Still a pretty picture, this time on the history of the estimated value of Twitter, 2007-2010.
Who invested in Twitter (business angels including Marc Andreessen, Naval Ravikant, Dick Costolo, Kevin Rose, Tim Ferris, Ron Conway and Chris Sacca for a total outlay of 162 million in 2010), the rounds, its current value (about 1.4 billion U.S. dollars), the economic model and a comparison of recovery with Google, Yahoo, Baidu and Sohu.
Microsoft is making available on its website dedicated to the Mac world a new beta version of Microsoft Messenger for Mac.
Microsoft Messenger for Mac 8 has, as main novelty, the addition of audio and video calls, a feature that was expected for some time from Mac users.
You can download Mac Messenger 8 beta, by following this link.
You can then connect with your account Messenger / Windows Live usual. Of course, I remind you that the betas are often subject to failures as this are not final versions.
Facebook just announced a new feature. You can simply respond to your notifications by e-mail. Your response e-mail response will be a comment on your facebook.
When you receive a notification by e-mail about a comment from one of your friends, you click reply, type your comment, and then click send and your comment will be directly added to facebook without needing to connect.
Internet enthusiasts are all aware of unwanted intrusions that happended to the famous microblogging service in recent months. To provide better security, Twitter decides to block a list of 370 passwords like : zxcvbn and 123456 or even words like cookie, password and without surprise twitter.
For information, ideally to prevent piracy you have to choose a password with lowercase, uppercase, numbers and special characters. And of course to set a different password for each web service.
And people nowadays speak abut passphrases and not passwords.So the more longer is your access code, the more your account is secure.