Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site, is receiving a big upgrade to its security. The site will now give the option of forcing all connections to use HTTPS, the secure protocol used by Gmail and banking websites. Enabling this option, while slowing the page-loading tim[...]
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January 26th, 2011 - 4:39 PM § in Web
Facebook Security Adds Full-Time HTTPS & Social Captcha
Tags: captcha, Facebook, firesheep, https, security, Social Network No Comments
January 24th, 2011 - 4:18 PM § in Web
Facebook Will Require Developers to Use Their “Credits”
Beginning July 1st of this year, Facebook will make the use of their “Facebook Credits” system mandatory for all game developers producing software for the social networking platform. Credits are a way of representing real money in an online game — this new rule will force all Fa[...]
Tags: Credits, Facebook, Online Games, social networking, Zynga 1 Comment
January 23rd, 2011 - 5:32 PM § in Culture
Sean Parker criticizes “The Social Network”
According to a recent statement at a technology conference in Munich, Sean Parker (of Napster fame) considers the latest David Fincher film “The Social Network” to be a “complete work of fiction.” Reacting specifically to Justin Timberlake’s portrayal of his character[...]
Tags: DLD, Facebook, Film, Napster, Sean Parker, Social Network No Comments