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Orkut’ing, Twitter’ing and Facebook’ing, in 2010 its time for Buzzing. As we know Twitter and Facebook are darlings of Social Media, now its going to be changing by Google with its new project called Google Buzz.

Google is rolling out its new feature inside Gmail where we can find new ways to share information on the web and yet a bit careful in sharing it though.

5 Key Features which defines Google Buzz:

1. Auto Following – Once you started using it you will be following all the people you emailed and had a chat with the most.

2. Rich, fast sharing experience – Same Gmail User Interface with keyboard shortcuts, twitter updates and all the things which users willing to share often.

3. Public and Private Sharing – You have to be very careful in sharing pictures, videos and all other information as it will be indexed in Google Search right away. You have the option of picking up your public and private sharing preferences.

4. Inbox Integration – Yes. The Inbox is the Center of all the communication. Comments will be sent right to your Inbox and get the conversation going.

5. Just the Good Stuff – A filter to highlight only the top posts.

As Google Buzz just out of the box, when you open Gmail, in few days you will be greeted with a page welcoming and introducing you to Google Buzz. The tab should be below the Inbox labeled “Buzz”. It provides several links to websites, Picasa, Twitter, Flickr and other content around the web.

Noteworthy points of Google Buzz:

• You can also access Buzz via iPhone and Android Mobiles, and from Google Mobile Maps.
• Buzz has voice recognition and will post it right into your buzz in real time.
• Buzz knows where you are, such as it will name a building and confirm it with you too.
• The interface and the activities inside Buzz looks similar to Google Reader
• Its in-built Photo viewer looks similar to Flickr
• Including your emails inside your Gmail Inbox you will get buzz items with a buzz icon
• Get new updates without refreshing the page
• Comment with @ reply same like Twitter
• It will show recommended buzz same like Facebook suggested friends list
• You cannot publish anything to Twitter but can pull in
• Buzz items will go through the same spam filtering tools for Gmail
• Enterprise version of Buzz will be released later this year

I feel Google buzz is more likely an integration of functionalities in Facebook, Twitter and an FriendFeed Clone. We will wait and see whether its another soon-to-be-forgotten Google Product or not.! What’s your Opinion?

Kaspersky marks today as Safer Internet Day (9th Feb 2010) to alert users of all age group who use Internet as a part of their everyday life. Childs and Teens uses to meet with their friends via social networks and parents do their weekly online shopping. On the other hand, digital pollution such as cybercriminals and unwanted intruders compromising the average users Internet life.

Kaspersky explains the Digital Pollution as “cyber junk” which comes in our way of digital lives. 30k+ new digital threats are being discovered online every day which are created for the purpose of stealing our data, financial info’s, stealing our online identity and deleting our files. Finally we end up in Stress in our normal life.

Kaspersky started a website Safer Internet Day 2010 with the theme as “Think before you Post” which emphasizes not to reveal any personal information in social networking sites. Check out the below funny yet very informative video done in a simple way to create awareness of sharing information on the Internet.

This day aims at educating Teens and Professionals to protect their identity online by using privacy services provided by social networking sites, selecting trustworthy friends online, publish pictures of their own after thinking carefully about the consequences and also posting friends pictures with their permission.

So stay Safer Online as Internet is not that much safe nowadays. Think before you post any of your information online as it can reach more people than you ever imagine. To learn more visit www.saferinternet.org.

When you visit the TCS website now you may be shocked to see that the website look has been changed into a single page website. I thought its fake when i read that in Google but really it is not. TCS is one of the top company which makes software’s and security systems all the day. The security professionals says that this hack has been initiated via DNS Hack as same as Twitter was hacked recently due to the DNS loophole. The hacker probably not from France but the language right now in the website is in French.

The image capture of the TCS website below:

Its time to think about the basic security of all top level companies as it should not be challenged with these culprits tricks.

Update: It seems that the website is backup on the web pointing to the correct nameservers. The company has to change their Administrative Contact in their WHOIS page as its mentioned as honeybeetechnology-dot-com – it doesn’t even look legit though.