SAN FRANCISCO – The victory, sealed with a judge’s order issued last Friday, probably won’t yield a windfall for privately held Facebook Inc., whose revenue this year is expected to range between $250 million to $300 million.
Court records indicate the alleged spammer, Adam Guerbuez of Montreal, has been difficult to find since Facebook sued him four months ago.
But Facebook is hoping the size of the judgment will scare off other spammers who might be tempted to target the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company’s audience of more than 120 million users.
“Everyone who participates constructively in Facebook should feel confident that we are fighting hard to protect you against spam and other online nuisances,” Max Kelly, Facebook’s director of security, wrote Monday on the company’s blog.
Efforts to reach Guerbuez for comment on Monday were unsuccessful.
The case against Guerbuez and his business, Atlantis Blue Capital, illustrates how Internet rogues can manipulate Facebook’s communications system to unleash massive marketing blitzes.
According to Facebook, Guerbuez fooled its users into providing him with their usernames and passwords. One method was the use of fake Web sites that posed as legitimate destinations.
After Guerbuez gained access to user’s personal profiles, he used computer programs to send out more than 4 million messages promoting a variety of products, including marijuana and penis enlargement products, during March and April of this year, Facebook said.
“Despite the resources dedicated to spam eradication, current available technology does not permit Facebook to completely prevent the transmission of spam on its site,” the company’s lawyers wrote in the case against Guerbuez.
Tags: $873M judgment against spammer, Facebook spammer
Category Spammer, Tech News |
Have you experience surfing the Net either for research, video or just to check for a site suggested by your friend. Then when you type the URL of that site you’ll see this irritating ‘Page-load Error’ prompt but once you check with your friends, they say the site works fine.
This is when the DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com free web app comes in handy. Created by Twitter developer Alex Payne, this cool tool tells you whether a particular site is down or up.
Punch in the website URL into the textfield provided and hit enter. DownForEveryoneOrJustMe will let you know if there’s a problem with your computer or browser or is it just a bug on the website.
Tags: Internet, Online Tools
Category Internet, Online Tools |
Introducing DrPic.com by pic resize
The easiest FREE online picture editor is now called DrPic! Now have processed over five million pictures!
DrPic is a simple and easy-to-use Web images editor which provides numerous tools to edit your photos and then save them to your computer or to the Web.
To edit a photo, first upload an image from either the Web or your computer. Start editing your photo by making use of the tools at the left sidebar. They include resizing, cropping, rotating, adjusting the brightness and contrast, auto fix, brush, adding text, grayscale and many more. Choose your output format and save it.
Other Free Online Image Editors:
- Aviary Phoenix: has rich editing toolset and allows you to import photos from popular photo-sharing sites
- MyImager: provides many useful tools which comes in a drop-down interface
- Photoshop.com: gives you an amazing 2GB of storage but don’t expect too many similar feature as its desktop-based
Tags: Free Online Image Editor, Internet
Category Internet |
Speech Technology Magazine’s blog introduced iSpeech to the speech technology community.
“iSpeech is a web-based solution that allows users to convert websites and blogs into audio. iSpeech has been in development for more than eighteen months and does not require users to download or install anything. They simply cut and paste what they want to convert into the box provided on the site, or upload the files in question. After that, it’s easy to share the files in pretty much any format or forum.”
According to research and experiments, it is known that when bloggers have the option for readers to listen to articles rather than just reading the entire post, those readers will tend to be more focused and most probably they will absorb every single content in your article. Therefore, this will increase your reader base.
A new start-up created by Rutgers Business School graduate – Heath Ahrens, iSpeech is a free and powerful Web tool that enables users to convert any webpages into audio and embed the player into blogs, download it as a mp3 file into desktops or even upload it into your iPods.
This easy-to-use Web tool needs no download or installation and iSpeech takes care everything. iSpeech is greatly benefitial to bloggers as it provides a simple way to voice enable any blog or other content rich webpages and hence your readers will have a long attention span.
Embedding the player into your blog is simple. Go to here and punch in your webpage URL and hit enter. Copy and paste the code provided into your blog and you’re done.
The main competitor of iSpeech is Odiogo but I personally feel that iSpeech is much better.
Features of iSpeech:
- Fully compatible with iPod and iTunes
- Listen to favorite Web pages with iSpeech
- Makes your blog talk in seconds
- iSpeech voices brings text to life
- Text to speech widget is fully customizable
- Creating a new revenue stream from your existing text content with minimal effort
- Customized solutions are completely scalable
Features of Odiogo:
- Automatic podcast generation
- “Near-human” quality text-to-speech
- Listen button feature deployed in next to no time for WordPress, Blogger, etc.
- Detailed download statistics
- Make money from embedded ads
Tags: Blog News, Internet, Tech News
Category Tech News |
FreeRinger is a calling service which allows you to make FREE calls to telephone numbers (in more than 30 countries throughout the world) right from your web browser.
Powered by flash, FreeRinger enables Internet users to make PC-to-phone calls to over 30 countries directly from their browser for absolutely free! Since this Web application is ad supported by GTalk2VoIP TEAM and Talkster International, you need to pay for anything.
No downloading or installing is needed to use FreeRinger. However, registration is required. Before making your first call using the dial-pad, FreeRinger has to use Echo Test Call to ensure that your audio and network work fine. FreeRinger even allows you to receive calls from regular or Internet phones. Embedding FreeRinger into your blog is also possible.
This service is really useful if you want to make PC-to-phone calls to your relatives or friends thousands of miles away.
Tags: Free Calls, FreeRinger
Category Free Calls, Trends |
Internet has many benefits to us it may help us in our studies, researches, daily lives; communicate with other students nationwide or even worldwide. They can also share their knowledge and gain knowledge too, send their experiences, and share their ideas and learn more. The Internet has revolutionized the academic life both students and professionals alike. Through the Internet, we can research even the hardest topic. With just a single click of the mouse, and presto, you have the research in just a second. Teachers can also derive benefits on the Internet; through it they can teach their topics easily — no sweat.
Internet has many good things can do to us. It may help us easily understand the topic we can’t get in our library but in but through surfing the Internet, you will be able to find it in just a second. However, in its good things we may find bad things in this Internet. Some are using this Internet as a medium to spread pornography and black propaganda. Pornographic websites abound. They showing pornographic films and pictures and scandals that children’s can view by using the Internet. I think it’s once of the causes of having premarital sex that is getting a bit alarming as the days go by. Internet is a helpful partner in us but it may also cause addiction. But responsible Internet use is the key to make the Internet the partner for education and research.
Tags: Benefits of internet, Boon or a Bane, Internet Surfing, use of Internet
Category Point of View |
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Category Uncategorized |
