Another scam to attempt to steal our social networking passwords is underway this week. This time the target is Twitter, and this scam invovles fake Twitter blogs.
The tribute song to Michael Jackson is touching the new download heights. The song rapidly spread through social media. This song features Usher, Diddy, Mario Winans, Chris Brown, The Game, Boyz2Men and various other leading artists. Read more…
Well … whenever I find myself caught in this predicament, I ask myself one question: Is my use case model comprehensible? That is, do my stakeholders understand it without me explaining it to them? Read more…
To me, given the plethora of web programming languages, the emergence of Ruby on Rails (RoR) as an eminent web development platform seemed like yet another good marketing strategy at work. However, after careful analysis of features provided by RoR Read more…
Facebook application development entails a very small learning curve. It has its roots in the contemporary Internet markup and scripting technologies. As a matter of fact, if you are a web developer, you only need a few more skills to develop your applications in Facebook. The required front-end skills include XHTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP. Facebook uses its own markup and scripting languages known as FBML (Facebook Markup Language) and FBJS (Facebook Javascript) respectively. For backend, Facebook has its own version of SQL known as FQL (Facebook Query Language).
Other than technical skills, developers have other challenges when it comes to the social networking paradigm. In order to make their applications reach more users, developers have to come up with innovative ideas and marketing strategies to engage their users.
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Germany, the regional court in hamburg has fined file-hosting service Rapidshare a huge amount of $34 million and has further ordered that rapidshare must now filtering certain content. GEMA a copyright protection association happen to be the ones who brought this case to court. GEMA believes to represent 65,000 composers, authors and publishers across the world.
Therefore, the hamburg court rules that Rapidshare is not allowed to make these all claimed music tracks from GEMA’s collection available on the Internet. They have also been ordered to remove all these tracks immediately from there servers and also to stop users from further uploading it to there servers. Now its a challenge situation for the Rapidshare to comply with this rule by court. Because 90% of such files are Zipped, compressed and password protected.
Rapidshare does run such search algorithms already which search through the ZIP files in order to trace copyright material. But since the quantity is in millions so the company will have to make some quick dicisions to further save itself.
Rapidshare is one of the most popular sites on web today, with an Alexa rank of 14 (huge) and millions of unique visitors per month
This is also not the first time such claims have been made against rapidshare, earlier in January 2008 the lost a smiliar case in german court. For this case, Rapidshare will appeal to higher courts and most likely restrict the scope of the decisions made by the Regional Court in Hamburg