OpenBook is a search engine that only shows you the great results of Mark Zuckerberg's social network. This network is constantly attacked by their privacy policy, although this simply must do a little research on your favorite search engine and you'll see that thousands of threads open about that.

Well, OpenBook with almost the same design of Facebook, lets you search specific, resulting in thousands of user updates are not properly activated your privacy and may make public statements which should not come to light, say as examples statements to your boss, photographs and personal information compromised.

In this way, the creators of Facebook active users OpenBook want mentalicen current users of all I could come to light with a simple search.

During the f8 conference held in San Francisco, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, explained the intention of the social network to impose a virtual currency across the network, as payment for all services of the largest social network in the world . His name is Facebook Credits.

This virtual currency, which is still in beta, would have its own exchange rate and would swing real against other currencies. Thus, Facebook wants the user does not have to enter your card details each time you make a payment.

Facebook has 400 million users and over 500,000 applications, some pay, on which stand virtual games, which generated $ 500 million, the second largest trader of Paypal, Ebay behind, of course.

According to Zuckerberg, took longer to make efficient service and have invested heavily in the project, but certainly with 400 million potential users, many more companies joined the bandwagon of trade by Facebook. Furthermore I wonder what it would be strange to buy a movie ticket or a play, using the motto "official" network?

Via: ReadWriteWeb

The searches are the main strength of Google and Twitter is one area where searches can do more, so the California launch new services, in pilot phase at the moment called Follow Finder.

You know that on Fridays many Twitter users do the Follow Friday or # FF, where each user recommend to others so that their followers Follower or take note of who could follow, but if this method does not convince you, is when Follow Finder enters into game.

Simply enter your username, no password, and will show two columns with different results. The first one shows you the potential user to which you would like to Follow, while in the next column you must for users who have a likeness as the followers of their disposal.

Which was impossible is to continue the new user through the service, I get an error, though you can always sign up your name and complete the Follow the traditional way.

Now that Twitter is available not only in English, are doing many positive things for internationalizing the service as possible, given the enormous volume of users from around the world. It would not be surprising that the staff is preparing Twitter developments regarding the ability to view content in one language or another.

A basic feature would be for example, tweets automatically translate to the language preferred by each user, would like to incorporate a translation service perfectly camouflaged in the Twitter interface.In fact since this can be achieved, although it is by no means official. Using some Greasemonkey scripts can make twitts automatically translate, but it is always better to have an inhouse solution (developed by the same developers of Twitter) for reasons of performance, interoperability and efficiency of course.

All this comes in the wake of a screen shot of Mark Hachman, AppScout editor who realized that there is a link in the sidebar to translate Tweets. For now you can only translate from any language into English, and the service is provided by Google.

Although at least this change, I think it is an interesting addition but especially useful, especially for those who follow people of different nationalities. Let's see if more news comes about Twitter and the use of language in the information.

Via AppScout

We know you've probably heard from other sources, but we also wanted to put our grain of sand in the celebration of one of the most successful services in recent years, we are certainly talking about Twitter and its 4th anniversary.

Being honest, I have 3 years as a user or "prisoner" of those 140 characters, you can get much valuable information, conversations with people you do not see often know just as many or desahogarte with the first thing that comes to head, but the point is that at first did not give a penny for your success and roundly mistaken.

Who he thought would interest me what happened in "x" minutes or hours, not knowing that later would become a very worthwhile service to share relevant information, although I buy always say in these cases, the owner of your Timeline are you and only you must follow the line that most interests you.

Leaving aside, opinions, we agree with the whole network and Twitosfera and blogosphere to celebrate that exactly 4 years ago, Jack Dorsey creator and current CEO of the company, launched its first Twit or Tweet, as desired. Since then, there have been many who have followed him from people who do not know to stars worldwide.

For everything that has happened and what will come, Muchas Felicidades Twitter!. If you continue to onlinetechnical, click on this link and you'll go to the account of the blog to do a Follow us.

Facebook has blocked and deleted all the applications they said could know who was visiting your profile on social networking.

I've been searching for a while an application that referred to this but have not found it, when even a few days ago, continued to receive invitations to my profile applications such as "Who visits your profile?" Or "Who visited your profile yesterday?" that naive not to have read the privacy policy of this social network sent me.

