The United Nations still want to dominate the Internet. Intranet for change, apparently not dead.

Older people have a better password than the young; Web Design services dominated building nuisance sites; Google Drive will take the form offline; Microsoft Azure supports Linux And Apple does not want the Google maps. What else interesting happened in just the past few weeks? 

'We're Trapped In The Journalism Bubble Facebook' is a convenient and brutally truthful headline of an article on Wired.com. This applies especially to journalistic coverage of the stock market entry, Facebook.

United Nations (and the ITU) would like to gain the ability to control the Internet. Listens might be worth what it says to Vint Cerf. See F2C2012: Vint Cerf Keynote .

Edward Khilji, who is probably known for Trololo, died at the age of 77 years.

 

HARDWARE

More than 107 million Americans own a Smartphone (234 million elderly 13 years of using mobile phones). Apple is growing (14.4%) and Samsung (25.4%) too, while LG, Motorola and HTC are down-trending. Android (50.8%) and IOS (31.4%) are reversing as RIM, Microsoft and Symbian are downgrading. See comScore’ Data: Samsung, Android tops Apple iOS gaining

Computer graphics, where is it going? It is hard to believe that the following video is a demo in real time. Details are in next-gen engine from Square Enix shows what future games look like Could, tech demo video inside

 

WEB-DESIGN, INTERNET

The presentation "The 2012 trends in interactive design" by Petra Sell on Prophets is a useful reading.

Intranet apparently not dead, it is just evolving. "The Intranet Is not Dead - It's Evolving

Research: Cluttered Webpages Kill Impressions" He is also talking about one of the great ills of contemporary design sites.

SOFTWARE

Google Drive is up on offline form, at least for Chrome-books. See Google Drive for online Chromebooks in July ;  Firefox heatmap Study 2012 - Results Are In! It is a useful look at what Firefox users from using its "control" elements. For example, find that the Back (back) is used most (92%). Home (Home) in 22.1% cases. A Tabview? The other side has so many modern elements. Only 0.7% Cloud Platform Azure from Microsoft now supports Linux. See Linux Welcomes Microsoft to the Azure cloud Star Forge introduced the first-use (and playable) version of its 3D world. Details on the Star Forge opens ITS procedurally generated 3D world that players.

MARKETING

Where corporate Internet users expect information and services? In 46% cases it requires a Facebook page, in 29%, a corporate blog is required and followed by a forum for support, Twitter, wiki or knowledge base. For details, see Social Media Customer Service and Faces High Bar.

 

SECURITY, PRIVACY, RIGHT

Older people are said to choose a better password than youth. Even on this study exists: Older Internet Users Pick Better Than Teens Passwords [STUDY] Fighting Anonymous? It's obviously not the best idea. The story of Jennifer Emick, see This Is What Happens When Anonymous Tries to Destroy You. Google pointed the finger at Microsoft and Nokia. Back got boxes of course, be primarily looks at the problems with patents. See Google Points Finger at Microsoft, Nokia and Google Nokia and Microsoft Claims Are Using Patents To Violate Antitrust Laws

Very probably the same hacker as in case of leakage of passwords in Linkedin.com - second sample of his work release is 1.5 million entries from eHarmony.com. See Hacker Steals LinkedIn 1.5 Million Passwords from eHarmony [REPORT]

 

SOCIAL NETWORKS

What about the fight between The Fancy - www.thefancy.com  - and Pinterest - www.pinterest.com? Comment by Compete.com search in An Updated Look Into the Battle Between Pinterest and The Fancy

Google sends to the company website from a search on Facebook and to fewer people. It has to do with "Search Plus Your World" changes? Probably not. Personally, I take it positively, Pages (Pages) from Facebook were still unnecessarily high ranking in the search. A TIMELINE no longer forms a valuable source of information.”

Details of Facebook Pages Are Getting Less Traffic From Google & Bing?

On Friday 1st June, Facebook faced with problems of access to international media and the information considered one of the most important messages. Perhaps, it has added to Anonymous. But, as it is for Anonymous, they reject any involvement. See Anonymous blamed for Facebook outage, group denies Involvement.

