Tech: Twitter vs Facebook: Instagram cuts Twitter connection, becomes more a creature of Facebook

Big feud between Twitter and Facebook, the latest wrinkle in which is Instagram's stoppage of use of a Twitter facility for tweeting fotos. The stoppage delivers Instagram "more firmly" into "Facebook's realm of control."  It all swept right past me, as I've never used Instagram and hardly know what it is or does.  But I noticed the item because it makes clear the competitive struggle between Twitter and Facebook.  I'd guess that Facebook put the screws to Instagram which then had to choose between the two mega-monster online institutions.

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Financial Times (Dec6,2k12)

December 6, 2012 12:21 am

Instagram abandons Twitter feature

By April Dembosky in San Francisco

Instagram has stopped using a Twitter feature that allows its photos to appear in the Twitter feed, a move that puts Instagram’s visual content more firmly in Facebook’s realm of control.

Clamping down on the channel with Twitter compromises the philosophy that guided Instagram, before it was acquired by Facebook, to partner openly with other social networks.

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The shift underscores a growing tension between Facebook and Twitter, as the two dominant social networks compete for both advertising dollars and users’ time. Photos are an increasingly valuable asset for both, as they are proven to increase engagement on social networks. Those metrics are then presented to potential advertisers as a display of audience reach.

Before the acquisition, Instagram used Twitter Cards, a technical feature of the microblogging site that renders photographs so they appear properly in the Twitter stream.

Earlier this week, Twitter began receiving reports from users that their Instagram images were off-centre or strangely cropped, cutting out faces from the frame, for example. Android phone users saw no image at all.

“This is due to Instagram disabling its Twitter cards integration,” the company said in a blog posted Wednesday.

Kevin Systrom, Instagram chief executive, speaking at the LeWeb conference in Paris on Wednesday, said the change was a technical one, not a competitive one: “this isn’t actually a consequence of us getting acquired”.

Instagram began as a mobile-only app. It has since built its own website. Mr Systrom said he wants to direct users there “because we think it’s a better user experience currently”, he said, rather than do it through Twitter’s technology.

Instagram users will still be able to use Twitter to send out photos, but their followers will only see a text link. To view the photo, they will be directed back to Instagram.com.

Photos posted on Facebook, Tumblr, and Foursquare will not be affected.

“Images in advertisers’ minds are better than text any day,” said James McQuivey, an analyst with Forrester Research. “The ability to suggest that the visitors to the site are more likely to be emotionally engaged by the images, means they are open to the emotional message of the advertisers.”

If Facebook can show that Instagram’s photos are able to be viewed on Facebook and not on Twitter, it could be a compelling selling point.

While Twitter is developing its own photo filters similar to Instagram’s, it is several years behind. Facebook has been increasing its efforts to be seen as the epicentre of people’s photo sharing activities, from acquiring Instagram earlier this year, to the launch last Friday of Photo Sync, which encourages users to store all photos taken with their mobile phones inside Facebook.

Technics: Internet: Israeli hacker posts Facebook logins, passwords of 'helpless Arabs'

Israeli Hacker Posts Facebook Logins 

Of ‘Helpless Arabs’

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The seemingly never-ending conflict between Israeland its Mideast neighbors has spread to Facebook, as an Israeli hacker who goes by the name of Hannibal posted the email addresses and passwords of 85,000 users of the social network from Saudi Arabia and Iran.




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ZDNet’s Friending Facebook blog reported that Hannibal posted 20,000 logins Sunday, 30,000 Monday, 10,000 Tuesday, and 25,000 Wednesday, all to Pastebin, a site that allows users to upload text.

Facebook has reacted to the breach, and some users have already changed their passwords, while the social network is prompting those who haven’t to do so, and other accounts have been locked down.

Hannibal also taunted government officials and threatened to reveal information on the bank accounts of “helpless Arabs” in the headers of his posts to Pastebin.

Highlights follow, unedited, via Friending Facebook:

In addition, I have 10 million bank accounts of the countries of Iran and Saudi Arab. If Iran continues to threaten Israel and already this week I will publish the private bank accounts and thus make them billions of dollars in damages estimated

State of Israel, not to worry, you’re in the hands of the world’s best hacker that I am. I will continue to support the government of Israel will continue to attack the Arab countries In addition, I received thousands of emails helpless Arabs, who are begging me to stop publishing the Facebook accounts because it violates their browsing experience.

Also, I received hundreds of emails of senior politicians from France and other countries, who asked me not to publish the list of the 10 million my bank accounts. So guys, if the state’s chief Benny Gantz, or Prime Minister Netanyahu declare cyber war, I will have to publish the list of 10 million bank accounts. In addition I also have about 4 million credit cards. Just give a command and i will do it !!

