The only Gawker subscribers who appeared to have been safe were those who logged in to the site using Login with Facebook (formerly called Facebook Connect), a single sign-on authentication service that lets you use one login for multiple sites as long as you have a Facebook account. Basically, it works by allowing you to [...]
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MapQuest Launches “OpenStreetMap” that Allows Users to Edit the Map
December 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Thursday’s launch of AOL’s MapQuest, a separate site. People can change and increase coordination of the site MapQuest map of the United States, marking the destination not previously annotated, such as the Disneyland amusement facilities or specific park near his home in the swing. The open source software allows users to map site allows users [...]
Clicker Gets Facebook’s Social Data for Video Recommendation
December 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Clicker, video search and recommendation service on Wednesday announced that it was integrated with Facebook, and now it can take advantage of Facebook’s social graph, user and friends according to interests, to provide users personalized recommendation service. Use of Facebook’s social data, Clicker.com redesigned the site and launched “Clicker forecast” service, recommend them to the [...]
“SoundClick” Music Social Community Service Review
December 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
SoundClick is a music-based social community. It offers bands, artists, and music labels a platform for self-promotion. Songs can be streamed, downloaded in MP3 format, sold through the store, or licensed to others. SoundClick compiles daily charts for various genres, based on how many times a particular track is played. The social-network offers profile pages [...]
Social Media Marketing Attracting More Ventures
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Social media marketing is a recent addition to organizations’ integrated marketing communications plans. Integrated marketing communications is a principle organizations follow to connect with their targeted markets. Integrated marketing communications coordinates the elements of the promotional mix;advertising, personal selling, public relations, publicity, direct marketing, and sales promotion. In the traditional marketing communications model, the content, [...]
Gawker Hack: Thousands of Username and Passwords Exposed Online
December 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Gawker and its ring of blogs, as well as Twitter, were hacked this weekend by a group calling itself” Gnosis.” Gawker said thousands of its commenter usernames and passwords for its blogs were broken into and Gnosis said its hacking of the network of blogs led it to breach of e-mail address belonging to banks, [...]
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Elected as “Time Magazine Person of the Year 2010″
December 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The famous American “Time” magazine managing editor Richard Stengel today announced that the U.S. co-founder of social networking site Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been rated as Time “Person of the Year 2010.” Stengel said: “Zuckerberg created Facebook, are changing the way of our daily lives. Facebook social drivers have prompted us to communicate to [...]
YouTube Mobile Client Update for Symbian^3 Devices Released
December 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Google has finally updated their YouTube mobile client to work fully with Symbian^3 handsets, taking the client to v2.4.10 – you can now sign in and use the usual Favourites and account features wherever you are. Another feature that has been added is query suggestions. When you type into the YouTube search box, you get [...]
Google Map for Mobile 5.0 Demonstrated; Makes faster with 3D and Offline Usability
December 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A new version of Google Maps for Android. One that’s faster than ever before, update to version 5 which now draws maps with a dynamic map rendering engine, can be used offline (perfect for tube journeys) and is 3D. Pretty nice is right. Andy Rubin showed off the new Maps app when he demoed the [...]
Gowalla Application Synchronizes with Foursquare and Facebook
December 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Gowalla, the location-based social networking service on 3rd December 2010 rolled out a redesign that included letting members of the location-based social network share “check-ins” at Foursquare, Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook Places. The release of Gowalla 3 software, initially only available for iPhones, comes with the soaring popularity of services that let people use smartphones [...]
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