Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Poke on Facebook, send pictures or videos to self-destruct
For several months already existed Snapchat, allowing an application to send images and text with an expiration time, or what is the same, the image was available for viewing for a limited time only for the sending, which promised protect user privacy, especially useful for those who like to send their partners or acquaintances photographs (commonly known as "sexting").
Facebook include video advertising in news feed
The path to monetization is not easy, but Facebook seems to have in mind an idea that could bring enough income. Yes, the wrath of users is also guaranteed: Facebook plans to introduce video advertising in the news feed of users. As if it were on TV, Facebook also have advertising breaks.
The plan is to introduce this new product and the first half of 2013 (in April at the latest), for which Facebook would now courting advertisers to opt for the new advertising method as claimed several industry sources cited by AdAge.
The idea is that the spots are a maximum of 15 seconds, and automatically play the video fill the screen, forcing the user to see. I would not yet decided on whether Facebook is the sound of the spots should be enabled by default or not. In principle, Facebook wants to introduce both the web version and in its mobile apps.
The objective of this movement is Facebook with more than clear: to make advertising revenue rise dramatically. Since its IPO in May this year, signing Mark Zuckerberg has only to struggle to convince shareholders that really is a profitable company and is able to monetize their users billion. However, so far have failed to convince many.
Since Facebook have not commented on this rumor ,we would love to hear from you how do you feel about this?
Mark Zuckerberg donates 18 million Facebook shares
18 million shares, which is the current market value of nearly 500 million U.S. dollars (379 million euros), donated much of the founders of the social network Facebook the Silicon Valley Foundation. This is a non-profit foundation that is committed to in order to promote charitable projects and community-based action. Zuckerberg had a good two years, 100 million U.S. dollars (75.85 million euros) donated to schools in Newark near New York. The 28-year-old is by far the largest Facebook shareholder with approximately 500 million share certificates. IPO in May, he sold a small portion of the shares only to pay taxes.
The Facebook shares currently trading at just under $ 28 and so while higher than the all-time low of less than $ 20, but still well below the starting price of $ 38 in May 2012. Even with this relatively low price, the shares currently worth 498.8 million U.S. dollars a huge boost for the Silicon Valley Foundation and the largest single donation in the United States for the year 2012. The foundation had throughout last year received $ 470 million in donations and manages around two billion dollars. They wanted to join forces in tackling projects in the areas of education and health, announced Zuckerberg.
On his Facebook page shows Zuckerberg to participate with his wife at the philanthropic campaign "The Giving Pledge" and donate a large part of its income. The campaign wants to move the wealthiest people in America to donate the bulk of your wealth in their lifetime or after their death, to charity. The campaign website can be seen that they preferred anvisiere billionaires, but only a moral obligation, not a binding treaty was. Besides Mark Zuckerberg can be on the list of signatories, see also the media mogul Ted Turner, Bill and Melinda Gates and the founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison.
Disappointing year for acclaimed Internet stocks
Such is a clear vote of no confidence: As the first reports surfaced about a possible replacement of the founder and head of the bargain portal Groupon, Andrew Mason, the stock went straight into the air. Hardly a day later, the company declared that Mason still remain at the top, of course put it back into reverse.
The nerves of investors are on edge. And that's understandable: The share of the coupon specialist Groupon lost since going public a year ago, more than 80 percent of their value. She has since upped the ante again though a few dollars on the recent low of $ 2.60 - but the initial rates of about $ 25 still seems at an unreachable distance. And the former Star Market potential and according to Forbes "fastest growing companies of all time."
Weak numbers doubt the business model and a crash course as a result, Groupon is by far not an isolated case. Many other at first highly acclaimed Internet stocks investors bestowed lousy business. In online game developer Zynga, the balance of the first year on the stock market falls with a drop of three-quarters of equally devastating. In this way down there were some price falls of 20 or even 40 percent on a day when, once again, a loss has been reported.
Facebook: hide me this bend I can not see
Here the unusual news of the day, Facebook has removed a photo thinking it was not appropriate to social networking. In fact, the photo shows a woman in her bath, which at first seems to reveal a large chest, but in reality, it is only elbows.
Facebook uses HTTPS for all users
As Facebook announced via blog post, the social network is now at least in North America by default HTTPS. In future, the change happen in other parts of the world. When this will be the case in Germany, is not known yet.
