Facebook Rolling out “View Share Count” Feature – Easily Find Who All have Shared Same Update

Facebook is rolling out a new feature called “view share Count” where you can see who all have shared any particular update (currently I have seen with URL) in facebook. Earlier it was not so easy to find who all have shared that same status, although you can easily see the total number of likes received on that.
Following is the screenshot of the View Share Count feature..

In this first image, you can see that link is shared by 2 person and once I clicked on that “View 2 share” button then I saw the detail about those users as shown in the second screenshot.
Currently this view share count is showing on links, in my profile. I can not say anything whether this feature will also work on all other shares excluding link share.
Are you seeing this new Facebook view count feature in your facebook profile?

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How to Embed Facebook Videos on Website

There are two type of Facebook videos which you can Embed on website. First is, Video uploaded by you & second is, video uploaded by other facebook users including your friends and both have different ways to embed the video. Check out how you can embed facebook videos on website in both cases.
Note: Facebook have grouped photos & videos section under one group called “photos”. So, if you want to search your uploaded videos, Go to your Photo section and then click on videos link.

Case 1: How to Embed your Own Facebook Videos?
If you have uploaded a video on facebook that you want to embed on your website then Go to that Video and click on Embed this video link and then it will popup a box containing some code. Simply copy that code and paste in your website HTML source.

If you see that code in a notepad then that code will look like Following:
Source code

<object width="400" height="224" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
<param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/302948129731912" />
<embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/302948129731912" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="224"></embed></object>

Case 2: How to Embed Others’ Facebook Videos
If you want to Embed Facebook videos of other users then you need to do some editing. First of all, you have to find the video id of that particular video. This you can do easily by opening that video page in new tab and copy the video id. Check out the following screenshot to copy the video id. Keep in mind, All Facebook Videos will have unique id.

Now, copy the following code in a new notepad file and replace FACEBOOK_VIDEO_ID with that facebook video id which you want to embed.

Source code   <object width="400" height="224" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /> <param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/FACEBOOK_VIDEO_ID" /> <embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/FACEBOOK_VIDEO_ID" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="224"></embed></object>

Note: The above video is uploaded by me for testing purpose only and hence not publicly available.
Caution: You must take permission before embedding others’ facebook videos on your webpage to avoid any problem in future.
So, once you have made the changes, paste & save that code in your websites’ html view and that’s it. Finally you have learned the process to embed facebook videos in website.

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Powerful “Flame” cyber weapon found in Iran