Twitter does not grow much anymore, at least not as far as total numbers. But what greatly increases the number of users who use it daily. More in Daily Twitter Users Double in Less Than A Year.

After circulating a classic Facebook chain letter, you have to go forward to protect your privacy. Traditionally it works, of course. See Viral 'Privacy Notice' on Facebook Is Fake. Google Places has been converted into a Google + Local and that has yielded a 80 million company records. Details and comments are in 80 + million Google Automatically Created Local pages - Got one?

 

MOBILE APPLICATIONS

 Apple is working hard to remove Google Maps from iPhone and iPad. See Apple and Google to Expand Their Battle of Mobile Maps on WSJ with a very good description of how it has sparked a range of battles between Apple and Google in previous years.

Maybe you know an application like Locale or Tasker (for Android). With their help, you can "program" phone behavior based on certain events. Now comes with its own applications and Microsoft, you can find it under the name he {X}. See Microsoft Launches on {X} for Android; Redefines Rule-Based Mobile Task Automation [Review]

 

STARTUP AND ECONOMICS

Useful and interesting overview of Facebook's acquisition has been taking place since 2008 and that can be found in Facebook IPO: Timeline of Acquisitions .

    

Infographics

 How the Arab World Uses Facebook and Twitter [INFOGRAPHICS] you can come in handy if you want to know something about using Facebook and Twitter in the Arab countries.

What is (mostly) did not get into cells and costs from just last few weeks for your attention. It might be useful, it could take, maybe it's just somehow escaped the flood of hundreds of articles and reports which emerged last few weeks. Hand sorting of hundreds of thousands of sources and read messages. In the vast majority of foreign. Occurs continuously throughout the week. If you want to watch series, has its own label in the form of Week.

Afghan children killed in the Afghan war (note: NOT from the March 1, 2011 U.S./NATO attack) See the full story 'Here'.

Facebook Launched App Center Marketplace with Applications

Unsuccessful attempt to compete AppStore and Google android market is failing to play a major shortcoming. Facebook does not own mobile platform. App Center is only a useful tool for standard applications. But much will depend on how the market will maintain and update Facebook.

 Bad language claims that every company will have its own AppStore, a marketplace with applications. And sometimes it is even happening quite a lot of indications. Facebook launched App Center - www.facebook.com/AppCenter  in an effort to better visibility of mobile applications (especially games) and a classic application (again, mostly games, but occasionally you will find among them some useful things for Timeline or connect with the world outside of Facebook).

Facebook App Center can be a very important part of the puzzle hypothetical Facebook Phone - there is no trade in your own applications that can not circumvent. Unfortunately, to make something work, Facebook would actually have to have real mobile platform. In the current form of the App Center can find applications provided both free and paid - while paying option is new, so far not been possible to deliver applications on Facebook in this way.

For users of mobile phones the App Center is rather complicated, no direct installation is possible here. Everything is done via the "Send to Mobile" - the user receives a link that leads to the web rather absurdly- and if lucky, after opening the page in mobile browser to another application by reference to Apple's AppStore and Google Play from Google. The real form but click on "Send to Mobile" and become anything - you know that in classical Facebook mobile application can be found (in warnings) for further instructions. The App Center so you can browse the catalog of mobile applications (such as Instagram), but that's it. Unfortunately, the Facebook application does not know whether the version you currently have for your phone. You may find that your phone is simply not available.

Since the announcement in the form " Application Spotify is now ready to use on your mobile device. Start using it to get an application, unfortunately, very long and breakneck way. The browser opens, there Spotify.com the page, there are only a reference to the application to Google Play. And because we are in CR and in this particular case you finish the " No results found ". 

