Category: Facebook
Google crowns Facebook 1st in page views, Yahoo 2nd
Google has recently released more internet traffic data from their Google Adplanner / DoubleClick system. According to Adplanner, Facebook is visited by 540 million people monthly – which is around 35% of the internet population. Yahoo network is visited by 490 million visitors per month – 31% of the internet population. On Facebook approximately 570 […]
Read More | ShareThe End for Facebook?
May 31 has been labelled as ‘Quit facebook day’. Is this really the end for Facebook? There have been recent global movements to put an end to Facebook’s monopolising of the web, mainly because of their privacy policies. There are a couple of reasons why people are scared of what Facebook is doing such as making more information available […]
Read More | ShareNew Facebook privacy controls
Facebook is in the process of rolling out their new privacy controls. Facebook is simplifying their system so with a single click you are able to set the privacy option on various account and information settings. Mark Zuckerberg announced the changes yesterday and there has been positive comments from various Government officials, Senators and technology […]
Read More | ShareANZ Debt collector creates fake Facebook profile to lure customers
An ANZ debt collector has created a fake Facebook profile under the name ‘Max Bourke’ to track down customers with bad credit histories that have not updated their personal and address details. ‘Max Bourke’ was a single guy, who like football, running on the beach and playing poker. ANZ spokesman Stephen Ries has said: ‘This […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Federal Police want a Facebook cop
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) are calling for Facebook to employ a law enforcement expert in Australia to overlook the Australian user-base of Facebook. Last month, Nona Belomesoff of Sydney was murdered by a man she allegedly met of Facebook. Several Governments around the world are holding a meeting to discuss the social media site […]
Read More | ShareCommunications Minister not happy with Facebook and Google privacy
The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy – Stephen Conroy has expressed his concern about Google’s recent privacy hitch when their Streetview cars were collecting WiFi data from private homes around Australia. Conroy remarked about Google: ‘They consider that they are the appropriate people to make the decisions about people’s privacy data’. Stephen […]
Read More | ShareFacebook launches optimised mobile site
Facebook has launched a new mobile optimised site that is designed for speed and very low data cost – 0.facebook.com Facbook has around 100 million users globally accessing Facebook from their mobile, so this does seem like a smart move to service countries with low data services. This service is not available in Australia just […]
Read More | ShareApple to patent Facebook iPhone integration
Apple has submitted a patent to integrate the Facebook application into the iPhone as a native application, instead of a 3rd party application. The patent specifically show how to add a contact as a Facebook friend. You can begin by connecting to Facebook and sending a friend request to one of your contacts (target device). […]
Read More | ShareMySpace ups security in wake of Facebook privacy concerns
MySpace has announced that their privacy options are changing which will result in user profiles to be defaulted ‘private’ only sharing personal information to friends. This seems to be the exact opposite of Facebook’s current strategy. MySpace, Co-President Mike Jones comments: “We respect our users’ desires to balance sharing and privacy, and never push our […]
Read More | ShareFacebook to release new security features
Amid all the controversy of Facebook’s privacy policy lately – the company realises more and more scammers and hackers are trying to use the site for identity theft. With a globally user count of over 400 million is not surprising. As a result the Facebook security team have come up with a raft of new […]
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