Facebook How Vulnerable Are Your Facebook Friends to Attacks? Even as Facebook moves to improve and simplify privacy options for the social network's 750 million users, a group of independent researchers are proposing even greater security measures, specifically for those social networks that place control and responsibility squarely in the hands of users. The researchers are presenting their findings this… Social Karyl Scott View comments
Big data The Other Non-SQL Alternative: Infinite Graph 2.0 The most significant difficulty facing very large SQL databases today is that they simply aren't scalable when their table sizes approach the billions of records. So while many of the world's SQL databases, using Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server, still perform appreciably well even for large businesses, the rise of Internet data has enabled… Hack Scott M. Fulton View comments
E-Books Booktrack Offers E-Books With Soundtracks The digital age just gave birth to something few of us were clamoring for, but that might turn out to be a worthwhile experience: books with soundtracks. Booktrack, a startup that publishes e-books containing movie-like soundtracks, went live with its first few titles yesterday. The result is a Kindle-style e-book with music and sound effects… John Paul Titlow View comments
APIs Spawned from the Hell Fire of Etherpad: Etherpad Lite You know there's a slight problem somewhere when a developer uses words like "hell fire" to refer to a project. When it comes to Etherpad, the popular collaborative editor, it's not the concept that's problematic, it's the delivery. Thankfully, the Etherpad Foundation has put two years into delivering a kinder and gentler version. Called Etherpad… Hack Joe Brockmeier View comments
iPhone iOS5 SDK for Branded Short Links from Bit.ly Available Now for Preview Bit.ly, the URL shortener and analytics service from New York incubator Betaworks, has developed a software developers kit (SDK) that leverages the forthcoming deep Twitter integration in iOS5. The SDK will enable app developers to automatically share links on Twitter using branded URLs. ReadWriteWeb, for example, shares short links on Twitter… Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments