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Koobface Trojan is back, and now it comes with a few surprises for some friends: Infecting Mac OS X and Linux OS. Intego, the Mac Security Blog, informed that this virus is spreading through social networks and does affect Mac computers as well as Linux.
Koobface appears in social networks like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace and now they will not infect only Windows computers. One of the common messages we should receive indicating the presence of Koobface: “Is this you in this video?” once we click on the link it will try to run an applet from Java which will install a malware in the OS.
As for Windows, Koobface will run a local web server and an IRC Server, acting as a Botnet and as a DNS changer; and of course will try to reproduce to other computers.
Intego assures that the Intego VirusBarrier X6 and X5 detect and eradicate this malware, but we must avoid running any unknown Java applet in our computer, and if so, we should detect an installation is running and quickly cancel it.
FacetoFind is a simple and free web app which allows us to search videos within Facebook network. No registration required, just type in your search and you’ll get the results.
Even though Facebook’s search could be a very powerful tool to find people, pages, applications or groups; still there’s no easy way to find content like videos. FacetoFind can simplify all this work; but even more you can download those videos to your PC.
You don’t need to register nor install any application, just access the site and enjoy the videos. The site also contains the “most viewed” and “most recent videos” available.
There was 2003, and a young fellow by the name of Mark Zuckerberg started with a draft idea for a social network; and the name he came up with was FaceMash.com. Now, more than 7 years later, the final social network name Facebook.com has over 500 million users and FaceMash.com is for sale.
This was Zuckerberg first domain for the Harvard social network, which apparently was a college version for “Hot or Not”. The idea of a social network started to grow, and the domain name selected end up with Facebook.com in 2004. By 2007, Mark Zuckerberg did not renew the first domain name and Rahul Jain took it.
FaceMash.com is now for sale in Flippa. The auction started at U$S8000, and the current bid is at U$S19000 with 15 days to go.
If you have an idea for a social network startup, then this is the domain name for you.
Social Media and Twitter icons are probably the most used in blogs and web sites, here we provide for all you two links for a very neat set of icons in an original black design.
The social media icons are provided by BlackSmith and you can find for Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, YouTube, digg, Reddit, Delicious, etc. Download the entire set from here.
And the black set for Twitter, provided by iconhive, is definitely my favorite ones; which are available for Windows and Mac. Download from here for the Windows version; and this link for Mac.
As you probably know, Facebook reached the amazing number of 500 million users, all time record for a social network. But how are those users distributed around the world? What is the general adoption for Facebook in the entire population? The answer, right here:
In this map we can evaluate the number of population of each country shown vs the number of Facebook users.
Tableu software created a very interesting and simple report where we can find all of this answers. Take a look:
- The country with more users is the United States with 125 million.
- The United States has the higher rate of insertion 40%.
- In second and third place are: UK (26 million) and Indonesia (25 million).
- If Facebook were a country, it will be the second largest, just behind China.
Mark Zuckeberg once said that Facebook’s future is not a website, but people’s identity in the Internet. Getting closer Mark, getting closer.
Envolve created and offers for all web admins and companies who are trying to push up their web sites the way of integrating Facebook-like chat functionalities.
Facebook is making a large impact in the world, no news there; social networks and sociability is changing, also the market and possibilities around there. Windows Live Messenger had a big impact a while ago because the popularity of Facebook: People prefer the Facebook chat instead of using Microsoft’s application.
Envolve offers the service to use in your site similar chat functionalities used in Facebook for your visitors. Even more, Envolve service delivers also some extra functionality we don’t find specifically in Facebook’s chat:
Real-time translation. For chatting with people in a different language.- Shareable chats. Each chat has a custom short URL. Friends and followers can use it to join in or view the chat later.
- Statistics. View real-time statistics and read old chats that have occured on your website.
- Private and public chats.
- Drag-n-drop. To invite another user to a chat — public or private — simply drag-and-drop their name or picture into the desired chat window.
As we said, this is a service provided for Envolve and no, it is not free. The pricing depends on how many visitors currently have: Starts with a “basic” plan at U$S7 per month (up to 5K visitor per month); and the “platinum” plan at U$S89 per month (handling over 100K visitors).
More info about pricing here.
Flowtown have put together another great infographic which shows the basic demographic backgrounds of each social media site. All sites are broken down by gender, income, education and age.
Facebook is introducing, just for a few users, a new and outstanding feature: Face recognition. In the process of uploading photos, Facebook will automatically recognize the faces on each photo and you can start tagging from there.
This new feature appears right after Facebook acquired Divyshot, and the main idea (at least for now) is reducing the amount of clicking users have to execute whenever they are uploading pictures. But wait, if you don’t see this option available in your account, don’t worry; Facebook is kind of beta-testing this feature in 1% of the entire Facebook population.
The face recognition does simplify the uploading process, but it does not automatically tags any of the photos. That automation sounds like the next step, though.
Pick&Zip is another great and free web app to apply on your Facebook profile. Within just a few clicks you can automatically download pictures from Facebook’s profiles.
The usability is quite simple and the look-n-feel of this web app is very similar than the one we see when we are uploading pictures in Facebook. How to use Pick&Zip:
Access the Pick&Zip site- Login to the application using your Facebook account
- Browse your friend’s photos or your own.
- Select the pictures you wish to download.
- Click on “Review & Download” to get the pictures in PDF or a ZIP file.
The image quality is the same one that is shown on Facebook albums.
A great option in this web app is the possibility to select “Find my Pictures”, and retrieves all the images that you were tagged.
Yes, that’s right, you didn’t read “New”, it’s “Nude Social Network”. Skinbook uses the same basic stuff from other Social Networks, but the target is people who are nudist.
“The World’s No.1 Nudist Social Network (with over 8000 members)! Providing a safe, fun and friendly place for likeminded people to connect!” announces the web site.
Skinbook it’s a Britain social network site where people can load their favorite nudist pictures and share them with their friends. But wait; there are some ground rules which you cannot avoid:
- You cannot upload XXX photos. You know the type, those hardcore pics that could be offensive for others.
- You cannot upload photos where only your genitals are showing.
- Cannot comment or insult on someone else photos.
Even though it sounds like a bizarre site, if the regulations are in place, people can share their unique way of life with other peers.
