1621 king Philip of Spain. who would have known that he would later own FACEBOOK

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Introducing fchat global wall system app for facebook.com

Yes, we are developing a global wall system where everybody can see your post! promote websites, events and products, or even make friends!. you dont need to add facebook friends! it is global and everyone who uses this app or surfed the web can see your post!.

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Haktech: Facebook launches its own Instagram-like app

Facebook may have announced a deal to purchase Instagram for $1 billion close to two months ago, but that doesn't mean the company isn't working on its own photo sharing software. Indeed, Facebook has now launched its own stand alone app software, titled Facebook Camera, for iOS devices. It's now available to download from the iOS App Store.

The free app does many of the same things as Instagram's app, including allowing for people to put in special filter effects for their smartphone camera pictures. It can also let folks "like" and comment on the photos in the stream. An article on AllThingsD.com says that moving through photos in the Facebook Camera app is also much faster than using the regular Facebook app.

The app was not made with help by any of the team members at Instagram and it looks like the Facebook Camera app was in development long before the company decided it wanted to buy Instagram. The article speculates that once the Instagram deal becomes official, the two apps might be integrated in some way.

Haktech: General Motors to pull $10 million Facebook ad account

Facebook claims it now has over 900 million users worldwide, but all those people don't apparently add up to a huge audience for online ads, at least for one company. The Wall Street Journal reports that car company General Motors has decided it will pull its paid Facebook ad campaign, said to be worth $10 million, off the site after determining that the ads didn't have much of an impact for consumers.

Admittedly, that amount of money is a drop in the bucket compared to Facebook's total yearly revenue of over $3 billion. However, the fact that a major company doesn't believe that paying for ads to reach Facebook's massive user base is worth it could be a sign of things to come for the social networking site, especially as it plans to launch its IPO later this week.

GM will still pay lots of money to use Facebook. The story says the company will pay about $30 million to maintain and add content to GM's Facebook pages, which Facebook doesn't directly charge to use.

In a new survey about Facebook released today, 83 percent of the people who were polled claim to have never or hardly ever clicked on a Facebook ad.

Haktech: Yahoo CEO to reportedly resign thanks to incorrect resume [Update]

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson will reportedly resign his position with the company, just a few months after the former President of PayPal was named to the top spot of Yahoo. Internet reports that officially, Yahoo will say Thompson is leaving for "personal reasons."

In reality, Thompson will depart thanks mostly to the reveal earlier this month that he did not have a computer science degree from Stonehill College, as his official bio at both Yahoo and previously at PayPal claimed. Thompson's false computer science degree was also listed as part of Yahoo's regulatory filings.

Thompson was named as CEO of Yahoo in January. In April, Thompson was still leading the company when it announced plans to lay off 2,000 workers. However, his leadership was called into question by Dan Loeb of Third Point, Yahoo’s largest outside stock holder.

It was Loeb who first revealed that Thompson did not have a computer science degree. Yahoo's board of directors called it an "inadvertent error" in Thompson's bio but Loeb kept up the pressure, later demanding that Yahoo's board turn over all documents relating to Thompson's vetting process.

It is expected that Yahoo’s head of global media Ross Levinsohn will take over leading the entire company on an interim basis.

Update - Yahoo has now made Thompson's resignation official, saying simply he has "left the Company." Ross Levinsohn has also been confirmed as interim CEO and Yahoo has also named Fred Amoroso as its new Chairman of its board.

Yahoo has also announced a settlement with Third Point which will have Loeb and two more Third Point team members named to Yahoo's board.

Haktech: Lawsuit filed against use of Facebook Credits by minors

A few days ago, a group of parents filed a lawsuit against Apple, claiming that the company doesn't do enough to impose restrictions against children who want to buy in-game content for so-called "free-to-play" apps published on Apple's iOS App Store. Now another similar class action lawsuit has been filed, this time against Facebook.

PaidContent.org reports that the lawsuit was filed on Friday by Glynnis Bohannon of Arizona. She claims that her son, a minor, was able to purchase Facebook Credits, which are then used to acquire content for games such as Farmville.

Facebook's own terms of service claim that anyone under 18 can only purchase Facebook Credits with the help of parent or guardian. However, Bohannon claims that her unnamed son was unaware that he was spending real money, via her mother's credit card, to purchase Facebook Credits. Facebook gets a 30 percent cut of all in-game transactions.

A related court filing from Facebook's Manager of Payment Operation Bill Richardson claims that over $5 million in Facebook Credits were purchased in 2011 by minors age 13 to 17.

Bohannon is seeking a refund of not just the money spent by her son but also a refund for anyone in a similar situation. In an official statement, Facebook said, "We believe this complaint is without merit and we will fight it vigorously."

Haktech: Marine faces dishonourable discharge for Facebook comments

As the popularity of social networks continues to increase, their users often learn the hard way about the dangers and consequences of ‘over-sharing’ or posting comments without first thinking them through properly. Sometimes, those consequences can seem severe, as in the case of the British student sentenced last month to 56 days in prison for racial slurs which he posted on Twitter. Sometimes, they can appear nonsensical, as in the recent case of the American high-school student who was expelled when his school claimed that he had used a school computer to post tweets that included swear words from his home in the middle of the night.

