By Tom Simonite It’s not unusual to have user profiles on multiple social networks, or even separate accounts on sites like Twitter–one for work and one for play. But Kyumin Lee at Texas A&M University has 60 Twitter accounts, and not because he’s popular. Lee’s accounts are “honeypots,” designed to attract the attention of the spammers that increasingly use ...

Earlier this month, Facebook sought to increase its reach by connecting with other sites across the Web. The Open Graph Protocol, announced at Facebook’s f8 Developers Conference, makes it easier for outside sites to share information with Facebook when visitors want to recommend a page. But Facebook has come under increasing scrutiny for making users’ data more public and available to ...

This week Twitter launched Promoted Tweets, an advertising platform that sheds light on its much-discussed business model. The platform takes a page out of Google’s advertising playbook by letting advertisers sponsor posts that will appear at the top of Twitter search results. Twitter hopes to take Promoted Tweets further in the long run by dropping advertising messages into the multithreaded ...

Classified documents were stolen from high levels of the Indian government by hackers over the course of several months, according to a report released on Monday night by researchers from the University of Toronto. The researchers, from the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, traced the botnet (a network of compromised computers) used in the attacks to hackers based in China, ...

As users have flocked to social networks, so, inevitably, have spammers. And according to a recent experiment, users are much more receptive to spam sent via a social network than over e-mail. Fake friends: This screenshot shows real users who befriended a bogus Facebook user created by George Petre and colleagues. Credit: BitDefender   Fake friends: This screenshot shows real users who befriended ...

Web 3.0 design and functionality REST, AJAX, Silverlight, Widget Enabled, Taggable, Searchable everything… Web 3.0 is the Semantic Web, where machine read content like human beings then RSS will be its eyes. RSS technology is still in vast uses especially in the online news portals. The entire business models have already being created around aggregating meta-data. IGoogle, MyIndiaTims and Netvibes ...