But Facebook makes that very clear, in any form is impossible to know who is coming to look at your profile (wall, photos, videos, links, etc ...), although these applications were available (so far). This would not be possible since it would violate the privacy rights of other users.

These applications are prohibited, but try to GET its purpose, which is nothing to get all our data on the network without restrictions for privacy as follows: When you accept this access, you are giving access to the creator of the applications to all your data without restrictions, then finally discovered what pages visitors and profiles of other users what you see every day.

When the other user to start using this application, the creator of it they can send data on who visits your profile .... As long as those visitors also have transferred your data to this application.

In short: The more people use Google, additional data will have its creator private and nobody knows what to do with them.

No good for nothing more than accept the use of these applications because most have not come to work, or do not work perfectly if all your network does not use this application.

I hope that the blocking and deletion of these applications is for ever and that if some clever re-invent something similar to steal information to users faster than Facebook in blocks.

Facebook, the platform (which is no longer just a social network), has become a monster that just will not grow. According to recent data, this site has been placed as number 1 in terms of unique visitors per month, at least in the U.S.. Facebook has been estimated that 7.07% of the total views of all of America. This is 7 out of every 100 Americans visit Facebook, which is just awesome. And even more surprising to know that Facebook has overtaken Google as the most visited site. It's hard to get used to that more people are adding friends, writing on walls and playing, looking for something over the network. The search took second place with 7.03% of total visits in the North American country.

Subject to certain exceptions, as in Brazil or Japan, Facebook is the most popular social site in almost all countries, and with these statistics further confirms that it is a framework that does not stop growing and increasingly expanding their domain into other areas . Maybe Facebook's reign at the top last few months as they are cooking new services such as direct competition with 4square.

Via The Next Web

The most high-profile news of the day was undoubtedly the presentation of a platform called Twitter @ Anywhere, which allows integration of Twitter with third-party sites, forming a continuous workflow that will have fewer interruptions. Anywhere @ The idea is to combine the resources of a site to interact with Twitter, without leaving the site being visited. That's interesting.
For example, a person is searching for Michael Jackson CDs on Amazon, and wants to share the experience with their followers. With the integration of Twitter with Amazon, it would be possible to share information relevant to the user (such as the title of the discs you buy, the approximate price, similar objects, etc.). Without leaving the Amazon site. With one click you could share this information without problems.

Consider another scenario: a person is bidding on an item on eBay. It would be possible to share data object and the current amount of the bid. These examples are very basic and the fly, although there is a real power in the heart of @ Anywhere, which is a great way to integrate a tool as important today as Twitter, with sites that already are a reference anywhere.

Initially, sites have made agreements with the likes of Amazon, eBay, Digg, Bing, Meebo or YouTube. Best of all is that the webmasters do not have to learn to implement an API because it simply does not exist. Just call some scripts to make a site compatible with @ Anywhere, although these details are not yet known very clearly.

To learn more about this platform, we recommend dry account @ Anywhere, where relevant news will be published from time to time. For now it is known that during the conference Chirp, Twitter developer, it will be giving many more details on this topic.

Via Mashable

MySpace is a social network that still has significant amounts of traffic but that does not compare at all with other networks which are now leaders such as Facebook. Every day, MySpace is more into oblivion, and but for some bands are really only a few users who use this main social networking site. In part because of the bad design and the features so limited, MySpace is a site that is doing the limbo of the network.

Trying to imitate go to other networks, MySpace is planning to include games as a vital part of the site structure, and is that games are an attractive to users, you need not go very far Facebook has millions of users playing each day, and companies like Zynga are making good money. Now, MySpace wants to take a small piece of the pie. During the conference Game Developers Conference, which takes place in San Francisco, introduced a new portal focused on users who are familiar with Facebook. Showing some games (also in English version) seeks to attract new users, especially children and teenagers who like to spend hours playing.

By now you can view titles that aim to compete directly with their counterparts from Facebook: there are indeed huge advertisements promoting FarmTown (will anyone sounds like?), Which are games whose concept has been successful. There's even an iPhone application, called MySpace Neon, which allows quick access to this website from the gadget from Apple.

Perhaps this change will bring some buzz to MySpace, but opening our eyes, we can realize that other sites (including Hi5), we are ahead in terms of incorporating games. I dare not predict the outcome of this movement, but it will certainly be something to consider, especially in the next dels months.

