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.

Researchers from the firm Verisign iDefense discovered that a hacker who calls himself "Kirllos' being sold in black market forums 1.5 million Facebook account. Although not confirmed the legitimacy of the accounts, the hacker claims that it has sold around 700,000 credentials.

Kirllos offers packages of 1,000 accounts for a price ranging from $ 25 to $ 45 depending on the number of contacts which each user. While it is a very low price compared to similar sales on the black market, krill can still get a lot of money with a high volume of accounts.

Facebook has not confirmed if these accounts are real, but so be, it is an alarming amount of stolen data, which can be used by other criminals for many purposes: from committing fraud to contact the victim, to spread malicious software to massive social network.

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

During the f8 developer conference, chaired by Mark Zuckenberg its developer and now CEO, has shown what can be made soon since the largest social network in the world and with FB is that Microsoft has introduced the beta of Docs. com.

This application or extension of Facebook, call it that, will allow thousands of social network users create Office documents, as Word, Excel or PowerPoint and be able to share with friends or all contacts, and allows collaboration in them, as if it were Google Docs.

Today, as we have said, the service is in beta and if it is by invitation, it will be impossible to access it. But not to stay with the desire to see how it works, it is best to take a look at the following video.

Surely you're fearing for your information and pictures on Facebook just read the statement if you have a profile, and maybe you'll have every reason to fear for your privacy, but not for the reason that Facebook will open its information flow, by this tranquil estate.

As Facebook announced they intend to give access to their information flow of public users, ie if you have privacy settings well done, in principle, you need not fear for your data.

Facebook's intention is none other than to offer this information to developers in the next F8 conference in April to invite them to write applications and connections to your network, using this data and offer them to users.

The very openness of information flow, Twitter made a while back with the data of its users and because she got some of their most important partners and, on the other hand, developers, books, programs of hundreds of applications that are available in the network to access Twitter today (and continuing to develop and publish from time to time).

For me personally, every time they speak of "distributed" user information privacy worries me most in my network, but Facebook has already promised a thousand times, actively and passively, never do anything that could harm the privacy of its users ... yet you trust the security of Facebook?.

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

MySpace was a pioneer among social networks, but the competition was very strong and soon Facebook pages forward in fame, views and registered users, so now MySpace has raised redesign its website and review the operation of its entire platform to get to against these young competitors.

The co-presedente of MySpace, Mike Jones, has "confessed" that some workers have lost the strength to keep fighting to top the list of social networks, seeing the strength in their Facebook and Twitter, and now need new "fighters" and "believers" that they can cope and return to the leadership.

Because of this, News Corp, has suggested that these employees were not committed to the company to leave and have hired new and enthusiastic employees. Let what you say a renewal of personnel to get new air and ideas into the company.

Over the coming months, as declared by the president of MySpace, we will see gradual changes in the web that we will reach the new version.

In this new face of MySpace, is itself more to the music and all that are multimedia content as the company's goal is to get new users and bring back those who have gone and to pass the 100 million user 300 ... (so now they have to run)

Earlier this year, MySpace had lost 7.4% of visitors compared to last year on the same days, so it's time to put the batteries and I hope to offer much more content and many more things to do within your network, because right now, all you can do on MySpace, also be done on Facebook and much more besides ...

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.

It was hoped that the numbers will shoot in the use of social networks and mobile terminals is that in order to have everything we want in real time, or we carry with us a computer or the sensible thing is to do it from a mobile, where there only allow us to enter text, but with customers as well photos currently available is standard.

But with the numbers on their hands and making a comparison between the months of January, 2009 and 2010, the most significant growth in the 2 most popular social networks, Facebook and Twitter, with the first an ever-growing engine of 112% and the second from desdeñabale nothing, 347%.

So we can conclude that Twitter will have little competition and leave both Google Buzz ousted as MySpace, instead of growing, has crumbled a bit more, if possible, obtaining a negative percentage of 7%.

The maximum size to upload photos to Facebook has grown by 20%. If before we could only upload photos that were 640 pixels wide or smaller, now we can upload photos of up to 720 pixels.

The truth is that enlargement is not much, but the size that had so far was a thing of the past and have taken too long to expand the volume of users looking to move and the amount of pictures that are uploaded to Facebook daily, but " than nothing "does not say that?.

The pictures I uploaded so far, it will still see the old size of 640 pixels, and only increases from now on will be larger.

In December 2009, Yahoo! announced it would make a great effort to integrate their products with Facebook Connect, ie get Facebook to connect with the largest number of applications outside the social network.

Yahoo! has announced that we can add the addresses of our contacts and Facebook friends to our agenda of Yahoo! Mail through Facebook Connect.

As you can see in the picture that heads this article, when we want to search contacts from our mail for Yahoo, one of the options will import your contacts from Facebook, along with the options you had before, such as importing from Gmail, Hotmail .

If you choose this option, you simply need to accept and authorize the connection between Facebook and Yahoo! with your mail account login and password for Facebook and quickly, your Facebook contacts will be in your mail from Yahoo!:

The efforts of Yahoo! to integrate their products with social networks are beginning to bear fruit and we are also aware that just added Twitter integration.

link TechCrunch

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

To our knowledge through Comstor, more than 73 million people visited the Twitter page in January 2010, an 8% increase in December 2009, which were about 65 million people who visited the homepage of the service microblogging.

The annual growth rate is great, a 1.105% since a year ago, in January 2009, "only" visited Twitter about 6 million people.

Social networking and microblogging services like Twitter and Facebook, are growing in a very certain: They have spectacular time of user increases, followed by a time when new users become accustomed to the service and the services are tailored to your needs and make some changes.

Facebook launch the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona its version of text-only Facebook for mobile browsers called Zero. Chamath Palihapitiya, has been in charge of presenting this new version of the largest social network in existence.

Facebook Zero, is a lighter version of its mobile version to m.facebook.com which can be accessed from the direción zero.facebook.com and expect to be available in the coming weeks.

As announced in the introduction, the intention is that the carriers offer this version free of charge to its users and if they decide they want to access the multimedia version, operators begin to charge a service like premium.

Source Tech Crunch

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

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.