Wednesday, July 14, 2010

How to Improve Facebook Page

There are more applications available that do not require a lot of programming. While most of these programs offer very limited customization, they still offer a degree of enhancement that can help to bring you out of the default Facebook Page channel.

Here are 10 steps to enhance Facebook Page:
1. Constant Contact: This popular email newsletter builder has a ready-made app to add a “Join My List” tab to your Page, complete with a subscription form.
2. Docs: Share documents with fans, add a Docs profile tab to your Page, even collaborate on docs with other Page administrators for your Page.
3. Tumblr: You can syndicate your Tumblr posts to your Page’s feed.
4. Posterous. Because you can post anything to your Posterous using email — photos, video, music, documents or files — you can use the same functionality to post to your Page via Posterous attached to your Page’s feed.
5. Networked Blogs: With this app, you can promote your blog on Facebook and syndicate your feeds to your profile Wall and Fan Pages.
6. Signup Form: Use this form to collect data or get fans to sign up for something via your Page.
7. Easy Schedule: Add your schedule to your Page.
8. TalkShoe: Create or join live group calls aka Community Calls with Facebook friends. Participants can join via landline, mobile phone, Skype or VoIP. You can record calls and make them into podcasts.
9. My Etsy: Have an Etsy shop? Add a tab to your Facebook Page.
10. FanAppz: A suite of Fan Page tools including a Top5 application, where fans can select their five favorite things in your branded content or FanAppz content, polls, quizzes, promotions, coupons and more.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Google acts to fix YouTube flaw exploited by hackers

YouTube has been enforced to fix a flaws that allows hackers to bombard its users with fake pop-up add and alerts and redirect them to retricted sites. Hackers use to place code in the comments section, and when some plays that video the script automatically runs. In some cases, a pop-up screen appears, showing some latest news (Fake most of the time).

Google, which owns YouTube, asked it to fix problem at the arlest, "about two hours" after it was discovered. YouTube spokeperson said that, "We took swift action to fix a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on youtube.com,"

Hackers hide those comments within in an hour as soon as they get this news.

Hackers use Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, they are relatively easy attacks that allows them to place code into website pages. In this YouTube incident, hackers use JavaScript and HTML code, both commonly used on web pages.

Internet Security experts claims that although in most these attacks code was relatively not much dangerous, it has been used for more malicious purposes. "It could be used to show a message like “update your password”, this further could link to a malicious website.