Link [Myspace Games Portal]
Via [AppScout]

When I read things as that, the hair stands on end and not because you're going to make a bad use, but because depending on what services we are speaking, there are children who use the functions that they should not.

But hey, leaving aside the opinion and based on the news, the NYT reports that for the month of April, Facebook, at a conference for developers to submit its final integration into the largest social network globally and is nothing more unless able to post / mostar the location from which you insert your information at any given time (something similar or equal to what we can do with Twitter).

It is also true, that will surely give us the option to enable / disable this option. Moreover, it will be given two options, one directly from Facebook, and another in the form of APIs for developers who want to create applications that work for the social network.

Anyway, I still to my guns, an After Sales with a market share of 400 million users, is jeopardizing the privacy depends on what people. But to read the user feedback, we still have to wait several more weeks, then has to speak again.

Yahoo does not want to lag behind in innovation and adoption of new elements to the search engines. Now it has signed a pact between Yahoo and Twitter, allowing users of large Y!, See tweets in real time and access your account through the public feed available in each account. There will also be integration between Yahoo and Twitter to slightly higher levels, as other properties (Yahoo sites or services) will also contain the twitts users. These messages, no more than 140 characters will be indexed in near real time, so the results will be dynamic.

This is nothing new, since Google and Microsoft with Bing (who also signed a deal with Yahoo) have already begun to show information from Twitter, although this has not been adequately implemented outside the United States. Competition is coming into a new niche where style networks or Google Twitter Buzz will play an important role.

This amendment made to the Yahoo services from start to be today, but is likely to take a little more for certain accounts. So far there have been no details about the availability of integration with Twitter, but hopefully soon, all users have this option enabled.

Link: Expressing Great Joy Or Excitement

Twitter is surprising, especially when it comes to growth and activity that users expressed within this site, which went from being the banner of a microblogging tool of communication in social time, with great kindness that you have saved a place preferential liking of many people who consider Twitter as a communication channel, very powerful and yet useful. And the numbers guarantee this.

For example, only in the month of January (2010), Twitter received almost 75,000,000 unique users, according to comScore. Compared with January 2008 figures, the growth is spectacular: 1,100% in 12 months, which means one thing: success. Not only is the number of users who visited the site, but also has to do with the activity of the same. Examples:

• 23,500,000 unique visitors in the United States (January 2010).
• 50,000,000 tweets are sent every day.
• The increased number of tweets sent in 1,400% since January 2009.
• Twitter.com is the # 12 of the world according to Alexa.
• In South Africa, Twitter is the eighth largest site and this country the place where the highest positions.

Facebook besides being the second most visited site in the U.S., has become more than a social network, since the integrated applications, events, media and above all, a lot of content to users, now is more a social platform, robust and interesting for many people around the world. Among people who use Facebook, there are the advertisers who take advantage of the insight that has Facebook to advertise certain products and / or services. However, one of the main problems was the method of payment, although not as complex for people living in the United States, aliens (small businesses / developers) that do not have large bank accounts were not an easy option to pay claims on their campaigns.

As a strategy to attract more advertisers, Facebook has announced it will soon add support for PayPal. Thus, any person, whether a casual user, a developer or a sales manager of a company may use this payment method known worldwide. It is certainly a breakthrough that facilitates the process of buying ads on the social platform.

This move is expected in the future, perhaps in the medium term, PayPal will be consolidated as the standard payment on Facebook. Whether to buy advertising space and buy items of applications (like games for example) and even non-virtual goods if they are offered such products. It seems a wise move that will give much to talk, especially about the prospects of integration represents.

Link PayPal is Now a Way to Pay for Facebook Ads and Facebook Credits

With the big amount of social networks that exist, it is difficult to be aware of all the updates that happen, however, with the help of some programs (software), this task can be accomplished. What if we're on another computer that is not ours?. This is where the advantages of having the information hosted in the cloud and not a single team. HomePuzz is a kind of application / homepage, from which you can upgrade many social networks, and simultaneously be aware of what happens with contacts / friends. For example: you can update the status of Twitter, or send messages to friends on Facebook. You can also send, view and share videos from Youtube without leaving HomePuzz.

There is even support for Google Buzz, since it is possible to send new messages (update status) that will be reflected in the inboxes of our fans.