Web applications in the App Center can be found easily and can also use them without a problem - here it is no novelty for the classical applications that run on Facebook have long and App Center can offer here in the form of useful things to list the most common views, recommendations or overview of applications, which currently growing interest.
Currently in the App Center can be found approximately 600 applications (in the AppStore and Google Play hundreds of thousands of applications you can find). and not at all clear how Facebook actually ensure that the App Center was not seen - because traditionally not much - the rest of the Facebook account of the very existence of the App Center does. And Apps and Games, where users have seen and discovered applications, still looks the same. No change, even so small that there was information about the presence of the App Center.
App Center should of course be available in the mobile phone, but you may need to wait for an application update, version for Android, even after application of fresh App Center does not offer yet. And hopefully the phone after finding the wanted applications do not find themselves again on the same Web page as you use the "Send to mobile" from the web version.

What do you think Facebook App Center?
It's a good catalog and web applications for users of Facebook can be helpful. Especially the fact that they can more easily find the applications and see what other people use. For mobile applications App Center is unusable and clearly shows that Facebook is on the cell phones simply one of the other applications and can not offer anything that could be well used and made sense. Which is logical, Facebook is here trying to duplicate the App Store and Google Play and information about applications and games, it lacks too much information.
So far we know nothing even about the specific conditions for developers, it is unknown as many will use their Facebook Censors traditional approaches. How, for example, will show promise in the form of " You'll only see high quality apps in the App Center, based on user ratings and engagement "? So that in the App Center will see only high-quality applications and that it will be based on user markings and user involvement.

And when can we expect the first cases of abuse more App Center, the discovery of security vulnerabilities, releases information about users of applications. It just seems that what you all for now "new" Facebook passed by. We do not know when the App Center will be available in other countries, has traditionally been run as "U.S. only".

Whether it is for the time being however, the Facebook application catalog severely lacks for a long time. And all previous attempts have not led to anything applicable. And if one day a real Facebook will have Facebook Phone, it's time to start working on your own "AppStore". 

How to respond to changes in Facebook and Google+ company pages?

In early March this year, Facebook announced that at the end of the month all "pages" that are used mainly for  company/ business promotion will go to the new "Timeline" form. What brought about this change and how companies cope with it?

On notification of changes in the corporate website, Facebook immediately responded to a minimal number of firms. Although the timeline was known already to the personal profiles, Facebook also gave companies the opportunity to try a new look. The "dry run" company rather remained calm in March. Representatives of some companies, however, became more interested in what each will bring change.

Main photo and hidden bookmarks

The actual change is not only what essential at first sight. In fact, it is  a substantial change in design and operation of pages on Facebook . Most noticeable is the new course in the graphic. In the upper part appeared broad picture, which aims to attract the attention of Facebook users and to present the company an impressive manner. While the announcement itself rushed in advance, with   limited initial content of photographs in Facebook Timeline, Facebook took his time and because of this, the most active firms that responded to the announced changes immediately prepared their own Timeline twice. 

And what are the restrictions mentioned? In a particular way, it is prohibited to place this image into contact information (including address, company website) and various calls to action, discounts, price notifications or arguments, why become a fan of this page etc. Facebook tightening this of the rules and made ​​it clear that the initial photo should be just a visual complement and not for advertising space.

An ideal home photo, a character study or company Logo;  the picture is only appropriate to add the motto. Very popular graphic procedure is also  visually connect home with profile photo image .

As the biggest problem turned out to  change the tabs that were previously sorted in the left menu. Now in the space below the main photo shows only four and a list of all tabs you need. This, however, users may not be motivated unless the site administrators do not get from  a special reason in any page paper on the wall.

Great new form of a bad site is also impossible to set one of the tabs as  input ("landing tab"). Previously, the company implemented its own input tabs that were intended to convince users of Facebook to become fans of their site. This goal now can not use bookmarks effectively implemented and the old landing page, no choice but to drop, or rework for an entirely different purpose. Companies now have  the opportunity to convince users in a limited space "info box" that appears under the main photo.

Wall is now chronicle in the company pages

The new look changed the functionality of the wall itself. Facebook calls companies in this step to create their site to chronicle. By adding significant events in the life of the company, however, began only with a minor part of them. For example, Vodafone added only nine posts that are placed on the timeline until the founding of their Facebook page.

A very creative way of presenting selected Škoda Auto, which added to the timeline of events from a number of its long history. It can be assumed that the time axis will contribute to the website to make it to the  fans of the company spent a long time . But this can prove to future studies and measurements.

