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Google Puts Down 9 Apps from Playstore for Stealing Facebook Credentials

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As reported by security researchers at Dr.Web, Google has taken down nine applications from the official Google Play Store due to the malicious acts from these apps using specialized operations to get users’ Facebook credentials without their knowing. What they did was basically as similar as what phishing platforms generally do. By tricking users into a link to input Facebook information for disabling in-app ads, all these applications can get their information pretty easily. They’ve been using … Read more

How the use of AI technology has helped Facebook tackle hate speech and YouTube create an infinite music video

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Over the past few years, Artificial Intelligence has gained significant momentum. It has provided organizations who have been open to using it and implementing it in their business, an advantage over those who are not. The graph below outlines some of the main reasons why businesses decide to adopt the use of AI in 2017. (Source- Statista) The attraction for AI technology is that it is capable of managing large amounts of data in many … Read more

How to Improve Engagement With Facebook Insights

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How users interact with each post that you have on your Facebook account is what we call engagement. The amount of engagement that your users have on your Facebook page can be determined by looking into the number of interactions that are taking place on the platform. This is when Facebook Insight will prove to be very helpful. It is through this feature that page owners can figure out whether their marketing strategies implemented on … Read more

The Importance of Social Media Monitoring for Streamers and Content Creators

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Being as I am a Twitch streamer and have two separate channels that I help manage. It is important for me to be able to track and monitor my use of social media just so I can see my outreach as well as seeing firsthand just how well I am doing when it comes to the various social media sites I use and the number of impressions I make on the types of content or … Read more

Just How Safe Is Facebook? An Honest Take

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To say that Facebook has had a rough go of things as of late is an understatement. Between Mark Zuckerburg’s awkward testimony in front of Congress a recent data breach exposing the personal information of 419 million users, people are scratching their heads and asking “How safe is Facebook?” Somehow, the social media juggernaut is still alive and very much kicking. But is now the time to jump off of Facebook for good? Keep reading … Read more

How to Stop Facebook Ads From Appearing

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Seeing as ads are Facebook’s primary source of revenue, it should come as no surprise that the social media giant has lots of them. Not only do ads appear on the sidebar, but they also appear as part of Facebook’s news feed and blend in with regular posts. Unsurprisingly Facebook does not give you an option to disable ads on its network and there is no way to opt out of them. It is possible … Read more

Social Media: The Real ‘Upside Down’

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I remember as a kid growing up and receiving these things called “letters” from people. People that took the time to out of their day to sit down and take out a pen & paper to handwrite you something so personal and something in which if you paid any attention to the impression their pen made on the paper you could see the motion and the importance of the thing they were writing to you … Read more

5 Things That You Need to Do to Get Facebook Advertising Right

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While Google’s search ad control the biggest share in Digital Ad Marketing industry, Facebook is not very far behind. This year, Facebook’s share is growing more than 15%. Accept it or not, but social media is now an integral part of society and it is going to get advanced with each passing day. Out of all social media Facebook’s advertisement has been exceptionally successful to mark its impact. The revolution is so fierce that you … Read more

Battle.net Live Streaming to Facebook Beta Rollout

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So over the past few days Blizzard rolled out a feature to Battle.net that lets you live stream your Blizzard games to Facebook directly from your Battle.net account and while in-game.  I spent some time testing this as a video game streamer and I tested by streaming Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch which I always had trouble streaming due to the limited power of my Razer Blade 2014 which can play Overwatch fine, … Read more

EVGA GTX970 SC ACX 2.0 Video Card Review, Testing, Comparison and Overclocking Tests

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Hello my gamer friends out there, I am here to bring you another video card review.  Today’s flavor will be the EVGA Geforce GTX 970 Superclocked ACX2.0.  This card has the makings and already the folklore behind it that makes many gamers want it, let’s find out why and if that lore is true. EVGA is NVIDIA’s top 3D card partner, bringing you all of NVIDIA’s latest and greatest and improving on them in great … Read more

Dragon Cast Episode #17: The Internet has Changed Everything

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Welcome back to another fresh episode of Dragon Cast. This time Victor, Brian and Iggy all talk about the Internet and just how silly some people can be online. The gang discusses Internet bullying and ways in which people can prevent themselves from being bullyed and also answer the question “Should be people held accountable for their actions online?” Not to mention how the Internet has changed the way we interact with everyone and everything. … Read more

Facebook is Changing Faces Again Very Soon

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Got bored of Facebook’s timeline visual? Here’s something new which will be introduced very soon. Facebook always tried to give new features to their users whether they wanted them or not, and the biggest social networking site Facebook is currently rolling out new changes for the users once again. This feature which already exists for some users  includes a reply button on comments, and news feed features. News Feed: A few weeks ago Facebook announced that they were bringing a new … Read more

Facebook Graph Search: Scratching the Surface

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When I had Facebook Graph search enabled on my Facebook account earlier this week I only started scratching the surface in trying to figure out what I could use it for and how I would be able to leverage it to raise awareness for Dragon Blogger and the company and product giveaways that I do. You can easily find this power in the ability to find people who like brands, but your ability to narrow … Read more

Living Classics – Amazon’s New Gaming Venture

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Re-experience some of your favourite childhood stories with some lively and entertaining illustrations while you race against the clock to spot creatively integrated animations. Imagine a game like Bejeweled crossed with Alice in Wonderland and you will have Living Classics. To add another level to the game, you must complete puzzles and quests in order to rescue the foxes who have gotten lost in each of the different stories.     The puzzles are fun, … Read more

Happy Birthday: A Social Media Experiment

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Technology has made huge advances in recent years. New technologies and the passing of time make for more information to learn and remember. Originally, mathematical equations, such as the Pythagorean theorem, needed to be memorized as all calculations were written out by hand. Now that we have calculators, we don’t even learn the actual equations in school anymore. It used to be, that, if you wanted to remember appointment times, event information, phone numbers, or … Read more

Algadon – Just Another Social Media Game on Facebook

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  Hey there.  Facebook has become an integral part of many online users lives.  We interact with business associates, friends, and family through social media outlets such as Facebook.  So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that when we look for online entertainment, Facebook is the place to go.  With popular games such as Mafia Wars and Farmville paving the way for Facebook games, many other games have burst to the scene.  Some are awesome, … Read more

Is Facebook Reading Your Messages?

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Recent reports have come to light letting us know Facebook is actually monitoring your chats and messages. You may think this is some move out of a B-rate cyber thriller or political blockbuster, but it’s not. Facebook and other social media sites are screening and monitoring your messages and chats using software that is reminiscent of the Carnivore program that the FBI began using back in 1997.   The software actively goes through and scans … Read more

Fix Facebook Google Chrome Issues: Enable Disable Secure Browsing HTTPS

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Have you been having trouble while browsing on Facebook.com using Google Chrome? Are you unable to click on buttons and links? Does your connection timeout often? Are there several page elements like conversation text and pictures missing? There have been dozens of problems faced by Facebook users when they access it on the Google Chrome Browser. There have been issues with Facebook and Google Chrome for several months, even years now. Updating the browser doesn’t … Read more