Facebook addicts listen up! You might be the next victim of a virus sent through spam on the said social networking site. According to McAfee, millions of messages have been sent to unwary users. A lot have been victimized by the virus because the spam messages appeared genuine. With a return address like help@facebook.com who would suspect it was a virus? This virus basically steals your password as well as other information that might be of importance.

Not content with tweeting straight from Twitter site? Well, folks at Twitter heard your sentiment! They are making it easier for you to tweet or follow the tweets of your favourite bloggers or publishers with its new @anywhere service! This service will also make it easier for users to integrate Twitter content into third-party websites without the need for other client applications. However, @anywhere service must not be mixed up with other Twitter applications that are already in existence.

Wikipedia is one of the most helpful sites around. I use it a lot when researching because the information is easy to work out. Google also thinks that Wikipedia is indeed very useful because it has given a $2 million grant to Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that manages the said site.

The $2 million will be used to make Wikipedia even better than before. The said amount will be handy in purchasing more computer infrastructure like bandwidth, servers, and routers. These additions will hold up Wikipedia’s global traffic and capacity demands.

AOL has entered into partnership with Facebook. By means of this partnership, users of AOL’s AIM messenger can also chat with their friends who are online on Facebook. How is this possible? Well, all it takes is a software. AIM users have to download this software into their computer and this will automatically get them linked with Facebook. A “Facebook Connect” button will appear on top of the buddy list and the AIM user needs to click this and his Facebook friends will be added to the messenger list.

More than 350 million Facebook users can rest assured that their accounts will remain secure from malwares and other suspicious virus lurking on the net. Facebook has just signed a deal with well-known securities provider McAfee. Users will be given complimentary McAfee security software for six months. When that six-month subscription expires, the user will have to pay a certain fee if he wants to continue having the said protection.

There are so many web-based applications available right now that people would literally get dizzy trying to choose which one suits their needs best. We’ve already heard about the upcoming cloud-based apps from Google and Microsoft that will let users access almost every application online. But, don’t users have any other choice aside them? The answer, yes they do! There are still some applications available that offer almost the same capability. Some of them are not really that popular so you might not have heard of them yet.

Glide OS, G.ho.st, Startforce, Airset, ajaxWindows, Prism, iCloud, cmyOS, Astranos... does any of these sound familiar? These applications let you do almost everything you need to do like store files, and media online, save bookmarks, and access applications like word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation software. Here’s a bit of information about the first five:

I’m all for Twitter; however I’m not a really avid user because I find it cumbersome sometimes. There are so many updates to go through before I can find the update that a particular person made. I think Twitter heard my sentiment, and probably, of a lot of users too because it has rolled out the biggest update of date. This update is the Twitter Lists that enables users to consolidate their contacts into groups. Through this grouping, a user can easily find the updates he’s looking for. Just click on the group name and voila! updates will immediately show up!

Web addresses are about to change! If you think that it’s going to be confined to the English language for all time, you’re wrong. Pretty soon you’ll see web addresses in various characters like Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Hindi, Greek, and Cyrillic. Internet users in these countries will be able to surf the web in their respective languages.

This move to permit other characters other than English is still set for approval on Friday, which is the final day of the meeting that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is holding in South Korea.

The new Opera Mini 5 has landed! Opera, the leading provider in mobile browsing has unveiled its latest product last Wednesday. With excellent additional features, Opera browser users definitely have something to celebrate about. Opera Mini 5 offers a new user interface that makes browsing easier and more convenient. For example, the address box can be changed easily to a Google search box. This interface looks very much similar to a desktop browsers’, so that’s really a good thing! It made even more convenient for touchscreen devices.

Facebook’s domination is not stopping any time soon. This massive social networking site has recently announced its acquisition of the FriendFeed service. If this is the first time you’ve heard of FriendFeed, well it is a service that’s almost similar to Twitter. It’s also a microblogging service that offers real-time updates from its users. However, FriendFeed doesn’t have that much users that is why it’s more beneficial for them to partner with Facebook who has over 250 million users.

Facebook has added a new feature to the networking site. The new feature, already made available this Monday, enables users to search for specific updates from the site. A user can type in a certain keyword on the search bar and the new interface automatically gathers all updates related to that keyword that other Facebook users have made. Aside from results from Friends, the search outcome can also include Events, Applications, and Groups. The new search feature includes an Everyone filter that allows users to be on top of the various topics and updates about major topics. However, the updates won’t show on the Facebook page until the user clicks show.

Facebook, who really does not love this terrific website, we simply love it!
Apart from groups, friends, causes, photos, notes, and all these things you can find on facebook, applications are also, a reason why some may use Facebook nowadays.

Are you an avid Apple aficionado? Then for sure you didn’t miss out on the latest browser that the company released. According to Apple, Safari 4 is faster than the other browsers available today. It is about eight times faster than IE8 and three times faster than Firefox when it comes to loading HTML Web pages. Mac and Windows users can’t wait to check out if such claim is really true. So, only after three days upon release, Apple has already recorded more than 11 million downloads. As you can see, such is their keenness to try it out for themselves.

Pretty soon a new name in online publishing will be on everyone’s lips. Scribd is a fast-growing website where anyone can upload digital content such as books, research reports, and other printed materials. People who want their works to be visible to potential clients will benefit from the exposure that Scribd provides, especially now that it has over 60 million visitors every month. Authors and publishers will be glad to use Scribd as their online publishing platform because it provides them with the choice to set the prices for their work and the level of copyright protection it will have.