Security experts discovered a highly complex computer virus in Iran and the Middle East that they believe was deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored espionage.
Evidence suggest that the virus, dubbed Flame, may have been built on behalf of the same nation that commissioned the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran’s nuclear program in 2010, according to Kaspersky Lab, the Russian cyber security software maker that claimed responsibility for discovering the virus.
Kaspersky researchers said they have yet to determine whether Flame had a specific mission like Stuxnet, and declined to say who they think built it.
Iran has accused the United States and Isreal of deploying Stuxnet.
Cyber security experts said the discovery provides new evidence to the public to show what experts privy to classified information have long known: that nations have been using pieces of malicious computer code as weapons to promote their security interests for several years.
“This is one of many, many campaigns that happen all the time and never make it into the public domain,” said Alexander Klimburg, a cyber security expert at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs.
A cyber security agency in Iran said on its website on Monday that Flame bore a “close relation” to Stuxnet, the notorious computer worm that attacked that country’s nuclear program in 2010 and is the first publicly known example of a cyber weapon.
Iran’s National Computer Emergency Response Team also said Flame might be linked to recent cyber attacks that officials in Tehran have said were responsible for massive data losses on some Iranian computer systems.
Kaspersky Lab said it discovered Flame after a U.N. telecommunications agency asked it to analyze data on malicious software across the Middle East in search of the data-wiping virus reported by Iran.
STUXNET CONNECTION
Experts at Kaspersky Lab and Hungary’s Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security who have spent weeks studying Flame said they have yet to find any evidence that it can attack infrastructure, delete data or inflict other physical damage.
Yet they said they are in the early stages of their investigations and that they may discover other purposes beyond data theft. It took researchers months to determine the key mysteries behind Stuxnet, including the purpose of modules used to attack a uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, Iran.
“Their initial research suggest that this was probably written by the authors of Stuxnet for covert intelligence collection,” said John Bumgarner, a cyber warfare expert with the non-profit U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit think tank.
Flame appears poised to go down in history as the third major cyber weapon uncovered after Stuxnet and its data-stealing cousin Duqu, named after the Star Wars villain.
The Moscow-based company is controlled by Russian malware researcher Eugene Kaspersky. It gained notoriety in cyber weapons research after solving several mysteries surrounding Stuxnet and Duqu.
Their research shows the largest number of infected machines are in Iran, followed by the Israel/Palestine region, then Sudan and Syria.
The virus contains about 20 times as much code as Stuxnet, which caused centrifuges to fail at the Iranian enrichment facility it attacked. It has about 100 times as much code as a typical virus designed to steal financial information, said Kaspersky Lab senior researcher Roel Schouwenberg.
GATHERING DATA
Flame can gather data files, remotely change settings on computers, turn on PC microphones to record conversations, take screen shots and log instant messaging chats.
Kaspersky Lab said Flame and Stuxnet appear to infect machines by exploiting the same flaw in the Windows operating system and that both viruses employ a similar way of spreading.
That means the teams that built Stuxnet and Duqu might have had access to the same technology as the team that built Flame, Schouwenberg said.
He said that a nation state would have the capability to build such a sophisticated tool, but declined to comment on which countries might do so.
The question of who built flame is sure to become a hot topic in the security community as well as the diplomatic world.
There is some controversy over who was behind Stuxnet and Duqu.
Some experts suspect the United States and Israel, a view that was laid out in a January 2011 New York Times report that said it came from a joint program begun around 2004 to undermine what they say are Iran’s efforts to build a bomb. That article said the program was originally authorized by U.S. President George W. Bush, and then accelerated by his successor, Barack Obama.
A U.S. Defense Department spokesman, David Oten, declined to comment on Flame on Monday, saying it may take “some time” because of the U.S. Memorial Day holiday.
The CIA, the State Department, the National Security Agency, and the U.S. Cyber Command declined to comment.
Hungarian researcher Boldizsar Bencsath, whose Laboratory of Cryptography and Systems Security first discovered Duqu, said his analysis shows that Flame may have been active for at least five years and perhaps eight years or more.
“The scary thing for me is: if this is what they were capable of five years ago, I can only think what they are developing now,” Mohan Koo, managing director of British-based Dtex Systems cyber security company.

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Twitter index: uninspiring book titles

Microbloggers are coming up with names for books that are less inspiring than their originals.
Some of Twitter’s favorites are “The Girl With The Temporary Tattoo,” “The Meh Gatsby,” “Around the World in 80 years,” “Harry Potter and the Order of the French Fries” and “The ‘No Thanks I’ll Just Walk’ Guide to the Galaxy.”
Tweeps are listing reasons why people shouldn’t come over with first place topic “#DontComeOverIf” and talking about the Backstreet Boys’ song with fifth place term “I Want It That Way.”
Fans of teenage singer Cody Simpson (@CodySimpson) have started asking him questions with the hashtag “#AskCody.” The singer has yet to publicly reply to any of the questions.
Liam Payne, the One Direction member fans have dubbed “Daddy Direction,” is still getting lots of love from fans on the social network.
“RT if you love Liam <3” say One Directioners, “Daddy Direction is just so sweet. <3 He takes his time to tweet and twitcam us. Love you Liam. <3.”
Twitterers are picking on microblogger Sydney Dalton (@sydneydalton) for her tweets about One Direction. Dalton previously provoked the ire of fellow Twitter users when she posted a video on YouTube showing her and her friends ripping down Justin Bieber posters.
“Remember the video of Sydney Dalton ripping off her Bieber posters?” say Tweeps. “Just wait, she’s gonna post a video of her ripping her 1D posters soon.”

