Facebook widgets try to install spyware

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Facebook widgets are trying to install spyware.Fortinet security team warns about spyware which spreads through the Facebook social networking site. According to the advisory, the spyware uses the Facebook widget feature, which allows users to integrate their own programs into the pages of the web portal. When attacked a user is informed that "Someone has a Secret Crush on you". To find out who this person is, the user is then instructed to install the "Secret Crush" widget. However, in order to proceed, the user has to invite an additional five contacts to install the widget. To know more about this, Click here....

Ganesh.KB

Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network

Hi,
Now, your familiar mail services like Yahoo and google are coming up with a new social network. Ignore Orkut, OpenSocial, Yahoo Mash and Yahoo 360. Google and Yahoo
have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the
challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail
systems and personalized home page services (iGoogle and MyYahoo) into
social networks. To know more, Click here...

Ganesh.KB


Technorati Tags: Inbox2.0, Yahoo, google, socialnetwork, orkut, myspace, facebook

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5 Facebook Widgets For Business Users

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It is a season fo widgets in Dexter Lab, widgets are playing major role in many online communities. It's the Golden Rule of business: it's not so much what you know, but also who you know.But do you know them on LinkedIn? Friendster? Facebook? MySpace? All of them? Networking is an integral part of doing business, but online networking
has changed the rules. Instead of spending (wasting?) hours shmoozing
in smoke-filled lounges and cocktail parties, networking is as simple as a search and click to "link" with people. To know more about this, click here...

Ganesh.KB

Technorati Tags: friendster, facebook, linkedin, myspace, networking

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Google Jumps On Widgets With Gadget Ads

Hi,

Google’s new Gadget Ads are creating quite a buzz today as the
widget based advertising program is unveiled. Gadget Ads will provide
advertisers with the tools to create and serve widget ads on Google’s
AdSense platform.In the tradition of the widget offerings on MySpace and Facebook,
should a user decide they like the Google widget they may add it to
their desktop or to their profile on a social networking site.To know more click here...


Technorati Tags: google, gadgets, myspace, facebook, widget, Adsense

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Apple iTunes Into Social Networking

Apple iTunes is taking a new dimension to promote music through social networking sites and blogs. The list of social networking Websites such as Facebook or MySpace, or their blogs and Websites. The three available My iTunes tools offer users tools to publish
information about iTunes purchases, reviews or favorite artists. The
tools are Web widgets which users add to their pages. To know more click here...

Thank you
Ganesh.KB


Technorati Tags: Apple, iTunes, Facebook, widgets, social networking

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