There is a new facebook scam that is being spread around. This one seems to be more sophisticated compared to the other scams you might have come across. Thanks to GST from bhw for the source and heads up. So here’s how the new scam works. Someone claiming to be a security personnel from facebook sends a message indicating that your facebook fan page needs to be updated with your personal details or else you will lose access to it. If you look at the picture above, you can tell that it looks very legit. It doesn’t contain any weird or shady links so most people can easily fall for it. The fear of losing access to the page forces the user to comply and give up the details. Of course, if you have a fan page with ton of fans, you will want to act fast in order to save your page. But wait… They then ask you to [...]
The Billion Dollar Startups [INFOGRAPHIC]
Most of the time we talk about the million dollar start ups and how they have started from scratch; some even started from their basement. Frankly speaking, there are ton of million dollar start ups now but sadly the million dollar doesn’t sound cool any more. You know what sounds cool? Billion dollars with a B Not all companies have made it to a billion dollar valuation beside a few such as Facebook, Instagram, Evernote etc. Today, I am sharing an interesting infographic which was recently sent to me by a staff from staff.com. I found it interesting since it not only shows the start ups but also their market value, number of employees etc. And if you closely notice, most of these companies are involved with social media. Let me know what you think! The Billion Dollar Start Ups ! via @ staff.com Talk soon amigos
Third Pillar of Facebook : Introducing Graph Search
Earlier today, facebook unveiled its new Graph Search feature which is known as the “third pillar” of facebook’s ecosystem. It is integrated with Microsoft’s Bing Search engine. After the news feed and the timeline, this is probably the next big feature which is currently in beta mode and has not been rolled out to everyone yet. At a first glance, you can tell that it’s a pretty neat feature and it definitely has great potential. So what is this Facebook Graph Search and how is it different from Google? Graph Search allows you to find more of what you are looking for through your friends and connections. For example, if you want to find all of your friends who are single and live around your area, you can simply type “friends who are single and live in Richmond” on the graph search and get some cool result Or you could search for the restaurants your friends visited Or you could find which [...]
Twitter against Spammers: Beat Spam but NOT Automation
I am sure by now most of you are aware of the recent twitter lawsuit against spamming tools. I was expecting it some day sooner but I was a little shocked to see it happen suddenly. The defendants in the suit are TweetAttacks (tweetattacks.com), TweetAdder (tweetadder.com), TweetBuddy (tweetbuddy.com), James Lucero (of justinlover.info) and Garland Harris (of troption.com), and according to twitter, they’re allegedly in violation of The Twitter Rules. You can view the lawsuit here I have always been against spammers but not automation. Don’t get me wrong. I had to make this post today to express my opinion and differentiate between “spamming” and “automation”. If you check out the twitter rules on spamming, I can assure you that 47% of the rules are violated most of the time whether knowingly or unintentionally. Twitter says you cannot create and sell accounts but I can see lots of websites popping up every day offering twitter account creation services. I can show [...]