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Facebook Like Unlike Problem – Unliking Automatically ? [Solution]

Are you also facing the problem with facebook like button on your blog posts or website i.e. after liking a URL facebook like button is unliking itself? I faced this issue & after searching on facebook developer section, finally I found the solution that may work for you too.
So, Facebook URL linter feature can solve your problem within few second if you are facing problem with your facebook like button on any specific page URL. The drawback or disadvantage, you can say, is you have to manually perform this step every time you encounter any problem with your facebook like button.
Suppose you are clicking Facebook Like Button & if it’s automatically unliking itself within second then you have to do the following steps.
1. Open Facebook URL Linter page Open This.
2. Enter the URL of your blog post which is having issue with facebook like in the above page & click on lint button.

3. Now, it will open a detail analysis page of that URL where you can scroll down to the bottom of the page where you will find Like Button. Check the following screenshot.

4. If your Blog URL is facing this issue then the number of like at the page will be Zero. So, Click on Like button and it will increment the facebook like count by 1.
5. Go back to your blog & refresh that page. Now, Click on Like button.. OHOO…. Now, Like button is working!! Great!
So, Do this process again if you found the same Facebook Like Unlike error again & solve this issue again within few seconds.

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Facebook Account Protection Status : Low or High ?

If I ask you what’s your facebook account protection level means how secured your facebook account then you may say it’s good but technically speaking if you are a regular user of facebook and want to protect your account then you must check your Facebook Protection status and check whether it is very low or high. Very low means you need to improve your facebook security and High means you need not to worry about your facebook account unless you have shared your password with someone.

To check the protection status of your facebook account open this URL. This page will show you the overall protection level of your account. Check the overall protection bar at the right top of the page. It will show either low, medium or High and below that three option where you can make changes to make your facebook account more secured.

1. Contact Email : Try to add one more email address because it will be helpful during password reset request.

2. Mobile Phone : Attach your mobile phone number to your facebook account because sometime facebook will send you sms to do some particular task in your account and at that time, if that task is performed by some other source then they will not have the access to that SMS and in that case your facebook account will remain safe.

3. Security Question : Add a security question to your account. It is required to make your account even more secured because Security Question may be asked during the password reset.
So once you have completed these three option then you will realized that your facebook account protection level is changed to high.

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Facebook market makers’ losses at least $100 million