Until now, Facebook users the SSL option - strange Untechnical referred to as "Secure browsing" - activate in the security settings by hand. This option led facebook early 2011, emerged in response to the end of 2010 browser plugin Firesheep. Which aims to help lay people assume transferred via HTTP sessions of other users on the same network.
By switching to HTTPS Facebook users hardly walk a risk that the communication between the browser and Facebook servers is overheard, or the log data is recorded. Although the tools and BEAST CRIME attacks on SSL-secured connections have been demonstrated. These attacks, however, works only within relatively narrow limits and are very expensive.
Other popular web services such as Google's email service Gmail or Microsoft's Hotmail encrypt long been standard SSL: Gmail since early 2010, Hotmail since mid-2011. Even Twitter, which was also taken at the time of Firesheep targeted response, in February 2012 and led SSL a mandatory. Yahoo about here, however, shows little activity - the webmail access is not encrypted since time immemorial.
Facebook: User not vote on rule changes make sense
Facebook wants to abolish the Minor-voting members on important rule changes. Instead, there should be more opportunities, among other things, to ask questions directly to the person responsible for data protection, announced Facebook.
They had found that "the voting mechanism that is triggered by a certain number of comments, has actually led to a system that provides the quantity of comments about their quality," said Elliot Schrage, Facebook for "Communications, Public Policy and responsible marketing. " Therefore propose that Facebook, "the voting component of the process in favor of a system terminate, leading to more meaningful content, feedback and interaction," says Schrage continues.
According to Zuckerberg: Facebook wants to expand search
Facebook is working on its own search function clearly to drill. The Mark Zuckerberg explained in his interview at the Disrupt conference the U.S. technology blog TechCrunch. In his opinion, Facebook is particularly well equipped to answer questions from users directly and not just to deliver a result. Even with major search engines like Google and Bing will currently underway to make these hit lists behind and to answer direct questions. Therefore also been a team at Facebook in the search, but still there was no demonstrable results.
Facebook processed according to Zuckerberg about a billion searches per day. In the future, many to come, if the platform could answer, such as which restaurants to visits of friends and liked. Or, what friend works at a company in which the user wants to apply. The necessary information for you and have a correspondingly extended search is loud Zuckerberg only a matter of time.
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook focuses on its mobile business
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has reconciled with his first interview after the botched IPO investors a bit. On the U.S. technology blog TechCrunch Disrupt conference organized, he explained that the focus of the social network lies in the mobile business. So far, here's advertising revenues are disappointing, what is considered the main reason for the collapse of the stock.
"Over the next three to five years, the central question will be how well we hit the mobile space," said Zuckerberg. "Depends on all the company's development." Facebook had been renewed until August his much criticized iPhone app and is working on a new Android app. An exact date of when it is ready, not named Zuckerberg.
According to the submissions of the Facebook-chief and founder of the price of Facebook shares rose more than 3 percent after trading at 20.09 U.S. dollars. But that is still far short of the $ 38 that the paper cost the IPO in May. "The development of the stock is obviously disappointing," said Zuckerberg. However, it was not the first and downs in the history of the company.
Building its own smartphone Zuckerberg issued again clearly rejected. "It would be totally the wrong strategy for us," he said. "Let us assume again, we would build a phone, purely hypothetical. We would reach perhaps 10 million or 20 million people." Facebook would however be represented on any smartphone.
Facebook will allow advertisers adjustment of email addresses and phone numbers
Facebook prepares a report from the usually well-informed blogs Inside Facebook present new opportunities for advertisers. So it will soon be possible companies to upload e-mail addresses and phone numbers of their clients in the advertising interface "premium power tool" and reconcile the holdings of Facebook. Facebook will be the blog that companies give the option of customers who are Facebook members, specifically address on the social platform.
Inside Facebook underpinned the report with a screenshot, which shows that the new option has been temporarily unlocked for some premium advertisers already. Advertisers may therefore under the new menu item "Create Audience" Upload a TXT or CSV file with e-mail addresses, phone numbers or Facebook User IDs. Facebook is still there, the statement: "People are hashed linked information before uploading it to Facebook." Still, at least questionable whether such a function with the German data protection law would be compatible.
Facebook can swallow Instagram
Good news for Facebook: The relevant U.S. FTC has approved the acquisition of the photo service Instagram. The FTC has been no objections, they are known. The photo service is to be maintained until further in its current form, Facebook had stated.
