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| | StopBadware.org is a "Neighborhood Watch" campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers to make better choices about what they download on to their computers. We aim to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and the bad actors who spread it, and to become a focal point for developing collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware | Facebook Pushes for Sophistication
Programmers struggle to adjust to changes at the popular website.
By Erica Naone - Thursday, September 20, 2007Earlier this week, Facebook announced the fbFund, which will provide grants to companies and individuals interested in building applications for the social-networking website. (See "Facebook Funds Developers.") The move seems intended to encourage programmers to make applications that are more sophisticated than the bulk of what's already been created by third-party developers. Some companies could find themselves scrambling to roll with the new order. | FaceBook Platform, an application program interface (API) that developers can use to build applications within the social-networking site Facebook, has created a Silicon Valley gold rush. The API gives developers a great deal of access to Facebook’s social resources. Developers can build applications that fit in several slots on users’ profile pages; have access to information from users’ profiles, friend lists, and friends’ profiles; publish information through the News Feed on Facebook; and send alerts and requests. Users can add and remove applications with the click of a button. Since the launch of Facebook Platform in May, more than 2,000 applications have been made available on Facebook. | The Facebook Developer application allows for easy access to application settings all within the Facebook environment. When you're ready to build a Facebook Platform applicaton, just add the Developer Application to your Facebook account. Then download the client library of your choice, open your favorite development environment, and you're ready to go. | Near-Time team is committed to delivering the best collaborative systems available. Leveraging a standards driven architecture, our approach delivers a best of class platform for group interaction, driven by content integration and services interoperability. Near-Time brings together members of any organization, using any system, running any browser. | DaniWeb is a massive community of 198,202 software developers, web developers, Internet marketers, and tech gurus who are all enthusiastic about making contacts, networking, and learning from each other. In fact, there are 1,998 IT professionals currently interacting right now! If you are in the IT industry or are just a technology enthusiast, you might find just what you're looking for in DaniWeb. Registration is free, only takes a minute and lets you enjoy all of the interactive features of the site.
| The Netcraft Toolbar community is effectively a giant neighbourhood watch scheme, empowering the most alert and most expert members to defend everyone within the community against phishing frauds. Once the first recipients of a phishing mail have reported the target URL, it is blocked for community members as they subsequently access the URL. Widely disseminated attacks (people constructing phishing attacks send literally millions of electronic mails in the expectation that some will reach customers of the bank) simply mean that the phishing attack will be reported and blocked sooner. | 
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