items tagged with Social networks

A Christian writers’ website, Faithwriters.com, boasting 1.1 million unique visitors per month has apparently been hacked, with some 40,000 passwords believed to have been stolen and emails compromised, including those of hundreds of writers from Australia and New Zealand.

Social network Twitter is growing in leaps and bounds with thousands of new tweeters singing up every day, and now many large businesses have jumped on the social networking bandwagon, reportedly starting to use Twitter as a key tool in their customer service inventory.

There was a three-fold increase in the number of malicious websites around the world infected with malware in March, with almost 3,000 potentially harmful sites intercepted every day of the month.

A flood of spam has infiltrated the Twitter microblogging community, with new Twitter scams ‘popping up right left and centre’ according to F-Secure, which says it discovered a fake Twitter account that tricks users into a Google scam by promising a free Range Rover.

Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing vendor, has released a CRM solution for Twitter, enabling companies to search, monitor and join conversations taking place on Twitter directly in the service cloud.
 

Software AG is launching AlignSpace, which it says is the first and largest social network for business process management (BPM) professionals in the market.

The average Australian now spends an hour and a half of their leisure time online each day, with most of us – 79 percent to be precise - logging in from home every day, even though many have actually met an online acquaintance in person.