Facebook announced the Instagram purchase in April, even before the IPO, which was followed in May. A purchase price of around $ 1 billion had been agreed upon. The Instagram founders are now, however, have to compromise: because they had agreed to it, partly paid shares in Facebook to be.
Only $ 300 million in cash flow, complemented by 23 million Facebook shares. Which were at the time of negotiations with Instagram valued at approximately $ 30. Meanwhile, the paper but costs just over $ 19 - which is currently the purchase would generate about 740 million dollars. The final closing of the transaction is still pending, this past Wednesday, the Facebook share closed New York trading at 1.46 percent in positive territory at 19.44 U.S. dollars.
For Instagram-owner, it was a bet: Before the IPO, the valuation of Facebook spiraled ever further into the air, until the issue price remained at $ 38 per share. The IPO itself was accompanied by technical glitches, were added worries about a slowdown in growth. The collapse of the course began on the second trading day.
The 5000-dollar gap on Facebook
After Facebook has removed a vulnerability documented the discovery AMol Naik, where and how he found it. That he had previously reported in confidence on Facebook, he pocketed a bonus of $ 5,000. The security problem is called Cross Site Request Forgery - CSRF shortly. In this case, an attacker can simply by calling a specific URL with appropriate parameters to perform an action in the context of a logged-on user.
Specifically AMol Naik could add, for example, apparently without any user an app in Facebook's new AppCenter. The victim had only to call a suitably crafted web page while it was logged into Facebook. Such gaps have been frequently utilized for Facebook worms or mass distribution of spam messages.
Normally, web sites protect against CSRF manipulations by creating for each valid session token that is sent with each request to be valid. A script on another web site does not have access to this token and therefore can not create a valid request. Unfortunately, the new web application is on the Facebook server apparently does not control the accuracy of the provided token fb_dtsg. After the notification, the Facebook security team has corrected this omission but held within a day.
Defence of Facebook warnings
It was obvious that the operators of commercial social media appearances would be affected due to lack of warnings or incorrect information-imprint. Especially Facebook performances offer here some working surfaces. The extent seen first major warning wave has now brought the company Binary Services GmbH from Regenstauf rolling. Their managing director Florian Blischke brought it in the recent past in the context of file-sharing warnings to some notoriety. Sent represented by Hans-Werner Kallert the company similarly worded antitrust warnings to operators of commercial Facebook pages that contain no imprint. Along with the warning received Affected solicitation of a boilerplate criminal act and declaration of a cost accounting of the firm in the amount of 265.70 euros.
To what extent such a warning is, in principle, depends on many factors and can therefore only individual case to determine exactly. It is clear that each not only purely private use Facebook page must contain a page for visitors easily accessible imprint. So if you do not imprint on his commercial Facebook page, should rectify quickly. Detailed information on Legal and patterns can be found on the Internet.
The imprint must be on the Facebook page but not only exist, but for the visitor to be found easily. In the current warnings is lifted to a judgment of the LG Aschaffenburg on 19/08/2011 (ref. 2 HK O 54/11). This was judged according to the TMG (German Telemedia Act) that the imprint-mandatory information must be easily and effectively visually perceptible. You must be discoverable without having to search. Therefore already subject to the term "information" a violation of § 5 TMG. In addition, should also be clear on what the imprint refers Telemedia. (BGH) has, however, already with a judgment of 20.07.2006 (Case No.: I ZR 228/03) decided that specifying a provider identification is sufficient for a website, when "this without having to search through two links and the terms Contact "and" Imprint "is reachable. Why in this context the term "information" for the imprint, information should not be sufficient, remains the secret of the LG Aschaffenburg. But the judgment of the LG Aschaffenburg in the world, and within the limits of what is permissible in unfair competition disputes over jurisdiction of the websites can be freely selected from Abmahner.
In order to accommodate the imprint holds under the tab "Info" is currently a certain danger. Anyone who has received a warning because of the alleged lack of imprint, but this under "Info" is available should each other advice for a lawyer specializing in intellectual property law. This then helps in the assessment of individual risk. The cost of such a defense depend largely on underlying dispute. The current in the warnings is believed a dispute value of 3000 euros.
