Internet company AOL said Wednesday it will allow users of its AIM instant messaging service to chat with their friends who have Facebook accounts.
AOL said its new version of AIM is connected to the instant messaging feature to the Facebook site, which allows users to discuss the first chat with their friends who are connected to the social network.
When an AIM user download the new version and integrates with your Facebook profile, your contact list will include a list of Facebook friends that are online.
Not including those that connect via cell phones, AIM has about 17 million users, a figure much lower than the more than 400 million who use Facebook.
AOL last year launched a feature that allows users to view the latest update messages from friends on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
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Manual Twitter for those who still do not understand
This year, Twitter has become the online social network of more rapid growth and technological theme that everyone talks about. However, there are still many who do not know what it is and how much albotoro. If you're one of them, here we give a brief introduction to "twittosfera.
Twitter is basically a site microblogs. By registering, the user purchases a home page where you can post short messages - 140 characters maximum, only text and links to other websites.
Sounds too simple to be so popular. It is the simplicity which emphasizes a social network. The site promotes itself as a service easy to use.
The first thing a user sees upon entering is a common question as simple as: What are you doing? The user posts a response and its contacts can learn in real time.
Twitter recently announced that prepares versions of its site in German, French and Spanish. Perhaps when that happens, there is an "explosion" of Twitter in Latin America, as with Facebook. Meanwhile, Here's the main steps for using the service.
How to use?
Signing up is easy. Enter Twitter.com, click "sing up now". After filling the registration form and create the account, you can immediately begin to "twitter". Just simply type a message of 140 characters or less in the space that says "What are you doing" (What are you doing?).
But that does not end the process. To have someone read a post you must enter your microblog either through the address of your microblog (Example: http://twitter.com/usuario) or when one of his followers.
For fans, the first thing to do is start to follow other people. Just enter your microblogs and click on the "follow". If you want to stop following someone, simply look for the button that has a nut icon and click "unfollowed".
If among his followers there someone you do not want to read your messages, find the button on the nut and click "block". Now, if what you want is that their messages are read only by followers authorized by you, go to "Settings" (Settings), check "Protect my tweets" and ready.
To find your friends on Twitter, click on "Find People". There you can find "twittered" for user name, searching through your contacts from Gmail, Yahoo and AOL e-mail to invite others to join and find suggested by Twitter users.
Over time, your network of supporters and grow straight and you will be heard by more people. In the dynamics of Twitter there are several actions that will be useful to mention another "twittered" (@), citing a "tweet" from another user (RT), add a label (#), include a short link to another page, photo or video, and follow the most Tweeting the moment.
- Mention: If in your message you mention another Twitter user and want their fans to access the microblog of that person, just put an at sign "@" after the username. The tweet will show that name published as a link, a click on it will open your microblog. Facebook implemented this tool in September, clearly modeled on Twitter.
- Quote: When a user of Twitter and want to publish on your microblog a "tweet" without stealing someone else's credit, there is a convention usuada frequently by users. RT Write letters, meaning Re tweet (forward) at the beginning of the message, followed by the name of the user (Example: RT @ user) is used for their fans see this message and know who is its author.
- Tags: pound sign "#" is used to create Twitter "hashtags" tags that allow users to see all the "tweets" on a specific topic in real time. For example, if you post a message about cancer, writing # cancer the term appears as a link. By clicking on it, their fans can see all the messages of Twitter users who have included that tag.
- Short Links: Twitter allows you to include links to other websites. The problem is that there are many directions that are too long to fit in the 140-character limit. For this there are several sites that "shrink" the url (tinyurl.com, bit.ly, etc.). In fact, the same box of "What are you doing" addresses automatically shortened if the entire message does not exceed the character limit.
- Photos / videos: You can also post pictures and videos via external applications of Twitter. For example, the site lets twitpic.com sign in with your username and password for Twitter, you upload a photo, adds a comment and the service is responsible for issuing that message on Twitter with a link to the photo.
- Trending Topics: On the right side of the Twitter home page is a list of "Trending topics, which are the terms most used by twittered. It is a kind of barometer of the issues of most interest to users. By clicking on them, you can view all messages containing those terms.
Twitter is basically a site microblogs. By registering, the user purchases a home page where you can post short messages - 140 characters maximum, only text and links to other websites.
Sounds too simple to be so popular. It is the simplicity which emphasizes a social network. The site promotes itself as a service easy to use.
The first thing a user sees upon entering is a common question as simple as: What are you doing? The user posts a response and its contacts can learn in real time.
Twitter recently announced that prepares versions of its site in German, French and Spanish. Perhaps when that happens, there is an "explosion" of Twitter in Latin America, as with Facebook. Meanwhile, Here's the main steps for using the service.
How to use?
Signing up is easy. Enter Twitter.com, click "sing up now". After filling the registration form and create the account, you can immediately begin to "twitter". Just simply type a message of 140 characters or less in the space that says "What are you doing" (What are you doing?).
But that does not end the process. To have someone read a post you must enter your microblog either through the address of your microblog (Example: http://twitter.com/usuario) or when one of his followers.
