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Facebook’s Time Frame For IPad Timeline: January

thanhlangtu — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:17:59 +0000

Quit banging your iPad and hoping that Facebook’s new timeline profile will appear: You’ll have to wait until sometime in January.

9to5Mac reported that the social network is shooting for a mid- to late-January launch of timeline on its application for the Apple iPad tablet, after postponing the originally planned December release due to last-minute bugs.

The iPad was the last platform to get an official Facebook app, with users impatiently waiting months, so it’s no surprise that it will be the last to see timeline. In Facebook’s defense, however, the advanced graphics and touch-screen capabilities of the tablet likely require more sophisticated coding than its smartphone apps.

Timeline came to Apple siblings the iPhone and iPod Touch earlier this month, along with Facebook’s subscribe and smart friend lists features and improvements to photo management.

Readers: Are you anxious to get your hands on timeline for Facebook’s iPad app?

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Conversocial: Facebook Comments In Near-Real-Time

thanhlangtu — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:17:33 +0000

Social-media-management platform Conversocial tapped Facebook’s new application-programming interface to offer page managers near-real-time access to comments and posts on their pages.

Conversocial said the previous Facebook API allowed it to pull data for its customers every 5-10 minutes, and it can now do so within 12 seconds.

Users of the Conversocial platform can also delete filtered comments nearly instantly.

Removing the clutter and quickening access to comments and posts will help page managers to more efficiently communicate with and serve customers and potential customers.

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Facebook Turns Savior Once Again: Mother and Son Rescued

thanhlangtu — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:17:31 +0000

This is the third time in the last few months that Facebook has helped in tracking criminals and proved useful in prevention of a crime twice.

Recently, the lives of a Utah woman and her 17-month-old son were saved thanks to Facebook status update.

The woman and her son were held hostage at a home for five days. The woman had been abused sexually and physically for five days. She was assaulted every time she tried to escape. Her son was treated roughly and she was not allowed to feed her dog, the Associated Press has reported.

Rescue came in for her only when she managed to get inside a closet with her laptop and put in her status update as to what she was going through and that she and her son would be “dead by morning” if they didn’t get help. A friend saw the post and alerted the police of the situation.

“Facebook was her only outlet that she had at the home,” Police Sgt. Jon Arnold said. “It just happened that she was able to use it.”

Police arrested Troy Reed Critchfield (33) and booked him into jail Saturday for investigation of aggravated kidnapping, forcible sodomy, aggravated assault, domestic violence, child abuse, animal cruelty and other charges, reported brownsvilleherald.com.

The woman told the police that her cellphone was taken away by the man and she was repeatedly abused, hit and choked in the last five days.

“She claims that any time she went to go to a door, he physically assaulted her,” Arnold told The Associated Press Monday.

Critchfield remained in jail Monday. It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney.

In July, an investigation sparked when the father of a one-year-old girl uploaded a shocking image of his daughter with her hands and feet bound by tape.

The picture was accompanied with the caption “this is wut happens wen my baby hits me back,” reported mirror.co.uk.

Also, police were directed to the scene of a murder-suicide in Indiana when the killer posted on Facebook shortly before shooting himself.

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Facebook Tops List of Most-Searched Terms in 2011

thanhlangtu — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:17:29 +0000

Facebook was the most frequently searched term by British and American internet users in 2011, according to a new report.

In the UK and US, Facebook topped the list of most-searched-for terms on the web, followed by YouTube and “Facebook login”.

This makes Facebook the most searched for word overall for the third consecutive year.

Facebook dominated the top 10 list compiled by the online measurement company Experian Hitwise, part of the Experian Marketing Group.

The term was so popular that it showed up in four variations on the top 20 list and accounted for 4.42 percent of searches overall, a 24 percent increase on last year.

“Facebook” topped the list, while “Facebook login” placed third. “Facebook.com” came fifth and “www.facebook.com” took the eighth spot on the list.

Analysis of the data showed that search terms related to social networking dominated the results and accounted for 4.18 percent of the top 50 searches. This represents a 12 percent increase on 2010.

