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Four idealistic students at New York University have raised $200,000 to fund a project building a more privacy-centric social network. Diaspora isn't likely to take Facebook down just yet, but after a very flattering introduction in the New York Times a few weeks back the group watched hundreds of small donations flood in - more than 6,400 donations have been pledged so far - and in less than one month. Zuckerberg himself is rumoured to have contributed. The four wrote on Monday that they had expected to scrape an initial $10,000 together through Kickstarter, the creative project funding site, from friends and family - but recognise they have "struck a chord with the world and identified a problem which needs to be solved". That 'problem' is the need for what they describe as a "privacy-aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network". "You may not hear too much from us in the coming months and we will try our best to pro...

DoubleClick Inc., an Internet ad service owned by Google Inc., said Thursday that it bought online ad technology startup Invite Media. Invite Media, which is based in New York and Philadelphia, makes tools to help marketers bid on online advertising space. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Google bought DoubleClick in March 2008 for $3.2 billion. More recently, the online search leader passed the final regulatory hurdle in its $750 million acquisition of mobile ad service AdMob in May when the Federal Trade Commission unanimously approved that purchase.

A teenage Bill Gates was such a problem child that he and his parents had to go through family therapy for two years, the Microsoft founder's dad has revealed. "Things obviously worked themselves out," the New York Daily News quoted Gates Sr., 84, as telling the crowd in the auditorium of the storied 92nd Street Y. He went on: "Our family was pretty typical as families go, with conflicts arising between parents and children at a certain age. "There's fighting against discipline, and that's the situation we had. In this particular case it was mostly between Bill and his mother." Gates Jr., nicknamed Trey at home, said: "Mom was on the front line. "But Dad was in reserve."

Jejaring sosial terbesar di dunia, Facebook, baru-baru ini digugat oleh penggunanya karena dituduh membocorkan data pribadi pengguna kepada para pengiklan. Salah seorang pengguna Facebook asal South Lake Tahoe California, David Gould, menuding Facebook telah mengingkari kebijakan privasinya. Yaitu dengan mengungkap data-data pengguna yang mengeklik iklan di Facebook, meliputi nama asli, kota tempat tinggal, asal sekolah, serta daftar teman-teman. Menurut Gould, kepada para pengiklan, Facebook mengirimkan referrer header setiap saat ada pengguna Facebook yang mengeklik iklan. Jadi setiap kali pengiklan menerima referrer header itu, para pengiklan bisa melihat profil pengguna spesifik yang telah mengeklik iklan itu. Apalagi, kata Gould, saat itu, kebijakan privasi yang lama memungkinkan pengiklan juga mengakses nama username maupun foto pengguna Facebook, mengingat banyak di antara mereka yang tidak mengutak-atik pengaturan privasi mereka.

Taqwa.me provides users one of the most powerful engines to educate, search and research. Users are given the ability to determine whether websites or content within a site is “haram” or “halal”, and are encouraged to discuss their views and opinions in a social manner, as content cannot be dictated on the basis of what one person solely believes. By interacting in this social forum, we are helping one another to understand and consider why certain things are halal or haram. About Taqwa Taqwa is the Islamic concept of constant awareness of Allah (God). In the Qur’an Taqwa is explained as “right conduct”, “piety”, “guarding oneself”, “guarding against evil”(Q 2:197 and 22:37), and “piety of hearts” (Q 22:32). Taqwa, therefore, is an attribute of a believer inspired by Allah.

Facebook has just won its court battle in Pakistan and reaffirmed its restoration in the country . The privacy issue continues to besiege the social networking ace. However, for all those Facebook -buffs who are in no mood to celebrate Quit Facebook Day, you can better tighten your privacy. A week ago, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckberg, while addressing the privacy issues , had announced that suggesting the plans would roll out simplified controls. The new tools will offer users one menu with three settings that determine who can see shared content - friends, friends of friends and everyone. To boost up your security you can surely get on with some cool tips by Symantec for on social network to protect their personal information . The foremost thing is never to share your password for facebook or any other social networking site with anyone not even your best friend or spouse. warned that photos, videos and comments posted on the web are often there forever. Never post anything you w...

The landscape of the community-engineered social web, the one based on open technologies, has changed dramatically over the past few months. If you took a year off and just came back, you would probably not recognize it at all. The movement that started with protocols such as OpenID, OAuth, and Activity Streams, is now mostly gone. All the cool kids got grownup jobs and the market is back again driven by a small number of corporations. In fact, it is so small it can be counted on two fingers. A year ago, a meeting with Chris Messina, David Recordon, Joseph Smarr, Monica Keller, Will Norris, Luke Shepard, and John Panzer represented 7 different organizations or communities – a well-balanced mix of big and small, corporate and independent. Today it’s just Facebook and Google and that has significant implications. But when examining how these two companies engage in the development of open technologies, the findings are quite surprising. On the product side, Google is famous for their...

Serangan Israel ke kapal bantuan Mavi Marmara, ikut menjadi obrolan seru di Twitter. Namun sayang, dua topik terkait serangan Israel itu justru tidak bisa diakses pengguna Twitter. Beraneka tweet ramai memperbincangkan serangan terhadap kapal bantuan kemanusiaan yang juga membawa 12 WNI itu. Bahkan, insiden itu menjadi trending topic di Twitter. Dua trending topic itu adalah 'israil' dan '#flotilla'. Namun sayang keduanya tidak bisa diakses para pengguna Twitter. Pantauan detikINET, Senin (31/5/2010), 'israil' bisa di-klik, namun kemudian yang muncul adalah tulisan "Something is technically wrong". Sementara '#flotilla' ketika dicari lewat pencarian Twitter, bahkan tidak muncul sama sekali. Padahal banyak pengguna Twitter yang ikut menimbrung memperbincangkan serangan terhadap rombongan Freedom Flotilla itu. Mereka mempertanyakan apakah Twitter dengan sengaja menyensor topik '#flotilla'.