To use this site must create an account, because each time a user is logged is assigned a personal page, which can be accessed from any browser (http://www.homepuzz.com/usuario). Once you fill the registration form, you must confirm the action by clicking a link that arrives in the mail for verification.
Link HomePuzz

As a new kid in the neighborhood of social networks, Google Buzz has get much attention from the community that is faithful follower of Google products. A few days after its release, Google Buzz has caused a stir by showing a great activity, suggesting that at least the idea has fallen well among many users. Because of this success have begun to create applications that integrate with Buzz, but also with other social networks and / or tools like Twitter. Tw2buzz is a bridge with which we can import all contacts from our Twitter account directly to Google Buzz. Thus we have the same community available on both networks.

The process is very simple: you must first login to a Twitter account. Once logged in, you see a list of all contacts (or people with whom we continue). Tw2buzz try to find the Google Account each contact Buzz Twitter, and if they do, we offer the option of following a particular contact or not.
Link Tw2buzz

ToDoTweet is like any other task management application (also known as lists to-do) because it allows creating and managing various tasks using a simple interface. While the application is loaded with extensive functions, fulfills its purpose very well. Moreover, being based on Twitter (and by extension, on the Web), can be used in almost any browser. When you reach the main page needs to be logged. Not even have to create an account, since the identity on Twitter serves as a credential. Once identity is confirmed, you have access to the interface, where it is very easy to add new tasks. For better organization recommends adding hashtags to differentiate the tasks faster.

There is a sidebar on the right side, which contains sections that allow filtering tasks. For example you can show all tasks created, to be performed in a short period of time, which are private and of course, already completed. Below these sections is a cloud of tags where you can see the labels most commonly used and well filter tasks according to the criterion.

It sounds like a standalone application, everything works thanks to Twitter. ToDoTweet is a productive tool if used the right way. Is another application for lovers of productivity.

link ToDoTweet
Vía Ziipa

No doubt the news of the day was the launch of Google Buzz, a service closer to social networks, which aims to form bridges between consumers, content sharing and closer to people. However, from my perspective, Google Buzz goes far beyond a single competitor, in a narrow sense, other services (eg Twitter or Facebook).

As has happened now for several years, with Google there is much research and deployment fund, so that products are light are really strong, talking about everything behind the scenes and this is no exception. Think of Google Buzz as the first step towards real communication platform tinged with social media.
In principle, Google Buzz adopted standard formats for content sharing with other services, because by using Atom, Activity Streams, MediaRSS or PubSubHubbub, ensures some form of interoperability, as now, thousands of sites use these standards to communicate. Thus, what happens in Buzz will go easily to sites like Facebook, or for example, to a site (call it blog, website or other variations) in the form of commentary, annotation or even as part of the editorial content.

This means that a large bridge is emerging, so that all online activities have a concurrency point. The advantages for us, end users are many, since for example we can share content without leaving our email accounts by automated processes, thus can save time and increase productivity.

Certainly a fascinating advantage is the ability to communicate with anyone outside of Google Buzz. Unlike Twitter, or Facebook, where users can only communicate with other users of the same community, communication Buzz goes further, because by using an e-mail instead of a username ( the time to make a reply), you can communicate with any * person, although not using Google Buzz.

At first glance the possibilities of use are exciting, especially if they are supplemented by the availability of an API, which will facilitate the creation of modules that further enrich the user experience.

The novelty is that Google would be launching a new service (not yet known whether as a standalone service or as a plugin) this week, even rumored that tomorrow will be conducting the presentation. In what little is known so far, we know that most likely this has to do with social networking / microblogging, and above all, real-time search, a field in which Google is interested. Many theories have begun to emerge in different places, and although they have their variants, most of them agree on one thing: this would be a kind of Twitter clone, adapted to the most popular Google services like GMail and YouTube. The idea is the same, you can send small updates others about what you're doing or simply open a new channel of communication, integrated into a Google account.

In fact, this feature GMail is now available, where staff can update the Status to the contacts they know what they are doing, however, these "states" can not be viewed as a timeline, which is wait, is the novelty in the announcement tomorrow.

I think that Google will launch a direct competition with Twitter, by the fact that the startup cofounded by Biz Stone and is a benchmark in the network, and would be difficult to displace it from its site. I think it will be a sort of internal network that will share information on all Google sites, without having to log into each service independently .

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