Viagra firm not hard enough to beat
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s Facebook page has been defaced by mischief makers.…
Pfizer’s Facebook page jacked by script kiddies
Klout Klok tracks your popularity, time
[Fabien Royer] has been playing around with Netduinos and he just came up with a really awesome project that will display the time and social media popularity. It’s a very nice build, and we’d guess that his social media influence is going to go up very shortly. Klout is a service that connects to your …
Hackaday in the social tangle
Like any other organization out there, we’re always trying to find new ways to reach our audience. Admittedly, we’re not the fastest when it comes to adopting a new social communication site. We’re working on it though, trying to be a bit more interactive … or just plain active. So, if you’re looking for other …
Facebook, AmEx team up to offer cardmember deals
American Express is promising its cardmembers special deals in return for giving the company access to their Facebook interests, likes, and friends.
Mozilla’s BrowserID offered as an alternative to OpenID
The classic way of logging into protected web sites usually starts with creating an account, picking a username, answering an email confirmation, doing password checks, often followed by a number of dialogs, and doing it for each and every site you wan…
Google wields data openness against Facebook
Google’s Data Liberation Front is accelerating efforts to differentiate its employer from Facebook by allowing users to take their data elsewhere with one or two clicks.
Mozilla outs un-Google site sign-in prototype
Token-free BrowserID
Mozilla has proposed a new method for signing into websites that avoids both site-specific passwords and existing cross-site sign-in services from corporate behemoths such as Google and Facebook.…
Lying Facebook app offers Google+ invites
Trendjackers spam your friends, slurp your data
Facebook scammers have latched onto the buzz around Google+, as the theme for a new scam that has already claimed thousands of fans victims.…
