Twitter Goes Down – Denial of Service Attack!
Twitter went down for about 2 hours today due to a large scale Denial of Service Attack. The services resumed to normal but the attack does not seem to stop as the Twitter Status blog reports that the service is still defending itself against the attack.
US government sites have witnessed a similar [...]
Facebook Announces Vanity URLs for User Profiles! Get Your Own Starting June 13th
If you’ve logged into your Facebook account recently you might have seen a message like the one above. Facebook just announced its plans to offer Usernames to the users. Profile URL’s on Facebook have been very mechanical and non-user friendly so far but that’s about to change.
Users can [...]
Facebook Phishing Attack! Stop clicking on Unidentified URLs
Facebook is currently battling with yet another phishing attack which is spreading like wild fire. Thousands of profiles are expected to be compromised; however, there is no official confirmation from the social giant.
If you see a message in your Facebook inbox which says “Visit atomclub.be” or “Look at dynasale.be” [...]
Why Twitter Cannot Hurt Facebook, Much!
I’ve read more writings on why and how Twitter will overtake Facebook than why Twitter won’t!
Though I am not a prolific Facebook user or a big Facebook fan I don’t really think Twitter can beat Facebook at what it’s doing, here is why… (follow @tnerd on Twitter)
To understand why Twitter cannot [...]
Facebook Profiles got more Secure
Facebook announced new Privacy options which leave more control in the hands of the users.
The newly introduced privacy options let you choose who sees what, you can control what information can be shared with the applications that are installed on your profile or even select what recent activities are [...]
fbFund Contest: $1 Million up for Grabs, Vote for Your Favorite Application (Video)
Facebook is all set to give away $1,000,000 as part of its fbFund. As part of the contest Facebook invited developers and entrepreneurs to participate in the contest by submitting an application and 5 winners will take away $225,000 each.
The contest in its first phase received about 600 applications [...]
Top 10 sites by Time Spent in July 2008. MySpace loses to Facebook!
Compete just released July’s web statistics which show top sites based on the search criteria. Compete is a web analytics or a web tracking company. Which records online activities of over 2,000,000+ U.S. Internet users that have granted them access to analyze the web pages they visit and ask them questions via surveys.
We decided to [...]
TNerd’s Facebook Application Released. Get the latest on Facebook
We (Nerds) released our first Facebook application which enables our readers to read articles on TNerd from within Facebook. All you have to do is install this application and it will start showing you latest articles from TNerd which can be shared with friends on Facebook.
This Application can also be shared with your friends on [...]
Coca-Cola Facebook Application: Share Links, Bookmarks using CokeTag
Coke recently launched its Facebook application called CokeTag. Using this application you can create a list of links or bookmarks under different categories and share it with your friends using a visually pleasing Facebook application, CokeTag.
As this application was launched very recently there are’nt many users of this application yet, but might catcup in the [...]
Sheryl Quits Google, Joins Facebook!
Facebook wants to achieve all the success once Google achieved and the best way to do that is by hiring top Googlers (way to go Mark!). Sheryl quits Google to join Facebook as COO. This is not the first time Facebook is hired a top executive from Google. Few of the known names Facebook hired [...]