There is some evidence that this is excessive. So the Celle Court recently the dispute for interlocutory injunction proceedings for violations of § 5 TMG 2000 Euro set (judgment 14.06.2011, Az. 13 U 50/11) for the main action, the court an argument worth 3000 Euros as appropriate at. In the references cited in the judgment of the LG Aschaffenburg warnings assumes a value in dispute of 2000 euros. The LG casting recently in a similar case (Decision of 01.12.2011, Case No.: 8 O 74/11) also set a dispute of 2000 euros. So there is much to be here to accept only a dispute of 2000 euros. It is not excluded that in other jurisdictions significantly higher values underlying dispute located.
The risk of litigation costs in an argument is worth 3000 Euros for the first instance at about 1440 Euro and a dispute of 2000 euros at around 1060 euro. For other values in dispute, a look at the process cost calculator.
The problem is the resistance when the imprint in the Facebook Timeline "hidden". Here to talk about the legal requirements of easy accessibility already requires a lot of imagination, because of the entry, over time more and more gradually dropping and so after a short time is not discoverable or visible without scrolling long. Also, the "pinning" of the imprint at the front position of the timeline does not work against warnings, because the imprint entry here after a week moves down.
It is safer to Facebook at the moment when the imprint is in a separate, newly created tab named "Contacts" accommodating. That alone is not, however, because at the moment the indication of the imprint-rider in the manner provided for mobile devices Facebook-view is not technically possible at m.facebook.com. In this view, only the Info tab is accessible. To act on the requirements of § 5 TMG sequence required under the TMG must say both behind a tab named "Contacts" and under an additional "info" tab be kept. So then the current purely actually possible would be implemented in terms of Legal Notice.
Even if the warning "in the matter" appears justified because of Abgemahnte to be warned when actually could show no easily accessible imprint on his commercial Facebook page, that does not mean that the warning is also justified. To admonish commercial, make sure your Abmahnende compete for Abgemahnten. Only if there is a legitimate interest in a caution. The Binary Services GmbH provides Kallert lawyer as "the IT system house with strong added functions" represent actual fact, on the company's website for virtually every conceivable IT-related topics relevant offers and services. Whether it actually includes spending in the areas listed are achieved, would clarify if necessary, the courts. A response to the request from H to sample projects Blischke was guilty. Formally, the expected on the website extremely wide range of products and services presented but sufficient to establish a competitive relation with many companies active on Facebook. Nevertheless, an examination by a specialist lawyer to pay off well here, when the trade of Abgemahnten content far enough from the specified range of activities of the binary Services GmbH away.
The enforcement of competition law injunctive relief is also not allowed if they improperly taking into account all circumstances. This is especially true when it serves mainly to arise against the offender is entitled to compensation for expenses or costs of prosecution can. Any party will probably say here immediately, just as it is. However, the legislature has set a successful misuse defense pretty high hurdles. However, the systematic thinning of the internet, considering possible antitrust violations by the Abmahnenden be an indication of a very abusive reliance for revenue. Case collections can help to convince the court that it just is not about stopping an infringement of competition, but the cost of production.
The same applies if the Abmahntätigkeit a competitor out of proportion to its existing commercial or professional activities. The abusive reliance on § 8 paragraph 4 of the UWG concerns the litigation authority and thus a prerequisite process. You must be tested at each stage of the proceedings of its own motion. Here Abmahnpraxis in regard to these cases will be to watch. It is not unlikely that some of the cost risk Abgemahnte not be shy and courts to clarify whether there is here a Rechtsmissbräuchlichkeit.
If you have received a legitimate warning, it is important to keep the potential damage to a minimum. Therefore, do not sign the pre-formulated especially premature failure of the undertaking Abmahner. In the present a pre-failure warnings relevant undertaking is annexed, which will undertake the Abgemahnten to pay for any future violation of 3000 euros Binary Services. Moreover, the proposed explanation very far-reaching and detrimental to Abgemahnten formulated. After that, should the receiver "for each violation, and the exclusion of the plea of continuing relationship" commit to refrain from it in the future, "an underlying noisy TMG the provider's duty website to entertain without specifying a § 5 TMG corresponding imprint". Furthermore, should the Abgemahnten undertake to pay the costs of using a lawyer Kallert dispute of 3000 euros.
Here lurk the same two cases: First, it is absolutely unnecessary to make a commitment in the declaration of failure to pay the required legal fees. On the other hand refers to the declaration of not only the abgemahnte Facebook page, but to all Internet sites of the individual concerned. Anyone who still maintains other websites obliged to deal with the signature to every time to pay 3000 euros to the Binary Services GmbH, if on any other website or other legal notice requiring social media presence a defective imprint can be found. This can quickly become costly and is hardly avoid later because you have closed with the signature under the pre-declaration a fundamentally legal agreement.
