Friday, June 24, 2011

How to Report Abuse on Facebook and Twitter

Social media like Facebook and Twitter assessed frequently used as a means to abuse via cyberspace. Want to stop these negative actions? Immediately report to the owner of the service.

Abuse itself has many meanings. Can be regarded as acts of violence, threats, harassment, hurl obscenities, swearing, abuse and other social media action.

Due to the many questions about how to anticipate or report abuse on social media abroad, then the following I try stacking some solutions, which are summarized from a number of sites.

I. Facebook

On the home page (wall) with friends, at the bottom left, there is a link "REPORT / Block THIS PERSON / Report / Block this person". Click this link ONLY when there is a problem, such as stealing passwords or account other things that bother / violate existing regulations.

There is an option include:
A. To my friend who is still connected:
1. UNFRIEND: issue in question from the list of friends.
2. BLOCK: This block our comrades from the post, so all posts that are sent by it will not appear on our wall.

B. Other options:
1. My friend is annoying me
2. My friend is a person who never existed (false identity). There is an option in the options below:
a. Claiming to be me (rapporteur)
b. Claiming to be people I know
c. Admitted as a celebrity
d. Representing business entities
e. False identity that never existed a real world.
3. Profile Photo improper / inappropriate (eg the profile photo is a photograph of another person, pornography, etc.)
4. Inappropriate wall posts
5. My friend was in contempt and harassment against me (cyber bulying):
a. Claiming to be me
b. Admitted as a friend I have known
c. Other

Then do not forget to click continue / continue.

The more friends we are reporting is concerned, the faster follow-up of the FaceBook.

II. Twitter

Regulations on Twitter that can quickly complained:
# Brand and Trademark Complaints (Complaints brands and patents)
# Breach of Privacy (confidentiality related complaint)
# Child Pornography (Child Pornography)
# Copyright Complaints (IPR Complaints)
# Harassment and Violent Threats Policy (Complaints of harassment and threats of violence)
# Impersonation (Insult)
# Name squatting (profiteering name)
# Reposting Others' Content without Attribution (re post the content without the permission of other parties concerned)
# Pornography (Pornography)

Complaints procedure: http://support.twitter.com/forms

In addition, there are complaints procedures for abuse problem that is not covered in the regulations on Twitter, by selecting the menu EVERYTHING ELSE (after login):
1. Select one complaint topics:
- Problems in the password and login
- Accounts that are suspended (suspend)
- Phishing accounts or accounts hijacked.
- Insults / harassment
- Setting Profiles
- Deaktifasi and Restoration account
- Problems with Tweets and messages
- Photos on twitter account
- The user is not active
- Intellectual Property / Copyrights / DCMA
- Brand / Trademark
- Actions that interfere
- Application, Mobile and SMS
- Reporting Spam and pornography
- Search and Trends
- What I reported is not in the list

2. Report title

3. The contents of the report

4. Information complain / party that made the report:
- Name
- Twitter Account
- Email
- Phone Number

Wow, pot 'Miracle' Can Refill Cell Phone Batteries

The tsunami disaster in Japan could make some trouble accessing the victim electricity for charging gadgets. This situation inspired a company makes technology that allows gadgets recharged armed with pots.

The device named Hatsuden nabe pot electric thermo is able to convert heat from the boiling water in pot into electricity. USB port is also provided for plugging in devices such as smaprtphone.

As reported by AFP on Tuesday (06/21/2011), vendors are TEST NewEnergy maker based in Osaka. They membanderol pot is worth $ 299.

"When the television I saw victims of the earthquake a fire to keep them warm, I had the idea to help them recharge gadgets at the same time," said Kazuhito Fujia, chief executive of the company.

Pan has a thermo-electric ceramic material which could collect the electricity from the hot temperatures. The manufacturer claims, it only took 3 to 5 hours to fully recharge the iPhone.

Fun at the same time, the pot can still be used for cooking. So while waiting for the charging process is completed, the cuisine can also be cooked.

Pot 'magic' is devoted in emergency situations when electricity is scarce. The manufacturer also intends to market to countries with limited power, as in some African countries.

Google Digitizing Historical Books 250 Thousand

In collaboration with the British Library, based in Britain, Google's digitization project gush thousands of books. No less than 250 thousand book library collection will be digitized and will be available to be accessed for free via Google Books.

Overall, the British Library's collection of books reaches about 1 million pieces. Thus, the number of digitalization reached one quarter. This library is intended to digitize books of importance.

Digitization costs paid for by Google. The book that will be taken to Goole Books from 1700 to 1870. Not just books, there are also magazines and pamphlets. A total of 40 million pages are scanned in this project.