Claims by four of Wall Street’s main market makers against Nasdaq over Facebook’s botched IPO are likely to exceed $100 million, as they and other traders continue to deal with thousands of problems with customer orders.
A technical glitch delayed the social networking company’s market debut by 30 minutes on Friday and many client orders were delayed, giving some investors and traders significant losses as the stock price dropped. The exchange operator is facing lawsuits from investors and threats of legal action from brokers.
Four of the top market makers in the Facebook IPO — Knight Capital, Citadel Securities, UBS AG and Citi’s Automated Trading Desk — collectively have probably lost more than $100 million from problems arising from the deal, said a senior executive at one of the firms.
Knight and Citadel are each claiming losses of $30 million to $35 million, potentially overwhelming a $13 million fund the exchange set up to deal with potential claims.
Nasdaq also has to contend with the outside prospect that it could lose the Facebook listing entirely after having just obtained it.
Facebook shares ended regular trading on Thursday up 3.2 percent at $33.03, about $5 short of their offering price. Action on the stock, however, has essentially become secondary to the fallout from the IPO — its price, its size, its execution and questions about selective disclosure of its financial prospects.
Regulators including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin are now looking into how the IPO was handled. The U.S. Senate Banking Committee is also reviewing the matter.
BROKERS UP IN ARMS
Advisers familiar with the situation said many investors are now finding out, nearly a week after the fact, that their orders were not executed at the prices they thought.
Fidelity, in a statement, said it was working with regulators and market makers on its clients’ issues “and we will continue to do so until we are confident that Nasdaq has done everything it can to mitigate the impact to our customers.”
Morgan Stanley is also still tending to trade orders placed by brokerage customers on Friday, two people familiar with the situation said. Nasdaq has said all orders were returned by 1:50 p.m. EDT last Friday, but a Morgan Stanley Smith Barney source said it did not get trade information in a “systemic, orderly way.
Late Thursday, the company held a call with its brokers and told them adjustments would be made to thousands of trades so that no limit orders would be filled at more than $43 a share for stock from the IPO day, a person familiar with the call said.
While brokerages may have received confirmation of trades made on Friday, many were still handling customer disputes over what price they received on the trades, officials said.
The question is “who is going to eat the cost” of compensating those investors, said Alan Haft, a financial adviser with California-based Kings Point Capital LLC, which has $200 million in assets.
One prominent plaintiffs lawyer said what happened with Facebook was reminiscent of the dot-com bubble.
“This is just another spin on the same game of unfair treatment of individual investors,” said Stanley Bernstein of Bernstein Liebhard. He chaired the plaintiffs’ committee in an IPO class-action suit challenging the role of investment banks in more than 300 IPOs between 1998 and 2000. The litigation ended in a $586 million settlement in favor of the plaintiffs.
MARKET MAKERS LOOM
The claims by market makers Knight and Citadel could end up dwarfing some of the brokerage issues, though.
“They are certainly facing the specter of some significant lawsuits if this pool is not enough,” a source familiar with Knight’s situation said of the Nasdaq claims pool.
Citadel has sent its losses to Nasdaq for potential compensation, a source familiar with the matter said. Citadel’s hedge fund was not affected.
The head of trading at Instinet said it still had no idea when Nasdaq would respond to requests for accommodation — essentially, compensation for the order problems — or if those requests would be honored.
“Were gonna be looking at a loss on our books” if Nasdaq does not honor the requests, Mark Turner said. “We basically made most of our clients whole because Nasdaq told us to go through the process and file for accommodation. If Nasdaq does not accommodate us we’re going to end up taking a loss.”
“I don’t know that I want to put a dollar amount on that but it’s not nearly as significant as Knight’s ($30-$35 million),” he said.
Citadel and Knight, as market makers to the Nasdaq, honor their clients’ buy, sell and cancellation orders. The orders are supposed to be processed by the exchange within milliseconds, but there was a nearly two-hour delay in processing Facebook orders at the Nasdaq.
During that time, market makers had no idea where their orders stood. And in reality, the price clients bought or sold at was sometimes different than the price they actually got.
For example, Facebook shares began trading with an opening cross price – the first price at which those not in on the IPO could buy or sell – of $42 per share. If an order to sell 10,000 shares at $42 went in at that time, but wasn’t filled until later in the day when shares were trading at around $39, a market maker like Citadel or Knight would make up the difference – in this case, at a cost of $30,000.
FEWER PROBLEMS ELSEWHERE
Several analysts who cover exchanges said Nasdaq’s legal liability should be limited, though. According to the analysts, securities rules give Nasdaq wide discretion in determining what, if any, compensation it should pay to customers who claim that they suffered losses due to trading execution.
Under exchange rules, Nasdaq’s liability regarding client losses from certain trading issues is limited to $3 million a month. Market makers will be arguing that Nasdaq was so grossly negligent that its actions during the IPO opening override the limits, said a source with knowledge of Knight’s situation.
Other firms said they did not have similar problems to those of Knight, raising questions about the scope of the losses.
“The problems were where people were trying to cancel orders; we didn’t have that,” said Peter Boockvar, equity strategist at Miller Tabak & Co in New York. “Because we didn’t have a problem doesn’t mean there weren’t problems.”
E*Trade Financial Corp said its market making operations realized losses of “well under a million dollars.”
Charles Schwab Corp had a “small number” of the “tens of thousands of clients” who traded Facebook whose issues still have not been resolved, a spokesman said. “Each one requires some analysis to resolve, which can be time consuming.”
Shares of Nasdaq fell 1 cent to $21.80 on Thursday. As of Thursday’s close the stock was down 5.2 percent from its last close before the Facebook debacle. Over the same period NYSE Euronext is down just 0.1 percent.
The slide in the shares is adding to the pressure on Nasdaq Chief Executive Robert Greifeld, who defended the exchange’s performance at its annual meeting last Tuesday.

