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RE: Facebook tests real-time update feature
wow.
we will get more entertainment on facebook.
wow.
we will get more entertainment on facebook.
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Facebook launches a film festival
After Twitter launched the Tweeple Film Awards, now Facebook has launched Onecloudfest, in which the number of ‘Likes’ will determine the winning films.This film festival is being conducted by a team of independent filmmakers.
The entries will be accepted under the categories of ‘Narrative Shorts’, ‘Animations’, ‘Music Videos’ and ‘Documentary Shorts’.
While ‘Music Videos’ will be less than 15 minutes long, the other categories will be under 30-minutes.
The importance of social media has been growing by the day. Besides connecting friends and like-minded people, the media has made inroads into the world of films.
“The inspiration section of the festival would be retrospective in nature that will screen selected, established short and long formats that have already travelled most festival circuits”, an official statement said.
After Twitter launched the Tweeple Film Awards, now Facebook has launched Onecloudfest, in which the number of ‘Likes’ will determine the winning films.This film festival is being conducted by a team of independent filmmakers.
The entries will be accepted under the categories of ‘Narrative Shorts’, ‘Animations’, ‘Music Videos’ and ‘Documentary Shorts’.
While ‘Music Videos’ will be less than 15 minutes long, the other categories will be under 30-minutes.
The importance of social media has been growing by the day. Besides connecting friends and like-minded people, the media has made inroads into the world of films.
“The inspiration section of the festival would be retrospective in nature that will screen selected, established short and long formats that have already travelled most festival circuits”, an official statement said.
Indian hacker group kicked-out by Facebook
The Indian arm of a hacker group 'Anonymous' - called Anonymous Operation India - has been removed from Facebook and Twitter. Both the 'Operation India' Facebook page and '@operationindia' Twitter handle are no more accessible.
'Anonymous' is a 'hacktivist' group that has been linked to the recent attack on Sony as well as against the governments of Iran, Spain, New Zealand and Colombia. Their operations started in India recently and came into the limelight when they claimed to have hacked the National Informatics Centre website and the Indian Army website last week .
The NIC site on the URL http://informatics.nic.in/oldnewsonline/abc.html was defaced with graffiti that said: "We exist without nationality. We exist with humanity. NIC took 3 mins."
In a similar hack, the Indian Army's website was reportedly taken down for about an hour. According to www.hackernews.com, the hackers also released password/ login information and forensic logs of indianarmy.nic.in. The Denial of Service (DoS) attack reportedly did not harm the site and there was no data loss. The site also quotes a message from them that states, "We took Down Indian Army Official Site and NIC knows more what we did."
In a message posted on their IRC (Internet Relay Chat) group, Anonymous claimed responsibility for both hacks saying, "The NIC hack, was merely a taste of what may come...The time has come now, when we'll wage a war of independence - from corruption and we promise to fight till the end."
After the attacks the group has placed its demands that include taking strong and decisive measures to root-out corruption and stem the rot plaguing Indian politics, the expeditious passing of the Lokpal Bill and prescription of severe punishment for corrupt officials. Find below the complete message from the hacking group.
The Indian arm of a hacker group 'Anonymous' - called Anonymous Operation India - has been removed from Facebook and Twitter. Both the 'Operation India' Facebook page and '@operationindia' Twitter handle are no more accessible.
'Anonymous' is a 'hacktivist' group that has been linked to the recent attack on Sony as well as against the governments of Iran, Spain, New Zealand and Colombia. Their operations started in India recently and came into the limelight when they claimed to have hacked the National Informatics Centre website and the Indian Army website last week .
The NIC site on the URL http://informatics.nic.in/oldnewsonline/abc.html was defaced with graffiti that said: "We exist without nationality. We exist with humanity. NIC took 3 mins."
In a similar hack, the Indian Army's website was reportedly taken down for about an hour. According to www.hackernews.com, the hackers also released password/ login information and forensic logs of indianarmy.nic.in. The Denial of Service (DoS) attack reportedly did not harm the site and there was no data loss. The site also quotes a message from them that states, "We took Down Indian Army Official Site and NIC knows more what we did."
