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All Can Try, New Display Twitter

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new displayAll Twitter users around the world can now try to feel the new look website that microblogging service. The new design website Twitter provides a new feature to display more detailed timeline, photos, and video directly without having to open a new page.

“Starting today, everyone who uses Twitter to access the new Twitter,” says Caroline Penner, a spokesman for Twitter’s official blog on Wednesday (13/10/2010). He said the new design was introduced in mid-September and received a positive response from users. Although already available for everyone, Twitter is still providing the option for users who want to continue using the old layout.

In the new design, the flow of the timeline that lists the messages based on time sequence is maintained. But Twitter adds a new panel option on the right to present a more detailed options, including all reply to each message, a list of other tweets from the sender of the message, including the option to view photos and video from the link supplied in the tweet.

“Many people told us that they like because we still make a simple timeline but also provide a richer experience with more detailed window,” said Penner.

Twitter Site Attacked “Hacker”

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hackerTwitter acknowledge the existence of a hacker attack on its website on Tuesday (21/09/2010). However, the attacks have now been successfully resolved and not to turn off the service.

“We have identified and are coping with an attack type of XSS (cross site scripting),” a statement on the blog StatusTwitter. Blog Twitter then updating its report that the attack had been completely resolved and the site returned to work normally.

Previously, the social media site Mashable reported, thousands of users who access the Twitter microblogging service through the web site to crash. As a result of the attack, the website Twitter suddenly diverted to other sites that are not desirable.

Worse, the transfer is done with the rough because only with mouseover or drag the mouse movement. That way, visitors suddenly taken to another site. The attack uses JavaScript called onMouseOver.

The attack was only experienced users access Twitter through the website. The attacks did not interfere with users who access it through a third-party applications, such as web, and the like.

Twitter will adopt Facebook Connect for The Newest Feature

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Twitter and Facebook are the toughest competitors in the world of social networking. Both are now attracting a lot of Internet users in the world. From the young to the old does not want to lose in trying the service. You are one of them?

Twitter is now reportedly preparing to release a new tool that allows websites to be able to party as easily integrated with Twitter website and services. In short, this new feature seems to be answering the popularity of Facebook Connect that were already there.

Facebook Connect Facebook itself has raised since May 2008. At the same time, the Google and MySpace also announced that is working on similar projects at the same time.

Facebook Connect itself finally been put to use in the year 2008 as well. At least now there are 80,000 websites that have been integrated with Facebook Connect and Facebook 60 million users already use this feature. For many of these third-party websites, this feature is very helpful for users who want to register or log on their website.

Facebook Connect is very attractive for many small sites, although this feature is very easy to implement. By using it, they can create some widgets that bring direct Facebook features can be enjoyed by a third-party website with very easy integration.

Last year, Twitter has launched a button which allows users of third-party website to website Twitter login and identify themselves, as in the system for comment.

Twitter This new product will be able to authenticate the user, retrieve data and then displays them on Twitter. There is now a special API for this feature which seems to be rather like Facebook Connect.

Apparently between Facebook and Twitter even be competitors but would continue to complement each other and mutual hanky-dig to become the number one in his class.

40 Years of Internet

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Forty years ago, said Leonard Kleinrock never imagined the “explosion” of Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. At that time, he and his team had “given birth” what is later called the Internet.

“We were very surprised with the variety of emerging applications,” said Kleinrock. He and his colleagues from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to prepare a birthday celebration to the Internet 40, Thursday (29/10).

“The Internet has become a teenager now. He had learned something, but still must continue to learn, “he said in San Francisco, Saturday (24/10).

On October 29, 1969, Kleinrock led a team which can make a computer “talk” with others in the research section.

Kleinrock driven by the belief that computers are designed to be able to talk to one another to produce a simple network, such as the use of the phone.

Key in the exchange of data between one computer and another computer is to solve the digital code and make it as separate packages.

He has outlined his vision in his master’s dissertation, and even publish in a book. “However, no one cares, especially AT & T,” Kleinrock said.

Supported by military

AT & T is the company’s telephone service providers, both local and long distance calls in the U.S. the largest. “I do presentations, but they say that the idea will not be realized. In fact, if it can happen, they do not want to do anything, “he said.

However, AT & T provides a path that connects the computer to the ARPANET. This is a project supported by the U.S. military.

Experiment fails to connect initially ARPANET. Kleinrock team tries to send data between computers on the ARPANET and successful. A total of two computers at two other universities are also connected at the end of 1969. This is the initial impression of the growing Internet.