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{Guest post from Jonathan Eccles, Facebook technical lead at thismoment.com, the leading social brand management infrastructure company.} Today’s fMC, or Facebook Marketing Conference, yielded a motherload of Facebook product announcements representing the natural evolution of concepts introduced at last year’s f8. This time, the audience was full not of coders and geeks, [...]

Megaupload.com Debacle Spawns Largest Anonymous DDoS Attack Yet

Yesterday, authorities announced a raid on Megaupload—a now popular Hong Kong-based file sharing site locked in a dramatic legal spat with Universal—a mere day after the highly publicized web-wide SOPA blackout date. The action brought the hactivist collective Anonymous buzzing down from the Internet as if the movie and music industry and [...]

FBI Arrests GeneSimmons.com DDoS Attacker, Connected to Anonymous

The distributed denial of service attack is the favorite crushing blow of the Anonymous hactivist collective, but as it causes disruption and misery to Internet users in the fashion on malicious vandalism, it is considered a crime in most countries. FBI agents arrested a Connecticut man on Tuesday morning, charged with conducting [...]

Hackers Deface AOL Web Page, Reveal Sensitive Password Information

Midafternoon Saturday, AOL’s postmaster.aol.com website was compromised and defaced by a hacker identifying themselves as HodLuM. The hacker modified the front page to display an AOL logo and the message: “AOL S3RV3RZ ROOT3D BY HODLUM LOLZ!” The fun didn’t stop there for curious folks looking at the source code to the page, [...]

So,What Went into Making SkyDrive’s Web Page So Fast?

One of the more interesting things that Microsoft has been doing lately is providing some nicely detailed background on the work that has gone into re-designing some of its web services. The latest one to get this treatment is SkyDrive’s web page with some background on how it was built previously to [...]

Oracle Demands Personal Court Appearance from Larry Page

Just last month Oracle filed a document with the California District Court, asking Google for $2.6 million in claims over patent infringement. Weeks ago, Google responded by filing a document that Oracle may owe between $1.4 billion and $6.1 billion if it loses the case. The battle continues, with a nine-page letter [...]

Larry Page Appearance During Q2 Earnings Call Restores Faith in Google, Shares Soar

Google had its earnings call today for the second quarter of the 2011 fiscal year, and it surpassed Wall Street expectations. The search giant reported $6.92 billion in net revenue with on-GAAP earnings per share of $8.74. That exceeds analysts’ predictions of $6.54 billion in revenue and $7.87 earnings per share. Their [...]

Facebook Takes Down Roger Ebert Fan Page

Update: Roger Ebert tweeted that Facebook put back up his Facebook page. All is well in the world! Before you start really embracing Facebook for business, consider the story of well-known film critic Roger Ebert who tweeted this morning that Facebook took down his fan page after receiving complaints. Ebert: “Facebook has [...]

Lowe’s: Social Adoption Leads to 45 Million Page Views

Over the past five to ten years, we’ve seen the rise of the customer once again. They have the Internet this time. They can see pretty quickly what companies are engaged and which ones are not. It took Lowe’s some time to get their heads around this idea. But last year, things [...]

Microsoft Launches a “Where’s My Phone” Page for Windows Phone 7 Users

Where’s My Phone Update page -select local (click for bigger view) For as much promise that Windows Phone 7 held for both Microsoft and consumers, the smartphone platform is facing a lot of negative feelings when it comes to its update process. First we had the pre-update update that either didn’t get [...]

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