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This Week In Facebook: September 20, 2009

This week was yet another big week for Facebook with the company reaching new milestones, employees leaving, and the official launch of status tagging. I’m also proud to introduce a new feature of our weekly roundup: a stop motion video produced by my sister, Megan O’Neill. This new addition is a complete experiment so let us know your thoughts on the new weekly video!

Facebook Reaches 300 Million Users
This week Facebook announced that they officially crossed the 300 million user threshold, increasing the rate of growth to record levels. In addition to crossing this significant milestone, the company announced…


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Tech Support

Making Money Online Some Key Points To Note

Making money online can be easy although it is not as easy as many people think. This assumption in nothing more than a misconception, making money online is quite hard especially for people thinking they will make it big on their first try. Making money online can be easy if you do it correctly. Making money online is no longer a secret these days as everyone around the internet world seem to have got the hang of the very tips and techniques to make some good fast cash online. Making money online is the goal of many internet users worldwide…

Facebook

Learn Facebook Page SEO Mastery In 7 Easy Steps

This is Day 7 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
For those of you that haven’t spent a lot of time with internet marketing, you probably are not aware of what search engine optimization is. The main goal of search engine optimization is to increase the amount of traffic driven to any given site by search engines. Currently search engines (and mostly Google) serve as the starting point of a user’s journey around the web. While many users will go directly to their favorite sites, search engines are used multiple…


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Computer

Protect yourself from phishing attacks with OpenDNS

Phishing is an illegal activity where sensitive information, such as usernames and passwords, are acquired. Facebook and other social networking sites are frequently targeted. Phishing attacks can steal private information, such as login credentials or credit card numbers.
The latest generation web browsers, such as Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 come with built in phishing protection but this is not enough. Various solutions were offered, including running anti-spyware software, disabling plugins, and so forth but  It would not prevent all. If the problem was caused by ISP’s DNS server,  you can use OpenDNS to help prevent things like this.…


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Tech Support

Hackers launch phishing attack on Facebook and Orkut users

We request all Orkut and other Social Networking websites users to beware of phishing websites. Most of the Black Hat Hackers are hacking Orkut account by creating Fake Login page. If you enter your Username and Password on those website, you will loose you account and then they can easily misuse your confidential information.
How Hackers Hack Orkut Accounts

Phishing Attacks : The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. The e-mail…

Facebook

Facebook Launching Credit Card Payments When Majority Of Users Don’t Have Credit Cards (Updated)

We’ve been saying for a while that Facebook’s payment platform is a huge opportunity for the company to start making serious cash but there’s one issue with that logic: the majority of users don’t have credit cards. While nobody knows the exact number of Facebook users with credit cards, the most recent estimates are that only around 30 percent of Facebook users 25 percent of internet users have access to a card. The other 75 percent either have a mobile phone, that they can pay with via Boku or Zong, or are out of luck when it comes to making…


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Business

Resell Ebooks For Free

Start a website and resell ebooks for free!
Blogging is the newest way to start making easy cash online The rapid developments in available computer equipment and software technologies offer millions of people regular and fast access to the internet every day. Internet users soon realised that they were not happy to be passive consumers of digital information. The idea of `Web 2.0` is to enable and encourage user-generated media. Many web developers became aware of the new demands of users and have jumped at the opportunity to create platforms for internet users to express themselves online. From this, the…


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Facebook

Katie Couric Asks Facebook Users About Obama’s First 100 Days

Last week Katie Couric decided to ask Facebook users about their thoughts on Obama’s first 100 days in office. The reward for users? The possibility of having their video clip used in a live webcast on Wednesday. There has been a decent response so far, with around 20 – 25 submissions in the past day. I took the time to watch some of the responses, many of which are pretty entertaining (I’ve included a video of the responses below).
This isn’t the first time that internet users have been asked to voice their political opinions. Back in 2007, the first…


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Facebook

Facebook Governance Results: Well Under 1 Million Votes

Facebook’s Governance vote ends today and it appears as though they will fall short of the 60 million votes they were hoping to attract, attracting around 650,000 votes. Last week I suggested that the odds of the vote working was next to nothing. That doesn’t mean Facebook didn’t make a noble effort to attract the votes. Facebook actually made a substantial investment in attracting users.

According to Barry Schnitt of Facebook, the company promoted “the vote to users in a number of ways, including messages at the top of everyone’s profile (in multiple languages), ads, virtual gifts, stream stories from…


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