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FaceBook adds IM and privacy features

Due Credit: Wired
FaceBook recently announced rolling out of its new privacy features that would give its users more options in enabling group access to information on their profiles. This is in addition to the limited profile access feature already present.

In addition, the site will also be adding a new chat feature that will be more reason for its users to continue to stay on the site.

An excerpt from Wired

Facebook now allows users to turn off Beacon. The new privacy features announced Tuesday don't extend to Beacon, however, so users who opt into that program still can't specify which friends receive Beacon alerts.


Facebook also demonstrated a new instant messaging function Tuesday that lets Facebook friends chat with one another and is scheduled to launch in coming weeks.

More web applications would make the site more appealing. Do you think that the future of the web is services around a social network, with no necessity to leave your profile for any information on the web?

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March 19th 2008 @ 17:35

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iPhone SDK is out

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After much ado about it, Apple has come out with the beta of the iPhone SDK in a move that is being seen as Apple's bid to make inroads into the Enterprise.

Having been a totally consumer oriented company, the move is corporate appeasement is closely being watched and there are several announcements that are as such not much clear.

What is known as of now is that the SDK will be available to developers to download for free but if they want to market their software through App Store ( which is the only way to legally sell iPhone applications by the way), a one time fee of $99 has to be paid. And ofcourse a percentage of the sales goes to Apple as well.


Apple will be the sole distributing authority for iPhone applications and developers indulging in unfair applications deployment will have their accounts erased.

The question is whether the new model will gain Apple some share in the corporate world, perhaps providing a relief from the BlackBerry offerings.
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March 8th 2008 @ 12:42

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Flaws in airline network security raises concerns

Due Credit: techrepublic,boeing
As Network connectivity catches on in airlines, its imperative that the critical navigational and communication functionality be separated from the general network.

An alert issued by the FAA last week revealed that the computer network in the Boeing’s 787 Dreamline’s passenger compartment, designed to give passengers in-flight Internet access, is connected to the plane’s control, navigation, and communication systems.

Of course, the concern here is over the potential for hackers to access aircraft flight and management systems over what the FAA considers “inadequate or appropriate safety standards for protection and security of airplane systems and data networks against unauthorized access.”


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January 16th 2008 @ 15:45

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Social net means more information with less effort

Due Credit: DailyBits
Social networks have today made the job of social engineering all that more easier. Social engineering is the process by which individuals gather information on other individuals so as to use the data to try to crack into personal and private accounts.
It is common knowledge that information pertaining to DOB, school etc gets into people's passwords ( how are you expected to remember it otherwise). This information is also available on people's public profiles and now there are all too many of them spread across various networks and also searchable via the web.
Hence, from the security perspective it makes sense to refrain from publishing information that may perhaps be food for thought in terms of social engineering
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January 15th 2008 @ 07:48

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YouTube and Picasa on your television

Due Credit: DailyBits
Google and Matsushita are working in collaboration to bring the popular services on the web to television. Soon you will be having access to videos from YouTube and images from Picasa accessible on you TV.
Convergence of media from the web with popular devices has been long predicted. But the importance here is for quality. The videos on YouTube are generally of poor quality and beaming them on high definition TVs does not really improve matters a lot.
But the fact is that poor videos are due to bandwidth issues and that is scaling up so in course of time these issues will sort out and lets not forget that the TV audience is another big pool of viewers to sell ads to


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January 15th 2008 @ 07:30

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A hotline from the web page to you

Due Credit: DailyBits, Web2phone
A company called Ribbit specializes in weaving telephony services with Web technologies, enabling setting up of telephony service from just a web page.
The concept is great and has great utility for e-commerce and virtually any online business. The technology includes a software switch and corresponding APIs developed by the firm that make integrating telephony services a breeze.
Great technology if you consider the convergence that it gets in to web space


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January 15th 2008 @ 07:23

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Simple SEO Tips

Due Credit: SearchEngine-Weblog
Optimization of online content to make it more indexable is in the best of every netizen who posts content online.
With this in mind, I have started making short posts on SEO tips and lessons that I come across on the Web.
One important starting point is to know how the search engine works. In the article i have mentioned the link to a presentation on Google's working


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January 15th 2008 @ 04:11

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Mahalo gets more social

Due Credit: SearchEngine-Weblog
Mahalo, the human powered search engine will be adding more features that will be boosting its social credentials.
Changes include a tips and suggestions toolbar with on-click access to make entries to several social bookmarking site.
Mahalo has been tailored from the ground up to provide human edited results on thousands of keywords. Debate surrounds around the concept of human intervention in the processing of search results since the scale of the web is massive


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January 15th 2008 @ 04:05

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Microsoft acquires FAST Search and Trasfer

Due Credit: SearchEngine-Weblog
For an amount of $1.2 billion, the Redmond giant will be acquiring the enterprise search major FAST Search and Transfer. The move is a big shake-up in the enterprise search industry that has been the forte of niche players so far.
Expectations are on the line that IBM, Google or one of the big players will also be looking to make some acquisitions in this front.

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January 15th 2008 @ 03:55

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Targeting user activity online

Due Credit: SearchEngine-Weblog
In a recent post for the SearchEngine-Weblog, I got the chance to research on the various strategies that firms use to target use activity online.
The Web has been a haven for advertisers. And why not? For there is no other place where virtually every move of the buyer can be tracked.
Every page you view, every click you make, every item you spend time doting on... virtually everything on the web makes it to some server log and can contribute to invaluable statistics


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January 15th 2008 @ 03:49

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Google and the iPhone

Due Credit: SearchEngine-Weblog,applesfera
Google is seeking to make the waves on the mobility front with its attention to the iPhone and in what appears to be its ficus on getting it right on the hottest area of innovation on making the mobile web accessible.
iPhone is one device that makes browsing on the web a breeze and Google is giving it all its attention perhaps to get it all right by the time Android comes out in second half of this year.
Google's innovations tailored to the iPhone include the redesigned home page for browsing the web, the introduction of the iGoogle page and many more


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January 15th 2008 @ 03:41

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Porting data across the web

Due Credit: SearchEngine-Weblog
With a number of social networking and web applications sprucing up online, the issue of data portability is definitely a very relevant issue. The contention centers around how much ownership right does the user have to his/her data on a network.
Recently there was the spat between Facebook and Plaxo over the porting of contact information from one site to the other.
The establishment of the Data Portabilty Workgroup to sort out the issues around data portability on the Web is a welcome move for all online users


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January 15th 2008 @ 03:34

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Wikia search : Challenge to Google

Due Credit: DailyBits
Wikia search, the pet project of Jimmy Wales will take off this month but the question is whether the engine is late to the party?

Wikia search seeks to provide an open source alternative to the proprietary ranking system that drives google. Wikia is not expected to pose a serious challenge to Google in the short run but there are several reasons why it may not do the same in the long run as well


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January 6th 2008 @ 16:15

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SOA comes to Eclipse

Due Credit: TechRepublic
Service oriented architecture has been the buzzword at the enterprise front. Business processes componentized into services that can be consumed by business applications has been the emerging new technology in enterprise applications front.

The latest news is that a SOA framework for Eclipse is in the works and will hit the development scene in third quarter this year


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January 6th 2008 @ 15:54

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