Facebook Changes Triggers Complains

Facebook Changes

Facebook unveils another update again but as expected, users around the world is again complaining about the new features. These changes are intended to make it easier to see updates from connections in the world’s most popular social network.

Various complaints are swarming around the internet today, this includes a “Petition against the new Facebook homepage” and we can see some of it in Twitter, which is also a very popular social network but doesn’t have complicated features that users usually complain about.

Some said that these changes of Facebook were moves to be . . . → Read More: Facebook Changes Triggers Complains

Facebook Translate Feature

Facebook Translate Feature

Facebook, the most popular networking site in the whole world is on a new gig again – this time, it’s translating languages.

The company is reportedly working on a new real-time translate feature in Facebook that will convert a post or comment to a user-default language with just one click of the mouse. In other words, the 750,000 million users of Facebook worldwide can now communicate with each other without having to worry about the language.

It is not clear yet how this service is being tested but according the Eric Eldon’s report, . . . → Read More: Facebook Translate Feature

Facebook Will Pay Anybody Who Can Hack Its Site and Find Bugs

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Facebook is ready to pay anybody who effectively hacks into its site and locates bugs.

It has paid out over $40,000 under its latest “bug bounty”, which requests professional security researchers and hackers to send it the details of some Facebook susceptibilities that they uncover, Facebook formerly said.

Joe Sullivan, Facebook Chief Security officer wrote in a blog post, “We’ve already paid a $5,000 bounty for one really good report.  One person has already received more than $7,000 for six different issues flagged.”

According to Facebook, Researchers from over 16 countries . . . → Read More: Facebook Will Pay Anybody Who Can Hack Its Site and Find Bugs

Facebook’s Bug-Hunter Program Pays Over $40, 000

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The bug-hunter bounty program of Facebook has paid out over $40,000 in only three weeks.

The company opened the program at the starting of this month, assuring $500 for every susceptibility disclosed-more on exceptional cases.

According to the company, it has had to deal with bogus statements from people who were just looking for advertising but has had some more authentic bug statements.

Joe Sullivan, chief security officer said on the security blog of the company, “It has been fascinating to watch the roll-out of this program from inside Facebook.  First, . . . → Read More: Facebook’s Bug-Hunter Program Pays Over $40, 000

Facebook Would Soon Close Its Online Deals Program

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Social networking site Facebook, after testing its online deals program for four months, has chosen to end the recently launched program, which were opened in five cities in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego and San Francisco.

Facebook Deals begun in April providing tough fight to deals leaders like Groupon and LivingSocial.

Facebook said, “After testing Deals for four months, we’ve decided to end our Deals product in the coming weeks.”

Facebook added, “We think there is a lot of power in a social approach to driving people into local businesses.  We’ve . . . → Read More: Facebook Would Soon Close Its Online Deals Program

Panasonic Officially Releases Lumix DMC-FX90 Wi-Fi TouchScreen Camera

What is good than a sweet little high quality camera that fits in your pocket that you could depend on to carry you a lovely yet compact experience every day?  That same thing with Wi-Fi connection abilities and the fact that it’s got a touchscreen on the back, now you’re presently talking crazy. In fact, it’s not-this is an actual gadget, and it is named the Panasonic Lumix DMC-fx90.  This camera is rated at 12 megapixels, is only 0.85 inches deep, and could link to the internet wirelessly.

However, it does not look ultra strange as you would expect . . . → Read More: Panasonic Officially Releases Lumix DMC-FX90 Wi-Fi TouchScreen Camera

Google Says Facebook Reaches One Trillion Page Views in June

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Google said that Facebook hit 1-trillion page views for the month of June.

However, that astounding quantity on Facebook’s traffic is just what’s served up by the DoubleClick Ad Planner rankings of Google, which compile data on Web traffic “from a variety of sources including anonymized, aggregated Google Toolbar data” and information from DoubleClick ad management service of Google.

Certainly, there is a Web traffic that takes place without the eyes of Google peering in and it is safe to say that Facebook is past the Google DoubleClick month estimate.

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Research Says Google+ Isn’t Mainstream Yet

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The social network of internet giant Google, Google+, is so yet to become a mainstream platform, according to social media traffic analysis firm SocMetrics.

During its research, SocMetrics concentrated on the mothers who, it believes, are key influencers for the expansion of a social network.  The traffic analysis firm believes the mothers have not taken up the latest social network Google+ in a big way.

Google+ was headed into the mainstream, according to the report of Experian Hitwise, which studied 10 million online users.

While Hitwise studied the actual traffic on . . . → Read More: Research Says Google+ Isn’t Mainstream Yet

Ceglia Didn’t Mention Facebook in Lawsuit Court Filing

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Facebook said in a court filing that an agreement at the heart of a lawsuit asking for half possession of Facebook doesn’t state the social networking giant and has nothing to do with it.

Paul Ceglia sued Facebook in July 2010 claiming that a contract he struck with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2003 entitled him to half the company.

The world’s No. 1 Internet social network with more than 500 million users, Facebook has already said the agreement Ceglia attached to his complaint was a fabrication and has typified him as an . . . → Read More: Ceglia Didn’t Mention Facebook in Lawsuit Court Filing