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Deleted photos live on in Facebook servers

Old Facebook photos may still be accessible for months – or even years – after being deleted, living on in the depths of the social network’s servers. First revealed in 2009 by Ars Technica, the firm recently queried Facebook again after discovering backup copies – that could potentially be accessed by users – still existed some three years later. “Users who might have had second thoughts about posting a photo could certainly remove the image from Facebook’s main user interface, but as long as someone had a direct link to the JPEG file in question, the photo would remain accessible for an indefinite amount of time,” the company said in a blog post . According to Facebook, a poorly-functioning legacy system is the culprit, but a new system is on its way to ensure deleted photos can no longer be accessed. “We are in the process of migrating these photos to the newer system to ensure proper deletion, but until this migration is complete, CDN URLs from deleted photos stored on this legacy system may still be accessible,” Facebook spokesman Frederic Wolens told CNET

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Facebook’s photo fail

It appears that not even the man who created Facebook is immune to the social network’s increasingly infamous security issues. Instructions on how to circumvent Facebook’s privacy settings have been floating around cyberspace for a couple of weeks. However, the security glitch has now come to wider attention as images from Facebook head honcho Mark Zuckerberg’s private photo albums were released to the world. Users discovered after reporting a public profile picture as containing inappropriate content they were offered the chance to report additional photographs by the same user. Facebook then presented them with a thumbnail gallery of private images that otherwise would have been invisible to the person making the complaint. Those pictures could easily be enlarged by making a simple change in the browser address bar and downloaded. By using this method, anonymous intruders were able to access private photos of Zuckerberg, his girlfriend Priscilla Chan and their puppy, Beast. Fourteen candid images were published on the image site Imgur under the headline: “It’s time to fix those security flaws Facebook.” Facebook has now issued a fix for the loophole. In a statement, the social network said: “Earlier today, we discovered a bug in one of our reporting flows that allows people to report multiple instances of inappropriate content simultaneously.

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Android users download 10 billion apps

The app war between Apple and Android rages on as Android announced it has passed the ten billion download mark after accelerating past Apple in app download rates earlier this year . The Android platform became the world’s most popular smartphone after surpassing the Nokia Symbian earlier this year. “This past weekend, thanks to Android users around the world, Android market exceeded 10 billion app downloads – with a growth rate of one billion app downloads per month,” director of the Android Developer Ecosystem Eric Chu wrote on the Google blog . The milestone is particularly impressive considering the accelerated growth in Google’s Android Market – while it took 22 months for Android to reach 1 billion downloads, it took just once month for the smartphone maker to jump from 9 to ten billion app downloads.

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On Page SEO Factors to Not Forget

One of the most basic things which a webmaster should understand is how to do on page SEO and the on page SEO factors to consider when both creating a new website or when adding new content and pages to an existing website. On page SEO predominantly pertains to tweaking your site’s code, choosing the right keywords, and optimizing your content overall to make it more attractive and identifiable to Google and other search engines’ web crawling bots so that they will in turn rank your site higher in the SERPs. Here I’ve expanded on the major techniques which you should implement on your site if you want to rank and rank well at that. Keep in mind that the weight which search engines place on these techniques is subjective as no one knows for sure the algorithms behind Google’s and other engine’s ranking practices. No one factor is ever been unanimously considered to be more paramount than all others, so don’t overlook any of these techniques. Most of them are quick and simple to implement, so there’s really no reason not to, either. Editor’s Note: For additional information on the techniques noted below, and in some cases an alternate viewpoint, read Jill Whalen’s article “16 SEO Tactics That Will NOT Bring Targeted Google Visitors” . Keyword On Page SEO Factors I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: keywords are the gateways to your site and they play a huge role in on page SEO. Once you know what is a good keyword and how to do keyword research, then you can find the keywords which you should be using for your on page SEO.

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14 Popular SEO Myths Examined

With so much misinformation about SEO having been dispensed over the years, it’s hard to know what’s true and isn’t true – making it all the more difficult to separate the proverbial wheat from the chaff, as it were. Concerned about the potential harm misinformation about SEO can ultimately cause, I decided to compile an alphabetical listing of the most popular and persistent SEO myths, to either debunk or confirm their factuality. 1. Adwords Since the arrival of Google Adwords, there has been an ongoing debate over whether or not running an Adwords campaign can improve search engine rankings. Ultimately, only Google knows the answer to that question for sure. However, to my knowledge, there is no credible evidence to support the notion that Adwords can improve your search engine ranking.

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Social Media as a Negotiating Tool

Social media has blown onto the scene the last couple of years with the popular websites of Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and many others. Nobody can tell for sure what social media will look like five years from now, but what everyone can agree upon is that the concept of using the internet to socially communicate is not going away. For salespeople, an important question is, “Can social media help in negotiating?” My answer is, “Yes, it can.” I’m not saying you should directly negotiate with another person by way of a social media (although I suppose there might be exceptions where this is possible). What I am saying is that social media is a perfect tool that someone can use to help frame a situation or build their on-line reputation before the negotiations even begin. Negotiations are won or lost in two critical areas. The first is the period of time leading up to the start of the negotiations, when both parties are preparing to negotiate.

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Yahoo! Upgrades Image Search Preview Page

Yahoo! has rolled out three new features to Image Search that will make searching for images even faster and easier.

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Yahoo! Adds Filters to Image Search

Yahoo! has announced new filters that make searching for images on the Web easier and faster. After recent user tests, Yahoo!’s Image Search team created these new filters as the first step in a series of improvements that will be introduced in the coming months for Image Search.

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