Will Tek Survive ?
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You Can’t Delete Your Facebook Account !
Jan 8th
So you have a Facebook account where you share your lovely exploits with friends and more ? Have you ever thought you’ll want – for whatever reason – to delete it one day ? Well, in fact you can’t.
Facebook Wants to be Twitter !
Dec 16th
By forcing accounts content to be available to anyone, Facebook is now an open book. Twitter dominates. That’s the message from Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder). Youngest retired of the world ? 
USA Population !” /> Google Reader Goes Social !
Aug 14th
If you’re already into Google Reader to track your fav feeds, you’ll certainly enjoy the new “Send To” feature. You can now send selected content to social sites like Facebook or Twitter with ease. We’ll certainly find this this feed opening to social in the most anticipated Google’s “Wave” platform.
Facebook + FriendFeed = Killer !
Aug 10th
To market, to market ! Facebook eats FriendFeed ($50M, mostly stock). Its like the elephant eats the mouse as FriendFeed only counts 12 employees, of which 4 founders coming from… Google ! And it appears the deal was ongoing since 2007. OMG !
FriendFeed will survive for a while as it is. Facebook wants as a priority not the product, but the creativity of the team. What for ? Obviously to catch up with Twitter, in a better way. FriendFeed is really convenient when it comes to dealing with easy social conversations. Twitter looks more like a one shot machine. Even if you can re-Tweet, FriendFeed simply does it better. And within Facebook, you get it : the killer app !
Wise move gents !
Now will Microsoft buy Twitter ? 
iTunes Goes Blu-Ray + Facebook + Twitter ?
Aug 10th
Rumors rumors. This time we learn that iTunes 9 could soon get some extra fat ! So cool, we like fat apps !
The Apple’s pillar program could host Blu-Ray support as well as Facebook and Twitter relationships. A sure thing is if you don’t have those features today, you’re kinda missing something. Here is why.
For Blu-Ray, best bet is it’ll come to iTunes not because it’s already mainstream, but to help achieve it. DVD went rocket sales thanks to Playstation 2. Blu-Ray is still waiting for a maker. That’s the mission of iTunes here.
Having Facebook + Twitter built-in, like to inform your buddies that you made the best social tunes playlist ever, is definitely not a thing you can’t live without. Thus it’s already availabke elsewhere in a thousand ways. It’s more like things you don’t care about but need to have just because others do. The sheep effect is also true within tech industry. And this one is so efficient that sooner or later your milk bottle will be your fav Twitter client !
Have a nice Monday !
Army Of Zombie PCs !
Aug 9th
Last week DDOS attack on Google, Facebook and Twitter served as a kind of wake-up call. The attack was intended to block the activity of one single person : Cyxymu. It was supposedly political, kind to shut Cyxymu’s e-mouth. But doesn’t matter the “cause”, the effect stills there, tangible. The tool ? Hordes of zombie PCs reactivated to flood intensive requests to servers in order to block them. Google and Facebook didn’t even notice, but the little bird Twitter simply went bananas !
Consider this as an act of war. You don’t see the tanks, but you see that one of your daily beloved communication tools can be shut down as easy as that. It’s not even expensive to hire an army of e-zombies nowadays. You just need to now the right providers of evil. Consider we live in a “peace” age. Imagine what would it be in a war age, with all enemies zombifying the networks permanently, and with deadly means ! That power your’re now evaluate is simply in fact astounding. Sort of massive nuclear electronic bomb.
Even if the top fatal weapon remains the brain, the gears of war have really changed these days. Enough to freeze in starvation any country with impressive ROI.
Hoping of course no one will like to play such a game anytime soon !
