Harry Potter Fans Unite on Facebook to Save Star’s New Movie. You may not be familiar with the name Rupert Grint, but fans the world round know and love him as Harry’s best friend and cohort, Ron Weasley, in the popular films. Those very same fans have turned to Facebook to help the film star’s fledgling new movie, , secure distribution in Britain. On it’s own merit, the film wasn’t making any cinematic waves, but Grint fans raced to the rescue, creating a petition and spreading the word via Facebook. According to the Telegraph , the film, which is much more adult than typical Potter fare, “premiered at the Berlin Film Festival but did not get picked up by a distributor.” cause was then championed by thousands of Cherrybomb Distribution Campaign petition signers in six different countries and over 3,000 Facebook users, who even went so far as to call the movie’s sales agent and ask about the film’s release date.
Grint’s been quoted as saying: Koobface controls Google Reader accounts to send fake YouTube vi. November 10, 2009 Infected computers of the Koobface botnet are spamming Google Reader accounts on social networking sites. Trend Micro has detected the spamming of URLs by Koobface on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter in the past, but this time it has seen an attack where a Google account is controlled by Koobface to host a page with a fake YouTube video. When a victim clicks on the fake YouTube video it redirects them to a compromised website – which hosts another fake YouTube video. The compromised website leads to user infection, with the subsequent result of the victim becoming part of the Koobface botnet. Trend Micro claimed that there are around 1,300 known, unique fake Google Reader accounts spammed by Koobface on social network sites.
Google Reader is a free service offered by Google that allows users to monitor websites for new content and allows the users to share new content from websites. Business Use of Twitter, Facebook Exploding - CIO.com - Busines. Computerworld — The use of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to promote businesses has exploded over the past six months, according to the results of a study that were released today. People using Twitter to get the word out about their company, sales and promotions jumped more than 250% from this past spring, according to a study done by Palo Alto Networks , a maker of firewall technology. The number of companies using facebook for such tasks grew by 192%, the sudy found.
The report said that workers are using social networks as promotional vehicles both with and without management knowledge. Why CIOs Should Be On FacebookTwitter Bible: Everything You Need To Know About Twitter The company said the report summarizes traffic assessments in more than 200 financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, government, retail, and education organizations worldwide that were performed between March and September 2009 Continue Reading. WARNING: Facebook Design Flaw Abused, Hundreds of Groups Hacked. On Facebook, anyone can start a group. And the admin of a group controls various aspects of it: he can change its name, edit its info and picture or send messages to the members. But when an admin leaves, anyone else can join the group and register as the new admin. From what we can gather, this behavior is WAI (working as intended), or at least it's been that way for quite some time now.
But it's also an obvious design flaw, and now a group called Control Your Info is abusing it (or raising awareness about it, depending on how you look at it) by finding groups without admins and taking them over. We've tried it out (on a group we own) and it works. Now, you may perceive this as normal behavior. And there's plenty of potential for abuse here. Trend Micro warns that Koobface abuses Googl.
So far, the IT security vendor said, Koobface has spammed URLs on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, but this development seems to be a new one. According to Trend Micro, as of yesterday, Google Reader URLs were being spammed by Koobface on a number of social networking sites. The attack works by having a Google Account controlled by the Koobface gang host a page with a fake YouTube video. When a victim clicks on the fake YouTube video it redirects to a compromised website - which hosts another fake YouTube video. The compromised website leads to a user being infected, with the victim becoming part of the Koobface botnet.
Trend Micro said that there are more than 1300 known and unique fake Google Reader accounts spammed by Koobface on social network sites, and the vendor has contacted Google about the problem. Survey: Discounts drive users to friend brands - Related Stories. Skip to main content Browse All Briefs by Topic Survey: Discounts drive users to friend brands Forward to a friend 11/9/2009 | BizReport A new study finds 44% of Twitter users and 33% of those on Facebook and MySpace say they follow or friend brands primarily to get discounts and hear about promotions.