The latest high profile instance of sharing-gone-wrong is that of United States Marine Sergeant Gary Stein, 26, who posted comments on Facebook stating that he would not follow the orders of his commander-in-chief, President Barack Obama.
Stein, who is a meteorologist, posted comments to a Facebook group called METOC – accessible only by oceanographers and meteorologists in active military service. There, he described President Obama as ‘an enemy to America’.

On his personal Facebook account, he posted numerous images ridiculing President Obama, including one in which the President was described as ‘Jackass Number One’. On the ‘Armed Forces Tea Party’ page, which Stein founded on Facebook, anti-Obama sentiments aren’t hard to find. According to Reuters, it was here that he stated that he would refuse to obey the President’s orders, comments which he later removed and restated with the caveat that he had meant he would only refuse unlawful or illegal orders. 

A Marine Corps review board has been investigating the case, and has ruled that Marine Sgt Stein should be ejected from the military with a less-than-honourable discharge. While the finding of the review board is not binding, it will make a recommendation to the commanding officer of the Marine Corps Recruiting Depot, Brigadier General Daniel Yoo.

But this is new territory for the military, which does not yet have established procedures or guidelines for managing how its personnel use social media. Many articles in the Uniform Code of Military Justice are, bizarrely, too specific to apply to the particular situation of a non-commissioned officer (as Stein is) publicly or privately expressing disrespect towards his most superior commander. Perhaps the most relevant clause will be UCMJ Article 134, which states that:

"all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court.”

That would seem to be the end of the matter, except that Stein and his supporters (including a coalition of attorneys) claim that the First Amendment guarantees his right to freedom of speech.

Brigadier General Yoo is expected to deliver his personal decision on Marine Sgt Stein’s fate within the next few weeks. Stein may be given a general discharge without consequence, but if he is discharged dishonourably, he stands to lose his military benefits, and would also lose the right to call himself a military ‘veteran’, a protected term, and one which Stein seems to relish using on his Tea Party page.

As the military works to establish procedures and guidelines for handling infractions involving personnel and social media, this latest incident stands as a reminder to all – both inside and outside of the armed forces – of the need to think carefully before posting comments on social media. The consequences for anyone of casually sharing a half-formed thought or a controversial viewpoint can be severe – although whether those consequences are just and proper or not often remains far from certain.

Haktech: Teacher aide fired for not providing Facebook password

The Facebook password saga appears to be continuing this week, after it was revealed that a school teacher's aide was fired last year for refusing to give her social networking password to her bosses.

It all seemed to unfold when the woman, named Kimberly Hester, comically posted in her spare time a picture of her with a co-workers pants and a pair of shoes, holding a caption saying “Thinking of you.” ZDNet reported that Hester was fired from Frank Squires Elementary in Cassopolis, Michigan after a parent saw the image on Facebook and made a complaint to the school.

Only in the past couple of weeks, Neowin reported a story of employers asking workers for their Facebook passwords and schools asking students to delete their profiles on the website. With Hester's legal battle ensuing though, she isn't giving up, saying "I did nothing wrong. And I would not, still to this day, let them in my Facebook. And I don’t think it’s OK for an employer to ask you."

There isn't much hope that she will succeed however, given that there isn't any law in the United States prohibiting employers to ask for access to their workers' Facebook accounts. The recent news coverage of the issue seems to have gotten law makers attention however, with proposals already in creation aimed at ending the password free for all.

Facebook Bug - Zuckerberg’s Private Photos Exposed

It is no secret that Facebook has a lot of privacy protection issues, and now the latest one of them has hit the site’s creator Mark Zuckerberg himself.

 The new flaw was discovered by members of a body building forum and it was used successfully to access people’s private photos until Facebook plugged the hole.

The flaw took advantage of a feature in the “Report Abuse” tool. When a Facebook user reports a picture for “nudity or pornography,” the tool presented him with a list of other photos from the same user so that he can report them as well. Problem is, this list ignored the user’s privacy settings.

Facebook disabled the “Report Abuse” tool temporary until the issue is fixed, but not before private photos of Mark Zuckerberg made their way to the internet.

Twitter a threat to Facebook?

June 2 2011 Twitter releases its new follow button and they are going to implement a photo sharing after this. with the photo sharing Yfrog and Twitpic can no longer be put to use. now is the little bird going to go head on with facebook?, Well in my technical analysis. the bird is going after facebook. and Facebook should be ready for the birds next flight!.

Learn How To Block Facebook or other websites using HOST Software

How To Block FACEBOOK or Websties Using HOST file on your windows box?

Steps:

1] Browse C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
2] Find the file named "HOSTS"
3] Open it in notepad
4] Under "127.0.0.1 localhost" Add 127.0.0.2 www.facebook.com , and that site will no longer be accessable.

5] Done!

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127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.2 www.facebook.com

-->www.facebook.com is now unaccessable<-- For every site after that you want to add, just add "1" to the last number in the internal ip (127.0.0.2) and then the addy like before. IE: 127.0.0.3 www.friendster.com 127.0.0.4 www.youtube.com 127.0.0.5 www.myspace.com