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Facebook options debut a wild card for volatility

Investors can hope the debut of options on Facebook Inc goes more smoothly than the long-awaited debut of the social networking service’s stock on May 18.
While the stock’s puts and calls are expected to be popular, the big wild card is volatility and ultimately, the options price.
Traders will get a fresh start on options on the Internet giant when the contracts are offered on U.S. options exchanges on May 29. BATS Options exchange, a division of BATS Global Markets, will list the options on May 30, following its standard practice of listing new options a day later than the other exchanges.
Plenty of uncertainty surrounds the stock, which debuted to much fanfare at $38 and immediately ran into problems.
Facebook’s first day of trading was marred by technological glitches, and the company faces criticism that it sold too many shares, overwhelming demand. A week later, the stock was at $31.47, down 17.2 percent.
Options volume is expected to be robust. “It’s a cocktail party stock and probably will attract a lot of participation from retail traders,” said Steve Place, a founder of options analytics firm investingwithoptions in Mobile, Alabama.
The stock’s valuation remains high – the forward price-to-earnings ratio is at about 56, and the stock is expected to stay volatile. Premiums – the price paid for options – must reflect that uncertainty and will be even more difficult to pin down.
“The real issue like everything else in the market is about value, and with Facebook, we simply don’t know what their true earnings power is at this moment,” said Jeff McAllister, vice president of education at options education website optionsanimal.com in Lehi, Utah.
“The first day of trading is going to be completely speculative to begin with and it will be aggressive – flooded with day-traders trying to make a quick turn in the market. But institutions are expected to be on the sidelines waiting patiently as disciplined traders do.”
The options debut will offer opportunities to hedge against or take advantage of volatility in the shares through strategies combining stocks and options.
“From LinkedIn to Zynga to Pandora and now Facebook, the evidence is clear that the one certainty for investors is share prices of social media companies are volatile and will likely remain so,” said Gareth Feighery, a founder of options education firm MarketTamer.com in Philadelphia.
PRICING RISK AN UNKNOWN UNTIL TRADING OPENS
Before the IPO, investors had an anchor on what to expect regarding the share price. But in the options market there is no indication of what the demand will be.
So implied volatility, a key component of an options price, which measures the market’s perceived risk of future share price movement, remains an uncertainty until the first transactions.
“Figuring out the implied volatility is a chicken-and-egg scenario – that value won’t be known until the market opens up, when market makers will gauge the supply and demand to price risk,” Place said.
If there is significant demand for options, either through speculators or hedgers, the implied volatility will be elevated, and the price of the option will rise.
Place looked at the implied volatility readings of LinkedIn, Groupon, Pandora, Zynga, Yelp and Zillow from the day their options opened on each of these stocks as well as the stock and options volume.
“Using these past values as a guide, we can expect Facebook options to have a 30-day implied volatility between 65-85 percent,” he said. “The mid 70s would be a good estimate.”
Facebook is currently valued at about $87 billion, based on a share price on Thursday of $31.88. Shares of the much-anticipated initial public offering have fallen sharply since they opened at $42.05 on May 18.
The company went public at a valuation that built in no margin for error, Feighery said.
GRAB A BOX OF POPCORN AND WATCH VOLUME
Almost 23,000 contracts traded for the first day of LinkedIn, equivalent to 1.3 times the stock volume for that day, according to options analytics firm Trade Alert.
Applying that same multiple for Facebook and assuming it mellows out at 60 million shares per day would equate to almost 800,000 option contracts, said Trade Alert President Henry Schwartz. That may be unlikely since that would exceed the average daily option volume of Apple Inc of about 750,000 contracts.
“We could easily see a couple hundred thousand contracts trading for Facebook options simply because the underlying share volume is so strong and there is so much hype about the IPO,” Schwartz said.
Options clearinghouse OCC has designated NYSE Amex Options, owned by exchange operator NYSE Euronext, to be the primary market for Facebook options. Initial strike prices below and above the share price are from $16 to $49, in $1 increments.