Usually it makes sense for a legitimate warning, issue a modified cease and desist letter, which contains no fixed penalty, but this is at the discretion of the other side and for review by a court. Moreover, should not be given the declaration of a flat rate, but always specifically on the World Wide Web view of the concrete abgemahnten Facebook page refer, or about http://www.facebook.com/IHRE-FACEBOOK-SEITE. Abgemahnte should not commit more than absolutely necessary. With the submission of such a close Unterlassungsverpflichtungserkärung take the opposite side of a lot of wind out of the sails and avoid an expensive process, eg in the context of an injunction. But it is important that the self-worded cease and desist letter is tailored to their specific case and contains a sufficient penalty scheme. , An ideal solution for all cases, it unfortunately does not give here, which is why we recommend a consultation with an experienced lawyer specializing in intellectual property law.
By the submission of punitive desist you lower the value in dispute already enormous, because then it only goes to the rightful abmahnenden attorney costs. Here you can then question about the carrying amounts in dispute of 3000 euros and refuse to pay the costs involved. This dispute then goes to trial, the risk of litigation costs is only around 255 euros. It is not unlikely that the Abmahnern with comparatively so little dispute - it's all now just to the attorney's fees in the amount of 265.70 euros - and the apparent large number of warnings, the motivation is taken to sue at all.
Facebook as a platform operator is fine when it comes to imprint warning letters out: The company needs only to ensure that their own (Facebook) Imprint is easily accessible. For the imprint of individual commercial Facebook pages, however, the respective user is responsible. He can hold harmless with a warning not to Facebook, nor may they make excuses for the fact that Facebook it a suitable solution for the accommodation of the imprint provides.
Of course it would be preferable if Facebook would provide a platform operators here a working both for PCs and mobile device solution. But by law, the company undertakes no obligation. At most, the users themselves could Facebook persuaded to take care of the issue.
Facebook Investor Thiel makes Checkout
Born in Germany with Peter Thiel is an investor from day one, separated by a majority of its remaining shares in the social network. PayPal co-founder of Thiel is also on the board of directors of Facebook, the highest corporate body.
As seen in a stock exchange release, Thiel has sold in the past week, a total of 20.06 million shares. The holding period for former owners had expired on Thursday and the stock plummeted after massive sales further. Sometimes they cost less than half as much as the public in May with $ 38.
Thiel got for his papers now have 19.27 to 20.69 dollars, or a total of about $ 400 million. Despite the slump, Facebook has thus proved for the Internet savvy investor as a gold mine. In 2004, when the social network was still in its infancy, he had invested $ 500,000 in the company and to get a share of about ten percent. For now shares sold Thiel could now still reap about $ 400 million.
Last week, Facebook's share went to the end of the first holding period is plummeting. It lost 6.27 percent on Thursday alone to 19.87 U.S. dollars. On Monday, the stock was up to the close of trading in the U.S., after all, once again increase by 5 percent to 20.011 dollars. In after hours trading, they lost again slightly by 0.15 percent to 19.98 dollars.
For many investors, now is the business model of Facebook into question recently and the company had barely announced projects which could remove the doubts. In recent days, Facebook tried at least with gaming figures to spread confidence: So, the number of players to be on Facebook increased by 8.4 percent year to date. And also those free-to-play games like Facebook are obviously some revenue sources, such as extras and virtual goods.
Especially has been found to be a problem that more and more users access their smartphones on Facebook - here the social network but has difficulty to accommodate advertising. See, however, the main source of Facebook. Facebook called for June, 955 million users who log in at least once a month (Monthly Active Users, MAU), of which 552 million, who pop up even daily (DAU, Daily Active Users). Of the 955 million users now use 543 million Facebook via smartphone or tablet. In the first quarterly figures since its IPO, the company also had to identify the same red.
Long before the IPO, according to dpa Thiel had reduced its stake in Facebook, as more investors rushed into the fast growing company. The IPO itself, he had offered good 16,800,000 shares with a total value of $ 640 million.
Just in the recent past Thiel has thus redeemed a total of about one billion dollars with his Facebook shares. Further 2.2 million shares Thiel handed to partners. So he left after last state of 5.6 million shares currently worth $ 112 million.