For fans, the first thing to do is start to follow other people. Just enter your microblogs and click on the "follow". If you want to stop following someone, simply look for the button that has a nut icon and click "unfollowed".
If among his followers there someone you do not want to read your messages, find the button on the nut and click "block". Now, if what you want is that their messages are read only by followers authorized by you, go to "Settings" (Settings), check "Protect my tweets" and ready.
To find your friends on Twitter, click on "Find People". There you can find "twittered" for user name, searching through your contacts from Gmail, Yahoo and AOL e-mail to invite others to join and find suggested by Twitter users.
Over time, your network of supporters and grow straight and you will be heard by more people. In the dynamics of Twitter there are several actions that will be useful to mention another "twittered" (@), citing a "tweet" from another user (RT), add a label (#), include a short link to another page, photo or video, and follow the most Tweeting the moment.
- Mention: If in your message you mention another Twitter user and want their fans to access the microblog of that person, just put an at sign "@" after the username. The tweet will show that name published as a link, a click on it will open your microblog. Facebook implemented this tool in September, clearly modeled on Twitter.
- Quote: When a user of Twitter and want to publish on your microblog a "tweet" without stealing someone else's credit, there is a convention usuada frequently by users. RT Write letters, meaning Re tweet (forward) at the beginning of the message, followed by the name of the user (Example: RT @ user) is used for their fans see this message and know who is its author.
- Tags: pound sign "#" is used to create Twitter "hashtags" tags that allow users to see all the "tweets" on a specific topic in real time. For example, if you post a message about cancer, writing # cancer the term appears as a link. By clicking on it, their fans can see all the messages of Twitter users who have included that tag.
- Short Links: Twitter allows you to include links to other websites. The problem is that there are many directions that are too long to fit in the 140-character limit. For this there are several sites that "shrink" the url (tinyurl.com, bit.ly, etc.). In fact, the same box of "What are you doing" addresses automatically shortened if the entire message does not exceed the character limit.
- Photos / videos: You can also post pictures and videos via external applications of Twitter. For example, the site lets twitpic.com sign in with your username and password for Twitter, you upload a photo, adds a comment and the service is responsible for issuing that message on Twitter with a link to the photo.
- Trending Topics: On the right side of the Twitter home page is a list of "Trending topics, which are the terms most used by twittered. It is a kind of barometer of the issues of most interest to users. By clicking on them, you can view all messages containing those terms.
Social networks, "fuel" for smartphones
The so-called smart phones that allow, among other things, Internet access, will be of massive use thanks to the "insatiable appetite" of the public for social networks, analysts say the mobile phone market in Britain.
Researchers predict for next year an explosion in sales along with falling prices.
The prediction takes place the same week the launch of the latest Blackberry model, called "Storm 2.
While the "Palm Pre", dubbed the "iPhone murderer," finally makes its entry into the UK market.
Fuel
"The Internet on cell phones is on the same stage where the Internet was in 1998," says Ian Fogg, analyst at Forrester.
Ben Wood, a researcher at CCS Insight, agrees: "We are on the cusp of an explosion of devices that seem computers in the hands of consumers, where previously it was only a privilege of the first who could afford them.
"Social networks are the fuel that is encouraging the moment," said Wood.
Increasingly, mobile operators and handset manufacturers are delivering phones that are "an assortment for social messages, alerts are Twitter, IM or the latest pictures on Facebook," said the analyst.
For Eric Schmidt, Google's director, could be the time to leave the label of "smart phone".
"The smart phone is not really a smartphone. It's actually a GPS device is a camera and a camcorder and a place where you can play games and browse the Internet, and, oh by the way, you can make calls.
CCS Insight report predicted that by the end of 2009, 44% of cell phone users will access information through their phones, while it is expected that smart phones accounted for 17% of the over one billion equipment produced in 2009.
Researchers predict for next year an explosion in sales along with falling prices.
The prediction takes place the same week the launch of the latest Blackberry model, called "Storm 2.
While the "Palm Pre", dubbed the "iPhone murderer," finally makes its entry into the UK market.
Fuel
"The Internet on cell phones is on the same stage where the Internet was in 1998," says Ian Fogg, analyst at Forrester.
Ben Wood, a researcher at CCS Insight, agrees: "We are on the cusp of an explosion of devices that seem computers in the hands of consumers, where previously it was only a privilege of the first who could afford them.
"Social networks are the fuel that is encouraging the moment," said Wood.
Increasingly, mobile operators and handset manufacturers are delivering phones that are "an assortment for social messages, alerts are Twitter, IM or the latest pictures on Facebook," said the analyst.
For Eric Schmidt, Google's director, could be the time to leave the label of "smart phone".
"The smart phone is not really a smartphone. It's actually a GPS device is a camera and a camcorder and a place where you can play games and browse the Internet, and, oh by the way, you can make calls.
CCS Insight report predicted that by the end of 2009, 44% of cell phone users will access information through their phones, while it is expected that smart phones accounted for 17% of the over one billion equipment produced in 2009.
