The best of Twitter in an email

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Twitter is willing to have their accounts suffer the abandonment of the users. So much so, that the famous network of microblogging just activated a new membership system that will allow the tweeters get the best of this network in a single email.

Otham Laraki, responsible for growth of Twitter, presented this morning this new service will allow users to keep abreast of everything that happens in this network, if we’re not fans of all developments point to tercian on Twitter, which are numerous, as are usually updated second to second with contributions from a large community.

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Twitter would be trying to ostracize not thousands of accounts, because somehow, the social network of 140 characters would be reserved for a much more professional, lover of new technologies and more interested in the now bustling. Continue reading →

Facebook Highlight, featured status fee

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Facebook Highlights is a new feature currently being tested that will allow users to highlight status through payment of a sum equal to $ 1.80. With an option like that, who wants to differentiate an update, a link or an image from the stream of updates will be given preferential treatment by paying just a minimum figure.

Who joined Facebook can therefore choose a specific content, both text and multimedia in nature, and make sure that it is increasing its visibility, methods of payment allowed seems to be PayPal and credit cards, but are there to emphasize which seems not provided any way to check how many users have seen highlighted status.

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If, therefore, on the one hand the initiative could be significant for those who use social networks for marketing, since in these cases highlight the possibility of a promotional message can be crucial to the success of any product, on the other hand, those who work in this area would not have any tools to monitor the situation and to understand if the post fee has been effective or not. It is true that the arrangements for access to this option seem much simpler than setting up paid advertisements or advertising of the most complex circuits. Continue reading →

Adobe urges renewed their licenses for security updates

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The difficult economic situation in which we find ourselves immersed has led to many companies facing the possibility to migrate to free software-based solutions or extend the repayment period of the licenses they have acquired and stretch over time the acquisition of new licenses to replace.

This last approach in most situations is something quite normal because many manufacturers offer updates and patches for security for their products although they launch new versions on the market.

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One of the developers of applications that lately there has been talk is Adobe and their security holes, something that the company was going to repair with security patches but which, in the end, have ended in many cases urge users to acquire new licenses and upgrade their products to the latest version released. Continue reading →

How Facebook fights child pornography

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Facebook is certainly one of the sites that best responds to the police all over the world against child pornography. Yet, incredible as it sounds, even on this social network does not lack material of this kind, even if it is almost impossible to remain hidden for long.

As you know, child pornography has found its habitat in the dark side of the web, or deep web, off-limits areas of the Internet on such a lot to do but it is also very complicated to get into, so that they conducted an Anonymous operation of their servers to destroy the city’s infamous Lolita, containing this disgusting material.

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Facebook, by its very nature of social networks, produces reports which greatly increase the exposure and therefore the control. The Menlo Park company, however, was not with our hands: a year ago has partnered with Microsoft PHotoDNA adopting a system of recognition of images – the weak point of Big F: just think of all spam attack a few months ago – that identifies potential illegal. Continue reading →

Bing redesigned its search around social networks

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Attention to the redesign is on the verge of introducing Microsoft Bing, because according to the latest video released, looks really well. Known since weeks ago that the Bing team was working on a deep redesign of your browser, and in fact already they have seen some developments affecting e.g. home page, which now had an air more as Google than ever. It was not a great change, and many gambled by Microsoft to introduce significant new features, and so have been proved.

In the article that has been published detailing the changes in the video, we see many new features. To begin with, three columns have been added giving a turnaround to social networks and integrating Google +, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Quora, covering most of the needs of users, who can now ask your contacts for searches or directly share with them.

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With respect to the other two columns, well, the first is basically the results of life, more googlelizada than ever, and in the second we have the snapshot, which gives us results from search engines and sites of third parties such as OpenTable or Yelp. Bing also stresses that since that made the changes on the home page; users prefer the search engine to Google, in terms of relevance and quality. Continue reading →

Facebook App Center, the social app store

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Facebook App Center is the new Mark Zuckerberg presented at this time: it is an app store or a shop that will collect all applications and games available on social networks, both free and fee. This service will not only benefit users of Facebook developers but also because they offer a real window through which to present their projects.

The App Center was officially announced via a post on the blog developers of Facebook, where Aaron Brady explained the service and took the opportunity to invite developers to contribute to make their applications compliant with the guidelines. Moreover, thanks to this platform can also enter the app developer to pay, how it will gain not only to themselves but also Facebook.

Facebook App Center

With something new like this, Facebook will do exactly what they do with Google and Apple App Store and Google Play, but unlike these two stores, the App Center will be a universal environment is accessible from the Web, those devices with heart iPhone OS and Android. The only prerequisite to enter the marketplace is that the application should be strictly social in nature. Continue reading →

Twitter confirms the purchase of RestEngine

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The microblogging social network of Twitter is becoming increasingly consolidated. It became a widely used tool today, gaining users at a rapid pace. In the company they are trying to maintain this growth path improving the service and making new acquisitions that increase the value of the service.

The last operation of Twitter was the acquisition of RestEngine. According to Techcrunch, Twitter bought the company specializing in personalized marketing. RestEngine so far offered their services, among others, to companies with social games on Facebook, so that RestEngine dealt with the send personalized emails to users.

Twitter confirms the purchase of RestEngine

The purchase of RestEngine will allow Twitter to take advantage of this customization technology, offering new possibilities for marketing. After learning of the operation, many have speculated about the intentions of Twitter. Continue reading →

Firefox or Chrome will not work on Windows 8 for tablets

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We can be at the door of a new conflict of great permeated by the theme of browsers in Windows 8. Microsoft limited the use of the desktop of Windows 8 for tablets to a single browser, namely Internet Explorer, allegedly from Mozilla, the foundation behind Firefox.

Become a reality, it could lead to a battle of Google or Mozilla with the company’s Windows that could end up in court. Not the first time there is a situation such as Microsoft and was tried for bringing serial installed Internet Explorer on Windows (at the end the company had to offer the option to install either browser at startup Windows for the first time).

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The reasons for taking this drastic action would be, according to Microsoft, requirement of security and power within the operating system to Windows 8 tablets. We must remember that the U.S. Company plans to bring to market four different versions of Windows 8 (Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8 Enterprise and Windows RT). Only the latter version, which is designed for tablets with the ARM platform (most of the current tablets have such processors) would be affected by this decision. Continue reading →

Facebook, file sharing for groups arriving

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More news coming from Facebook, that is starting to introduce a new feature that allows you to share files within groups. It will be active soon; it is said within the next few weeks and will constitute a direct response to the rise of social networks in the cloud.

According to what reported by Mashable, the new tool for file sharing of Facebook will not allow you to upload and share music files or executables, so nothing. MP3 files and .exe, while you can upload documents, eBooks, videos, pictures and other categories of files, for a maximum of 25 MB each.

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Clearly, Facebook wants to restrict the sharing of those types of files protected by copyright, and to make sure that nobody will break the rules also introduce a reporting system similar to that available for pages and profiles. Continue reading →

Microsoft would be getting ready to step of users of Windows 7 and Windows 8

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Microsoft would be to launch a campaign to computer manufacturers to start offering the migration of systems sold with Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Those who have bought a laptop or computer with Windows 7 so far that has appeared Windows 8 Developer Preview and Windows 8 Consumer Edition, the vast majority of all widespread, we will have a way to move from Windows 7 to the final version of 8, though Microsoft still not has revealed exactly how or under what terms will take place migration.

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What we have begun to circulate rumors that are starting on June 2 would already be starting to be launched advertising programs that run Microsoft update for Windows 7 now is passed using the new operating system. Continue reading →