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Sep
27

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Bom Sabado Virus Attacks Google

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Google is fighting a virus that has launched a attack on its social networking site Orkut.

Social networking site Orkut is currently hit by a virus problem.Dubbed ‘Bom Sabado, which means ‘Good Saturday’ in Portuguese, the worm has attacked the XSS (cross-site scripting) of the site and posted scraps to the Orkut users with the text Bom Sabado and sent to the users account by the name of the other friends account.

Google has asked Orkut users to not login for a while and have asked users to refresh their browser cookies & cache. Google has also advised users to change the password and the security question as well.

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Sep
18

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Foreign Ministry Discovers Social Networking Tools

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Shahi tharoor might have left the foreign ministry, but the ministry seemd to have learnt a lesson or two from him. Taking a leaf from his book, the foreign ministry has made its debut on social networking sites.

The Public Diplomacy (PD) division of the MEA today made its debut on Twitter with the user ID “Indian diplomacy” — http://twitter.com/Indiandiplomacy.The first tweet posted read: “Official twitter account of Public Diplomacy Division of Ministry of External Affairs, India @Indiandiplomacy”.

The Id was confirmed by PD division chief Navdeep suri who was reluctant to revel details as the work was still in progress. But, official’s sources confirm that the account on tweet was just a beginning and other accounts on Facebook and other social networking sites will soon follow.

This(social networking) is part of our(Ministry of foreign affairs) effort to use social media tools to conduct public diplomacy. We are hoping to get things going in the next 3-4 weeks.” suri added.

This is the first initiative in India where a ministry is part of a social networking website.

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Sep
6

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Facebook Test’s New Feature

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Facebook has unveiled a new ’subscribe’ feature for select users for testing purpose that will allow users to get notifications and alerts whenever a friend updates their profile.

Facebook is testing a new feature known as “subscribe feature” that will allow users to get notifications whenever another Facebook user uses the social-networking site to update their status or share photos with friends. The new feature will Facebook users to select which friends or family members they want to receive “alerts” from whenever there is any activity on their Facebook profile.

This new feature which is rolled out to select user to test their responses has led to widespread criticism from critics who call it a stalking tool. They fear that it night be mi-used by people and are hoping that the feature comes with an option to accept or not.

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Aug
26

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Facebook Races Ahead Of Orkut In India

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Market researchers have rated Facebook as the most favorite rate as compared to Orkut that has come in second.

Though Facebook reached India late, it seems to be the latest “in” thing. Market researcher’s comScore’s latest report states that Facebook has won the number one rank with 20.9 million visitors in July while Orkut on the other hand recorded 19.9 million visitors in the same year.

The 3rd rank was taken by BharatStudent.com, a social utility that aims to bring together young Indians living across the globe while Yahoo Pulse with 3.5 million visitors bagged the fourth place. While twitter which has become the latest fad among celebrities managed to get only 3.3 million visitors in the country, putting it in fifth place.

Facebook has apparently built its 500 million fan base with the help of its intuitive user interface, variety of games and applications like FarmVille, FishVille, Mafia Wars, Sudoku and many more, Facebook has also built up a image of being cool and the combination of these facts have made it India’s most favorite social networking site.

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Aug
25

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Google Revamps Its Social Networking Site

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Orkut a social networking site has revamped its site in a bid to attract new users.

Facebook is on a all time high with a 500 million strong user base which includes celebrity users, the site seems to be improving day-by-day bringing in a host of new applications and software’s. Orkut on the other hand is losing its users but refuses to go down without a good fight.

Orkut has brought in brand new settings to attract its losing fan base and to cater to a new set of users. The new settings introduced are -

  • Now Orkut users can send multiple similar scraps to people from their account
  • Users can select a set of friends and form a private group, where scraps sent to these members can be viewed only by them.
  • Orkut will now suggest friend groups based on past interactions by the user so that the entire process of making individual groups is made easier

Orkut is also planning to revamp its existing services like updates, improved birthday display, more games and applications from the homepage?

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