Activists reject U.S. arrest a Twitter user
The arrest of a New Yorker, who used Twitter to alert police protesters movements in a G20 meeting in Pittsburgh last month, would be considered a violation of their rights if it had happened in Iran or China, according to activists said.Pittsburgh police arrested on September 24, Elliot Madison, 41, at a time when hundreds of people-some of whom threw stones and broke windows of shops-protesters on the first day of a G20 summit of rich countries and developing nations.
The protesters, with a large anti-capitalist agenda, they were kept away from the convention site where world leaders maintained their two-day meeting. Police used pepper spray to disperse sporadically.
The criminal indictment against Madison argues that violated the law by using Twitter to give instructions to the demonstrators and others involved in criminal acts to avoid arrest and inform them of the movements and actions of the police.Twitter allows its subscribers to post text messages of 140 characters.
Madison, who was released on bail, is accused of hindering the apprehension, prosecution and criminal use of communication elements and possessing instruments for committing crimes, defined as telecommunications equipment.
"The same conduct (the authorities) in Iran or China during recent protests would be seen as violations of human rights, whereas here it is considered necessary to control crime," Reuters said Vic Walczak, legal director of the American Union Civil Liberties in Pennsylvania.
Twitter was used by demonstrators in Iran amid protests and government repression that occurred after the disputed June elections in the country.
At one point, the State Department urged even Twitter to delay a planned upgrade that would temporarily cut the service in Iran.
China has repeatedly blocked access to sites like Twitter, as in May, facing the twentieth anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square, and again in July after the unrest in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Pittsburgh police, who were asked about illegal actions of Madison, noted Madison's accusation that was hindering the apprehension or law enforcement. "All law enforcement agencies should keep abreast of continuing developments in technology, both to determine how technology can help police to better serve the public and to find ways and can be used to commit crimes," said the spokesman Myra Taylor.
"The criminal indictment contends that Mr. Madison legal devices used to commit illegal acts," he said. Laura DeNardis, executive director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, said the arrest of Madison could be used "by repressive countries that might be looking restrict the use of technology."
"They could cite this as a justification for freedom of expression even more direct and repressive measures in cases like those we saw in the protests by the Iranian elections," said DeNardis.
Germany considers whether electoral data were given on Twitter
as German election officials said Monday they are investigating whether to exit poll surveys were posted on Twitter before the closing of the polls and could have an appeal on the outcome in the case had violated the law.
"We are investigating the facts," said the deputy electoral Korzen-Uwe Krüger in the state of Saxony in the east, where the investigation began.
On Sunday elections were held in three states - Saxony, Saarland and Thuringia-before the general elections to be held on September 27.
It seems that the conservatives of Chancellor Angela Merkel hold power in Saxony, but it is doubtful that it will yield well in the other two.
Korzen-Krüger said that preliminary findings - based on polls or not to exit polls - appeared on the Twitter social network about an hour before polling stations closed at 1800 local time (1600 GMT), which could have influenced the outcome.
"There could be an appeal against the election," he told Reuters.
Polls to exit polls, which often publish private institutions, usually delivered to the party leaders hours before the close of polling.
The election commissioners are concerned that the results of the general elections of September 27 could also be in jeopardy if the exit poll surveys are made public before the close of polling.
"The premature publication of exit poll surveys is a breakdown of law both in the three states as a general level - an offense that is punishable by (a fine) to 50,000 euros," said Monday the office general elections.
In May the same concern arose after the reelection of the president, the conservative Horst Khler, by the Federal Assembly, when some deputies revealed the voting results through messages on Twitter minutes before the official announcement.
Saxon authorities are still trying to figure out if Twitter messages on Sunday were based on exit polls and cast doubt on whether legal action.
Korzen-Krüger said a Twitter user, a conservative local politician, made an accurate forecast of the outcome in Saxony, where his party expected to win, just hoping to do in general on September 27.
"We are investigating the facts," said the deputy electoral Korzen-Uwe Krüger in the state of Saxony in the east, where the investigation began.
On Sunday elections were held in three states - Saxony, Saarland and Thuringia-before the general elections to be held on September 27.
It seems that the conservatives of Chancellor Angela Merkel hold power in Saxony, but it is doubtful that it will yield well in the other two.
Korzen-Krüger said that preliminary findings - based on polls or not to exit polls - appeared on the Twitter social network about an hour before polling stations closed at 1800 local time (1600 GMT), which could have influenced the outcome.
"There could be an appeal against the election," he told Reuters.
Polls to exit polls, which often publish private institutions, usually delivered to the party leaders hours before the close of polling.
The election commissioners are concerned that the results of the general elections of September 27 could also be in jeopardy if the exit poll surveys are made public before the close of polling.
"The premature publication of exit poll surveys is a breakdown of law both in the three states as a general level - an offense that is punishable by (a fine) to 50,000 euros," said Monday the office general elections.
In May the same concern arose after the reelection of the president, the conservative Horst Khler, by the Federal Assembly, when some deputies revealed the voting results through messages on Twitter minutes before the official announcement.
Saxon authorities are still trying to figure out if Twitter messages on Sunday were based on exit polls and cast doubt on whether legal action.
Korzen-Krüger said a Twitter user, a conservative local politician, made an accurate forecast of the outcome in Saxony, where his party expected to win, just hoping to do in general on September 27.
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