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.
Google puts songs a click away in search
Here’s something new from Google, this time for all you music lovers out there!
A new music feature rolled out by Google Inc. on Wednesday will now offer the U.S. searchers music, full length song, on just one click!
This new feature from the Mountain view, California based company brings up to four top songs from the search results. Once you selected a song, it’ll be played on pop-up music players from MySpace or Lala. The search results are also accompanied by album art and links to music sites Pandora, imeem and Rhapsody. Internet users can search by artist name, album or song title and can even access a song by typing in part of its lyrics.
R.J. Pittman, Google’s director of product management says, “Within that mission of trying to make music search easier is to keep it simple, exercising great restraint in the design of this is what’s going to maximize its adoption.”
This will next also give you an option to buy song downloads from Amazon.com Inc. or Apple Inc.’s iTunes.
YouTube topped 100 million US viewer mark in January
According to comScore, the number of US internet users watching videos at YouTube hit a record setting monthly high, reaching a hundred million in January.
The total number of videos watched online in the month of January but the citizens of US mounted to 14.8 billion, up by 4 per cent from the previous month. As reported by comScore, 91 per cent of the growth was contributed by videos on YouTube. The Google owned YouTube, ranked as the top US online video website had 6.4 billion hits for the videos in January.
Ranked second was Fox Interactive Media, for the second highest number of videos viewed, 552 million. Fox also owns online social-networking website MySpace which accounted for 54.1 million of those online video watchers.
Yahoo! Emerged as the third favorite online destinations amongst the US citizens accounting for 374 million videos watched.
Google emerged as the clear winner according to the comSource report. Reportedly, 147 million US Internet users watched an average of about101 online videos each in January. Out of these, 102 million preferred using Google-owned sites. And there again YouTube topped accounting for the hefty ninety per cent share.
Microsoft websites were ranked fourth with 30 million viewers.
Cyber crime : Technological Threat
Computer together with the technology’s most sophisticated advancement, internet, has aided everybody’s work. Be that an office, a bank, a ticket counter, school homework, a showroom think of any place and computers have reached there. Sadly they have reached the world of crime too. Cyber crime, the unlawful acts wherein the computer and internet are either the tools or targets or both, today is one of the worst intensifying problems globally.
Cyber crime involves less of a risk because the criminal can’t be seen, they are as virtual as the cyberspace itself. Sometime down the lane, you might just run into the person who has all your passwords, say sorry and excuse yourself! Cyber crime is easy too. The expert spammers and hackers, with the use of the most sophisticated technology have developed every technique to break into any website/mail account.
Criminal activities in the cyberspace are on a sharp rise. This includes a whole array of activities that it gets next to impossible to list all. Illegal distributions of softwares which are mostly copyrighted material to cyber terrorism, the world of cyber crime has expanded to a very large extend.
Hacking and Spamming has widely increased. There is a major threat to personal data and passwords. Blogs, online forums, chat rooms, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter and many other aren’t safe either. These rely on effortless downloading/distribution, publishing, and other information-sharing techniques which leaves every user vulnerable to cyber infections. Hackers have made their presence felt at the Social Networking Sites (SNS) like Facebook, Orkut, MySpace etc too. Recently, Orkut ‘communities’ of former India Prez APJ Abdul Kalam and Indian cricket star Rahul Dravid were hacked and abused by the hackers to send vulgar messages to the members and hack their accounts.
The transmission of pornography has also amplified. Frauds worth billions over the World Wide Web have happened. E-commerce sites are the most vulnerable targets. Cyber crime has left many in double minds when it comes to choosing the option of e-banking. Drug trafficking too has expanded by the use of encrypted e-mail and other Internet Technology.
And the latest, terror groups too are now emailing their agenda to the governmental authorities! Their accesses to governments’ official websites have left many wondering about the security on the web. Hoax emails are sent to terrorize authorities and citizens alike.
After all its 21st century and the evil bytes are fast replacing whizzing bullets. And for those who are surprised, this is merely the tip of the iceberg!
MySpace now on Virgin Mobile
If I ask you to list a couple of things most popular amongst the youth today, Social Networking Sites (SNS) and mobile phones would easily feature in the list of most. However the combination of both would simply be irresistible for all!
Bull’s eye! Mobile service provider, Virgin Mobile, would now make available MySpace for offering the social networking services, after a link between the two.
The services from MySpace, a division of Fox Interactive Media, would be available on Virgin Mobile’s WAP-enabld phones.
Virgin mobile has earlier attracted youth by schemes like ‘get paid for incoming’ and is also acknowledegd to be offering the cheapest local and STD call rates. The youth-centric mobile service provider, Virgin Mobile will now give the access to the clients, making available the MySpace link on vBytes for a daily rental of Rs. 5.
MySpace is a major SNS connecting worlwide community by integrating web profiles, instant messaging, blogs etc., with maximum usage and popularity amonsgt the youth.
Now, no matter where you are, simply click on the MySpace link on vBytes, log in with the user ID and password and connct to your growing network!
MySpace Music plans to offers online jukebox for music lovers to abate Apple’s dominant grip
A worn out music industry, facing declining CD sales and a miserable expectations, will help to launch a service, called MySpace Music in coming weeks.
The social network possessed by the News Corporation, and the major music companies- MySpace, the Warner Music Group; Sony BMG, a joint venture of Sony and Bertelsmann; and the Universal Music Group, a subsidiary of Vivendi come together to form a joint venture that products this new site.
This venture plans to sell digital downloads of music by the partnership with Amazon.com, as well as to sell advertising on the site for the purpose of making money.
People familiar to the talks between a British company EMI and MySpace in exchange for a small equity stake in the venture EMI will possibly join by the time the site starts though it was not ready to participate earlier.
Existing area of MySpace at music.myspace.com will be replaced by the MySpace Music, which is an attempt to resolve pressing problems in front of music business to some extent. Besides this it signifies an effort to give music lovers the kind of inclusive online jukebox they could once only dream of.
Music companies take this attempt as a ray of hope for their depressing business result over the last few years because CD sales have suffered annual declines of 10 to 20 percent. As well as they believe that the service, which weaves music via gradually more trendy world of online social networking, will weaken Apple’s leading grasp on the digital music business.
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