Archive for the ‘Facebook application’ Category

ClickCEOP App Reaches 55,000 Downloads

August 14th, 2010

The Click CEOP application, which gives Facebook users a direct link to advice, help and the ability to report suspicious behavior on the site has reached a new milestone. There are amounted to more than 55,000 downloads and this should not obscure the fact that ClickCEOP app is a viable choice for raising the profile [...]...

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Application Developers are Required to Verify Accounts

June 5th, 2010

There has been a great deal of discussion across the Web pertaining to the Facebook security issues. Yet, this week Facebook has taken another measurement whereby app developers are required to verify their accounts before they can create new app. According to the developer’s forum thread, the account verification is done either through mobil...

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The App Notification Changes on Facebook

March 8th, 2010

Starting from March 1st this year, Facebook will no longer deliver application notifications and will discontinue support for notifications.send, according to its official Facebook developers blog. In other words, Facebook is set to become a much quiet place, despite the fact that they have more than 400 million users up to-date. Clearly, the loss ...

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Facebook Fixed Unnamed App Bug

January 30th, 2010

Some said this year 2010 is the year of spam, as the networking gurus at Cisco predicted that worldwide spam volumes will increase by 30 or 40 percent over 2009 levels; see the PDF report here. Apart from simply reading the report or get ready to the spamming challenges, Facebook has announced that they have [...]...

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Is Facebook Knows Too Much About You?

August 30th, 2009

Most Facebook users don’t really care about the potential risks of Facebook quizzes that can collect and store the answers they give when they’re taking the quizzes; they also cannot stop these kinds of quizzes from collecting the information in their profiles – and even information from their friends’ profiles. In order to prov...

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Pizza Hut Interface Spamming Users?

October 28th, 2008

I just came across an article that entitled, “Pizza Hut To Spam Facebook Users.” To me, this article is quite interesting, especially it talked about when a user installs the Pizza Hut Facebook application called Pizza Hut Interface, whenever she ordered a pizza from Pizza Hut through this application in Facebook, her friends would get ...

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