The theme also varied and record important events in the history of Britain and Europe. For example about the war Battle of Trafalgar, the Crimean War until the invention of technologies such as railroads or telegraph.

Quoted from the Inquirer, Tuesday (21/62011), the purpose of digitizing books is to facilitate access to the community or among many researchers. Google itself does intend to continue to add collections to Google Books.

Select Android & IOS, Seesmic Leave BlackBerry

BlackBerry made ​​by Research In Motion (RIM) abandoned one of its developers. He was Seesmic, social networking applications developers are quite popular.

In its official statement, Seesmic revealed that it will stop supporting the BlackBerry platform. Ironically, Seesmic clearly stated that his decision to leave the BlackBerry because want to focus more on working on the Android platform, IOS, and Windows 7 Phone.

"Effective June 30, Seesmic will discontinue support for the BlackBerry because of this focus for the development of the more popular mobile platforms: Android, IOS, and Windows 7 Phone," wrote Seesmic, in his blog that quoted from Mobileburn, Tuesday (21/06/2011 ).

Do not know what happened, whether Seesmic considers that the BlackBerry does not have a brilliant future for application developers. Or this decision not only because of the Seesmic application behavior in the realm of the Blackberry.

But certainly this becomes less encouraging news for RIM is losing one of its allies in providing applications that run on BlackBerry devices.

iBamboo, Environmentally Friendly Speaker for iPhone 4

What happens if the caliber of sophisticated gadgets iPhone 4 collaborated with a piece of bamboo? The result is a gadget with loudspeakers that are environmentally friendly and unique.

This is to be achieved iBamboo. Man-made device named Anatoliy Omelchenko is indeed somewhat creative. He was able to mix and match technologies that are embedded in the iPhone 4 with the natural beauty of bamboo to create a beautiful sound.

Omelchenko claimed to make 100% pure iBamboo of the many plants found in the Earth Indonesia. But with makeup and diligence possessed, he was able to make the device an elegant and pleasing to the eye.

In a video demo on Mactrast seen that iBamboo can work well. The voice that came out of the holes on both sides can be fairly loud.

One thing is for sure, iBamboo very environmentally friendly. Users do not need to be bothered with cables that dangle or be looking for an outlet to use it. Staying put the iPhone 4 in the top of the hole that has been provided, and the speakers made ​​from bamboo was immediately in action.

Omelchenko added iBamboo a natural appearance can also make this device serves as a display in the living room. While a set price is USD 25.

Farmville speculate maker PopCap Games

Familiar with the game of Bejeweled? Pembesutnya, Pop Cap Games, is reportedly in the process of acquisition with a value of over USD 1 billion.

Citing more than one source, TechCrunch reports the company is known by the title game vs. Plants. Zombies is definitely acquired. But who will buy it? Informant did not know for sure.

Yet another informant who had bought it mengataka Zynga. Social gaming giant is said to have long been interested with PopCap Games. Electronics Art (EA) also mentioned. But considering EA is not a strong player in the realm of social gaming, many predicted that a strong candidate Zynga annexationist PopCap games. It is quoted from Cnet, on Thursday (06/23/2011).

PopCap did have great potential to attract companies Zynga classmates. Bejeweled, one of the game terpopulernya, has sold more than 50 million copies since its release in 2000. The latest, Bejeweled 3 is present in the PC in December, is expected to be visited on other platforms later this year.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for PopCap who questioned refused memebrikan confirm or comment on this report. "We do not comment on rumors and speculation," he said.

Traffic Visits Google Reach 1 Billion a month

Google attracted more than one billion unique visitors in May last. According to ComScore, this is the first time an Internet company reach that number.

Traffic to Google reportedly increased 8.4 percent from a year ago to make this achievement. Apart from Google, comScore data in May also puts Microsoft sites ranked second with 905 million unique visitors, an increase of 1 percent.

Facebook, which was originally estimated to be in the order of 1 or 2, it was in third position with 714 million, up 30 percent. Yahoo is at number 4 with 689 million unique visitors, traffic rose 10.8 percent. And the closing sequence Wikimedia five most popular sites with 411 million unique visitors.

Reported by the Wall Street Journal and quoted on Thursday (23/06/2011), ComScore began monitoring traffic to Google in 2006. At that time, Google reportedly has a number of 496 million unique visitors per month.

Microsoft and MSN when it became the most frequently visited sites with 536 million unique visitors each month. But in subsequent years, the game has changed. Google's rapidly expanding its brand launched Gmail, acquired YouTube and introduce the Android platform.

But more important than the number of unique visitors is the amount of time spent on a website. This area is still topped by Facebook. Last month, ComScore said the average person spends 250 billion minutes on Facebook, two-thirds longer than the time spent visiting social networking sites a year ago.