Unfortunately today I received an email from Mohammad Reza Rahimi who threatens that would raise most of his men to find me and kill me I assure you Mr. Fool, you can keep looking as you want, you will not find me even if you have a staff of 1,000 people who search for and carry out search for information about me.

I now publish the letter he sent me deputy prime minister of Iran Funny to me that he had time to go into a mailbox and curse and threaten me .. Mr. Muhammad, you do not scare anyone! You never find me !!!!!

Readers, do you know anyone whose Facebook account was compromised?

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Technics: Facebook: Constant change by corporation drives many users away

FoxNews.com (Sept22,2k11)

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Facebook Users Outraged Over New Changes

Published September 22, 2011

| Associated Press

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• Facebook's new updates have been the focus of a popular meme which features Xzibit, a reference to when the rapper was the host of the MTV show 'Pimp My Ride'.  Facebook is at it again. The social network is tweaking the home pages of its 750 million users, much to the chagrin of some very vocal folks. The world's largest online social network is expected to announce even more changes on Thursday, when it holds its annual f8 conference in San Francisco for developers who create games and other applications for its site.

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Technics: Facebook; Fb forced into Initial Public Offering on the public stock exchange/

This is the clearest collection of details, accompanied by a hard-edge analysis, of the latest shenanigans at Facebook, and against Facebook in the legal sphere of enterprise regulations by the Securities Exchange Commission.

School bans Facebook for a week: 

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Will Facebook Succumb To IPO Pressure?

Posted by Jackie Cohen on December 29th, 2010 12:57 PM

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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s probe into trading of Facebook shares on private marketplaces has some asking whether the regulator might pressure the social network to have an initial public offering.

An article in The New York Times says the SEC gave Facebook permission to grant restricted stock to its employees without having to list them publicly and make the financial disclosures required of public companies.

Federal law draws the line between public and private at 500 shareholders. Facebook obviously has more than twice that number of employees, but the SEC might be concerned with how many stakeholders aren’t employed by the social network.

The auctions on SecondMarket and SharesPost of Facebook holdings are currently limited to professional investors. But new funds that own some of these shares potentially give access to a wider array of buyers.

Even so, these funds still have some prerequisites about the minimum net worth who can buy in. That combined with the rules of SecondMarket and SharesPost could conceivably slow down the growth in the number of shareholders to a level acceptable to the SEC.

Or maybe not. That’s why the regulator’s asking questions right now. Perhaps the SEC’s timing will complement other legal developments so that any pressure for a Facebook IPO would kick in after the  Winklevoss twins   go away.

Oral arguments for the twins’ appeal of the $65 million settlement begin next month, and the issue going before the court concerns allegations of securities fraud. Those are two words that no one wants to see in an IPO prospectus.

Do you think the SEC’s investigation of Facebook stock trades on private markets will lead to regulatory pressure for an IPO?

-- Technowlh

Technics: Social Media: Gonna' take over the workplace?

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette carries an article by Elwin Green on "Workzone: Social media slowly finding acceptance in workplace" (Nov28,2k10):

Workzone: 

Social media slowly finding acceptance in workplace

Within the next few years, companies that have resisted the use of social media in the workplace may find that resistance is futile.


Earlier this month, a representative of technology research firm Gartner Inc. predicted 20 percent of employees will use social networks rather than e-mail as their business communications hub by 2014. 

Speaking at an information technology expo in Cannes, France, research vice president Monica Basso said, "Today, social paradigms are converging with e-mail, instant messaging and presence, creating new collaboration styles."


Just days later, Facebook founder Marc Zuckerberg announced the social networking giant will soon roll out Facebook Messages, an offering that will integrate new e-mail features with texting and chat.

The most important element of the foregoing may be "new collaboration styles."

-- Technowlb

Technics: Big Net intern+cenes: Google and Facebook face-off

This page exhibits an excellent visual/digital interface with live-links (hopefully) -- and that's on the pre-textual levels only.  The the main textual level below is nooz story about the Big Net Superpowers, both Google and Facebook (two of m+ most favouriteds).

Google, Facebook wrangle

over Data Sharing 

Facebook engineer criticizes Google's decision to change the terms of service of its contact sharing API. 

By Alison Diana ,  InformationWeek 
November 10, 2010 11:40 AM

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Google and Facebook continued to wage their public war of words over openness, as Facebook engineer Mike Vernal posted a blog comment responding to a work-around that makes it easier for Facebook users to avoid Google's recent move blocking Facebook from capturing information about users' contacts in Gmail.

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