News Where Do We Find the Time? Social Networking Use Up 82% Whether we're tweeting the minutiae of our daily lives from our cell phones, checking out the latest band pages on Myspace, chatting with friends on Facebook, looking up old high school buddies on Classmates or networking with colleagues on LinkedIn, we're spending more and more time on social networking sites than ever before. Leading the pack, of… Mike Melanson View comments
Security Security Flaw found in Twitter's Flash Widget A recently discovered security flaw in Twitter's Flash-based website widget may have allowed attackers access to the login credentials of any Twitter user. According to Mike Bailey, an analyst at Foreground Security, the problem involves a known vulnerability in Adobe's Flash programming language, the language used to code the Twitter widget. In… Social Sarah Perez View comments
Browsers Will Idealism be Firefox's Downfall? Last week, YouTube announced they will begin supporting the upcoming web standard HTML5 which allows videos to be viewed without an Adobe Flash plugin. Those who wanted to play around with the new HTML5-enabled website were directed to a separate experimental site called TestTube. However, noted the YouTube blog post, only Chrome, Safari, and IE… Sarah Perez View comments
NYT Visualize Dissent: Turkish Users Protest Censorship Using Google Maps Internet users in Turkey have found an interesting visualization to highlight their numbers, connect with one another, air their grievances and hopefully reach their goals using Google Maps and shared documents. A reader wrote to us tonight saying that his fellow citizens have been "struggling with cencorship for several years just like their… Jolie O'Dell View comments
News Pope to Church Leaders: Blog, Already Today, Pope Benedict XVI announced that priests and church leaders should be actively using digital tools, including the social web, to communicate with laypersons, particularly young people. The occasion was the 44th annual World Communications Day, traditionally a time for the Vatican to project an annual message from the church to its people… Jolie O'Dell View comments