“Navigational searches dominated the top search results as users typed in terms versus typing in the URL in the browser bar,” said Simon Bradstock, general manager of Experian Hitwise.

“Hitwise saw 11 percent growth of single-word searches in 2011 as terms like ‘face’ and ‘you’ made the top 50 searches,” he said.

“Other top 2011 searches reflect ongoing fascination with celebrities online and many of the top fast-moving searches centred on natural disasters or notable personalities passing away.”

Top 10 most searched terms:

1. Facebook

2. Youtube

3. Facebook login

4. Craigslist

5. Facebook.com

6. Yahoo

7. Ebay

8. www.facebook.com

9. Mapquest

10. Yahoo.com

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Infographic: Facebook Advertising Opportunities Across The Globe

thanhlangtu — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:17:27 +0000

Facebook advertising developer Nanigans is thinking global, examining three key metrics in 20 countries to highlight where opportunities lie for advertising on the social network.

Nanigans analyzed some 80 billion Facebook ad impressions managed by its Ad Engine platform during the third quarter, measuring:

Reach: How many targetable users are in each country?
Cost-per-click: How much will it cost to reach those users?
Click-through rate: Where can the greatest engagement with ads be found?

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18.4 Million In U.S. Found Jobs On Facebook This Year

thanhlangtu — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:31:35 +0000

Most people associate LinkedIn with job searches more than Facebook, but the latter site helped almost twice as many people find jobs than the former — 18.4 million compared to 10 million.

To optimize your profile on the leading social network, post your qualifications in a note, which remains visible on your profile longer than other types of content. So recommends MBA Online in an infographic we’ve reproduced below.

Let us know what you think of the rendering in the comments section beneath this post, and tell us how much of a role social media played in your last job search.

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U.S., Facebook Reach Deal Over Deceptive Behavior Allegations

thanhlangtu — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:31:25 +0000

Facebook Inc. has reached a settlement with federal trade regulators over charges it engaged in deceptive behavior when changing its privacy settings, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday.

The settlement bars the social networking site from making any “further deceptive privacy claims” and requires the company to “get consumers’ approval before it changes the way it shares their data,” the FTC said.

The deal also requires Facebook to provide its users “clear and prominent notice” before their information is “shared beyond the privacy settings they have established.” In addition, Facebook is required to obtain periodic audits of its privacy policies for the next 20 years.

“Facebook is obligated to keep the promises about privacy that it makes to its hundreds of millions of users,” said FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz in statement. “Facebook’s innovation does not have to come at the expense of consumer privacy. The FTC action will ensure it will not.”

The settlement stems from an investigation in December 2009, when Facebook changed its privacy settings. At the time, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the changes as a “simpler model for privacy control.”

But it was later discovered that the profiles of certain users, who had deactivated or deleted their accounts, were still accessible.

Google Inc. agreed to similar audits in March, when it settled FTC charges of falsely representing how it would use personal information.

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Facebook Had Only Indirect Role In Cyber Monday Sales

thanhlangtu — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:31:21 +0000

Facebook accounted for barely half a percent of total online sales during Cyber Monday, the busiest day of the year for online shopping, but

IBM arrived at that figure and found that Cyber Monday chatter on social networks more than doubled (up 115 percent) compared with 2010.

Our guess: People talk about shopping on Facebook without initiating transactions there. Activity on social media doesn’t lead as directly to online purchases as the IBM statisticians were looking for.

Other IBM Cyber Monday findings:

Online sales rose 33 percent compared with Cyber Monday 2010, and the average order was up 2.6 percent, to $198.26 from $193.24 last year.
The peak shopping time was 2:05 p.m. Eastern, and upward spikes were also seen following the evening commute on both coasts.
Mobile devices played more of a role, as 10.8 percent of shoppers used them on Cyber Monday 2011 compared with 3.9 percent the previous year; mobile’s percentage of sales rose to 6.6 percent from 2.3 percent the prior year.
Also on the mobile front, the Apple iPhone and iPad were the two top devices for mobile retail traffic, at 4.1 percent and 3.3 percent, respectively, with Android phones and tablets placing third, at 3.2 percent. The two Apple devices accounted for 7.4 percent of online retail traffic on Cyber Monday, down from 10.2 percent on Black Friday.
Conversion rates for shoppers using the iPad rose to 5.2 percent from 4.6 percent on Cyber Monday 2010.
Online Cyber Monday sales were up 29.3 percent compared with Black Friday.
Mobile shopping traffic was 10.8 percent on Cyber Monday, down from 14.3 percent on Black Friday.
Mobile sales were also down, to 6.6 percent on Cyber Monday, from 9.8 percent on Black Friday.