In a message posted on their IRC (Internet Relay Chat) group, Anonymous claimed responsibility for both hacks saying, "The NIC hack, was merely a taste of what may come...The time has come now, when we'll wage a war of independence - from corruption and we promise to fight till the end."
After the attacks the group has placed its demands that include taking strong and decisive measures to root-out corruption and stem the rot plaguing Indian politics, the expeditious passing of the Lokpal Bill and prescription of severe punishment for corrupt officials. Find below the complete message from the hacking group.
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Connecticut wants Facebook meeting over privacy
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Connecticut's Attorney General is deeply concerned over Facebook's use of facial recognition technology to identify users and has requested a meeting with Facebook officials to discuss ways to alleviate those concerns.
Attorney General George Jepsen said in a letter to Facebook earlier this week that the world's No. 1 Internet social network appeared to have overlooked consumer privacy by analyzing the faces in photographs posted on the website and cataloging the recognition.
"Consumers must be made aware that the digital images of their faces are being coupled by Facebook technology to the personal information in their Facebook profiles," Jepsen wrote in the letter released by his office on Thursday.
"The potential uses of facial recognition on this scale remain unclear but concerning," the letter said.
The letter follows Facebook's broad deployment of its "Tag Suggestions" technology, which scans users' uploaded photos, comparing faces in the photos with previously uploaded photos to see if it can match people to the photos.
If a match is found, Facebook alerts the person uploading the photos and invites them to "tag," or identify, the person in the photo.
Facebook, which announced in December that it planned to introduce the service in the United States, said last week that the feature was available in "most countries."
The lack of notification about the wider roll-out of the technology and Facebook's automatically enabling the technology in users' settings have raised concerns among some privacy advocates who say it should be up to users to allow it.
Last week, a group of privacy advocate organizations filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission requesting an investigation.
Facebook, which has more than 500 million users, was not available for comment.
The company has said that automated photo-tagging suggestions are only made when new photos are added, that only friends are suggested and that users can disable the feature in their privacy settings.
Jepsen said in his letter that "fairly simple changes" could be enough to address privacy concerns, such as requiring users to "opt in" to facial recognition and improved notification when users' photos are analyzed and identified.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Connecticut's Attorney General is deeply concerned over Facebook's use of facial recognition technology to identify users and has requested a meeting with Facebook officials to discuss ways to alleviate those concerns.
Attorney General George Jepsen said in a letter to Facebook earlier this week that the world's No. 1 Internet social network appeared to have overlooked consumer privacy by analyzing the faces in photographs posted on the website and cataloging the recognition.
"Consumers must be made aware that the digital images of their faces are being coupled by Facebook technology to the personal information in their Facebook profiles," Jepsen wrote in the letter released by his office on Thursday.
"The potential uses of facial recognition on this scale remain unclear but concerning," the letter said.
The letter follows Facebook's broad deployment of its "Tag Suggestions" technology, which scans users' uploaded photos, comparing faces in the photos with previously uploaded photos to see if it can match people to the photos.
If a match is found, Facebook alerts the person uploading the photos and invites them to "tag," or identify, the person in the photo.
Facebook, which announced in December that it planned to introduce the service in the United States, said last week that the feature was available in "most countries."
The lack of notification about the wider roll-out of the technology and Facebook's automatically enabling the technology in users' settings have raised concerns among some privacy advocates who say it should be up to users to allow it.
Last week, a group of privacy advocate organizations filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission requesting an investigation.
Facebook, which has more than 500 million users, was not available for comment.
The company has said that automated photo-tagging suggestions are only made when new photos are added, that only friends are suggested and that users can disable the feature in their privacy settings.
Jepsen said in his letter that "fairly simple changes" could be enough to address privacy concerns, such as requiring users to "opt in" to facial recognition and improved notification when users' photos are analyzed and identified.
Facebook warns more firms for luring users to 'like' themCompanies luring users to cl
Companies luring users to click on the Facebook 'like' button to enter contests have come under scrutiny of the social networking giant which has 700 million users globally and 31 million users in India. Facebook has deleted pages of big brands such as Cadbury's Bournville, French Connection UK (FCUK), India, and Pizza Hut India, and is understood to have sent warning letters to dozens of big companies for misusing the button to promote their brands, thus violating the provisions of its promotional guidelines revised on May 11.
