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Whether you’re the poster child for today’s average Web drifter or a dedicated online marketer, one thing is certain: you’re waist-deep in social media. And as you go about your daily rounds online, sooner or later you’d realize that you’ve managed to spread your existence on the Internet via multiple social networking sites.
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Those of us in the tech industry have already established and reiterated that the Internet is undergoing a significant evolution since Web 2.0. It’s shaping up to be a very interconnected virtual plane, complete with its own share of pedestalled champions at the forefront (sure, we can argue that both Facebook and Twitter are up there, as of writing) though progressively marches technology onward.
And from the Say Whut!? department comes Avoidr, a relatively new service that adds an antisocial layer to the good old geolocation stratum and promises to “keep your friends close and your enemies at that bar down the street.”
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Whether you’re simply using Twitter for the social media aspect of your brand’s campaign or simply following the traction of your tweet for personal reasons, here are three tools to make sure you’re well informed across the Twitterverse.
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I talk to bloggers from all walks of life on a daily basis – personal bloggers and business bloggers who are in the process of of tapping into their respective markets – doing everything they can to customize and cater their content to a very specific niche. The first thing I tell these people? Stop.
My blogging background has gone through quite the evolution over the past year and a half, but if it’s one thing I’ve learning during that time, it’s that the moment you start to develop a narrow focus, the moment you start to become overly branded for one specific niche, is the moment you get burned out and start losing interest in your blog.
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With the continuous popularity of social networking sites, the cycles of malicious activities are expected to remain persistent though evolving to keep up with the modifications the site’s layer of security go through. Another malware alert was recently raised by security firm McAffee through their Security Insights blog regarding malicious activities proliferating through Facebook via e-mails sent from what appears to be from the social network itself.
According to the blog post, the e-mail claims that Facebook has reset the user’s password and that they would have to click on an attachment to be able to retrieve their new password. The attachment in question is actually a password stealer which, upon launch, would install itself into the user’s computer. It targets Windows machines and can potentially access any login credentials utilized there, Facebook or otherwise.
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