Cautions against Facebook pages
An unknown number of commercial operators of Facebook pages this week received unsolicited mail the lawyer Hans-Werner Kallert (firm HWK) from Maxhütte-Haidhof. In almost always identical warnings throws Kallert require the operators to conduct no imprint on their pages, thereby committing a breach of competition law over his client.
As evidence of the violation is the Abmahungen each with a screenshot of the offending Facebook page. These screenshots show, however, in the cases known to us not the whole page, but - as indicated by the horizontal and vertical scroll bars - only a detail. In forums give Abgemahnte also indicates that the screenshots does not allege how the warnings of 13 August, but some are already weeks old.
His client represents a "one IT system house with strong added functions," explained the lawyer Kallert Abgemahnten (mostly IT companies). Therefore, take this business in part on the same market and should be judged as a competitor within the meaning of the Act against Unfair Competition (UWG). With a missing imprint the Abgemahnte therefore procure an unfair competitive advantage.
When the client is the company Binary Services GmbH from Regenstauf. Their managing director Florian Blischke brought it in the recent past in the context of file-sharing warnings to some notoriety. His company "BHIP reliable netservices" researched for Massenabmahnkanzlei Urmann + colleagues after sharer who allegedly offered among other copyrighted porn movies in file sharing.
This led, in some cases seems to errors. Abiding citizens are reported to have been warned by Urmann + colleagues. This led even to the extent that the Higher Regional Court of Cologne harbored too much doubt as to the serious IP address identifying Blischkes BHIP reliable netservices: The court refused Urmann + colleagues one apart from this fact usual publishing decision of access owner data to IP addresses of alleged file sharers, "because not can be found that have been committed by those listed in the system IP addresses of rights violations. "
Florian Blischke just that now operates under the imprint with Marco Hahn, the IT system house Binary Services. We have asked for Blischke example projects that deal with his company. In response, he went to this question not occur. He confirmed that the warnings "reflects our mission to our lawyer" would. One of the screenshots he noticed an imprint that was to discover only by repeated scrolling was to assess as if none exists.
Thus plays Blischke on operators who have placed their provider identification as an entry in their timeline on the Facebook Page. This approach is controversial, in fact. Likewise, it is difficult to create an imprint on Facebook so that it can be easily seen on mobile devices. Attorney Lars Jaeschke has in an interview with heise resale already in January 2012 highlighted the lack of clarity in this regard and expressed fears that disputes over defective markings suppliers could increase on commercial Facebook pages.
The Abgemahnten of attorney Kallert have a period until 21 August 2012 received to return the declaration of pre-formulated and remit the Abmahngebühren of 265.70 euros. As dispute puts Kallert at 3000 euros. Was responsible for the defense lawyers advise caution already public, not the declaration of leave unmodified. In the forum of the portal page report, meanwhile, have dozens of victims of warning wave together and discuss the problems.
McAfee aims to protect Facebook photos via app
McAfee has begun beta testing its Facebook app "Social Protection". The app is designed to protect users of popular images from unauthorized access - and prevent authorized viewers make screenshots of it. Secure Facebook users share their pictures with McAfee Social Protection, they will be displayed to the public only heavily blurred. Authorized viewer for display must install a plug-in.
The plug-in allows you to view the images, but prevents allegedly storing, printing, downloading and blocks the screenshot function of the operating system. This is to ensure that with friends Shared images are not passed on to third parties. Someone trying to photograph the screen with a camera, a McAfee security devil eats it from the computer and the memory card.
Like a promotional video from McAfee shows to users for uploading can specify not only who gets to see the images, but also define exclusion criteria may like "Hidden from: Gerald Himmelein". Images are uploaded individually or in galleries across the app.
Currently, McAfee Social Protection is still in a closed beta phase. Trying to invoke the Web page of the app provides, from time to time to connection errors. End of the month to the beta will open to all Facebook users. The plug-in will run from Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 8, Chrome, nor is the question as how much the service will ultimately cost.
You have to use the Social Protection App grant the rights to publish contributions on behalf of the user, anytime access to all user data and to read the personal friends lists.
Its approach reminds McAfee Social Protection at the advertised half years ago the program X-Pire. This Firefox plug-in should be based on a decode images stored on the provider's server key. In case of withdrawal of the key can not view the images, the whole thing was at the time under the keyword "digital eraser" and could not be enforced.