"This is a wake-up call for marketing managers. In an attempt to get access to the maximum number of customers, brands had literally started bribing them through contest prizes. Anyone who commented or pressed the like button automatically won something. This resulted in contest entrants being signed up as "fans" who would receive updates they never wanted,” said Mahesh Murthy, founder, Pinstorm, a digital brand management firm.“Now, the onus is once again on building a community organically, through great content and engagement. At Pinstorm we have never done this for any of the brands we manage, and we have declined work where clients have asked us to bribe and get fans."
Facebook has, in fact, been enforcing the guidelines strictly in the last fortnight said social media strategist and joint CEO of SocialWavelength.com Hareesh Tibrewala. "The company views the misuse of the like button as a dilution of its policy. Most companies may not have read the revised guidelines," he said.
The new guidelines say: "You must not use Facebook features or functionality, such as the like button, as a voting mechanism for a promotion; notify winners through Facebook chat, posts on profiles or pages; and use Facebook’s name, trademarks, trade names, copyrights, or any other intellectual property in connection with a promotion or mention Facebook in the rules or materials relating to the promotion..."
Promotions, instead, must be administered within apps on Facebook.com, either on a canvas page or on an App on a page tab. It should also acknowledge the promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook.
Companies luring users to click on the Facebook 'like' button to enter contests have come under scrutiny of the social networking giant which has 700 million users globally and 31 million users in India. Facebook has deleted pages of big brands such as Cadbury's Bournville, French Connection UK (FCUK), India, and Pizza Hut India, and is understood to have sent warning letters to dozens of big companies for misusing the button to promote their brands, thus violating the provisions of its promotional guidelines revised on May 11.
"This is a wake-up call for marketing managers. In an attempt to get access to the maximum number of customers, brands had literally started bribing them through contest prizes. Anyone who commented or pressed the like button automatically won something. This resulted in contest entrants being signed up as "fans" who would receive updates they never wanted,” said Mahesh Murthy, founder, Pinstorm, a digital brand management firm.“Now, the onus is once again on building a community organically, through great content and engagement. At Pinstorm we have never done this for any of the brands we manage, and we have declined work where clients have asked us to bribe and get fans."
Facebook has, in fact, been enforcing the guidelines strictly in the last fortnight said social media strategist and joint CEO of SocialWavelength.com Hareesh Tibrewala. "The company views the misuse of the like button as a dilution of its policy. Most companies may not have read the revised guidelines," he said.
The new guidelines say: "You must not use Facebook features or functionality, such as the like button, as a voting mechanism for a promotion; notify winners through Facebook chat, posts on profiles or pages; and use Facebook’s name, trademarks, trade names, copyrights, or any other intellectual property in connection with a promotion or mention Facebook in the rules or materials relating to the promotion..."
Promotions, instead, must be administered within apps on Facebook.com, either on a canvas page or on an App on a page tab. It should also acknowledge the promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook.
Do You Want to Hack Someone's Facebook?
This is not hacking, but one way to access somebody's FB account. If anybody interested, Please read this article below.
http://tech2.in.com/news/social-networking/so-you-wanna-hack-someones-facebook/227452
This is not hacking, but one way to access somebody's FB account. If anybody interested, Please read this article below.
http://tech2.in.com/news/social-networking/so-you-wanna-hack-someones-facebook/227452
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Facebook set to introduce virtual currency in India
http://www.indiantelevision.com/mnd/y2k11/jun/29jungm1.php
http://www.indiantelevision.com/mnd/y2k11/jun/29jungm1.php
EA SPORTS Shares Facebook Learning and Announces Retail Stores
EA SPORTS Shares Facebook Learning and Announces Retail Stores
EA SPORTS Shares Facebook Learning and Announces Retail Stores
Kamlesh Barjati
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RE: EA SPORTS Shares Facebook Learning and Announces Retail Stores
Thats old news
Thats old news
