This is an exclusive stuff for your MySpace or friendster users. Frankly you are there to make friends. That's how you gotta keep in touch with the people you know. Among your long list of friends you might have some friends or just an acquaintance who fills in slanguage in your profile. Now what's the way you to escape this. The simplest thing you can do is hide this friend and his comments on MySpace or friendster. I'll let you the hack. Full article (379 words) »

With craze for iPhone apps soaring up, Yahoo couldn't wait to get into the groove. It's up with a beta version mobile app for iPhone and other smartphones. Google already has a voice search app for iPhone. Microsoft has its Seadragon Mobile published in App Store. It was Yahoo's turn to drive the smartphones owners nuts. The Yahoo app has loads to offer with its messenger, onePlace, email, pulse, browser and more. Full article (316 words) »

Cooliris (formerly PicLens) transforms your browser into a visually stunning, lightning fast way to search, discover, view and share online photos, videos and more. The unique 3D Wall lets you effortlessly zoom your way around thousands items on a single, ever-expansive wall. It's the fastest way to search and enjoy Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, Hulu, and hundreds of other site. Actually it provides you with a browsing experience of photos and videos which is larger than life and what we can rarely find in other applications we use. Esp designed for people who have a knack to beautify whatever they come across.

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What happens when too many social networking sites are taking you away from real life? The first video has a hilarious take on the issue. Kind of explains why people flock to MySpace, when their real life sucks in comparison.

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My public profiles on 9 popular social networking sites:

• LinkedIn - I have started adding my friends to this. Found some old IITians from this network. Also was able to find some old friends.
• Pownce - Just started…
• Orkut (requires free Orkut account) - Looks more like a dating network, similar to Friendster.
• Ryze - I was one of the early adopters, haven't used lately. It has lots of details about me.
• Twitter - I frequently update it these days. Feel free to add me to your list.
• Facebook - Requires a free login.
• Hi-5 - Pretty spammy site. It dupes unsuspecting users to send hi5 requests to all addresses in their contact book. Avoid this site.
• MySpace - My MySpace love.
• Friendster

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It is a dire necessity of the times to do some degree of floccinaucinihilipilification of Web 2.0. To understand the concerns lets take a look at what makes Web 2.0.

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Popular social networking sites like such as MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, Friendster faces ban in US schools & libraries.
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Update: You may also want to look at: MySpace Hack: How To View Any Users Private Videos.

Recently Samy [samy at namb dot la] released a worm ["Samy worm" or "JS.Spacehero worm"] in MySpace, popular social networking platform like Friendster, which caused him to be added as hero to millions of MySpace users ("but most of all, samy is my hero.") as well as add him as their friend, all without their explicit permission.

After flooding the Network, MySpace stepped in and fixed the hole. Samy is still "hero" to millions of MySpace users in their profile.

The purpose of this article is to highlight the security issues exposed by this worm. It is definitely not limited to MySpace alone and the worm propagated not due to MySpace's fault but fault of browser like Internet Explorer. And the flaw is waiting to be exploited in several other web applications of similar nature like Ryze or LinkedIn etc.. In the remainder of this article I will summarize the modus-operandi of his script and suggest on ways to protect your web application against such attacks.
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Google decided to jump into the social networking bandwagon Full article (68 words) »