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Browser wars flare in mobile space

The browser wars are heating up again, but this time the fight is for dominance of the mobile Internet.
Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo! are all in the struggle, along with the Norwegian-made Opera browser and the open source Firefox software from Mozilla.
The motive behind the wars is not just bragging rights. The company that controls the mobile Web can direct users to its websites, and importantly, gather data that can be used in targeted advertising.
“The browsers need to be present on the mobile device for survival,” said Greg Sterling, an analyst with Opus Research.
“Everyone is trying to manage their strategy in this multiscreen and multiplatform world.”
Research firm StatCounter found that global access from mobile devices, not including tablets, doubled in the year to January to 8.5 percent of all Internet usage.
Google stepped up its effort earlier this year by releasing a full version of its Chrome browser for mobile devices, which will over time replace the unnamed browser on devices powered by Google’s open Android platform.
The Google-Android browser by April had grabbed 21.5 percent of the mobile Web, overtaking Opera, the early leader that had 21.3 percent, according to StatCounter.
“Chrome is definitely the up-and-comer because of Android, and it has a lot of momentum on the PC,” Sterling said.
Running third was Apple’s Safari, the default browser on iPhones, with 20 percent. Nokia, BlackBerry and a few others hold small shares.
When tablets are included, Apple is the dominant player with 63 percent, according to data from Net Applications’ NetMarketShare survey, but Android is gaining with nearly 19 percent.
The push by Google meshes with its strategy of gathering information about users across platforms, so that someone searching on a mobile device might get an ad on a PC, or vice-versa.
And Google just completed its $12.5 billion deal to buy mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility, freeing the California company to build its own handsets that play into the strengths of its software.
“Everybody wants to have that first point of contact with the user to control the experience from that point, capture certain data and direct them to services,” said Al Hilwa of the research firm IDC.
“It’s all about control, about who is further up on the stream of data.”
Meanwhile Microsoft, in its effort to get a share of the mobile space, is pushing its own Internet Explorer browser for devices running Windows, but critics say the software giant is limiting compatibility.
Mozilla’s Harvey Anderson complained in a blog post that Microsoft is limiting the “advanced” capabilities for outside software, effectively shutting out browsers like Firefox.
Anderson said Microsoft in its new Windows 8 devices was signaling “an unwelcome return to the digital dark ages where users and developers didn’t have browser choices.”
Yahoo! became the latest to boost its effort in the mobile space, introducing its Axis browser designed for mobile devices.
“It is meant to replace Safari,” Yahoo! product management director Ethan Batraski said of Axis. “You will never have to use Safari ever again.”
Ben Schachter, an analyst at Macquarie Capital who follows Google, said the Internet search giant will also introduce a version of Chrome for the Apple operating system.
Schachter said in a note to clients that Google benefits from Chrome by reducing the payments from “traffic acquisition costs” and that a Chrome browser for iPhones and iPads could “meaningfully” reduce what Google pays Apple.
But Apple can tweak its strategy without competing head-on against Google, Sterling said. He said Apple’s Siri voice assistant and its new maps software offer a type of search. And as tensions rise with Google, it could change the Safari search engine to Microsoft’s Bing, or another.
Analysts say it remains unclear to what degree device makers will try to block out competing browsers, and if this will trigger a government response. In the 1990s, Microsoft’s efforts to lock out competing browsers prompted actions on both sides of the Atlantic.
The battle for control of the mobile Web raises questions about Facebook, which is groping for a mobile strategy after a troubling response to its massive share offering.
One report said Facebook was eyeing Opera, which could solve some of the perceived problems for the social network giant by offering a platform to get better data on mobile usage for targeted advertising.
“It wouldn’t surprise me” if Facebook were to acquire or tie up with Opera or develop its own browser, Hilwa said.
Another player to watch, said Hilwa, is Amazon, which has developed its own browser for the Kindle Internet device — a move that can also steer users various services, earning cash along the way.
Hilwa said Amazon, like the others, is pursuing a strategy that includes hardware and software, but can also sell goods and services.
“They have content, they sell stuff, they have Web services,” he said. “They have a lot of assets and have been successful. I would watch them.”

