Facebook blocks social network ’suicide’ website
Social Networking giant, Facebook said on Monday that it’ll be permanently blocking a website called ‘Web 2.0 Suicide Machine’ that helps users to delete their social network profiles.
One of the most popular and the fastest growing social networking website, Facebook, also said that it has even sent “cease-and-desist” letter to another website called Seppukoo.com, which also helps you kill off your virtual identity.
The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine site features a hangman’s noose on its homepage. This site deletes profiles, friends and other information not only from Facebook, but also from MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn, for users who feed it their account information.
Facebook ruled that this site was in violation to its rules.
Facebook COO nominated to Disney board
The Walt Disney Co. announced on Wednesday that chief operating officer of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg has been nominated to serve on the board of directors of the US media and entertainment giant.
In a statement released by the company, the vote on Sandberg’s nomination and the re-election of the other 12 Disney directors by the Disney shareholders is due at the company’s next annual meeting, to be held in San Antonio, Texas, on March 10, 2010.
Robert Iger , the Disney president and their chief executive said, “Sheryl has been at the forefront of a technological revolution that’s opened up a world of new possibilities for consumers and which has greatly affected the way we do business.”
He added, “Her unique insight, born of great practical experience, will be of considerable value to Disney’s shareholders.”
Sandberg, 40, has served as COO of the social networking giant, Facebook since March 2008. Earlier she was the vice president of global online sales and operations with Google.
Facebook policy upsets millions
Social networking giant, Facebook’s new policy has infuriated the users yet again.
According to the company’s new privacy policy, the users’ key personal information and posts shall be accessible to everyone until they consciously filter their privacy settings.
The world’s largest social networking site, Facebook recently made an announcement stating that in order to encourage members to share more information over the net the site has itself upgraded its privacy settings. This has made several categories of information of the users’ public, visible by default to everyone.
Facebook gives the option to its users to choose their level of privacy, by letting them restrict the access to either their friends, friends of friends or everyone. This feature became popular because of it’s mantra of ‘control what you want to share.’
However, according to the new changes, unless users actively manage their privacy settings, their information is accessible to all, irrespective of their previous privacy settings.
Facebook tops 350 million users, tightens privacy
The fastest growing social networking web site, Facebook had topped 350 million users earlier this week.
Facebook is now looking forward to enhancing the privacy controls and eliminating its regional framework for online communities.
Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder announced the new changes and the new milestone in a blog post late on Tuesday. He also added that the new privacy features will let users determine who gets to see pictures, comments, videos and other material in their respective profiles. “We’re adding something that many of you have asked for, the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create or upload,” he wrote.
He further added, “To make this possible, we have focused on giving you the tools you need to share and control your information.”
He added, “Some of these regional networks now have millions of members and we’ve concluded that this is no longer the best way for you to control your privacy.”
“The plan we’ve come up with is to remove regional networks completely and create a simpler model for privacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of your friends, or everyone.”
Google ordered to pay USD 500,000 to F1 racer Barrichello
Internet giant Google has been ordered to pay USD 500,000 in damages to Formula 1 racer Rubens Barrichello, pictured in October 2009, for hosting fake online profiles of him on its social network Orkut.
The decision by the court in Sao Paulo was announced on the Brazilian state’s official government gazette on Monday.
The decision stated that the damages could be raised to USD 700,000 since the case was lodged in July 2006, and that Google risked a daily fine of USD 590 until the pages referring to Barrichello were removed from the site.
Social networking site Orkut, owned by Google, has a huge base in Brazil though facing a strict competition from Facebook.
The court of Sao Paulo maintained that Google’s responsibility was proved because it managed the site and established the rules for its use. Media said there were more than 300 fake profiles under Barrichello’s name on Orkut.
Australian Company Claims to Offer Facebook Friends for a Fee
If you are on Facebook but without many friends, there may be a chance now to increase your popularity by shelling out a fee. Media reports on Thursday said that an Australian company is ready to provide friends for lonely Facebook members for a price.
Brisbane Australia-based online marketing firm uSocial.net is reportedly offering a thousand friends for a price of $177 and five thousand friends for $654. Facebook has a limit of five thousand friends for a standard profile account but there are no such limits on the number of Facebook “fans’. uSocial.net claims to supply a thousand fans for $177 and ten thousand fans for $1167. If media reports are to be believed, the same company has a history of “selling” followers on popular micro-blogging site Twitter.
