As social networking tools change the way we communicate, spammers have begun turning their attention to services such as Facebook and MySpace, tricking users into installing viruses, launching fraudulent websites and deploying malware throughout their computers and networks.
While spamming via e-mail services remains prevalent, spammers see social networks as the new horizon. Spammers have managed [...]
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Blogging just got more social: Facebook has launched its Connect Plugin Directory in addition to its Connect program. If you’re a blogger, that means you can let your visitors comment on your site using their Facebook credentials. If you’re a reader, once you comment using your Facebook details, you can have the comment automatically published [...]
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One hour after Google did a public launch of Google Friend Connect, Facebook launched Facebook Connect. The simultaneous launch is not a coincidence — the two competing services are battling for mindshare as they strive to be the frontrunners in data portability.
The companies want users to be able to use their Google and Facebook logins [...]
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Google outlined its Google Friend Connect, a service that promises to insert social features into any application and any site.
Sound familiar? It is. MySpace has its friend connect service and Facebook has its version.
Add it up and you have a good old fashioned ground war over this question: Is social networking a feature or a [...]
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