premise that has turned privately held Facebook and News Corp.’s MySpace into two of the Web’s hot spots for socializing over the past three years — a period that has coincided with a wrenching downturn at Yahoo.
Serious flaw in Internet Explorer not fixed yet
SAN FRANCISCO - Users of all current versions of Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer browser might be vulnerable to having their computers hijacked because of a serious security hole in the software that had yet to be fixed Monday.
(Msnbc.com is a joint Microsoft - NBC Universal venture.)
The flaw lets criminals commandeer victims’ machines merely by tricking them into visiting Web sites tainted with malicious programming code. As many as 10,000 sites have been compromised since last week to exploit the browser flaw, according to antivirus software maker Trend Micro Inc.
Koobface Virus Spreads to Bebo
A virus that’s attacking Facebook users is also infecting other social networking sites, says ScanSafe.
Koobface tricks social networkers into downloading malicious malware onto their PC. Users receive messages that look as if they’re videos. Often they say something like “you look funny.” When the user clicks to see the video, he is taken to a new website and asked to download special software in order to see the video.
That software is malicious and once installed on a PC, the Trojan will direct users to hoax search engines and other websites, putting them at risk of ID theft.
Google Chrome hits 1.0
Just in case you needed any proof that software version numbers are meaningless, Google has updated Google Chrome, it’s web browser to version 1.0 (or 1.0.154.36 to be exact). Yesterday the latest version of the software was version 0.4.154.29.
So why remove the beta label now, especially when the 4 year old Gmail service is still officially in beta? Well, the official explanation is because the company’s goals for stability and performance have been met. But it also likely has something to do with Google’s plans to convince hardware makers to preload the web browser on computers — something they may be reluctant to do with beta software.
Koobface worm still infiltrating Facebook
Chicago (IL) – Koobface, a worm that surfaced on Facebook in July, is spreading again and remains very active, according to a security alerts issued by Websense and McAfee.
Security experts from Websense warned users last month that they had picked up an email that indicated that user accounts infected by Koobface are being used to post messages to Facebook friends lists. “The content [of the email] was an enticing message with a link that used a Facebook open redirector. When recipients click the link, they are automatically redirected multiple times, finally reaching a site masquerading as YouTube that serves a malicious Trojan downloader.”
The Madness of King Jerry Yang
Jerry Yang has always been viewed as one of the great visionaries in Silicon Valley. Thirteen years ago he started a company with a funny name that changed the world, became a billionaire, and always seemed smart enough to leave the actual running of the place to someone else — until one day a little more than a year ago he utterly lost his way.
Gmail Launches Voice and Video Chat
Google launched Gmail voice and video chat, making it simple for people around the world to chat in high-quality video for free right within Gmail. All you need is a webcam and a small web browser plugin, and you can start video chatting with your friends, family, and coworkers on Gmail and Google Apps. Gmail voice and video chat lets you start a video chat without switching to another application or signing up for another account. And if you don’t have a webcam, you can simply chat by voice. We’ve made it easy enough that your mom — or your employees — will actually use it.
Yahoo updates BrowserPlus technology
Internet media giant Yahoo has released an updated edition of their BrowserPlus technology.
BrowserPlus is used by web publishers to make it easier for their visitors to interact online.
Lloyd Hilaiel, a member of the BrowserPlus team at Yahoo wrote in a blog post about this new technology: “What’s better about the upload? To start, it’s easier for end-users to select the files they want to upload. You can drag and drop files or folders directly into your Web browser. An enhanced ‘File Browse’ implementation supports file multi-select as well as folder select.”
YouTube to post full-length MGM films
YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, will show full-length television shows and films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s archives in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programing, the company told Reuters on Sunday.
The site, owned by Google Inc, plans to make the announcement about the new partnership on Monday.
MGM Studios will kick off the partnership by posting episodes of its decade-old “American Gladiators” program to YouTube on one channel.
On another channel, MGM will post full-length action films like “Bulletproof Monk” and “The Magnificent Seven” and clips from popular movies like “Legally Blonde.” These will be free to watch, with ads running alongside the video.
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