Sooner or later it was inevitable.  I’ve started seeing fishing emails posing as Facebook communications.  Simply “click” to update your password.

After that, they use a Bot to get into your account, and push out spam messages to all those that follow you, friends, family etc.

As always, no matter how legitamate looking an email is, assume  it is a phishing expedition.    Most email programs and sites have a way to check the links.  In Microsoft Outlook, simply hover over the linke (The underlined “here” above) and you’ll see the full link.  Most scammers will put the legitimate name within the domain such as http://facebook.com.slkjsdf.eu  in hopes that somebody will see the facebook and not realize the only thing that really matters is the characters before the final period in the URL.  In this case, slkjsdf which is, obviously, not facebook.

I wrote about the Mac application EventBox back in July. It’s a nice little application that allows you gather together a number of your different social media and keep it in one place. For example, I use it for my Google Reader feeds, and to keep track of both Twitter and Facebook. At the time the application was described in this way

Do you use many social services? Annoyed that you have to run 6 different applications? Enter the new revolutionary social app, EventBox. All your services in one place, integrated.
When you are busy doing your work, you don’t want anything to disrupt your focus. But you still want to read that message which just came in. This is where the HUD window comes in handy.

Well, it turns out I wasn’t the only one who was keeping an eye on application. The folks at RealMac, the people behind RapidWeaver and LittleSnapper (two of my most frequently used Mac applications) were as well. They liked it so much, in fact, that they purchased it and are renaming it Socialite. Continue Reading

Facebook addicts will soon have another way to communicate with their online pals using voice chat. This service, offered by third party chat developer Vivox and not Facebook itself, is currently in a closed beta and allows Facebook users to have high-fidelity conversations with anyone on their friends list. In order to do so you’ll have to download Vivox’s plug-in. Once installed this plug-in works within Facebook and offers one to one or group voice chat. This seems like it will first attack the Skype market and be an option for anyone who did not want to go through the steps of creating a separate Skype account. Ultimately it remains to be seen whether people really want to chat with their Facebook buddies or whether a simple poke is enough for most users.

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My fiancée is on Verizon, and I use AT&T. It’s becoming clear that we really should just bite the bullet and move to a family plan on one of these carriers, as the combined savings would ease the pain of an early termination fee, plus we wouldn’t waste minutes calling each other from the grocery store. (This could also be solved by me simply writing down in more detail what we need before I leave, but that’s too easy.)

Unfortunately for me, she’s very pleased with Verizon and is reluctant to leave. I tried enticing her by offering to purchase her an iPhone, and she flat out refused, saying “What do I need an iPhone for?” I pointed out she pays for a data plan for her LG Voyager to check her email and browse facebook, and the experience would be better on an iPhone. But she didn’t see it the same way.

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Check out the Android Market for a new Facebook for Android application. The debate is heating up over whether this application is the long awaited and officially endorsed Facebook app. For now it looks a heck of a lot better than accessing the mobile version of Facebook via the Android browser. There’s a Facebook widget, easier uploading and sharing, custom notifications and more.

Facebook for Android

Two Australian girls aged 10 and 12 raised a few eyebrows, and undoubtedly received stern lectures from their parents, when they used Facebook instead of their phone to request help after becoming lost in a storm drain. Despite having a mobile phone with which they could have called local police, the girls posted a cry for help on social media site Facebook. Luckily one of their friends noticed the status message and called the police who promptly rescued them.

ABC via Techradar

OK, I am definitely a product of the 80’s & 90’s…nothing beats GI Joe (uh..the original!), Saved By the Bell, Alf (yeah that just happened), and Polaroid pictures! Unless you are able to track down one of these relics at a yard sale or flea market, what can you do?.

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I’m really impressed with the new Facebook app for iPhone. It is slick, works well and makes it less likely than ever that I will visit Facebook from a full browser.

It was all great until I read a post over on TechCrunch that included this update…

Update: As some commenters are noting, there is a bug right now that allows status updates to be seen by friends of your regardless of privacy filters.

You know, there are always little bugs here and there with a new release but this… this is a huge privacy issue.

You set up privacy filters so that you can post without the entire world seeing things and then… ooops.

Just another reminder- NEVER put anything on the web that you would not want your boss, grandmother, or priest to see.

The update to the Facebook iPhone app is out and available NOW! This is a totally rewritten app that has been getting rave reviews by people who have seen Betas of it.

Review coming soon… in the meantime… GRAB IT!

The Dazzboard team has been busy expanding features for their online media manager.   Just last week, they launched Dazzboard for iGoogle so users could manage all of their music, photos, and video straight from their own iGoogle page.  Today, they’ve announced a new Facebook application that will let users drag, drop and share  photos and videos between their mobile phone, PC, Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook accounts.

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Back in June at the E3 gaming convention, Nintendo indicated that they would be adding the ability for users to integrate their DSi handhelds with Facebook. They indicated that this would include and pretty much be limited to uploading pictures from the dual cameras on the device. Since then there was no firm date given for the integration, but since the functionality was made available in Japan last week, ithere was an assumption that it would arrive in North America fairly soon. Now we have a date – August 3rd at 5PM PST. Continue Reading

Are you a fan of Facebook? Addicted to Twitter? Compulsively checking your Myspace 100 times a day? Wish you could check all three at once, on a half baked application provided by your carrier? If you’re on AT&T, congratulations, it’s your lucky day…AT&T has debuted “Social Net”, a program designed to give you one-stop access to Myspace, Twitter and Facebook. It’s only available on branded AT&T handsets (ones that come with Media Mall). Continue Reading

We often think of social networking — and the internet in general — as free reign; our own space to do as we please.  Many of us reconnect with friends, family, and colleagues via Twitter and Facebook.  We rarely think twice about posting a photo of ourselves or our loved ones — after all who else but our closest friends care about our recent vacation pics?  If you’re on Facebook, 3rd party advertisers do.

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I sat down in my “chair” tonight and flipped on the TV.

Verizon Fios, to which I’m subscribed to for TV, internet and phone service, greeted me with a message that informed my I could now get Twitter & Facebook on my television.

As if I needed another excuse not to get up from my “chair.” Watch my video to see it in action.

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I’ve been looking for a little while for an easy way to upload video to Facebook. I know that you can send a video via MMS – which is already available and free to all members. Unfortunately I’m using the iPhone 3GS on AT&T which doesn’t support MMS (though they promise that it’s coming really soon now). Last night I spotted Video Up in the iTunes Store. It promises to allow effortless upload of video from your iPhone 3GS to Facebook. How’d it work?

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