Trending on Twitter and being discussed on several websites, including the The Next Web, is yet another Facebook targeted virus being spread via a widespread hack.</p> <p>This virus appears in the wake of the very recent Osama Bin Laden virus; a virus which asked users to cut and paste a URL that would take them to a video of Bin Laden?s death, then infected their computers, and passed itself along via a Facebook status update.</p>
ContinuedWidespread Hack Spreads Virus on Facebook
Report Says: Five Million Facebook Users Are Under Age Ten
</p> <p>The report, which was released to the public yesterday, bases its findings on a survey that included 2,089 people from a TNS consumer panel.</p>
ContinuedGoogle?s +1 to Rival Facebook?s Like
According to the development team at Google, the company has developed a rival to the Facebook Like button called Google +1 and it is set to make its debut sometime within the next few weeks.</p> <p>Yesterday, at the Google I/O conference, which was held in San Francisco California, Google gave attendees a look at the new button.</p>
ContinuedFacebook Drives More News Traffic Than Twitter
According to Pew Research Center and as reported on social media sites, when it comes to traffic and the top online news sites, Facebook has been shown to be more valuable than Twitter.</p> <p>The contents of the study, which were released on Monday, used Nielsen data concerning the number of unique visitors per month on 25 top US news sites.</p>
ContinuedGoogle?s face-lift
</p> <p>Has anybody else noticed that Google?s results page looks different in the last few days?</p> <p>Moreover, has anybody else noticed that Google?s results page now looks almost identical to Bing?s? Hang on, doesn?t it look similar Yahoo?s results page, too?</p> <p>There?s no doubt that Google is an innovator when it comes to search-based and technological breakthroughs, but why copy the layout of their main competitors? results pages?</p> <p>Would Rembrandt have copied the artwork of one of the many pretenders to his canvas-shaped throne?</p> <p>Highly unlikely. So why has Google copied Yahoo and Bing? Well, it?s all down to a culmination of Google?s advances in Universal Search, the Search Options panel and Google Squared ? meaning that they needed an easy-to-use function in which to display their new technologies.</p> <p>Make no mistake, this is a progressive step forward for the world of search ? offering a wider range of suggestions to match the search term ? but why couldn?t they lead the way in terms of layout as well?</p> <p>It?s almost a ringing endorsement to Yahoo and Bing ? an acceptance that their competitors have been getting it right. Come on, Google, don?t be a digital sheep.</p> <p>
ContinuedJudge Rules IP Address is Not Person
In a world where internet content is king and content can be downloaded, the battle that is raging over whether lawsuits and actions against internet users who use peer-to-peer services to download copyrighted content are even worth it.</p> <p>In the past year, over 100,000 internet users have been sued in the USA by different copyright holders.</p>
ContinuedGoogle Chrome: As Seen On TV
Regardless of your content writing expertise, whether it is blogging or writing eBooks, internet research can play an important part in the development process and web browsers are necessary to perform this task effectively.</p>
ContinuedSocial Media and Its Impact on How We Gather Information
</p> <p>The death of Osama bin Laden is what most of the world is talking about.</p>
ContinuedNorth Korea Confiscating Mobiles to Block Information
In a world where newsworthy content is readily available from so many venues ? traditional media, social networking sites, blogs, news feeds ? countries that rely on controlling information in order to control their citizens are finding the task more difficult.</p>
ContinuedBin Laden?s Death Generates over 5,000 Tweets per Second
According to social media gurus Mashable, the death of Osama Bin Laden has set the record as one of the highest tweeted events in the history, generating over 5,000 tweets per second during US President Barak Obama?s speech releasing the news.<br /> Upon first release of the statistics, it was believed that the rate was at 4,000 tweets per second.</p>
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