Popular social networking site Facebook has warned its members not to be taken in by such claims. Facebook, in fact, went so far as to issue a warning that its members who were found to have “bought” friends would be banished from the social networking site. The Palo Alto-based company has strict company policies which bar commercial use of personal profiles on its network. Other terms of service for a user prohibit sharing of passwords or accessing an account belonging to someone else.
Facebook to Acquire Twitter-Like Search Engine
Social networking site Facebook said on Monday that it had reached a deal to acquire FriendFeed, a service that pulls in real-time data from many sources on the Web to one place in the manner of a much more popular site Twitter.
In a cash and stock deal reported to be worth $50 million, Facebook will take over FriendFeed and thus gain valuable expertise and technology in an area which many experts are already calling the next big thing on the Web. FriendFeed was publicly launched in 2008 by two former employees of Google, Bret Taylor and Jim Norris who designed the service as a way of helping users to organize their online social lives at one place. This meant gathering all data from various sites like photo updates on Facebook to rentals on Netflix and Twitter updates in real-time search using an advanced search engine.
The acquisition of FriendFeed and its search engine is being considered as a valuable addition for Facebook whose own search engine is less powerful in the sense it can retrieve data only from certain pages within its own social networking site. Moreover the acquisition also gains significance since it comes around nine months after Twitter turned down a $500 million takeover bid from Facebook.
Google, Facebook launch Persian services
The global internet search giant Google Inc announced on Friday that the company has launched a Farsi translation service for the Iranians.
On the same day, social networking giant Facebook, also announced the launch of their Persian version.
Since the last week’s disputed presidential elections, Iranians and many other international media outlets have used internet and social networking sites to communicate to the world.
Announcing the addition of Farsi to Google Translate, a free online service, Google’s principal scientist, Franz Och, said, “We feel that launching Persian is particularly important now, given ongoing events in Iran.
At the Google’s official blog, the latest blog post read, “Google Translate is one more tool that Persian speakers can use to communicate directly to the world, and vice versa — increasing everyone’s access to information.”
On the other hand, Facebook’s engineer’s blog post read, “Since the Iranian election last week, people around the world have increasingly been sharing news and information on Facebook about the results and its aftermath. Today we’re making the entire site available in a beta version of Persian.” Several thousand people posted a “thumbs up” reaction to the news, denoting their approval.”
Facebook changes appearance
On of the fastest expanding social networking website, Facebook on Wednesday night began rolling out a revamped home page. The newer look is designed to emphasize more on the fresh news.
Facebook had announced its plan to change their home page about a week ago. Since then, the company received about a good 30,000 email messages.
According to the Facebook product manager Peter Deng, “The update will happen slowly, so everyone should have the new home page over the coming days.”
The new changes made include making the status update question “What’s on your mind?” The status message theme was introduced during an earlier re-design of the Facebook home page last year.
The new home page upgrades include a Publisher tool. This tool will ease the process of posting photos, videos or other content to the profile pages and share developments with other Facebook friends.
Facebook updates will now be sent in real time from the new home page and emphasize the freshest information.
“As more and more is shared, we want you to be able to find out everything that is going on in the world around you at any given moment, or shape the stream of information most relevant to you,” Deng wrote in a statement.
The new filtering tool on the home page can enable the users to be more selective about whom they want to get news from.
The top online networking website boasts more than 175 million members and expects to surpass 200 million figures by the end of this year.
Facebook to Consult Users on its “Bill of Rights”
In the latest twist to its torturous user content issue, Facebook has agreed to reinstate the earlier terms and has decided to consults users as it comes up with a new “ Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities”.
The public relations meltdown began when in February, Facebook, the largest social networking site in the world, revised its terms of service. According to the new terms, the site would have the right to do practically anything with user content subject only to privacy settings, and the content would remain with the site even after users closed their accounts.
The revision of terms of service did not lead to an immediate outcry, even though users began to ask questions about ownership and use of content on Facebook. Eventually opposition to the new terms built up to an extent that tens of thousands of users set up a Facebook group to voice their protest.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to quell user dissent with a post on company’s blog likening the change in terms of service to a minor bookkeeping adjustment. However after a week of unrelenting unrest by users which saw the site’s public relations tactics being soundly trounced, Facebook finally agreed to back to its earlier terms of service.
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