IBM Smarter Commerce Chief Strategy Officer John Squire said:

Cyber Monday was once again the big winner for the Thanksgiving holiday shopping season, with a record number of consumers focused on finding the best online deals. Retailers that adopted a smarter approach to commerce — one that allowed them to swiftly adjust to the shifting shopping habits of their customers, whether in-store, online or via their mobile devices — were able to fully benefit from this day and the entire holiday weekend.

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Facebook ‘Social Readers’ Amass Millions Of Users

thanhlangtu — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:31:18 +0000

Yahoo News, The Washington Post,The Independent, and The Guardianhave amassed millions of readers for social editions of the publicationsthat launched in September.

These publications are all sending large numbers of posts into Facebook news feeds, often to the point of eclipsing other types of content — until users start hiding or deleting them.

Here’s how the social readers are faring.

Yahoo News: Since adding deep integration with Facebook’s Open Graph, more than 10 million users of the social network have activated the social news features, and Yahoo! News has seen a 600 percent increase in traffic from Facebook.
The Washington Post: Since launching its social reader app for Facebook, the app has drawn more than 3.5 million monthly active users, 83 percent of which are 35 or younger.
The Independent: More than one million monthly active users have connected their Facebook accounts to the U.K. newspaper’s social news functions, and The Independent has seen articles from the late 1990s crack its most-shared and most-views lists.
The Guardian: Its Facebook app totals almost four million monthly active users, and it has generated nearly one million page impressions daily, with more than half of its users 24 or younger.

What have your experiences been with the social readers like the ones mentioned above and others launched since September?

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How Thieves Use Facebook to Steal Your Identity

thanhlangtu — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:45:24 +0000

It’s the bane of modern life: the two-headed monster of identity theft and identity fraud.

Though the terms are often used interchangeably, there is a difference. ID theft occurs when someone steals personal information about you- Social Security number, address, bank account numbers, etc. When they actually use that information for their own gain-like opening a credit card, then they have committed identity fraud.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) estimates 10 million Americans are victims of ID fraud every year. Thieves do not need a lot of information in order to steal your identity, just one critical piece of data–such as your Social Security number or your mother’s maiden name—gives access to a lot more information.

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Moreover, a surprising amount of ID theft does not involve making fraudulent purchases. Take Megan Mullen: the 25-year old Tennessee woman charged with posing as her girlfriend Kerilee Burns. Mullen already knew Burns’ birth date and address.ullen allegedly took Burns’ health insurance card and used it to get treatment in a local hospital.

The good news is that, after climbing each year since 2003, the identity fraud incidents declined last year, according to the 2011 Identity Fraud Survey Report by Javelin, a consulting firm that advises financial services companies on security issues. The survey also showed 8.1 million consumers were affected, the same number as in 2007, and down from more than 11 million the year before.

Not only did ID fraud claim fewer victims last year, the amount of money involved fell to $37 billion from $56 billion. Javelin attributes this drop to the dramatic decline (41%) in losses from existing credit card accounts. By comparison, the amount lost on new accounts, which typically aren’t monitored as closely, fell less than half that.

Javelin also credits increased efforts by law enforcement, more sophisticated fraud detection systems and behavioral changes by consumers as reasons for the curbed ID fraud. More individuals have signed up for credit-card monitoring services and we are more aware of identity thieves’ techniques such as “phishing”- a scheme that involves sending an email from what appears to be a legitimate financial institution requesting that you reply back and provide account and other personal information.