Even against success McAfee Social Protection speak various factors. First mobile Facebook clients remain completely left out: Those who want to look at the app-only images with a smartphone will get to see only Pixelbrei. It remains an open question as to how far mobile devices protect uploaded photos via Social Protection. The main problem, however, is the reaction per se: App users have to move all Facebook friends to install the display plug-ins - at a time when the browser add-ons are the most common entry point for malware that.
Ultimately, before the unwanted spread of potentially embarrassing photos helps one thing: Not only put online, not even for friends.
Facebook deletes deleted photos
Although you can not see the photos on Facebook could, they were still there: over months and years of its users Facebook had deleted images stored on. Through a direct URL so they were more accessible. A new system is to ensure that deleted images will be removed within 30 days, and from the servers.
On Facebook even deleted photos were no longer visible, but the direct URL led months later still to the pictures. A new rule for the system that governs the delivery of content from Facebook's server network is to prevent now. Had left in the Content Delivery Network (CDN) is now a maximum life of 30 days, a Facebook spokesperson told Ars Technica. By then also cached versions of the images will disappear from the servers.
Another Facebook-manager's
With Ben Blumenfeld leaves another more senior managers, the company Facebook. He was there a good five years and most recently employed as a design manager responsible for making the interface more user friendly. Among other things, he should ensure that Facebook users use the new "timeline".
Blumenfeld writes in his blog, he had it fallen on facebook always good. He wanted to change but as co-director of the fund he co-founded designer to something from the ground up as an entrepreneur and help shape the design community. Some criticism of the social network exerted Blumenfeld told the magazine TechCrunch: Facebook to offer good products, but have not made clear to the users well, what changes were made and why.
Designers Against Blumenfeld finds these days several Facebook executives have abandoned their posts. Among them were chief engineers Bret Taylor, Ethan Beard (Director of Platform Partnerships), Kati Mitic (Platform Marketing Director) and Jonathan Matus (Platform Marketing Manager). Earlier, PR Director Barry cut and Carl Sjogren, Product Manager for Open Graph, adopted.
The designer, founded in April 2011 Fund is financed by the investment firm Andreessen Horowitz and 500 startups. He wants to support especially promising designers.
Now Facebook displays the user activities in groups
Facebook limits the possibility of using unattended service. Members of a group now learn what the others have seen. Where previously only "Like" and comments were displayed with author and time, group members now find a "Seen by".
Facebook explained in the help: "In this way you stay on the current state of the group activities." In fact: It is now not only interested in what others do, but also when they were online. The function will be introduced progressively in all groups and can not be turned off.
Many may not have been aware that Facebook stores internally, who retrieves what when on the platform. It was only a minor technical changes necessary to make this data visible to users - initially just for group members. The debate about privacy on Facebook revolves mostly around the tip of the iceberg: that which shows the surface. The problem, however, the databases of the company, which is recognized in much more than meets the eye
Facebook: The first game for real money
Some investors are expected to Facebook share on the margins of the IPO and the crash have been considered after the initial euphoria as a Facebook game with real money. UK Facebook users, but can now actually play on Facebook to cash without having to invest in the stock market: The game called "Bingo & Slot Friendzy" will be accessible only to people aged over 18 years and only in Britain, emphasized the game developer Gamesys.
"Bingo & Slot Friendzy" contains a total of 90 bingo and slot machine games. It is the first time that real gambling comes to the Facebook platform. Gamesys, the game at Jackpotjoy have its brand, which is resident in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. The company opens the door to the UK online gaming market. Between Facebook and Gamesys revenue to be shared from the games - a Facebook spokeswoman declined against the U.S. media, but more specific information about what proportion of the revenue comes from Facebook.
Zynga also working on a gaming offer. The largest provider of Facebook games with titles such as "Farmville" had been punished heavily after disappointing figures on the stock exchange, moreover, Electronic Arts believes the new Zynga game "The Ville" copy the Facebook version of EA's classic "the Sims, "and therefore moved to court.
But even Facebook itself is on the lookout for new revenue sources. After a loss in the last quarter, making investors especially the growing number of Facebook users worried that romp through smartphones in the Social Network: Facebook earned so far with them almost no money on advertising. Here come new ideas about how the growing popularity can continue to monetize the so-called social games, just right.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)