Most sites also visited not to take advantage of  "pinning" a contribution to the top of the chronology and thereby disrupt the timeline. Similarly, the  stretch selected contributions on the entire surface of both the column wall  is now rarely used as a marketing tool which can alert fans to important company information.

An important factor for the effectiveness of marketing at Facebook are constantly refined statistics sites, called Reporting. Now you can have a very easy way to evaluate the overall success of the company's activities on the wall of Facebook page. Even i can easily evaluate  the success of individual contributions like Fanta, Skoda, Vodafone etc.

A completely new feature is the ability to  send private message to site administrators through facebook post. It turns out that this company is in our opinion a very useful function of fear and a fifth of them have banned it .

Overall Timeline came as positive, because the fans brings  greater motivation to return to the page and following not only through the company posts but also the "news feed" (news on the home page). But it seems that many companies do few necessary changes that is too short for those in a monthly period. Users still find a huge number of pages, which do not contain photographs or home.

Google+ is in the footsteps of Facebook

Big surprise, Google+ prepared to  change its appearance without prior notice. Here, however, changes have less impact on what companies must have to do. In fact Google+ only changed design and added graphics to present the  initial image  as Facebook. But Google+ left the choices and location of the images; you can have five photos, as it already had many corporate sites before.

About this change of Google+ is said to be a direct response to Facebook. Its functionality is very similar and strong sense of inspiration is literally at every step. This claim can be supported by current and changing visage of corporate sites that again a little more closely the form of Facebook. Companies that can facilitate the work - they can easily be  visually present in the same style in both of these social networks .

Google+  is still very little used by the companies in non-english countries, which is a shame. The presence on this network can provide us  a significant competitive advantage  while the opportunity to fill your page relevant content that will be increasingly essential for  success in the search engine company Google .

If you work in a company that whose Facebook page still has not modified into a new form, or you are not based on Google+ page, do not hesitate to try it. Bring added value to your permanent long time customers and keep your company brand potential. It is a pity not to say that Marketing and PR in social networks is a powerful weapon.

Pinterest: New darling of social media users

Pinterest is illegal !!

Pinterest is the new darling of social networks. This is an online bulletin board to which it is possible to pin pretty pictures. The problem is that the pictures belong to someone or something else!

Pinterest is one of the fastest expanding in the pages of history. They love it and the users of media, professing the beauty and design. It's interesting. about Pinterest, however, it’s been many new similar sites, It's all about copyright, which never bode well. I have said about the Project-Pinterest in a blogpost earlier.

While the numbers and media attention towards Pinterest doing great, there are doubters who claim that the online notice-board that is wrong in terms of copyright. Only Facebook and Tumblr are in the average time spent by one person, every month, more than 10 million people visits Pinterest. And that's the reason to wonder whether everything is on the right in order! Companies and people consider Pinterest a great marketing tool because in Pinterest, each image can be accessed clicking on the original source material. From this perspective, everything should be fine, Pinterest generates traffic and the term "theft", which in this case is occasionally used, seems to be too strong. 

Pinterest: you have the right to pin this photo first.

Insider Business Server delivers opinion, that Pinterest is the largest illegal pike on the Internet and compares it to Napster in its time. The problem is that, users have uploaded photos to be found on the Internet, but amateur and professionals? they do not care who owns the right of the pictures. How it looks to a lawyer? Pinterest allows users to insert photos of other people with this problem, isn’t it? No, Pinterest do not allow a user to insert the photo, to which they have no rights. It is quite absurd, just look at a few boards and it will be clear that this rule does not comply. On the other hand, it should be noted that each user by clicking on the photo will land in a place where this photo comes (if it is loaded from the internet and not from disk). It's like YouTube, if the owner of the rights found that someone used his video illegally, may ask the operator to withdraw material. We know from experience that this approach does not solve much and illegal content on YouTube just flows.

Pinterest lawyer should fall under the so-called ‘Fair Use territory Right’, this allows users to relate content they have no rights, whether it is a fair use or not, should be decided by the four characters.

