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This article was written by Stephanie Wagner, a freelance author writing about technology, small business and investment.  She is not associated with Logo Mojo but can recommend them for quality Twitter background designs services.

Twitter’s popularity is continuing to grow by the day and with so many users, it is now more important than ever to stand out from the crowd. The adoption of a custom Twitter background design is a great way to express yourself and make your twitter feed more attractive. Take this opportunity to show your personality and make your background design unique.

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How alarming are Phishers posing as Facebook security on chat?

Have you been the latest victim to the virus spread by Phishers posing as Facebook security on your Facebook chat? If yes, then you are not alone since there have been reports of internet Phishers sending messages to the inbox of multiple Facebook users. This is an attempt to seek sensitive account information and credit card data from Facebook users. Scammers on Facebook are posing as security on Facebook chat sessions where they are trying to trick users in order to fetch their credit card details and other sensitive information. The threat from phishers on Facebook has been confirmed by Kaspersky Lab that has warned users against the scammers.

What do the Phishers actually do to the Victim?

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The world of search engine optimization has changed significantly in the last 12 months. Why? Because the social media sites have come to the fore and quality content has grown even more in importance. So now the question is, how do search engines use social media to help rank websites and ensure that the content on a website does truly have high quality content?

The answer to the first part of the question is all about the activity on social media sites, sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn. Quite simply put, people need to be talking about your website or blog, re-tweeting your tweets and sharing the articles you put out with their contacts or connections. The very fact there is interest in your posts will indicate what you are writing or publishing has some sort of value, and is of good quality.

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Guest Post from Nadia Jones discussing the recent and sweeping changes to Facebook.

Over the past few months Facebook has enacted (without warning) a tidal wave of changes to its website interface, often to the chagrin of fans. These recent monumental changes put forth by the king of online social networking explain just how competitive the field has become. Relatively long-lasting social networking sites like LinkedIn and Twitter adding thousands of users every day, and new-comer Google+ can boast over 50 million users in less than 6 months.

Even with 800 million or so users, Facebook continues to overhaul the way they connect people so as to make themselves more attractive to their users. But Facebook’s recent facelift in the wake of so much competition begs the question: is Facebook scrambling just to keep up, or are they innovating meaningful changes for the future?

Most recent changes

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Windows 8 was released recently operating on a tablet. Tablet computers are the epitome of personal mobile computing. They are extremely popular in business and among general users.

This might seem a little strange considering we do not actually use them in the same way we use our personal computers. Windows 95 was the first time we saw a personal computer that was a stand-alone device from which we could send information to someone else with an email. That was a considerable time after personal computers were first introduced when we used to store information on a disk and manually transfer it over to another computer using a removable storage medium.

• The Internet. The internet meant that everyone could now connect to each other. Before that it was only the big companies with huge mainframe computers and connected terminals that could transfer information. With the internet we could all have a website, access information and send it to each other, even if we did this in a very old fashioned way – almost the same as the way we sent ordinary mail.
• Social Media. Social media and collaboration were the beginning of the end of email. Do you still email like you used to, now you have Facebook for example? Or do you make a post, and comment on what others are sharing. Social media has been the biggest change in the way we share and work on-line for quite some time. Business has been using client-server based systems much more since the invention of Facebook. It is a way to keep their information safe. It is a way for them to share and collaborate, and set levels of security.
• Mobile Computing. The new Windows 8 upgrade will work on any device. We have all wanted true mobile computing for some time, but we have not really had it. How many people have you seen using a smartphone, but they still have to wait until they get home to their laptop or desktop to get access to some of the information? This because the format of the information stored, online or on their other device is different to that of their smartphone, or their information is not stored online. This is a total contradiction of mobile computing. This is what they are telling us when they talk about cloud computing and is what Windows 8 will truly bring to all devices. A single operating system for all devices.
• HTML5. HTML5 is the programming language of the internet. It is the language that makes applications like Facebook possible. Yes, Facebook is more than a website, it is an application. Just like you use your browser to access the company server, because that ‘website’ is also an application. Windows 8 allows the language of HTML5 to work directly on your computer’s operating system. It works like any other application. Windows 8 applications will work on all devices using the same operating system – so with Windows 8 you will finally be truly mobile and will be able to access all your information on the move.

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