When you're dealing with 1 billion people's personal info, security is critical. But Facebook didn't want to sacrifice speed. That's why it spent the last two years making infrastructure improvements so that its transition of all its users to HTTPS which starts this week will "slow down connections only slightly." People will be able to opt-out of HTTPS for ... Read more
SpiderOak Unveils Hive, Streamlines Zero-Knowledge Privacy S... An old saying states that "security is inversely proportional to convenience." This explains the slow adoption of many important security technologies. HTTPS, the secure version of the HTTP protocol u... Read more
Delicious Becomes A Bit More Social Again, Adds Twitter And ... Its recently been very quiet around Delicious, the social bookmarking service Yahoo bought in 2005 and then sold to AVOS in 2011. Back then, the AVOS team said it was relaunching Delicious back to bet... Read more
Facebook considered building an operating system for Faceboo... "The [story behind the history of Home] was about making an experience that flows through friends and people. We saw three ways that we could do this. One, we could go and build an operating system. S... Read more
Big Brands Want Ads On Instagram, But Facebook Is Focused On... Facebook says that there are no plans for now to add advertising to Instagram, even though advertisers are approaching them, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today during the company's Q1 earnings call. But a... Read more
Editorial: Facebook vs. Vine is another chapter in the book ... Oh man, Vine is fun. It is already apparent that with creativity and planning you can produce something approaching an epic experience in a 6-second video. Vine is a perfect enhancement of Twitter's c... Read more
Facebook's dirty poke app trick gets a thumbs down Mark Zuckerberg boasted of copying the Snapchat app in 12 days, but what has Facebook really achieved with its sexting app?Several Yuletides ago, before the novelty of camera phones had worn off, a gr... Read more
Still Protesting? Facebook Will Soon Force You To Switch To ... Over the next few months, anyone still refusing to voluntarily switch to the Timeline profile redesign will be automatically migrated, Facebook tells me. Users could choose to adopt the redesign start... Read more
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Facebook To Buy Instagram For $1B Facebook will pay $1 billion in cash and stock for Instagram, a 2-year-old photo-sharing application developer, in its largest-ever acquisition just months before the No. 1 social media website is exp... Read more
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