·  What is the nature of use, whether it is commercial in nature or non-profit or educational.

·  The nature of the work, whether fictional or factual.

·  The proportion used of the total work.

·  Effect on potential market or value of copyrighted work.

It’s said to be an important first point, if the photos reflected something new, it may be classified as Fair Use. The second point plays against Pinterest clearly: photos are not facts, thus in this case, we cannot think of Fair Use. The third point is disputed, the works are published Pinterest whole, not just their fragments.

The key point is the fourth. If Pinterest publishes whole and complete picture, so the user does not need to click to get to the original material, which is actually the same as that shown in Pinterest; It follows that the argument as Pinterest helping authors and visitors to their sites is a bit built on water. It seems that if anyone would be used in connection with the theft, Pinterest may not be so far from the truth as you think.

So why marketers are so eager to throw its contents into the clutches of Pinterest? They would have been aware of this problem? Not likely, I know too well, venturing into what is and what it brings. New people who see their products. When these products they will like and click, visit, and perhaps will continue to share, or purchase. Anyway, anything on Pinterest can be shared, so photos(products) are also given to people outside the circle of "friends" a user who publishes.

While helping the fact that Pinterest earn money, or in other words - the operators of the content that does not belong to enrich, comes up with a model to raise money, definitely indicating the pressures on Pinterest for illegal intensify. After that you cannot rely on arguments belonging to Fair Use. Pinterest could argue that it is a reference medium. To be able to wield it, they would show the work incomplete, diminished, blurred, and so forth. Most of the original presents a complete picture of the scale and quality, which can be eyesore for site operators. So people see the issue differently and love Pinterest. As the "ideal" solution seems to be downloading pictures that mark their owner. But we know from other projects, it is mainly formic and endless work which would waste time looking for, whether the Pinterest is not something that belongs to us and we do not want to be there, right?

Already it is clear that in case of problems to download some photos from Pinterest, if you hear there is an owner. So far, it does not happen but, the question is whether the requirements are ignored or that nobody wanted to raise; nor is it to hear actions, while the spores are carried in more speculation and theory.

Pinterest is doing like Tumblr and many other services. Appears to have content that users do not have rights. If it begins to struggle for Pinterest, Tumblr and also affect other services that are based on a similar principle to publishing content. This is the content itself and how it rights owners listening service. Some people do not use mind and others will threaten to sue.

To reduce complaints came on Pinterest the possibility of avoiding the process of inserting photos on the wall. Web site operators can insert the META tag code that causes the inability to pin the image on Pinterest. After you click "Pin It"; message appears: 

"This site does not allow pinning it Pinterest. Please contact the owner with Any Questions. Thanks for visiting!"

This may be seen as a positive step, but requires action by the content owners, which may not work well. This is a classic step Opt-Out for disabling from pinning something needs to be done. Who does not, their pages can be pinned merrily on Pinterest.  

The final question to the lawyer and the response from the Business Insider article reads (in the original version to avoid distortion of the translation) as follows:

So, is Pinterest illegal?

Quite possible. Until there's a legal challenge against the site, It'll Be Hard to know. Could have some Pinterest Legitimate arguments in Favor of Itself: claiming it's a search tool, Saying it drives traffic elsewhere , arguing That way it shows the pictures is transformative.

But the big problem is That it grabs Entire copyrighted works that re-post. This Could Be Hard to Overcome, Especially as Pinterest starts growing and Becomes more of a destination for a Greater Audience. The more time users spend on Pinterest, one assumes, the less Likely They Are to click out to other sites. And why click Out When You can see the whole picture right there?

Database logins: How much would you pay?

Database logins: How much would you pay?

Malicious code rarely lubricates your date is interested in rather interesting information. The rise of malware is targeting the theft of credentials, a valued and popular item.

