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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.
Chad Engle had a simple and useful idea for those in love with the new Twitter design: He created a background template which we can use it to design our own backgrounds with the guarantee that it will fit perfectly in the new Twitter.
This background template includes all the necessary info for you to design the background properly, like the “Twitter container” (where we usually find our timeline with all the tweets), and also the reference for all common resolutions possible. Download it directly from here.
Chad makes an important remark about the new Twitter design “Twitter aligns all backgrounds to the left. Also, you can put elements to the far right but be aware that some users will not see them depending on what monitor/resolution they are running”.
I think Twitter decided this “left design” instead of a central to focus the reading on the left pane.
Massive social networks like Twitter demands, for normal users and companies, not only using it but also maintain several accounts, publishing a lot of information and also brand monitoring. For that, SplitTweet is the tool.
SplitTweet is a simple and free web app which will provide you a single place to handle several Twitter accounts with all the necessary information of each: Replies, direct messages, favorites and the most important one brand mentions features, which experts in social media can use it to monitor the behavior and popularity of their brands.
SplitTweet also provides a simple dashboard where you can monitor all the important activity around your accounts. Another important feature of this web app is the possibility to automatically tweet the same in several accounts.
It also have a Desktop App for Mac.
Twee.li is an application which allows you to use it as a normal Twitter app but also gives you the ability to instantly chat with your followers. Tweet.li is completely free but still has some cons.
Tweet.li, developed in Adobe AIR, comes as an idea to replace TinyChat and other similar web apps which you can use in your browser but easily share the chat rooms to your Twitter timeline and invite followers; including also the possibility to login using your Twitter account name.
But even though the idea sounds great there are a few cons so far: To use it with your followers, they must use Tweet.li as well, no other option available; also the application stability and performance are not actually the best, since it takes a few moments for the timeline to update.
Even though I enjoy saying “Twitter is not a chat room”, there are some exceptions and there are even more number of users who actually use it for chatting.
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.
TweetLevel, developed by Edelman, is a simple but powerful web app which provides a way to measure the influence level of people according to their activity on Twitter.
I know, I know, you want to know how exactly does this web app calculates all this information and comes up with a result saying you are or not influential. Well in simple words: Numbers of followers, how much do you interact and chat with other people and how many re tweets do you receive.
That was the easy explanation; do you want the complex one? Ok here’s the TweetLevel formula:
There we can see there are other variables like: Number of updates; velocity; following users; name pointing; etc. But no worries, the complete explanation of this can be found here.
In the top five we can find:
1. Justin Bieber.
2. Perez Hilton.
3. SouljaBoy.
4. OGOchoCinco.
5. KimKardashian.
Ashton Kutcher is number 11; Puff Daddy, 14; Barack Obama, 19; among other interesting Twitter users.
And you? What’s your Tweet Level?
Dan Zarella is, as the blog says it, the social media scientist; and created a very interesting tool: “Most ReTweetable Words Finder” given a keyword, shows the most retweetable words.
The use is quite simple as well: enter a keyword and click analyze. The tool will return a list of words that were found to be related to that word and highly ReTweetable. It will also display the number of Tweets and ReTweets analyzed to generate the list. Here’s an example of “Microsoft” keyword:
We can find some words like “kinect”, “gaming”, “camera”, “ironruby” or even “fetish” (?).
The tool compares words found in ReTweets against non-ReTweet Tweets. Using the last 24hours, the tool analyzes up to 1500 Tweets and 1500 ReTweets per word.
If you are interested in retweeats, Dan created a report: “The Science of ReTweets”
How many times did you picture yourself with a gorgeous girlfriend? And adding the fantasy with a beautiful girl who loves computers? Well, maybe your search is over: Meet Jelena Jensen, pornstar and web developer.
This beautiful 29-year-old woman has an important career in the pornography business (you can check her official site here); and, as many other pornstars, she also has a Twitter account (@jelenajensen). But for surprise to her followers, Jelena admitted recently she’s a web developer with large experience in HTML, JavaScript and PHP.
This story started with a short tweet of her saying “So busy today!!! Working on site stuff and coding…all while booking work in LA the next two months! Work is crazy busy…but that’s GOOD”. And someone who saw the word “code” on her tweet quickly asked her about this.
And she added “Yup…been running my site 100% on my own for 5 1/2 years now and I’m running other girls’ sites now as well! I’m a nerd!”
Yes, this gorgeous girl maintains her and other girl’s web sites for over 5 years.
I do wonder how many geeky “marry me” responses received since this tweet.
Here’s another small taste about this geeky girl (you can google the rest):
Do you actually remember who your first follower was? And your first tweet? Well you don’t need to test your memory; MyFirstTweet and FirstFollower will do the job for you.
Any of these two simple web apps does not require connecting with your Twitter account to retrieve this information, just use your Twitter name and the result will be available in just a few seconds.
MyFirstTweet web app currently is showing a disclaimer about the use of it: “This is working intermittently at the moment. I think the site hasn’t quite cleared Twitter’s whitelist yet. If you put in your twitter username I’ll save it and run it when things are running again. Sorry about that.”
In my case I didn’t have any problem running it.
Oh and in case you are interested, there’s also a section with the “earliest tweets”.
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.
