Facebook is always in news for its spams, click hijacks, like hijacks. rumours. cosmoGeek instantly alerted its users in the past to get rid from these accidental clicks. Now, a new scam is making the rounds, asking victims with promises of news about Apple’s iPhone 5. This typical link clicking is known as ‘clickjacking’ and it is not as dangerous as a virus or scam, but still it acts on your behalf without your consent....
After Sony PlayStation’s recent security breach (hackers managed to steal personal wealth information from its system), we now have Symantec reporting that Facebook might have accidentally leaked your personal information. This is a serious security issue where the world’s largest social networking platform should concern. According to Symantec’s blog post, third parties, in particular advertisers, have accidentally had access to Facebook users’ accounts including profiles, photographs, chat, and also had the ability to post messages and mine personal information....
According to a report from TechCrunch, Twitter has won the battle and acquired TweetDeck for an approximate unconfirmed figure of over $40 million. Of course, you may remember the earlier reports that UberMedia acquired TweetDeck. Niow, what happened? Read on.. UberMedia had a 30 day exclusive on the deal, but negotiations took so long giving Twitter an opportunity to make a higher deal and Tweetdeck was in play again. Twitter do not allow UberMedia and other Twitter related startups to grow its market share....
Many netizens are finding it harder and harder to stay away from social networking sites and experts have figures like around 350 million users suffer from Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD). You won’t find FAD in any medical text book but this is true. More than half of Facebook’s total membership log on at least once in a day. You might be thinking that I don’t have FAD and this is all rubbish....
A new kind of ‘Click-Jacking’ and ‘Like-Jacking’ is spreading on Facebook. This time with a whole index of suggestive, funny and controversial videos. We have seen similar kind of Facebook spams and hoaxes in the past and cosmoGeek instantly alerted its readers how to get rid from these kind of accidental clicks. A Lady smashed big cans of bear with her BIG BOOBS on America’s Got Talent, Checkout now! Once you click on the wall post link, you will be taken to a page displayed with a video link....
Google today introduced a new feature Google +1 which allows to share recommendations with the world right in Google’s search results. It is yet another attempt to make search more social. This feature is slowly rolled out to Google.com, but you can try it by enabling the +1 search experiment.
A startup is offering a virtual girl friend for you on Facebook! To make it look like you are not single, Cloud Girlfriend promises to post things on your Facebook wall. The application yet not launched defines Cloud Girlfriend as “the social network girlfriend” asking users for their email addresses to be notified. It claims - Step 1: Define your perfect girlfriend. Step 2: We bring her into existence. Step 3: Connect and interact with her publicly on your favorite social network....
This rumor about Facebook using your photos in ads without your consent is spreading again. The rumor was not true earlier (back in 2009) and it is not true now. Many Facebook users are saying in a status message that’s being passed and worried that Facebook plans to use their photos in Facebook ads, and they’re telling everyone to change privacy settings to prevent it. On Friday, Facebook will start using your photos in ads that appear on the profile page of your friends....
Two months ago in January, the leading social networking site Facebook introduced two new measures to gripe up security - a secured connection and Social Authentication. One of the important step to make it easier to manage the security is the HTTPS option even while browsing. Today, the micro blogging site Twitter finally added optional permanent HTTPS setting. Using HTTPS for your Internet services is particularly important when using them over unsecured Wi-Fi connections....
Today, Facebook rolled out a new commenting system for blogs and third-party sites. It launched updates to the Comments Box Plugin with new moderation tools as well as features to improve the distribution and quality of comments on your site. According to a Facebook blog post, the new commenting system will be a quick install for publishers, with a single line of code. Sharing comments on Facebook will, of course, be seamless....