Article Title: Facebook Flaw Exposes Private Photos
Article Author: Kim Zetter
Url of article: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/facebook-flaw-exposes-photos/
Summary of Article: Facebook fails again when it comes to privacy. After it's many update to contain the issue when come down to privacy issue, there was one hole left open. When viewing ones profile you will have in option to report the user. When you do this can have a option of reasons, one of them is because of nude photos. Thus overriding the privacy commend that was put there. Now Facebook is looking into the issue in hope to fix the current situation.
Relevance to class: With all builds to a website, there can be some issues in code. Watching one of most visited websites and well built social networks, go through it's ups and downs and fixing it's flaws helps us learn what we should or not to do.
Showing posts with label Networks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Networks. Show all posts
Friday, December 9, 2011
Twitter Getting new Wings
Article title: Courting Users and Brands, Twitter gets a FaceLift
Article Author : Mike Isaac
Url of Article: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/12/twitter-redesign/
Summary of Article: With Twitter changing the layout of the website. They are faced with some challenges. With the growth of users, they had to find way to organize a method in which to help the users find what they are looking for. Using a new tab with @, users will find others through that. But then there is branding, such as Facebook has "like" and Google with "+1" Twitter ran into to wall where they have lack in that area. So that is the big runaround.
Relevance to class: In this new launch of Twitter, it came with new methods. Such as we learn how to make are audience happy (users) it's how you layout the page, and consider how things may work. They lacked how to see things in the long run and the growth in a bigger branch in the web.
Article Author : Mike Isaac
Url of Article: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/12/twitter-redesign/
Summary of Article: With Twitter changing the layout of the website. They are faced with some challenges. With the growth of users, they had to find way to organize a method in which to help the users find what they are looking for. Using a new tab with @, users will find others through that. But then there is branding, such as Facebook has "like" and Google with "+1" Twitter ran into to wall where they have lack in that area. So that is the big runaround.
Relevance to class: In this new launch of Twitter, it came with new methods. Such as we learn how to make are audience happy (users) it's how you layout the page, and consider how things may work. They lacked how to see things in the long run and the growth in a bigger branch in the web.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Soical Network Battle
Article Title:Google+ Traffic Jumps 13 fold after opening to the public
Article Author: Todd Wasserman
Url of Article: http://mashable.com/2011/09/27/google-traffic-jumps-13-fold-after-opening-to-the-public-study/
Summary:With the Release of Google+ to the public it created a big swarm of uses. This could be googles attempt to gain control over the traffic of users. Can Google give Face Book a runs for it's money only time will tell. By the looks of it there are lot of users are giving it a consideration.
Relevance to Class:
After the Big face lift Facebook had there are some social networks that are trying to keep it user. Like Google+. I didn't know such a thing existed. Google release was very settle but weird with a simple point of an arrow to your account saying hey we got this thing called Google+. In the end the release of Google+ was able to pick new users and can be the next big social network if it plays it's cards right. Iam going to play the waiting game and see if it catches it on.
Article Author: Todd Wasserman
Url of Article: http://mashable.com/2011/09/27/google-traffic-jumps-13-fold-after-opening-to-the-public-study/
Summary:With the Release of Google+ to the public it created a big swarm of uses. This could be googles attempt to gain control over the traffic of users. Can Google give Face Book a runs for it's money only time will tell. By the looks of it there are lot of users are giving it a consideration.
Relevance to Class:
After the Big face lift Facebook had there are some social networks that are trying to keep it user. Like Google+. I didn't know such a thing existed. Google release was very settle but weird with a simple point of an arrow to your account saying hey we got this thing called Google+. In the end the release of Google+ was able to pick new users and can be the next big social network if it plays it's cards right. Iam going to play the waiting game and see if it catches it on.
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