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Blogs are very common today. In this heap of millions of blog if you want people to notice yours you need to connect it to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Digg. Here we present a list of six Wordpress plugins to make your blog more social friendly and to help your visitors to share your blog easily.
It is true that Google has lost Matthew Papakipos, the key architect of Chrome OS to Facebook. With Chrome OS release dates approaching, loosing such an important developer can’t be good for any company. And Google has lost it to Facebook, a potential threat to Google. When asked about the impact of this on Chrome OS, a Google spokesperson said “Matt made great contributions to Google and Chrome OS…,”
Today we saw a very interesting tweet from Kevin Rose, the founder of popular website Digg. The tweet was:
Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch facebook competitor very soon “Google Me”, very credible source
While Google is already in the Social Networking business with Orkut
Social networking has changed our lives (and our browsing history) dramatically. So why should our browser remains the same? Let me show you 5 cool Firefox plugins you can use to make your Firefox more social:
Managing long conversations was always difficult on twitter but behold, it seems that twitter has just hired the developer of Twitoaster, Arnaud Meunier. It is a third party app for twitter which handles the conversations in a much better way. Arnaud has blogged that he would work for twitter
Yet another hacking attack, this time on Reddit. According to the Reddit’s blog, their official gmail account which was used for feedbacks has been hacked. Luckily Reddit didn’t used this account to save any sort of user information so no confidential information has been compromised. Meanwhile Reddit has decided to change their feedback email address to reddit@reddit.com.
Here’s a brief breakdown of what Facebook Insignia means:
- The insignia is broken down into three parts: Graph, Stream, and Platform. Graph refers to the Social Graph (and Facebook’s Open Graph initiative), Stream represents the flow of information and status updates between users, and Platform represents the Facebook Platform.
- The arrows on the insignia go in both directions, signifying that sharing and openness doesn’t go in one direction.
- “Making the World More Open and Connected” is the unofficial mission statement of Facebook.
We just saw this on twitter. Its an old problem but we thought that it was sorted out. Are you facing the same thing? Let us know.
Twitter users have faced spam and phishing since long. But now Twitter is preparing for handling similar kind of situations giving its user a reason to smile. Del Harvey, Director of Twitter’s Trust and Safety team, wrote on the twitter blog “Today, we’re launching a new service to protect users that strikes a major blow against phishing and other deceitful attacks. By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter.”
Facebook users will be able to update their location starting this April as decided at Facebook’s f-8 conference. According to a report from The New York Times, in preparation for the introduction, Facebook updated its privacy policy last November. The new policy states: “When you share your location with others or add a location to something you post, we treat that like any other content you post.”
