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This blog will contain constantly updated articles covering the topics of programming, website development, project management, and legal side of operation of an outsourcing company in Ukraine. We hope that our solutions and examples will prove to be useful to other participants of the IT outsourcing market. |
Posts Tagged ‘Social network’Facebook and Twitter ‘help to politicize’ today’s youthTuesday, March 1st, 2011The web, social networking in particular, is helping to politicize younger people, according to the University of California’s Humanities Research Institute.
The research studied over 2,500 members of the Generation Y over a number of years and found that based on social media updates, younger people are more likely to engage with their government if given the accessibility to so. Bookmark/Search this post with:
      Fighting Spam and Scams on TwitterTuesday, February 22nd, 2011Twitter presents a relatively new frontier for spammers, malware creators, and all around bad guys, which in turn has created the opportunity for security researchers and vendors alike to try to figure out, and put a stop to, their efforts.
One company that’s trying to get a handle on the size of the problem, and on ways to fight it, is Barracuda Networks. During a talk at the RSA security conference here, which wraps up tomorrow, Barracuda outlined some of the research it’s been doing in this area over the past two years. Bookmark/Search this post with:
Google Updates Social SearchFriday, February 18th, 2011
Google hopes to deploy more compelling social offerings this year and its latest effort along these lines demonstrates at least that the company is serious about social connectivity. Google is weaving social into search, its core service. Google on Thursday said that it has begun mixing social content — friends’ posts to various services like YouTube, Flickr and the like — with its algorithmically determined search results. So if your friends blog or tweet about their favorite coffee shops, your searches for coffee will return their musings, provided your friends aren’t posing somewhere that Google can’t reach, like past Facebook’s privacy settings. Previously, social search results were more like the dregs of relevance, settling at the bottom of the search results page were they were less likely to be noticed. Bookmark/Search this post with:
Facebook Places Deals to Target Local Business Ads in UK and EuropeTuesday, February 1st, 2011Facebook made a significant move into the potentially lucrative local business advertising space on Monday with the launch in the UK and other European countries of Places Deals, which gives users discounts and benefits with nearby shops, restaurants and venues through their mobile phones.
Launched in the US last November, Facebook Deals lets users ‘check in’ to venues via the Places feature on its mobile app for iPhone, Android and through facebook.com on some smartphones. Bookmark/Search this post with:
Start-Up Plans a More Personal Social NetworkMonday, November 15th, 2010Facebook made oversharing with a small army of friends a mainstream activity. Now, one of its early architects is swinging in the other direction.
Dave Morin, who helped build Facebook Connect and the Facebook Platform, left the company this year to start his own venture, called Path. He says it is not another social network he has created, but a personal network, and on Monday, it will open to the public with an iPhone app for sharing cellphone photos with a limited circle of friends. Bookmark/Search this post with:
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