Pertarungan antara Google melawan Apple nampaknya mulai berpindah, dari ponsel pintar ke TV. Was-was terhadap kedatangan Google TV, Apple pun siapkan kejutan baru. Beredar rumor, Apple bakal membenamkan iPhone OS ke dalam Apple TV. Tentunya hal ini dilakukan Apple untuk membendung langkah Google yang juga menghadirkan Android ke dalam Google TV. Jika rumor tersebut benar, diperkirakan akan terjadi pertempuran seru antar OS yakni iPhone OS melawan Android. Seperti diberitakan Mashable, Senin (31/5/2010), OS yang bakal hadir pada Apple TV tersebut memang belum pernah dikenalkan sebelumnya, dan baru akan dikenalkan dalam ajang WWDC (Worldwide Development Conference) mendatang. Kabarnya OS ini juga bakal memanfaatkan layanan cloud computing daripada sever lokal milik Apple. Bahkan, berdasarkan informasi yang telah didapatkan dari orang dekat Apple bahwa versi lanjutan dari Apple TV dikatakan akan sangat menjanjikan. Arsitektur baru dari perangkat ini akan berdasarkan iPhone 4 d...

Let's face it: Facebook hit critical mass and the mainstream a while ago. According to the site itself, there are over 400 million active users, and 50 percent of them visit on any given day. Even my brother-in-law's 91-year-old grandma is on Facebook. Now that's mainstream. When anything grows that large, that quickly, backlash is all but inevitable. But "backlash" seems like a mild term to apply to the very vocal and growing complaints that Facebook plays fast and loose with its members' privacy. In his column titled "Facebook: Privacy Enemy Number One?" PCMag's reviews editor Dan Costa noted in April that "the simple fact that gets lost in the rush towards ubiquitous social connectivity is that Facebook users still don't know what they are sharing, with whom, or why it matters. In short: Facebook remains a privacy minefield. And just yesterday, lead software and Web services analyst Michael Muchmore reported in his story, ...

A Facebook phishing attack is on the loose this weekend — the third widespread attack on the site in the past three weeks. The attack attempts to steal your Facebook login credentials, install malware on your computer, and even get your home address. The attack is spread via a “hilarious video” posted to Facebook walls, reports WebSense — when clicked, a form appears requesting your Facebook login. The attack then returns you to Facebook, installs an app called “Media Player HD”, and asks you to download the “FLV player” — doing so installs malware on your machine. It gets worse: Depending on your location, you may also be presented with a contest to win an iPad … if you just enter your home address. To avoid getting caught, simply remove the “hilarious video” if you find it on your Facebook wall. If you see it elsewhere on Facebook, don’t click it … and of course remember the obvious rule: Don’t enter your Facebook login anywhere other than Facebook.com. If you already fell fo...

Di tengah gempuran soal tuntutan perbaikan privasi pengguna, Facebook siap menggelar pesta besar-besaran beberapa pekan mendatang. Jika tak ada aral melintang, kemungkinan 25 Juni 2010, Facebook akan mengumumkan berita besar: "Jumlah pengguna tembus 500 juta orang." Itu berarti populasi Facebook lebih besar dari penduduk Indonesia sebanyak 230 juta orang atau penduduk Amerika Serikat 300 juta orang. Bahkan, pengguna Facebook adalah terbesar ketiga di dunia, setelah penduduk China yang berjumlah 1,6 miliar orang dan India 1,1 miliar orang. "Kami seringkali menahan pengumuman pertumbuhan Facebook dan menyatukannya dengan pengumuman penting lain seperti misalnya peluncuran produk," demikian pernyataan Facebook Kepada situs Search Engine Land, 19 Mei 2010. "Jadi, jumlah pengguna Facebook sebenarnya, seringkali lebih besar daripada yang kami umumkan saat itu." Sungguh luar biasa. Hanya dalam tempo enam tahun sejak didirikan, Facebook telah masuk jajaran w...

Aksi pemblokiran terhadap Facebook oleh Pemerintah Pakistan mendorong para ahli IT untuk mengembangkan jejaring sosial dalam negeri. Setelah, muncul fan page 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!, Pemerintah Pakistan langsung memblokir Facebook, karena hal itu dianggap melecehkan umat Muslim. Enam orang ahli IT asal Lahore, Pakistan mengembangkan Facebook berbasis Islam yang beralamat di www.millatfacebook.com . Demikian dilansir StraitsTimes, Jumat (28/5/2010). Salah satu pendiri MillatFacebook, Omar Zaheer Meer, mengatakan situs itu telah diluncurkan Rabu lalu dan telah menarik 8.000 pengguna. Tujuannya, kata Meer, adalah untuk menyatakan sikap tidak setuju pengguna terhadap gambar Nabi Muhammad. Diharapkan jejaring sosial tersebut dapat menggaet sekira 1,6 miliar umat muslim pengguna internet. Para pendiri Millatfacebook mengatakan, situs tersebut bakal menandingi situs jejaring yang didirikan Mark Zuckerberg. "Millatfacebook adalah situs jejaring sosial pertama Pakistan. S...