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Social networks play emerging role in Mexico election

Online social networks, a newcomer in Mexican elections, are making a mark on the country’s presidential campaign, forcing candidates to respond to issues and protests enabled by the Internet.
“If it wasn’t for the social networks, the campaign would be really boring,” said Roy Campos, head of the polling company Mitofsky.
Enrique Pena Nieto, the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, has a seemingly insurmountable 15 point lead over his nearest rival in the presidential race.
With little public debate among the candidates and rigid controls imposed by election authorities, social networks have take on a crucial role in engaging the public, and the candidates have taken note.
“There is a parallel campaign on the network,” said Campos, adding that “its influence is such that they are now setting the agendas of the campaign.”
Pena Nieto, in particular, has faced flash demonstrations organized over the Internet.
A week ago, 50,000 students marched through Mexico City against against Pena Nieto after PRI leaders criticized students at a private university for harshly questioning the candidate, and suggested they weren’t really students.
The students then posted videos of themselves on You Tube holding out their student identification cards.
On Wednesday, thousands more students protested in Mexico City and other cities around the country against an alleged pact among Mexican media to swing its support behind the PRI.
The PRI, which dominated Mexico for most of the 20th century, has been out of power since 2000 but appears to be making a comeback.
Political communication expert Octavio Islas suggested the social networks could foster a “Mexican spring,” like those in the Arab world, with online tools empowering citizens against entrenched political interests.
Not to be left behind, the candidates supporters appear to be engaging in cyber tactics to inflate the number of followers they have or to attack their rivals, according to Islas.
Josefina Vazquez Mota, the candidate of the ruling National Action Party, added 350,000 followers in three days, while Pena Nieto has teams of experts scouring the web to sabotage critics, he said.
Experts are divided, however, on the tangible influence online organizing will have on the outcome of the presidential vote, with Pena Nieto’s lead so great.
The number of Twitter accounts in Mexico doubled over the last year, and while the numbers are large — some 10 million accounts — only a fraction, around two percent, are geared towards politics and the election, Campos said.
But the direct impact of Internet networks, argues Islas, is also difficult to measure — and could have a wider impact than just influencing people who themselves participate in the online debate.
“Students who take part in protests could influence their families, their circle of friends” in choosing a candidate to support, Islas said.
The July 1 vote will elect a new president for a six year term beginning in December, taking over from outgoing President Felipe Calderon, of the center-right National Action Party.
It will also renew the lower and upper houses of the Mexican Congress and select governors in six states, the Mexico City mayor and local legislative bodies.
Trailing Pena Nieto in the presidential race are leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and the PAN’s Vazquez Mota.

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Under Microsoft, Skype aims for one billion users

