In light of the hacking, and the phishing, Twitter seems to be in the news all over this week. I know that any publicity is supposed to be good publicity, but having it all over the net about how you can’t lock down credentials and protect your users information seems pretty counter productive.
It seems the hacked Twitter incident has been traced back to DigitalGangster.com. Apparently a user there going by “GMZ” found the credentials and posted them on the site. At which point, other users used those credentials to create their own havoc and chaos. Later, a post in their discussion…
All weekend I’d been hearing and reading about Twitter’s API and how unsecured it is. I’d reported a phishing scheme and in the midst of all that, there was another phishing scheme, this time with iPhones as the payoff.
This morning I awoke to news that 30 or so of the celebrity twitter streams had been hacked and that there was inappropriate tweets posted on them.
Twitter responded quickly to these issues, issuing this statement,
The issue with these 33 accounts is different from the Phishing scam aimed at Twitter users this weekend. These accounts were compromised by an individual who hacked into some of…
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check it out at www.letartbe.com , let your eyes wonder and your mind expand…
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Most people that use Twitter have their complaints and suggestions on how to make the site the perfect site for them. Twitter will never be a one size fits all site for everyone, but there are a few universal complaints.
Power Twitter aims to help remedy that. It’s a Firefox add on, and it adds functionality that I have always wished Twitter would add.
Power Twitter adds features to the Twitter Web interface including:
-search
-search scoped to a specific user
-status history peeking on mouseover
-Facebook status updates
-inline YouTube, Flickr, and TwitPic
-url expansion
-url translation to page titles
-open web update (news feed) mapping
This solves the issue that…
No longer do you have just status updates and writing on others’ walls, now you can leave them voicemail messages and texts.
Voicetag is not the first app to try and integrate voicemail into Facebook, but it’s the first one to use regular phones and SMS messages. It’s a new app, developed by Ringful.com, and it’s designed to showcase their voice API’s.
While still in Beta, the folks at Ringful say that before long VoiceTag will have the capability to do all this.
But our vision is much grander than simple voice messaging. We are currently building a solution that has the following features:
The governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has taken to using twitter and widgets to try and get the state’s budget passed. He has apparently had enough and is trying to get the word out, in any way possible.
The widget he has developed also counts down the days since they have failed to act, and adds up what the expected budget deficit currently is. The widget is designed to be shared, simply by clicking the get and share link on the bottom. It can be added to most social networking profiles and sites as well as be emailed directly.
The governator also…
At the end of each year, our print media counterparts love to publish “In and Out” lists. Newspapers and magazines own the ideal format to play up a fun look at what trends are coming in or going out. I noticed a few related to digital new media worth sharing.
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IN
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“The Secret”
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“The Last Lecture”
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YouTube.com
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FunnyOrDie.com
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Watching TV on TV
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Watching TV online
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Waiting in line for the IPhone
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Waiting in Line for food stamps
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Sarah Palin
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Tina Fey
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Bushisms (nukular)
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Obamarama (eloquence)
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Okay – that last one I couldn’t resist. As for the Tina Fey item, remember that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and comedian Fey became two of 2008’s biggest…
We were living in a dream world. The general public, and to a great extent the press, closed its eyes to the increasingly complex and baffling machinations of the financial industry, which kept screaming that oversight would ruin everything. – Bob Herbert, The New York Times
Bob Herbert’s comment about the U.S. public caught my attention not only because it is so true, but also because of its justified criticism of the nation’s “press.” It is the increasing failures of commercial news media – from missing an easily predictable financial catastrophe to a war started on laughably obvious false pretenses, to…
Julio Ojeda-Zapata, and the people at Happy About Books, have released a book designed to help businesses decide how best to use Twitter for business.
He has this to say about this new venture,
As a top U.S. technology journalist, I’ve created a unique blend of professional reportage and social-media insight. My book is based on months of research into Twitter best practices in business, as well as my own extensive Twitter use.
“Twitter Means Business” profiles businesses of all types and sizes that have learned to exploit Twitter in a variety of creative, effective ways.
The book provides an intimate tour of the…
Some surprising revelations regarding Internet profitability at a major U.S. newspaper provide me a sought opportunity to clarify my August 2008 comment that newspapers are “doomed.” Speaking this month at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication, Los Angeles Times editor Russ Stanton stated the Times‘ Web site revenue now exceeds its editorial payroll costs. My prediction for the demise of that very place I began my professional career, newspapers, is based on multiple fac
tors starting with digital new media. Among other factors was my now challenged belief that newspaper Web site revenue could never cover the costs of present…
