Archive for August, 2009

Panabee – New Search Engine, Merging Elements of Delicious and Google

Panabee - Metasearch Engine

Panabee is a new search engine that merges elements of Delicious and Google. It’s like how one could call ShopZilla a research tool – or a shopping search engine.

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Ten Commandments for Professional Networking through Social Media

Ten Commandments for Professional Networkingh

The Ten Commandments were put in place to benefit mankind. They act as a template to guide someone in bettering themselves and improve their daily interactions with those around them. With a little modification The Ten Commandments can be designed to meet the needs of anything. Take a look at social networking for example, any professional looking to enhance their career through social media needs to know the right way to approach and engage in this new form of networking. It can seem overwhelming and if done carelessly it could mean trouble.

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Twitter Attack Could Have Been Defended Against

Twitter

Misconception that DDoS attacks cannot be defended against…

We’ve read about recent attacks on Twitter to get at the Georgian blogger Cyxymu, which also affected Facebook, LiveJournal and parts of Google. There has been much misguided comment about the risks to the Internet of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and the difficulty of defending against such attacks. Much of the commentary has been about the “impossibility of the saervers to handle the traffic.”

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SocialSafe – Allows Facebook Users to Back Up and Store their Profile and Pictures Offline

SocialSafe

Facebook users can now capture their Facebook data and photos then save them onto their own computer in just a few seconds, following the launch of SocialSafe.

SocialSafe is a simple, effective and fun new application that enables Facebook users to manage their Facebook photos, profile information and friends’ contact details offline on their computer of choice. All it takes is a single ‘click’ to capture all their Facebook information within seconds. Significantly there is no long initial registration stage – the entire process is completed in a matter of minutes. (more…)

Write, Share and Publish with FastPencil

FastPencil

FastPencil announced a robust feature update to their free social self-publishing platform that allows authors to easily write, share, publish and sell their books. FastPencil now offers additional book templates, Facebook Connect, Twitter updates and distribution of e-books through Barnes & Nobile and Amazon, including iPhone reader and Kindle support.

FastPencil is now integrated with both Facebook Connect and Twitter to provide a new level of communication and collaboration. Facebook Connect enables users to connect directly to their Facebook network through FastPencil. A “scribble, tweet or share” feature in FastPencil now automatically updates Twitter, making it easier to share your thoughts and activities with your community. (more…)