Customer service was the next most popular reason. The Razorfish survey cites Dell -- which has attracted $3 million in sales on Twitter -- as an example of successful social-media outreach. View Full Article in: BizReport Media | Marketing Published in Brief: SmartBrief on Social Business SmartBrief Job Listings for Media View More Job Openings ©2014 SmartBrief. New System Preserves Right To Privacy In Web Searches | threatpo. How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal. The 10 Biggest Social Media Stories This Week. 7 of the Most Inspiring Videos on the Web. Stuck in a cubicle all day? Hit a brick wall on that project? Not sure what to do next with your life? You need some inspiration, and you're in luck because the web is full of inspiring stories captured on video. Video is the perfect vehicle for an inspiring story because it can make the story come alive like no other medium.
Below is a list of 7 of the most of the inspiring videos on the web, embedded so you can watch them here. Each video, which range in length from 3 to 20 minutes, has an inspirational message to impart. 1. William Kamkwamba was 14 when he built a windmill from scrap parts in order to provide enough electricity to power 4 lightbulbs and 2 radios in his home in his tiny village in Malawi. Kwakwamba's inspiring story teaches us to dream big. 2. Autistic basketball player Jason McElwain spent most of his high school career cheering his team on from the bench as team manager — until the final 4 minutes of his final game as a senior. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
BUG: Twitter Currently Dropping Some Mentions and Replies. Listiti: Google Alerts for Twitter Lists. Google Alerts, once the secret of savvy online marketers and social media experts, have become the de facto way for the masses to keep one eye always on the web. While there have been attempts to apply the instant alerts concept to Twitter, we haven’t seen an application get the formula completely right yet.
Perhaps we spoke to soon, as we just discovered Listiti , a new web-based application that promises to do one thing: send you email alerts whenever tweets from specific Twitter Lists match your specified query. The Listiti implementation is both practical and genius. We’ve been talking about Twitter Lists as one of Twitter’s most important features, providing necessary context , and allowing for a variety of creative use cases . Real Friends VS Internet Friends « Bit Rebels.
Since I gain a lot of inspiration from reading tweets, sometimes when I’m waiting for that rush of creative adrenaline to hit me, I will spend a few minutes staring at my Twitter stream. Since I follow over 22,000 people, it moves fast and many times I am able to see full conversations between tweeple. One thing I’ve noticed is that people will often ask, “How are you today?” And more often than not, the person they ask that to will tweet back, “I’m fine.” or “Great.” Then, usually the other person will respond the same.
Are we really always fine? I turned my magnifying glass onto myself. Is it because we are not all as close as we claim to be and we don’t want people to really know us after all? My friend, @iamkhayyam, sent a link the other day to a page that said this in reference to the topic: “Sometimes, we are hurt and bruised and nearly completely shattered and this, sir, is not what one calls fine.” Does this mean that we are not “keeping it real” with our Internet friends? New Mac Commercial 2009 windows 7. WARNING: Twitter Money Scams Spreading Through DMs. Chicago wins conference in social-media blitz - Related Stories. Skip to main content Browse All Briefs by Topic Chicago wins conference in social-media blitz Forward to a friend 11/2/2009 | PlasticsNews.com PlasticsNews.com asked users to vote in an online poll to help them choose between holding a conference in Chicago and Orlando, Fla.
Once someone posted a link to the poll on the LinkedIn group for Chicago's tourism bureau, pro-Chicago voters flooded the site. Chicago tourism officials say they were able to use social media to rally voters, even outside the plastics industry. View Full Article in: PlasticsNews.com Media | Marketing Published in Brief: SmartBrief on Social Business SmartBrief Job Listings for Media View More Job Openings ©2014 SmartBrief. The New Utility Belt. I was thinking about utility belts. You know, Batman style. I’m thinking about this in two ways. In the first way, we could talk about the gear that people (like myself) use in this modern media making age. For instance, in my backpack, I have the following items (amazon affiliate links for some): Apple MacBook Pro Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3k digital camera and video camera Edirol R-09HR mp3 recorder Amazon Kindle iPhone 3G (thanks Alex for pointing out this missing piece).
That’s one way to think about the new utility belt, as if it were the gear that connects you to the web. Another way to think about it is like this: what software and methods for using it would best keep you equipped while navigating the web in doing what you’re doing. LinkedIn – for networking, and for answering questions. We could do this many other ways, and for several different organizations.
These are just thoughts along the way towards ways to make tools more useful to the human business. TalkingPuffin displays all of Robert Scoble's Twitter Lists. Technology in Social Media vs. The Human Factor.