But perhaps the biggest factor in last year’s decline in identify fraud can be attributed to the absence of one man: Albert Gonzalez, the mastermind behind major data break-ins at retailers such as Target (TGT: 52.17, -0.07, -0.13%), JCPenney (JCP: 33.69, +0.17, +0.51%), Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority, and 7-Eleven.

Gonzalez is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence. Gonzalez, who was a paid informant for the Secret Service at one point, assembled a talented team of cyber thieves and in addition to the companies named above, hacked into the parent company of TJ Maxx and Marshalls (NYSE: TJX), obtaining information on 94 million accounts. Gonzalez’s group was also responsible for hacking into the Heartland Payment Systems, gaining access to more than 130 million credit card accounts. Javelin describes this attack as “the largest data breach reported in U.S. history.”

“Once he was out of the picture and several of his cohorts were also behind bars, big headline-grabbing data breaches subsided in 2010,” according to Javelin’s 2011 report.

Despite the drop in total losses from identity theft, the average cost per victim went up. Javelin attributes some of this to a 36% increase in cases involving debit cards, which don’t carry the same consumer protections and loss limits as credit cards.

“Credit cards offer the greatest protection [against fraud] because you have zero liability as long as you tell the issuer when you see your statement,” according to Ben Woolsey of CreditCards.com. He says that “even after you pay your bill you can still get the money refunded,” with some issuers giving you as long as 60 days to report fraud. In contrast, Woolsey says if the fraud involves a debit card “you have to catch [the fraud] within two business days and notify your bank.” Even then, you can still be on the hook for up to $50.

Last year ushered in what could turn out to be a permanent shift in the way ID thieves use stolen credit card information: for the first time, fraudulent “card not present” purchases- such as those made online or over the phone- exceeded “card present” purchases, which involve in-person transactions where a physical credit card is used. Phil Blank, managing director of security risk and fraud at Javelin, expects this trend to be permanent due to continued growth in online shopping.

In essence, it’s a constant, ever-changing game: The good guys (consumers, law enforcement agencies, security providers) come up with a way to foil would-be identity thieves. In return, the fraudsters (a creative bunch) adjust by developing new techniques. Phishing, for instance, has morphed into “smishing;”instead of sending an email to your computer, scammers are sending an urgent text message to your mobile phone- apparently from your bank or brokerage firm- requiring that you to text back confidential information. It’s the technique that hit thousands of Wells Fargo customers in Oregon last month.

Now ID thieves are mining the mother lode of personal information: social networking sites such as Facebook. These websites are especially dangerous because users’ guards are down, thinking the only people accessing their page are “friends.” Often, someone will list juicy tidbits such as their birthday, the name of a parent or sibling, their home address, vacations they’ve recently taken, schools they’ve attended, the car they own, their pets- in other words, the answers to some of the most common security questions you must respond to order to gain access to website’s containing extremely sensitive personal data- investment and accounts, government records, etc.

“These social websites truly don’t care about your privacy. They want you to put as much out there [as you’re willing to]. They want to exploit it,” says Woolsey. “It’s consumer beware.”

After gathering what they can on a social networking website, a skilled identity thief can head to job sites such as LinkedIn and Monster.com to see if you’ve posted a resume. Now they know about your professional background, places you’ve worked, and degrees you hold. Next stop: Ancestry.com where, armed with a ream of inside information about you, Blank says they can fake a membership in your name. This allows them to uncover the magic key to the kingdom, the most common piece of personal information that must be provided in order to access financial accounts: your mother’s maiden name!

It’s that simple.

Really.

Impersonating another individual online is the latest frontier. It’s so new there is no national law that addresses it. Most states do not have any laws that explicitly cover it, either. That could change, however, thanks to Dana Thornton. The 41-year old New Jersey woman was indicted last year for seeking revenge on her ex-boyfriend, Michael Lasalandra (a police officer), by creating a phony Facebook page under his name. She allegedly listed his date of birth, photos and posted unflattering comments about other individuals in an effort to slander Lasalandra’s reputation. Although Thornton has been charged with one count of identity theft, her defense lawyer claims state law does not specifically address creating a profile of another person on a social networking website. If convicted, Thornton faces up to a year and a half in jail. A hearing is set for this week.

source from: foxbusiness