Tag: Facebook

5FactsAboutMe: Find Out How Well Your Friends Know You

Posted by Nexus – 02/03/2011

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How well do your friends really know you? You can never be sure unless you distribute a questionnaire testing your friends knowledge of you. “5 Facts About Me” lets you do this in a very simple way.

5 Facts About Me is a free to use website that presents your friends with 5 facts about you. Your friends need to choose whether or not those facts are true or false. You can type in your own facts after creating an account on the site or connecting your Twitter or Facebook account. You get a public URL for your facts that can be shared on online social networks. Friends can easily take the 5-facts quiz and get their score.

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“Likejacking” Takes Off on Facebook

Posted by Nexus – 01/06/2010

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Security researchers are warning of the newest Facebook threat, something they’re calling “likejacking,” a Facebook-enabled clickjacking attack that tricks users into clicking links that mark the clicked site as one of your Facebook “likes.” These likes then show up on your profile and, of course, in your Facebook News Feed where your friends can see the link and click it, allowing the vicious, viral cycle to continue.

According to security firm Sophos, hundreds of thousands of users have already fallen for this new “likejacking” trick thanks to the clever and tantalizing linkbait the spammers use to entice people to click their links. For example:

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Dell Aero is ‘the lightest’ Android phone yet, poses for pictures

Posted by Nexus – 23/03/2010

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AT&T’s teaser site for the Dell Aero has gone live and we can now fill in a few more gaps in our knowledge about this forthcoming handset. It’s looking every bit the renamed Mini 3 we thought it was, so click here and here to get a closer look at the body of the device.

The official web mouthpiece confirms a 3.5-inch screen with nHD resolution — which may or may not signify the same 640 x 360 as on the Brazilian and Chinese versions — and one definite point of departure, a 5 (rather than 3) megapixel camera on the back.

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“It’s like twitter. Except we charge people to use it.”

Posted by Nexus – 07/03/2010

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From: Simon Edhouse
Date: Monday 16 November 2009 2.19pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Logo Design

Hello David,

I would like to catch up as I am working on a really exciting project at the moment and need a logo designed. Basically something representing peer to peer networking. I have to have something to show prospective clients this week so would you be able to pull something together in the next few days? I will also need a couple of pie charts done for a 1 page website. If deal goes ahead there will be some good money in it for you.

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