How Facebook has revolutionized the web

The button will change the face of the web? By introducing modules on all the social Web, Facebook is creating its web, the social web.

Facebook F8 Developers Conference held this week was the scene of spectacular announcements: a set of components enabling developers to add social networking features on any site and exploit the social graph of Facebook. A complete overhaul of the Facebook Platform and three components have been announced: the social modules, the Open Protocol Graph, Graph and API.

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How Google has been attacked

The security specialist McAfee has discovered among other things a vector of attack, the engine was announced to have been a victim but a previously unknown flaw in Internet Explorer. Code name “Operation Aurora. This is a title worthy of a James Bond that McAfee researchers have dubbed the attack targeting several Google employees and other U.S. companies. The search giant, which also suffered hacking attempts of its infrastructure, went to reconsider its presence in the Chinese market, the country he suspected of being behind these operations.

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Antivirus: an update of McAfee missed a nightmare

In updating its antivirus database, the publisher has quarantined a file needed for Windows XP SP3. A “blunder” that is not an isolated case. Difficult to measure precisely the extent of damage. But tonight, an update of the database of signatures McAfee has caused the quarantine file SVCHOST.EXE (one of the pillars of Windows).

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iPhone OS 4.0 available this summer with multitasking

Steve Jobs unveiled Version 4 of the operating system of the iPhone and the iPod. Major new features: multitasking, gaming community, an enhanced messaging and advertising … more invasive applications. The fourth generation of the iPhone OS will soon be entering the ring. Apple made the announcement Thursday evening at a press conference in California. The operating system will be available for all this summer, promises Steve Jobs, the chief founder of the company. It will run on the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch third generation, but only partially on the previous generation. The iPad, the tablet sold only a few days, will, she served in the fall. The developers have therefore today a preliminary version of the iPhone OS 4.0.

More than 100 new features are expected. But that makes the most sense is undoubtedly the multitasking, claimed to body and cries of many iPhone users. “We’re not the first to do so, but we will be the best in this field. As was the case with the copy and paste “a swaggering Steve Jobs.

Interactive advertising in Apps

We can therefore move from a third party application to another. Pressing the button twice on “home”, a ribbon appears at the bottom of the screen bringing the icons of open applications. We will keep in the background, for example listen to music from an application like Spotify while responding to an email.

But this will only work on the services listed by Apple: audio, voice over IP geolocation, notifications, task execution (when the transfer of a photo on an online service for example) and switching to an application on hold.

The organization of aid to Haiti organized online

In this edition, the blogosphere is organized to help rebuild Haiti, and French Internet commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the great flood of the Seine.

Rebuilding Haiti

After the rescue, to reconstruction. While the international community is organized to put Haiti on foot after the earthquake, several online initiatives attempt to bring them to the building.

Created by a communications agency site “youaidhaiti” calls users to upload their videos to share their messages of support to Haiti. Each video posted generate funds through sponsors of the site to help rebuild the country. Dozens of videos have been uploaded.

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Google vs. Beijing

Since January 13, Google refuses to cooperate with Chinese censors. Result: the American search engine could be forced to leave China, failing to persuade the Beijing government to run its Chinese site google.cn without the filter of censorship. Google advanced including massive cyber cons of gmail accounts cyberdissidents. Today they are showing their outrage.

Last November, Ai Weiwei, a famous artist and dissident, had a nasty surprise by opening his mail. All messages have been transferred to an unknown address. Since he is campaigning for the rights of families of earthquake victims in Sichuan, the designer of the Olympic Stadium in Beijing is often harassed by the authorities. But mostly he keeps the action from Google, which has warned its users against piracy of their gmail box. “Of course this will affect my business. But most important is that Google has reminded surfers their rights, they must protect and defend freedom conveyed by this right to privacy on the Internet … ”

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A week after the recall of its cars, Toyota is act of contrition

Toyota’s first official to speak since the recall of some 4.5 million cars off the mark Nippon, vice president Shinichi Sasaki reiterated the group’s apology for the inconvenience caused to its customers.

AFP – Japanese auto giant Toyota, which had to recall millions of cars worldwide due to faulty accelerator pedal, denied Tuesday that he sacrificed the legendary quality of its products to more quickly become number one worldwide.

During a press conference, the first by a top official of Toyota in Japan since the outbreak of the crisis, the vice-president Shinichi Sasaki reiterated the apology on the group against motorists affected.

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Employees of Pier Import liberated their leaders

After a night of negotiations on the conditions of termination, employees working in stores for liquidation of Pier Import released the CEO and general manager of the company since they were heard Monday night.

Reuters – Some employees of Pier Import included two leaders of the group on the night of Monday to Tuesday at company headquarters near Paris, to obtain better conditions of dismissal, have announced their representatives.

They were released Tuesday morning the CEO Sonia Ben Behe and CEO Gerard Démaret their offices Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis) after a general meeting where the employees have decided to continue the fight in other forms.

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Avatar and Minesweeper leading the race for Oscars

With nine nominations each, “Avatar” from James Cameron (photo) and “Minesweeper” by Kathryn Bigelow will deliver a fierce battle at the Oscars. “The Prophet” by Jacques Audiard defend France by claiming the title of the best foreign film.

AFP – The battle for the Oscars 2010 is launched between the film “Avatar” and “Minesweeper”, which have each been selected nine times Tuesday in the race for precious statuettes.

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