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YouTube has gone through a complete redesign with a view to keep all of us watching longer. There is also a lot more interactivity and sharing options. Most of what you used to see on the left of the video has now been moved below the video. You can also share a video now with a single click on Facebook. Twitter, Myspace, Orkut, StumbleUpon, LiveSpaces, Hi5 And Bebo. You can also share by email. For those of you who use the embedding options which used to be on the right. It is now found below the video. With regards to user comments. The comment with the highest rating is now featured prominently above all the other comments. Additional information about the video is also consolidated below the video. This is a very subtle change but noticeable for long time YouTube users. You will no more see the five stars rating system on YouTube. You now have only two buttons like with a thumbs up and another button with a thumbs down. The logic being that when the five stars were around people st...

The New York Times has reported that Amazon has bought a Small New York start-up Tech company called Tuchco. It is a small company and does not have a large number of employees, they have not even produced a product on the market so far. What they do have however is a technology for touch-screens that is far advanced and costs less than the technology Apple uses on the iPad. What this means is this. Apple has released the iPad which immediately rivals Amazon's kindle. With the iPad you can read and download e-books and is so much more flashy that the Kindle. Amazon though is not giving up without a fight and we can now see the competition heating up with Amazon investing in tweaking the Kindle. Kindle is Amazon's e-book reader that enjoyed huge sales during the last holiday season. So it seems now that Amazon is not willing to give up that easily. With the acquisition of Touchco they will take the fight to the iPad. After the debut of the iPad last month Amazon announced that ...

In December Rockyou.com was hacked and out of it cam a list of passwords of which the most popular was "123456" and "Password". These have been the ever popular passwords that have been used and it is strongly advised to stop.  Imperva  studied the breached passwords and has published  an interesting study  that talks about them.  Of the 32 million passwords exposed , "123456" was the most commonly used, followed by "12345" and "123456789." The list of the 20 most commonly used passwords, and the number of accounts which used them, includes: "123456" in 290,731 accounts "12345" in 78,078 accounts "123456789" in 76,790 accounts "Password" in 61,958 accounts "iloveyou" in 51,622 accounts "princess" in 35,231 accounts "rockyou" in 22,588 accounts "1234567" in 21,726 accounts "12345678" in 20,553 accounts "abc123" in 17,542 accounts "Nic...

Most Social Netoworking sites will let you know when you have a friend request but few will let you know when you have been unfriended. If we can use that word. Being Defriended is one thing most users like to find out about. Unfortunately on Facebook if you want to know who has defriended you you need to browse through your list of friends and find the missing person. An iPhone App launched about a week ago was able to do just that. Let you know when you've been defriended and by whome. The App Called Defriended created by  i-Doodz has unfortunalty been blocked by Facebook. As it violates Facebook's Developers platform policies which states " you must not notify a user that someone has removed the user as a friend." In other words, Facebook doesn't want you to know who doesn't want to be your friend ". Today, a message on the i-Doodz site states: Last week our developer was bored one evening, had an idea, and a few hours later uploaded the "defrien...

Facebook has partnered with McAfee to offer free antivirus to it's 350 million users free for a period of 6 months. After which you can still use it provided you pay a discounted annual fee. This is helpful but a far cry from real protection. To make sure your account is not compromised it is really up to the user. User's need to be able to recognize security threats to their accounts. Facebook has listed a few things you need to be aware of. Don't open attachments in emails that look suspicious or come from an unknown or untrustworthy source. Don't open attachments unless you know what they are, even if they're from friends. Delete chain mail and spam from your email and Facebook inboxes. Be cautious when downloading files from the Internet. Be cautious of any message, post or link you see on Facebook that looks suspicious, requires an additional login, or asks you to download or upgrade software. Use an up-to-date browser that features an anti-phishing blacklist....