Facebook Responsibility Issues Site Closure

The news shocked the close up a lot of people. Starting from the inscriptions on the parody site called Weeklyworldnews, this rumor spread quickly in cyberspace and not a few who believe it just like that. 

If so, are very many people would feel lost. For about 500 million users, Facebook has become a favorite site that is accessed almost every day or maybe every hour. 


By reducing anxiety, the Facebook released a comment to deny the news that sounded convincing, and has been cited by many parties. As already reported detikINET, this news really can not be trusted because it comes from a parody site. 


"We did not get orders for shutting down, so we'll keep working as usual. We're not going to go anywhere, we have also just started," the statement up, quoted by AFP on Monday (10/1/2010) . 


Some overseas media also issued a rebuttal news from Facebook this to his readers. The hope, people are not worried too long since have been convinced by the up that they can still access the site without the worry of liquidation. 


For information, the site Weeklyworldnews has often wrote satirical news is horrendous, but far from the truth. Just look at their other headlines, such as 'Alien Aircraft will attack Earth in 2011' or 'George Clooney would run for president'. 


Tracing the development of such a business up rapidly, it is extremely unlikely this site will suddenly killed by Zuckerberg. Especially up will get a big cash injection from its investors who claimed to be worth USD 500 million

Facebook beat Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft

In addition to popular social networking site Facebook is now also a favorite of advertisers. A research conducted by comScore said, in the third quarter of 2010, one of four picture display online advertising in the United States was on the site up.

In the quarter, up a portion of 'cake' for 23.1 percent of online advertising, increased sharply from 17.7 percent the previous quarter. Once up, the next position is a competitor of Yahoo that got tight portion of 11 percent.

Interestingly, the analysts at ComScore said that the appeal up in the lure of this advertiser even if not unprecedented four major sites Yahoo, Microsoft Corp., News Corp. 's Fox Interactive Media and Google combined. Similarly detikINET quoted by Reuters on Wednesday (10/11/2010).

Growth in the number of users up an increasingly rapid ComScore analyst Andrew Lipsman said is one of the factors that increase the cost up in the realm of online advertising. In addition, the amount of time spent by Internet users to access up also continues to increase.

"More and more people are accessing a site, the more valuable the site in the eyes of advertisers," says Lipsman.

In a note to comScore, the average time users spend on the Internet to access up during the third quarter of this year is five hours per month. Increase from the same quarter last year which is only three hours per month.

Google Will Block Information Access to Facebook

Google decided to no longer allow Facebook  users to access information Gmail. This step is done to tackle growing up.

Previously, Google is letting its users transfer data, including a list of their contacts to other sites. Until now, new Facebook users can find out whether people in their Gmail contacts list juag have a Facebook account, simply by typing a Gmail username and password as part of the registration process up.

Google realized that policy has harmed him. How not, Google has indirectly contributed to the growth up because it helps new users create a network of friends on their site instantly.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal and quoted on Monday (8/11/2010), unlike Google, Facebook does not allow its users to move data to another site a list of contacts.

Google Given the more serious use of social networking, it is natural that eventually the search engine giant was implementing a new policy. Moreover, Facebook is a strong opponent for him in this sphere.

Facebook will Make Changes to Mobile

Be prepared, up the middle of preparing for an event to announce the latest development that has been their finish in the realm of mobile, 3 November 2010.

However, Facebook itself has not been willing to explain in detail. As reported by Cnet and quoted on Monday (1/10/2010) in a statement, up only mention this conference named as 'mobile event'.

The announcement was accompanied by an icon made up illustration of two people connected with the 'phone tin'. It reminds us of the toys of childhood, when a piece of string or yarn that is connected with two cans treated as a phone.

What does it mean? Although not explained in detail, but up suggests that a main event that would later be associated with an update on the Facebook site mobile.

Facebook also plans to announce the latest updates up Places the new service was launched a few weeks ago. Reportedly, up Places will be accessible via touch.facebook.com on mobile browsers that support HTML5 and Geolocation feature.

Another addition, Facebook also will test the kind of rewards program that will be competing with the Foursquare and similar sites. The platform reportedly called Deals This allows companies that use up Places create incentives for users to tag a number of friends who do check in to this place

Prevent Data Leaks, up Encryption User ID

Responding to the height of the report that some popular applications on Facebook users divulge information to advertising networks, Facebook was going to encrypt the identity (ID) users. 

The plan, up would provide an optional encryption feature in the next few weeks. It said one of the technicians up Mike Vernal through his blog, this time up the middle to work with developers to ensure a perfect transition into an encryption. 

As is known, earlier this week the Wall Street Journal found there are 10 Facebook applications that are vulnerable divulge user data, among them including popular games Farmville, Mafia Wars and Texas Hold'em. These applications are known to spread up the user identity, called the UID for purposes of advertising or the internet to track data. 

Reported by PC Mag and quoted on Sunday (24/10/2010), the report then pressing up to reveal more clearly, what information is distributed to third parties. 

"This report is exaggerated, especially about the implications of the leaking of user IDs up. We were urged to explain what happened," said Vernal. 

Vernal added today some developers have used the technique to remove the ID from the URL. They can spend these improvements on a case by case basis. But it does say Vernal, up himself wants to give the best solution that will solve the problem for all the applications on its platform.

Cooperation Facebook-Bing, Will Not Affect Google

Although many analysts who expect the cooperation between Facebook and Microsoft's potential to strengthen Bing, it looks like this will not affect big for Google. Because the search engine giant has a long record that showed its dominance in search market share.

Noted research firm comScore, Google continues to experience growth. Recent data show, in August 2010, Google occupies a portion of 65.4 percent in search market share in the United States (U.S.). This percentage is then increased to 66.1 percent in the next month.

Reported by SFGate and quoted on Thursday (14/10/2010), Google seems to work to raise its holding to get rid of Yahoo. Meanwhile, Google shares rose 0.7 percent, Yahoo's stock slumped by 0.7 per cent decline from 17.4 percent to 16.7 percent.

What about Bing? Microsoft's search engine is in third place with a percentage of 11.2 percent, up from 11.1 percent in August.

In early September, Google released the Instant Search. ComScore rate, this feature is highly effective further increase the market share of Google. "This feature is potentially generate a page of search results in large numbers, which are very attractive for users," he wrote in his report ComScore.

Instant Search is a new search feature on Google that claimed super fast and lets users view the search results even before finished typing a keyword.

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