Microsoft to quadruple the Skype Internet phone service the number of users expected to reach one billion, said Tony Bates, Director, Division on Thursday.
Bates, of the unit, which was acquired by Microsoft last year, directs, but operates autonomously, said the growth of mobile users and organizations such as Skype should come with Facebook.
Bates said at the All Things Digital conference in California, “accelerate” progress toward the goal of developing the business of Skype hopes.
“If we can reach one billion (users), I’d be very happy,” he said.
He cited Facebook as a key to the growth of Skype, which now has 250 million users.
“You are the partner of choice,” he said, “has become for us, the de facto standard for voice and video applications.” With the possibility
This feature allows Facebook Skype conversations with several people and a camera icon you can click on the snapshot of a call to the video with your friends.
Bates said that the explosive growth of the use of smart phones, including platforms compete with companies such as Google Android and Apple IOS “, the most important priority is undoubtedly mobile.”
He said the movement Skype add to its presence in various mobile platforms, with applications that allow smartphone users to call options on the Internet.
“Skype is the dream of all the major platforms that have the momentum,” he said.
“Today, in terms of downloads, the iPhone, Android, but it has the fastest growing power.”
He said Skype can use the full range of Microsoft, the world’s largest software company to expand its presence, but not limited to the Windows platform.
Skype users can make calls or no cost via the Internet through their computers or phones. Skype goes through the standard telephone network by channeling voice and video over the Web.

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Mark Zuckerberg

Elliot Zuckerberg (May 14, 1984) is an American entrepreneur and programmer of the Internet. He is best known as one of four founders of social networking site Facebook, where he is president and CEO. Born and raised in upstate New York, the software was to write as a hobby in high school, basic research, with the help of his father and a guardian (who called him a “prodigy “). In high school he excelled in classical literature and science, while more than competent in four languages??. Later, he enrolled at Harvard University with an emphasis on computer science and sociology.

In its second year, wrote a program called Facemash as “fun” project, allowing students to vote on the university network of the attractiveness of photographs of other students. He died after a few days, but would be a model for writing Facebook has become a program started from his bedroom. With the help of friends, Facebook has taken in other universities in the country, and soon in Palo Alto, California moved. In 2010, the site had about 500 million users worldwide.

Zuckerberg has called several lawsuits others who claimed a share of profits by helping the implementation of the company were involved. Zuckerberg has since 2010 was among the 100 richest people and most influential person chosen by Time Magazine of the Year, in 2010, a fictional account of Zuckerberg, Facebook’s creation, while in school and later start-up phase was a drama, the Social Network.

 

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Steve Jobs

Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs (/ d??bz / February 24, 1955 to October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor and designer. He is best known as co-founder, president and CEO of Apple Inc. Apple, which was widely considered a pioneer of the PC revolution known charismatic, state, known to influence career devices and consumer electronics fields. Jobs co-founded and was CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, is a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006
when Disney bought Pixar.A end of 1970, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak developed the One of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, Apple II series. Jobs was the first park in the commercial potential of the mouse-driven GUI Xerox that led to the creation of the Apple Lisa, to see, and a year later, the Macintosh.

In the meantime, he also led the effort, the desktop publishing revolution in the beginning, especially with the introduction of the LaserWriter and PageMaker software partners. After losing a power struggle with the Council in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a company developing the platform in the field of higher education, specialized markets and activity industry. In 1986 he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, Pixar, how to distribute it. He was in Toy Story (1995) credited as executive producer. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2006] is the largest shareholder of Disney, jobs at seven percent and a member of the Disney board. purchased by the difficulties in developing a new Mac operating system, Apple, NeXT had in 1996 to NeXTStep foundation of what it was Mac OS X. Under the agreement with Apple’s own appointed advisors. Because Apple has not taken control of the company’s work and was appointed “interim president” in 1997, or, as he jokingly called “ICEO”. Under his leadership, was saved from bankruptcy by Apple in 1998 and was profitable. Supervised the work in the next decade, the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone and iPad, and in services, the company stores Apple Store, iTunes Store and App Store.

success of these products and services and the provision of a year more stable financial performance, conducted by Apple to be one of the world’s most valuable publicly traded in 2011. The relaunch of the company is considered by many commentators as one of the biggest turnarounds in the history of economics. Diagnosed in 2003, the use of a neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas was. Although he was initially treated for a hormone imbalance, underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and appeared increasingly thin as his health deteriorated. About Medical for most of 2011 left, became unemployed is the CEO of Apple in August of this year and was elected Chairman of the Board. He died of respiratory failure with a metastatic tumor, 5 October 2011 connected.

 

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