Facebook is very often associated with potential threats to privacy, in which users cannot protect themselves, and such that goes purely on their account. As we recently informed you of the current privacy was ‘Trusteer’ Research discovered the so-called "Factory Outlet" which offers a large stolen account not just within Facebook, but Twitter. Furthermore, this database also contains access information for cPanel accounts - one of the popular administration interfaces.
Trusteer Research correctly points out that a specially prepared malicious code, which is focused on mining money, can effectively attack the sites offering Internet banking services. Together with the course on the infected computer can also collect additional credentials and that this step is often the beginning of the chain store login information with databases that are not only still negotiable, but also independently exploitable.
How did both beginners and advanced users can catch, and become part of a network of infected computers that secretly collect login information? A typical example of a very famous example, Zeus: a Trojan horse, which in recent years suffered a lot of unsuspecting people. Zeus Trojan makers have chosen this type of malware deliberately, since their risk of spread through reports and programs, which at first glance do other activities. Zeus was first identified in the fake phishing links and links to legitimate downloads like software, in mid-2007. Since then, there has been a large botnet, which is now estimated to contain millions of compromised computers.
Interestingly passwords robber named Zeus is able to be adapted. The corresponding source code is in May last year, escaped and malware creators so it can adapt according to their needs. That imaginary symbolizing the Holy Grail in the theft of sensitive information through a few modifications to the original malware can modify shields advanced to run on virtually any Web service that requires registration through classical forms. In addition, Zeus can be combined with it and buy, for example, according to Wikipedia, the price on underground forums ranging from $ 700 to $ 15 000 depending on the version and its amenities.

Botnets have a large share of all "events", especially for spam. Many brought joy in history such as Rustock shutdown.

Which version for how much?

At the beginning of the realization of user credentials to obtain adequate information, typically according to the scenario that was described in the operating principle of Zeus malware. Once that the corresponding database was built, comes the most important step: how to monetize. It provided a concrete example of current, the above cited report Trusteer Research. Attackers offer credentials to Facebook, Twitter and other services, which include users from all over the world.
With a little exaggeration, illegal trade in databases reminds sale of any other item. Would you like basic equipment in the form of user credentials by services? Or, according to a specific subset of the selected geographic area? Or you previously embodied as an extension of the associated e-mail addresses? Exactly this is the offer of the options currently available comprehensive database, while sellers do not disclose the number of infected machines, but boasts 80 gigabytes of data availability to individual users stolen.
Published information which is now under the current analysis briskly traded represents login to cPanel administration interface that is used to manage your hosted websites. The attackers after the construction of the necessary databases are sold as a pair of addresses of the pages and credentials. Then, if someone receives this information through full access to the administration, for example, can modify the configuration so that the site will serve as a source of malware or convey any other risk.
Sometimes it is surprising those similar offers of trades and the resulting end mass arrests and other sanctions against individual cybercriminals who offered information are apparently illegally stolen. The identity of the most hidden of course, for example, if this published by Trusteer Research was listed as a contact within the account and the opportunity to reach JabberID via ICQ. This is a specific standard payment options and their limitations.

Protection as any other time

Time enough has already demonstrated that botnets could just be the most problematic, due to a silent threat. Their creators may not work "only" about stealing passwords, send spam or mass attacks, led by example with a DDoS, but offers them the possibility of renting systematically follows the established networks - if someone wants to send more spam or denial of services to kill off competition, turns are all questions only to the price. Once the botnet is already built and gradually thanks to the original long-malware collects user data access, you can trade with those databases to make immediate money

The basis of the defense would be like in the case of other threats should be avoidance of botnets, which then can be used for anything, and therefore the end users. Ironically so, defending their privacy, since botnet later stolen login information can be to them. On the other hand it is now another trend: users often voluntarily participate in botnets, currently organized mainly in the case of DDoS attacks. Bot-nets can have two faces, depending on who is what he expects from them and which way to get potential victims.
So, how can the theft of passwords and other attacks from botnets are prevented? First of all, users and network administrators should take care of avoiding becoming part of it - in case Trojans and other ways to enslave another computer, can in most cases provide protection regularly, updated and properly configured antivirus. The computers will form part of a network worm botnet and provide comprehensive defense solutions and regularly patched system. Theft of passwords and botnets are just lingering attackers will want to earn more, and so unnecessarily facilitates them.