You have probably seen a hoax that has been around which asks for user’s webmail password, claiming that it was sent by the administrator.

This caused us problems as users would send their data and spammers would use it to send out spam.
Here’s an example of part of such email:

Dear Email Account Owner,

This message is from webmail messaging center to all email account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center. We are deleting all unused email account to create space for new accounts. o prevent your account from being deactivated you will have to update it. Please do not send us wrong password-email address ok.

CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT
Email Username :……………
Email Password :…………..

DO NOT inform your personal data in e-mails, these e-mails are hoaxes. Moreover, your webmail provider is very unlikely to request your username and password via email and will not demand that the user provide sensitive information via email or risk losing their account within a few days. Any unsolicited email that makes such a demand is likely to be fraudulent. In some variants of these scams, the scammers will include a link to a fake website that closely resembles the genuine webmail login page. You should treat as suspect any email that claims that you will lose your account if you do not provide private information via email or a website. Do not reply to such emails or click on any links that they may contain.

Last night, you may have heard talk of a mysterious black bar appearing on the top of Google.com. Or you may have even seen it yourself. No, you weren’t hallucinating. It was a sign of something about to show itself. Something big. Google+.

What is Google+? It’s the super top-secret social project that Google has been working on for the past year. You know, the one being led by General Patton (Vic Gundotra) and General MacArthur (Bradley Horowitz). Yes, the one Google has tried to downplay as much as humanly possible — even as we got leak after leak after leak of what they were working on. Yes, the one they weren’t going to make a big deal about with pomp and circumstance. It’s real. And it’s here.

Sort of.

You see, the truth is that Google really is trying not to make a huge deal out of Google+. That’s not because they don’t have high hopes for it. Or because they don’t think it’s any good. Instead, it’s because what they’re comfortable showing off right now is just step one of a much bigger picture. When I sat down with Gundotra and Horowitz last week, they made this point very clear. In their minds, Google+ is more than a social product, or even a social strategy, it’s an extension of Google itself. Hence, Google+.

How’s that for downplaying it?

“We believe online sharing is broken. And even awkward,� Gundotra says. “We think connecting with other people is a basic human need. We do it all the time in real life, but our online tools are rigid. They force us into buckets — or into being completely public,� he continues. “Real life sharing is nuanced and rich. It has been hard to get that into software,� is the last thing he says before diving into a demo of Google+.

What he proceeds to show me is a product that in many ways is so well designed that it doesn’t really even look like a Google product. When I tell Gundotra and Horowitz this, they laugh. “Thank you,� Gundotra says very enthusiastically. Clearly, they’ve put a lot of work into both the UI and UX of Google+.

Source: Techcrunch

Transparent Business cards are used by businessmen and professionals to give a oomph factor to their business stationary. Transparent Business cards are used to expand the business and make an distinguished image among the masses.

With all its varieties and rainbow of colors, it leaves a long lasting impact on the mind of viewers.

Transparent Business cards are loved because you can add loads of special effects to the design. These cards are also more durable than the traditional one and are long lasting. This article shows you 30 different ways to make your brand presence feel in a special way with these Transparent Business Cards.

Transparent Business Card

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Name: Keepsy

Quick Pitch: Keepsy’s platform allows Facebook () friends to collaborate on scrapbooks and to pitch in for group gifts.

Genius Idea: The equivalent of a birthday card on Facebook generally consists of about 100 “happy birthdayâ€� wall posts from friends and family. Keepsy hopes to offer a more thoughtful alternative through its collaborative album-making platform, which launched on December 15. Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,� a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.

Google Search Ads Get More Visual

Google Product Listing Ads are now being rolled out to all of Google ()’s advertisers in the U.S. The format, which has been in testing with select advertisers for the past year, makes AdWords more visual by allowing advertisers to list specific products with accompanying images.

Microsoft Kin Might Be Coming Back to Verizon

According to a leaked Verizon A4 road map, Microsoft’s Kin feature phone — considered one of the biggest failures in the mobile industry this year, having been pulled after only three months on the market — is coming back to the wireless carrier.

Thousands Tweet in Support of Convicted Airport Joker

In response to the conviction of 27-year-old UK accountant Paul Chambers, who yesterday lost his appeal against his conviction and a £1,000 fine for a joke he made about blowing up an airport on Twitter (), thousands of users have taken to the microblogging service to show their support by retweeting his joke with the hashtag #IAmSpartacus.

Further News

• Christie’s is auctioning off one of Apple’s first computers, which it expects to fetch between $159,800 and $239,700.
• Twitter has announced that it will integrate with Apple’s social network for music, Ping (). A demo video is available here.
• Classic video game Tetris may be capable of providing a service beyond entertaining the gaming masses, according to a new study out of Oxford University.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto (), DNY59

Source: Mashable

Today, Mozilla’s Messaging group launched F1, a Firefox extension that aims to make sharing content around the social web much easier.

For webmasters and web surfers alike, seeing a row of a half-dozen “share thisâ€� buttons above or below every piece of web content can be both visually distracting and existentially confusing. Read the rest of this entry »

The world of web fonts and web typography is exploding. After years of struggle, we’re finally at a point where using real fonts on the web is a viable option.

For web designers, this is huge news because it means a greater degree of control over how content is displayed. For end users, it means a richer web experience.

Thanks to web services like Typekit, Fonts.com Web Fonts, Webtype and others, the opportunities to integrate real fonts on the web is getting better all the time.

WOFF as a Standard

The Web Open Font Format, or WOFF, is edging ever closer to becoming the de facto standardized format for using fonts on the web.

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Nowadays the means of obtaining a good publicity campaign are numerous and someone who needs this is kindly advised to ask for the services of an expert. The birth of the Internet simply increased in an exponential manner all what depends on marketing and publicity. I can’t imagine someone who wants to promote, but didn’t use Internet for that. Read the rest of this entry »

The advertising market today is not the same as it was 20, 15, 10, or even 5 years ago. The world has changed, which includes the marketing world. We’re spending more time online, particularly on social networking sites such as Facebook, even if we like it or not :-] And while you’re here be sre to check out How TO: Set up Facebook in Order to Promote Yourself Effectively

So this is a post covering Advertising for the Next Now Generation – Facebook ads are especially useful because they target a smaller, and potentially more likely, market for your products by focusing on factors such as location, age, education, etc., while weeding out the least likely customers. Read the rest of this entry »

An astonishing use of Google Maps and satellite sight for this short Satellite film “Because Hunting� illustrating a track race in the town of New York. It is about a production and realization of the Honest company especially for the Psst edition! Not It one.

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