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Here is the mail which i received from Twitter about their recent updates. If you didn’t receive yet? or trashed your mail?. OK, good time to read it now here.   New things are always happening here at Twitter HQ. We’re growing at a rapid pace, and our commitment to simplicity, transparency, and reaching every [...] Read more..

WordPress 3.3.2 is available now and is a security update for all previous versions. Three external libraries included in WordPress received security updates: Plupload (version 1.5.4), which WordPress uses for uploading media. SWFUpload, which WordPress previously used for uploading media, and may still be in use by plugins. SWFObject, which WordPress previously used to embed Flash [...] Read more..

The telecom secretary, Mr. R. Chandrashekar said on Thursday that India won’t censure social networking sites like Facebook & Twitter but they will have to follow the rules of the land. “We don’t believe in censorship of any kind. All over the world, every company has to operate in accordance with the law. Any company [...] Read more..

A hackers group has attacked new-nazi groups in Germany, crippling about 15 websites and exposing the hundreds of extreme right wing supporters. The hackers affiliated with the “hacktivist” group Anonymous have opened a “Nazi-Leaks” website listing the names and personal details of people who are account customers at far-right shops as well as contributors to [...] Read more..

A 21-year-old Briton hanged himself after a girl removed him as a “friend” on social network Facebook. Simon Foxley from Hyde, Gloucestershire, became interested in the girl after meeting her on the website. But when he told her of his romantic feelings, she “unfriended” him from her list, said the Daily Mail. Foxley tried to [...] Read more..

Hackers on Sunday claimed to have stolen 200GB of emails & credit card data from United States security think tank stratfor, promising a week-long Christmas-insspired assault on a long list of targets. Members of the loose hacking movement known as ‘Anonymous’ posted a link on Twitter to what it said was stratfor’s secret client list [...] Read more..

Facebook has agreed to make several changes to its services to improve transparency and better protect personal data of its millions of users outside the US, following an in-depth audit of its international headquarters that was released Thursday(December, 22, 2011). Read more..

Here’s an interesting tidbit from the Google+ stats trackers: Three quarters (or more) of Google+ users are male. SocialStatistics, a third-party site that gathers data from select profiles, pegs the percentage of male users at 86.8%, while FindPeopleOnPlus, which curates information from about a million users, says men constitute 73.7% of Google+. FindPeopleOnPlus also discovered [...] Read more..

The popular blog publishing tool WordPress has joined the growing cadre of sites dropping support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 web browser. The recently upgraded WordPress.com brings a handful of new features and a revamped, cleaner design in the admin pages, but perhaps the biggest news in the release is that the admin pages no [...] Read more..

What happens when you cross the world’s largest social network with one of the hottest business models in e-commerce? Facebook wants to find out. Facebook is launching a deals program Tuesday in five US cities, following on the popularity of Groupon and other services that offer deep discounts – for example: $50 worth of food [...] Read more..