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Keeping an eye on events and musings on the web, we’ve run across these gems … just a few of the more interesting ones. When you discover interesting, informative or entertaining passages on the web, please pass them along at UGNN or Facebook! Here you go …
* What Happens When Facebook Goes Down?
* Social media – Few rules. Powerful tools. Endless opportunities.
* How to Back Up Your Social Media Accounts
* Universal Search: Not All Blends are Created Equal
* If Facebook Were a Country?

I was going to call this article “Facebook Hell” because that’s what it is. However, let me pass along this story that is actually happening to me RIGHT NOW as a warning to you — to set up a SECOND email address and access using the “secret question.” Continue reading »

With all the fuss about Facebook privacy issues, this site is timely.

The website provides an independent and open tool for scanning your Facebook privacy settings.  They just added Photo Album privacy scanning.  Continue reading »

The original web site that gave you random new sites was one called “Roulette.com.” Of course, today that is a gaming industry site. StumbleUpon did it one better with Firefox plug-in that let people recommend specific sites by category and thus narrows down the area of search.
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Since last week, we’ve been tracking, analyzing and reporting a phishing attack on Twitter users. This attack demonstrates how many of the Twitter accounts have been hijacked and turned into spam vehicles for cyber criminals. Yet, the attack, initially, has nothing to do with Twitter.

Facebook’s popularity is skyrocketing, drawing more than 400 million people to this combination online village green, personal website creator, and souped-up address book. But one thing you won’t get when signing up is a printed manual.

This article on Maciverse.com gives you step by step how to add Facebook Chat to your copy of iChat.
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In addition to financial damages, Sanford Wallace, among the first to be crowned “Spam King,” may face jail time for ripping off millions of FaceBook users.

Age old practice of grabbing names that ‘may’ become valuable has spread to all corners of the online world Continue reading »

What is your group doing to take advantage of the social networking. In August, at Cowtown MUG we had a member talk about using Twitter and Facebook. The talk was primarily about using them for the job hunt, but perhaps we need to use them for user groups as well. Continue reading »

According to this article in AdAge, Facebook has obtained profitability. However, they quote CEO Mark Zuckerberg of saying that it has become “cash-flow positive” in the second quarter. I am not sure that “cash-flow positive” means profit. Continue reading »

As has been widely noted in the blogosphere this week, Friday night Facebook will begin allowing users to register their own plain-language Facebook domain names, like facebook.com/my.name Continue reading »

What would you be willing to pay FaceBook a couple of bucks for? Vanity address? Custom Layout capabilities? According to Sheryl Sandberg, they’re looking at options — and a dollar from 200-million users is pretty sweet change … Continue reading »

Sometimes Google is associated with evil on the web. But this time, they were on the right side of the isle by assisting in the arrest of an Indian cyber criminal. But the outcome is not what was expected… Continue reading »